Re: the Theme. It is very cheesy and hokey now but I remember when the show premiered literally weeks after September 11th 2001, the music and images actually made me tear up a few times. Just seeing what was positive about Humanity in that dark time really got to me.
I forgot about the decontamination gel. So gratuitously sexual. I don’t think they ever showed Archer and Trip lovingly smearing gel all over each other, because that would be gaaaaay. Obviously, they weren’t servicing all us fans. 
We did get to see Archer and Trip playing shirtless volleyball once though.
Vulcans struck me as being much more emotional than I expected them to be.
I’m not sure I ever watched the last season all the way through. I should rewatch it one of these days.
apparently the whole mind meld thing is not acceptd by vulcans at this time either
Crew goes down to interact with a pre-warp society that’s conveniently identical to a historical Earth society? Feels like Trek to me. 
This is the single funniest intentional joke in all of Trek ever.
Yeah, it’s getting tedious. I can’t believe they went with a time travel story for their first major storyline.
I know I’m probably the only person on the planet who will utter, in all seriousness, the next phrase:
I LOVE the intro to Enterprise. It is far and away my favorite intro of all the Star Treks and possibly one of my favorite intros of any series.
I’m an aviation buff. It started with the book “The Right Stuff” and from there I went both directions - reading about the history of aviation and how it led into manned spaceflight. What I particularly love about the intro to Enterprise is how it begins with simple sailing ships. It wasn’t that long ago that that was the only way we could travel! Then in the span of a single lifetime we learned how to fly, we broke the sound barrier, we made our first attempts into space and then a decade later landed on the moon. Then we built the space station and started sending better and more advanced probes to explore the planets and outer reaches of the solar system. Then the intro takes us into the near future to make us wonder just how far our ingenuity and sense of curiosity will take us.
I find the whole thing inspirational, and I even like the song too.
frazzled - you’re not alone - while I found it odd at first as an intro - I thought it was both fitting and appropriate for what the theme of the show was supposed to be.
Every time the opening starts I sing in my best sarcastic Michael McDonald imitation “It’s beeeern a luuuurn tuuurm, gerrting frum theeeere tuuur heeere” before skipping the rest of the intro. It’s become an Enterprise-viewing tradition for me.
A found the theme dumb, and wish they had kept the “Mirror Universe Theme”.
So long as you mean the first season intro. It later seasons they seemed to want to “punch it up” a bit with – I don’t even know what to call it, extra instruments or something.
Mirror universe anything is teh awesomest. They should create a show based entirely in the mirror universe, with lots of eeeeevil.
I don’t agree with Archer’s decision at the end of Dear Doctor but it was still a good episode.
That would be very, very cool.
Levdrakon, your agonizer, please.
I’d watch a show that centered around Shran and his crew.
The Andorian?
Clever, writers, very clever. Disguised your fanservice as the captain and T’Pol tied together when they’re taken hostage.
“Maybe if we can face each other…”
<'70s porno music starts>
Edit: I spoke too soon. It gets even better.
That would be fun too. There’s a ton of material they could explore if they wanted. Maybe a series of 13-ep mini-series. I used to not like the Brit way of making short seasons, but lately I’ve found there’s a lot to be said for it. You get good stories and they have pre-planned satisfying endings.
I have two ideas for another Star Trek series.
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Rip off Firefly with the Maquis as protagonists.
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Alternate episodes between a Federation crew, a Klingon, a Romulan, and perhaps an Andorian.
Play them off against each other sometimes, perhaps fighting in the changeling war.
The episode when they pimped out Hoshi was great. Not so much the story, as it was watching Linda Park walking around in a mini dress and “f*ck me" shoes. If they could have arranged a catfight between her and T’Pol, it would have been FANtastic!