10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Enterprise
6. Did They Get from There to Here?
Part of the premise of Enterprise was that it would show a lot of firsts, but like Voyager's conflict with the Maquis, it somehow never quite materialised.
Seasons would show the first meetings with the Andorians as well as introducing viewers to the inventor of the transporter; however, that long road didn't seem to get any longer or have any added lanes for heavy intergalactic traffic. Season four certainly tried to drag the show back towards its concept with triple headers focusing on the Augments and the Vulcans, but that would only be after three seasons of wandering the Alpha Quadrant. Even the technological advances seemed to grind to a halt. There was one of the first human transports in Broken Bow and prototype props with the phaser pistols and "Reed Alert", yet on the whole, Enterprise tended to veer away from providing the "missing links" to Star Trek. The tech introduced over the course of the show never really advances, even after the time jump to These Are the Voyages. The only real way viewers can see that the NX-02 Columbia might be more advanced is by having some flashier lights on the bridge. Evidently, more glowing things equal higher technology.
While the choice to build in the Temporal Cold War and focus on both the Suliban and the Xindi proved odd, as neither had been mentioned in TNG, DS9 or Voyager. This left even later series like Prodigy to try and weave them into its framework.