Let's start with some food for thought from some recent articles published by the SYFY channel regarding Star Trek: Enterprise, shall we?- Article 1: Apparently, Enterprise S1 was supposed to be entirely Earth-bound http://www.blastr.com/2013-8-21/apparently-enterprise-s1-was-supposed-be-entirely-earth-bound
- Article 2: Why Brannon Braga found early seasons of Enterprise 'strangulating' http://www.blastr.com/2013-8-19/why-brannon-braga-found-early-seasons-enterprise-strangulating
Interesting...
So, let's take those two thoughts, and re-imagine the series, as it should have been.
Picture, if you will, the entire first season of Star Trek: Enterprise if it had been structured similar to the first season of LOST. The pilot would begin with the launch of the flagship of Starfleet's fastest vessel to date, the U.S.S. Cachrane or maybe the U.S.S. Zephram or something similar. No need to name the ship Enterprise.
Each episode of that season would tell a story with an equal amount of time as a flashback to the year prior to focus on the building of the ship, the recruitment of the crew and the internal and external politics, diplomacy and war posturing. If they loosened the one-shot story directive, it could have been even grander.
