Let history never forget the name - Enterprise

I finished watching the pilot for Enterprise, last night. Not bad, actually - I was worried about how they could make modern day effects still look retro when compared to the original series and they've managed to do a decent job at it. Trek pilots have this odd tendency to be good in inverse proportion to the series to follow. Take "The Cage", which was overly cerebral but led to a great original series. Or "Encounter at Farpoint" which sucked incredibly but The Next Generation that followed was worth it. Or "Emissary", which did not reflect anything of the potential or epic quality of the Deep Space Nine saga. And "Caretaker", which was a kick ass pilot for the series Voyager which ultimately sucked ass.

So how does this measure up? Well, it wasn't quite as good as Caretaker but more compelling than Emissary, so I guess that means the series has a good chance of not sucking as badly as Voyager did.

I wish the theme song was better, though. Ick.