Indeed, one argument they raised in its favour was that it was hard to keep Star Trek looking futuristic as they moved farther and farther into the future, as real life (in part inspired by the look of Star Trek, such as flip-top communicators and flatscreen tablets!) was catching up so fast.
The showrunners, one feels, made a prequel because they didn’t have any other ideas, not because they especially wanted to explore a past setting. I have already spent some time in two other articles critiquing aspects of “Enterprise”, but this context helps explain why many of the problems underlying the series relate to a sense of half-heartedness.
