Donna Minkowitz on Enterprise, the problems go deeper than the lame theme music:
So, watching the first season of the latest Trek vehicle, Enterprise, I’ve felt…nausea and horror. It takes Star Trek so far backward that it’s like Buffy becoming a sex slave chained to a bed for the rest of her television career. Set in Trek’s “past,” 100 years before Kirk’s time and just 150 years after our own, Enterprise depicts the first humans to have contact with alien races. Emphasis on races: the interplanetary politics seem to have been framed by Pat Buchanan. Though there are two token humans of color on the ship, humans are heavily coded as white and male.
Well, at least the uniforms aren’t dorky…