Deslok

@ Brikar:

Yes, since your posting, I've taken a good look at all the seasons of VOY, and in hindsight, I can only think that the purpose of ENT was to make VOY look good.

I guess the further we go forward from the death of the creator, the more it's going to change no matter who is in charge. I think the message has gotten distorted over time. I was watching the episode of VOY this weekend where Seven is the only one awake while everyone else is in suspended animation while the ship goes through a nebula, and it was better than I remembered it. Not one of my favorite episodes, but it struck me while I was watching it that Seven was treated far more respectfully than T'Pol was on ENT. They also didn't break from canon on VOY as much as they did on ENT.

Another thing occurred to me also, the episode featuring NOMAD seems almost like a predictive allegory to what happened with the whole Star Trek franchise. Two entities with different purposes fusing together to form a single misguided entity, that's what ENT was during the first two years. The Xindi arc was a step toward a solution, even though it seemed like they were borrowing heavily from Star Wars at the time. But ENT, like NOMAD, wound up self destructing once it realized that it had become faulty, even though there was still the chance it could be repaired.

Another thing about VOY in comparison to ENT was that VOY was (with the exception of Janeway) fairly consistent within its own premise. But the general outline and mission of Voyager was to simply get back home. Creating the story of the first Federation starship was apparently to daunting for TPTB.

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