Ranking Star Trek Pilots From Every Series Worst To Best
3. Everyone Wants To Know What Happens Next! So, How About We Give Them A Prequel Instead?
To be fair, the franchise was headed into the fatigue that would put it on ice for several years when Enterprise (later retconned to be named Star Trek Enterprise) was conceived.
The idea of a prequel series had been bandied about for almost a decade, with the idea of doing a movie on Kirk and Spock at the academy doing the rounds for a while. With the completion of Voyager, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga created Enterprise, a series about the first ship named Enterprise.
It came out at entirely the wrong time. The pilot, Broken Bow, was quite an interesting episode, but suffered from a sense of the audience having seen it all before. The visuals, while very nice, were also still slightly jarring - Enterprise is the first series to rely entirely on CGI to depict the ship.
There were canon and continuity issues from the beginning (a theme that has yet to go away from Star Trek) which also served to put audiences off. While the pilot does the necessaries in introducing us all to the crew and the ship, the timing of it all (just after 9/11) went against it.
It does seem to be having a second life in recent years, something that is very welcome to fans of the show!