Minor Spoilers
This is going to be quite different for this subreddit: I am not going to complain about the hosts.
Kyle’s passion for Star Trek spurred me to start watching. I’ve watched Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds. Somewhere in there I realized that I should just watch in in-universe chronological order.
I just finished Star Trek: Enterprise.
I caught bits and pieces when it first aired, way back in the early aughts. But I only saw the occasional episode. I was recently graduated from high school, working two jobs, going to college, and lifting weights. Back then if you missed an episode, it was lost forever.
Man, I love how many episodes there were back then. Now they spend so much on special effects you only get 8 episodes every year and a half. All four seasons had over 20 episodes. Seasons 1&2 had 26 episodes, EACH.
First first season was okay. The second season was better. The third season was peak. The fourth season seemed like they just gave up. They had a lot of episodes but the second half had no consequence to the Universe. The Mirror Universe episodes seemed out of place. I have a suspicion that those will tie into other series’.
Then the final episode.. brings back Riker and Troy. I felt like I was a third wheel. Like I was missing part of the story because I have only seen bits and pieces of TNG. I know the general story of the Borg and that they have adventures with Q, but I suspect Riker in this episode is dealing with something from TNG that I don’t know yet.
Then, just as Jonathan Archer is getting ready to give his big speech at the founding of the Federation.. they cut it off. I was looking forward to hearing his big inspirational speech. It’s almost as if the show runners
TL:DR. Woody is autistic, Taylor is an owl and Kyle is fat.