I don't like his eyes or his voice, or that he gets more stretchy as the show goes on. I also don't like that he's the only heavily made up (make up wise) crew member. I don't find him particularly likeable.

I get that it's part of the premise though, that ENT is trying to be a more coarse, and under developed Trek, so of course most aliens aren't going to be signing up.

Speaking of which, I'm not really a fan of the Xindi as the bad guys.... it's almost like, it's all a Holodeck program Riker or someone is writing.

/cough cough /

Like the bab5 scene where Londo sings the Hokey Pokey and gets irate because it's a totally mid-tier song that 'everybody" knows.

"...and then they put their left hand out! They've undone their previous progress! It makes no sense!"

It's a great rant. Now I need a Babylon 5 rewatch. Thanks!

70's BSG is an acquired taste. You have to be on board with the Buck Rogers style cheese, and the heavy handed Mormon influence (including the rampant amount of old white men in charge). Once you get past that, its light hearted fun in the face of extinction.

I've never tried the original Battlestar Galactica, so I'll definitely be watching the newer one.

It's funny.

If I were to give sci-fi writers or anyone in that creative space some advice, it'd be this: Don't fuck with time. Just stay away. There's very few shows/books/whatever that can pull it off without "going back and fixing it" becoming like literally every episode. or like Voyager's Year of Hell arc, where that entire arc literally does not matter to the overall story, it didn't really develop the characters, and everything at the start of it was reset.

Quantum Leap and Dr. Who are the only two examples I can think of where it works.

It even works with how the Enterprise was acting pre-Xindi attack. Humanity was actively interfering in the Vulcan-Andorian Cold War in ways that the Romulans couldn't predict and even acted far above their power in brokering various peace deals. It isn't that far out of line to attribute most forms of chaos happening in the area to be the Romulans trying to sow chaos as a way to control the region of space.

Eventually humanity becomes too disruptive that the Romulans have to actively attack humanity in order to regain control of the region, sparking the Earth-Romulan War. Hell, the human assistance in the revelation of Surak's teachings and the subsequent Vulcan revolution be both the trigger that gets the Romulans to go to war and the reason why they don't reveal themselves, since they were hoping to use a Vulcan-Andorian War to weaken Vulcan and open them up to annexation/incorporation with their cousin species's empire.