Enterprise, by contrast, seemed to go out of its way to alienate fans. It started its very first few episodes by contradicting extremely long-held Trek canon, such as the date of first contact with the Klingons, despite the fact that Trek fans are in love with consistency. It attempted to be dark and “gritty”, despite all the fans who liked Trek because of its idealistic premise. People decided that Enterprise wasn’t even attempting to move closer to what they wanted, so this time they decided it wasn’t worth the stiff acting and the unlikeable characters.

Powers (22)- What you haven’t taken into account here was that when TNG came on the air that TOS had been off the air for almost 20 years. Fans were dying to see a ST series. (I thought only the first season of TNG was painful.) When Enterprise came on it was 14 years and three series later. This changed the dynamic quite a bit. I held on for most of the first season of Enterprise, but I didn’t like the characters that much. The main reason I bailed was Scott Bakula - an actor I have always enjoyed. His portrayal of Archer was wooden and humorless. Maybe the character was written that way, but I started disliking him so I stopped watching.

I’m not blaming just Jolene Blalock - nearly every actor who’s played a Vulcan “acts” as though the only way they can convey a lack of emotion is to remove all expression from their faces and voices. But if you go back and look at TOS, both Nimoy and Lenard put inflections into their voices; they changed their facial expressions to indicate that there were actual thought processes going on in their heads.

Then again, that was before Botox - maybe modern Vulcan actors can’t change their facial expressions!

And yes, Cornbread, your sarcasm is not only unnecessary but misplaced. I apologize for not specifying that Behr was not involved with Voyager and Enterprise, but I thought you might be able to read between the lines.

Oh, and the others … Malcolm, Trip, Travis, got fleshed out. Considering Jolene Blalock, i suspect she was chosen exactly for that style … they wouldn’t have chosen her purely as eyecandy, would they ?

As to the characters, in the episodes I did see, there was Archer, Sato, T’Pol, Doctor Phlox… and then the other guys, who were all written with the exact same personality so I couldn’t even get a handle on which name went with which face. Did the other guys ever get distinct personalities? And did Jolene Blalock ever get over the “emotionless=complete lack of affect” style of “acting” that plagues most Vulcan characters?

Oh, and Enterprise stank.