10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Enterprise

Welcome aboard the upside-down Akira Class starship known as the NX-01 Enterprise. 

In a series that offered the future before the future viewers had already seen in The Original Series, the possibilities were always going to be finite and the restrictions on where they could go claustrophobic. Yet that didn't stop the prequel Trek from boldly going where fans had gone before and seeing places, people and events for the first time... again. 

With its downgraded tech, space grappling hooks and winged taxis in the shuttle bay, Enterprise offered a different, more raw Star Trek that would shake up the dynamic. After three shows that had focused on the same 20 years of the 24th Century, producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga felt Trek needed something different, and fans certainly got that. Led by "Kirk's childhood hero" Jonathan Archer, the show would absolutely offer a more stripped back 22nd Century, but there were destined to be a few things that would leave fans slapping their foreheads in wonder and uttering at the very least the line "Well, where are they in the 24th Century?". 

We'll explore crossed paths, inexplicable storylines and discarded threads as well as random guest moments and a sprinkling of Temporal Cold War. Punch it up to Warp 5 and stick on your water polo vids because Enterprise is about to get that teeny bit dumber.

Let's place our tongo cards firmly on the table here; it could never ever be anything else, and giving These Are the Voyages only two entries on this list still seems as though it's got away with murder. You were waiting for this one, let's be honest. It's the Threshold of Enterprise, and this one needs to be cleared immediately.

A love letter (ahem) to Star Trek fans, the Enterprise finale makes Shades of Gray look like a narrative masterpiece. Even the cast themselves (and the guest cast!) have come out to state that this was a huge misfire. The dumbest thing is making the cast bit parts in their own series, and on top of that, using The Pegasus from The Next Generation as the framing device. No offence to Marina Sirtis or Jonathan Frakes here, but choosing to set their scenes post-Nemesis might have been a wiser move. Everybody is frighteningly underused, and to really drive home how poorly conceived the episode is, there's the classic Kirk monologue over the final moments to remind viewers of all the good times that preceded this catastrophe.

It's not dumb for the acting or the integrity of the crew, but more for the sheer concept of an episode that might have worked in a mid-season slot or, at a push, a season finale. Yet as a series finale and one that also marked the end of Trek's unbroken run of shows since 1987, it's about as appealing as dead gagh.