FAITH OF THE HEART
TIME HAS A TENDENCY TO SMOOTH out even the roughest of edges, especially when it comes to Star Trek. The passionate fanbase has never been shy about voicing when they don’t like choices made regarding the television series or films. But as years go by, assessments are almost always revisited and kinder eyes prevail. Such is the case with Star Trek: Enterprise, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of its launch on 26 September 2021.
The sixth series in the television franchise, Enterprise represented a big creative swing for the fences: a prequel, set 100 years before Kirk’s time, with the pilot taking place in 2151. The NX-01 was the earliest class of deep space explorer ships, with a Warp 5 engine, and a sort of The Right Stuff vibe prevailed.
But the looser, pre-Federation world of Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula)’s ship, the more Earth-based stories in season one, the reliance on standalone episodes and even the theme song “Where My Heart Will Take Me”, eventually provoked the ire of critics stories for 12 years.
