10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Enterprise

What seems like a good idea in principle isn't always the case when it's required to play out over the length of a series.

Manny Coto certainly realised this by canning the Temporal Cold War thread at the beginning of the fourth and final season in the two-part Storm Front. But the dumb damage had already been done by this stage. Placing a time-based war in a prequel series was both genius and screamingly turbulent temporal trouble from the start. 

As if Enterprise wasn't already dicing with canon thanks to its pre-Kirk setting, the writers chose to further play with the timeline in a battle across the centuries that only Discovery dared to handle like a hot potato. Crossing eras and introducing characters from beyond the 24th Century meant that the show was not only meddling with its own past but potentially stirring the pot for its future and defining where future iterations of the franchise might have to tread. 

Time travel always seems exciting and filled with possibilities, but in a setting where you are attempting to explore the origins of Star Trek, it just creates a more tangled web and one that, while officially closed by Storm Front, still leaves enticing threads dangling. While Coto definitely had a plan for the future of the show, it's the fact that some points were never clearly tied up and hoping that fans wouldn't question it marks this up as particularly dumb.