I sometimes wonder, mouth agape, at the people who come to Enterprise’s defense purely for its fourth season, and the people who treated the finale as awful purely for the sake of the fourth season. Considering that any other franchise, especially a scifi franchise, of Enterprise’s quality would have bottomed out before the halfway point of season 1 without marquee value, I think it’s safe to say that Enterprise didn’t get the shaft. No, it was given far FAR more chances than any other franchise in this genre would get (just look at Firefly, Crusade, MANTIS, and Twin Peaks), and they kept wasting them until, by the time they finally decided to give a shit, it was too little too late.
 
Also, who else wants to see Twilight Sparkle replace River and come equipped with a Caster Gun? Anyone, anyone? :D