10 Ways The Streaming Era Has Improved Star Trek

10. Star Trek: Enterprise

When Star Trek: Enterprise debuted in 2001, the world was a very different place. Though at that time, audiences were still used to the broadcasting methods that had been in place from The Original Series to Voyager, the format was beginning to feel stale. 

The show arrived on-screens barely a month after the September 11th attacks, offering Roddenberry's bright and rosy vision for the future. It was simply the wrong tool at the wrong time, so the ratings were never where they needed to be. Like The Original Series before it, it faced cancellation, rebirth, and final death - all within four seasons. When These Are The Voyages went out, that was it for Star Trek. The curtain lowered, the franchise was dormant.

The success of Star Trek in 2009 helped to breathe enough life back into the franchise to inspire a new movie series, and eventually a new streaming series, Star Trek: Discovery. However, Enterprise was a happy benefactor of this - it finally found its audience when it arrived on streaming platforms. Audiences began to enjoy it in a way that they simply hadn't been able to in the early '00s. 

Starfleet's first crew may have taken a long road to get there, but they've finally found their home.