Enterprise

It’s amazing how time and perspective make us appreciate things differently. Enterprise was certainly my least loved Star Trek series, largely because A, it played fast and loose with the Canon of Star Trek, and B, I didn’t want to go back in time from the 24th century, but continue with the story lines I’d come to know from the previous series. I wanted to know how the Federation would deal with the aftermath of the Dominion War and I bet the Borg weren’t done with the Alpha quadrant just yet.

But the absence of both Stargate and Star Trek on television and the disappointment of J.J. Abram’s movie (it was disappointing to me; I can understand that others might like it), have left me quite nostalgic about the last Star Trek series. And wouldn’t you know it, enough time has passed that the choices and direction I questioned on Enterprise are now part of Canon.

And it helps that all of Enterprise is now available to watch for free on Hulu. There’s nothing like building a Star Trek model while a Trek series is playing in the background. And it certainly helps that I’ve only watched most of the episodes once.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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