Star Trek: EVERY Season Ranked Worst To Best

Producer Manny Coto utterly changed the game when it came to Enterprise, kicking off what would become the longest serial in Star Trek history with the Xindi Arc.

This was what Star Trek: Voyager could have been. While it may have been too much for a seven season show, this was a series that showed each week there were consequences to the previous episode. The damage that Enterprise accrues over the course of the season remains in place week after week, highlighting the ship's inability to simply nip back to a starbase.

The characters receive considerable development in this season, particularly T'Pol and Trip. Archer grows darker as the season goes on, resorting to more and more ruthless tactics to ensure the safety of mankind.

There are many highlights in the year, though Similitude, Azati Prime and Zero Hour all stand out. However, despite the upswing in reception and quality, the ratings were sliding. Low initial ratings caused the network to shorten the season by two episodes and rumours of cancellation were already beginning to swirl.

While a fourth season was confirmed, Enterprise was on shaky ground, despite the vast improvements that they were making behind the scenes. It was renamed from just Enterprise to Star Trek Enterprise after the third episode, though a dreadful new version of the opening theme was introduced.

This new, more upbeat version was meant to reflect the change that Deep Space Nine had made to its theme in its fourth season, though adding a more upbeat song to the show's darkest season really made little sense!