Great looking trailer with awesome SFX and excellent production values. Too bad they didn't spend their money on real actors. Enterprise as a concept was a major fail from the beginning. It was a major violation of canon in every way, the stories sucked, Scott Bakula sucked, in fact all of the characters sucked! It was a grand showcase of major suckage all the way around and should have never seen the light of day.
I've been hearing the "Enterprise violated canon" stuff from day one, well before TIIC introduced Ferengi and Borg on the show. That it took a Warp 5 engine three days to get to Kronos was the absolute least of their problems.
(Diacanu from 2000) There IS no canon for the 22nd century!! It's all fanon!! (TrekBBS mods from 2000) People here love their fanon, you're trolling!! (Diacanu from 2000) Fanfic sucks!!!!! There, now warn me, cocksuckas!!!! (TrekBBS mods from 2000) One month ban!!
Scott Bakula did indeed suck in that role, but on the whole I actually think he's a pretty good actor. You can't give someone a giant turd and tell them to make caviar.
One of the biggest ironies of the Enterprise forum was that a good number of the most militant members of the Team Tucker fanclub came into Trekdom/ Enterprise because they were fans of Scott Bakula's work on other shows/movies. Archer was written all over the fucking place from day damn one. The pilot episode, for example, has him saying "Eh, may as well keep the Vulcan XO for reasons" only to speand nearly the rest of the first season blowing every piece of advice of hers off and all but resenting the existence of her race. After watching Scandal, I can now fully sympathize with those that wanted to see Archer jettisoned out the airlock, and after nearly five years in the military, I feel sorry for the crew under his command having to deal with his pissing contests.
I said it when his casting was announced and I still believe it. Yes Bakula was a proven genre actor but he was ill suited to headline an ensemble cast of a flagship series of an established space opera franchise.
I doubt anyone could've made Archer more palpable as essencially a bigoted nepotinistic crybaby. "flagship series"? Please. When I saw the very first Enterprise trailer on UPN, my first reaction was "what, another one? "