10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Enterprise

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Enterprise was promoted as showing a lot of firsts, but that still didn't stop the writers from tinkering with established materials and bending the rules along the way.

Take, for instance, the Ferengi. When Picard and the Stargazer encountered a ship at Maxia, they did not know who the boys from Ferenginar were. They would be revealed as the Ferengi in TNG's first season The Battle. Episodes like Encounter At Farpoint and The Last Outpost suggest that at some point between Maxia and TNG, the Ferengi were identified. 

Enterprise decided to play with the full sandbox and introduce them early - but not by name - in Acquisition. Not only does this throw a spanner in the warp core, but it leaves viewers wondering what happened to the Ferengi for the next hundred and fifty years. They may have been ordered to stay away, but what did they get up to?

Discovery avoided mentioning them, and Strange New Worlds has equally sidestepped the challenge, making this storyline ever the more brow-wrinkling. Admittedly, it was a great way to bring in Clint Howard, Jeffrey Combs and Ethan Phillips, but it was also an early overreliance on established material. This is just a single example of Enterprise trying to be fan-friendly but messing up its own past (future).

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