The thing I hated about Enterprise was that they tried their hardest to distance the series from the “Star Trek” brand, later realized their mistake, and then shoehorned a lot of contrived Star Trek stuff back in.
The first season, they didn’t market it as “Star Trek: Enterprise.” They just called it “Enterprise.” On purpose. Specifically to distance it from Star Trek. Maybe part of their rationalle was that it was set before “Star Trek” was “Star Trek” or something?
Also, they got rid of holodecks, but then have a contrived holodeck episode. They got rid of borg and then “oh wait there were borg in tEarth’s arctic or some shit the whole time.”
Enterprise never felt very Star Trek to me on that basis.
But then again, I haven’t watched any Enterprise since it was new on UPN. I also disliked Lower Decks when I first started watching it. I gave it another chance later and now I love it. Maybe if I gave Enterprise another chance, I’d like it. Who knows.
Honestly, I don’t remember Enterprise being ok with slavery, but again I haven’t watched it since it was new. It’s possible I just don’t remember that. I definitely remember the over sexualized stuff (not that Voyager was all that light on that, but it did seem more blatant in Enterprise.)
Actually, when it was new, I quit watching it in the middle of the series. Which is saying something given how into Voyager I was before it ended. To this day, I think Enterprise is the only official series I haven’t seen all of at least once.
Edit: Oh, one thing I like about Enterprise is that it became the punching bag and took the heat off of Voyager, which is still my favorite series. Probably more for nostalgia reasons than objective quality I’d admit.
They got rid of borg and then “oh wait there were borg in tEarth’s arctic or some shit the whole time.”
Funnily enough, that was one of my favorite episodes of Enterprise. I liked that they tied in First Contact and the temporal fuckery of Enterprise-E wasn’t pristine. Totally understand the complaint though, not negating it at all.