It’s… okay? I never really warmed to Archer, though. I get what they were trying to do with him, but he’s a douche.
Lots of standalone episodes with a furious Ctrl-F to replace “shields” with “hull plating”. The idea of the ship being middling at best, compared to what they were running into, and without an extensive political or technical infrastructure to support them, was interesting. Some good work on the Vulcans, IMO, and Jeffrey Combs makes Shran a delight. The later arc is novel and meaningful, but even worse than DS9 about shoehorning a couple of serialized details into an existing script.
It’s not nearly bad enough to be a gap in an otherwise complete viewing history, but it’s definitely on the weaker side, and very much a product of its time.
It’s… okay? I never really warmed to Archer, though. I get what they were trying to do with him, but he’s a douche.
Lots of standalone episodes with a furious Ctrl-F to replace “shields” with “hull plating”. The idea of the ship being middling at best, compared to what they were running into, and without an extensive political or technical infrastructure to support them, was interesting. Some good work on the Vulcans, IMO, and Jeffrey Combs makes Shran a delight. The later arc is novel and meaningful, but even worse than DS9 about shoehorning a couple of serialized details into an existing script.
It’s not nearly bad enough to be a gap in an otherwise complete viewing history, but it’s definitely on the weaker side, and very much a product of its time.