Odd the way the cast is listed in the final Star Trek spin-off, Enterprise. John Billingsley, who plays Dr. Phlox, gets second billing after Scott Bakula, who plays Captain Jonathan Archer. Jolene Blalock, who plays the Vulcan science officer, rates third place, and Connor Trinneer, who plays the engineer, comes in dead last, in seventh place. Yet the chemistry of the show revolves around the relationship among the Captain, his Vulcan science officer, and his engineer.
You could drop the cartoonish doctor entirely �" the Space Eunuch, as I think of him �" and he wouldn't be missed. His bizarre character seems to be inspired by Neelix, from the previous Star Trek series Voyager. There is only sexual tension in the already mentioned trio. Both the captain and the engineer are obviously sexually attracted to their gorgeous female Vulcan colleague.
Connor Trinneer is a gorgeous man, and he knows it! He has a very nice build, but his face is what stands out. He has one of the most beautiful noses I've ever seen. Wanna hear something funny? Watch any episode from any season of Star Trek: Enterprise, and you'll notice that Trinneer takes every opportunity to look up, to the ceiling, or to the sky, or at whatever is above. No one else in the same scene does that. Why does he? So that we can look up his perfectly shaped nostrils! I'm convinced he is showing off his best asset. I was in love with him for four seasons, then suddenly when they came to the final three episodes, they killed him off! And replaced him with a younger Chief Engineer who was 10 times more handsome.
Star Trek: Enterprise would have lasted more than four seasons if they'd dumped the dreary backward-looking opening sequence, boring theme song, alien doctor, and the captain's dog Porthos, and concentrated more on the interrelationships of the captain, science officer and engineer. Linda Park, as the communications expert, seemed not to want to be on the show, and she would not have been missed.
If you haven't seen Star Trek: Enterprise, check out In a Mirror Darkly, a two-parter from the last part of the final season, two of their best episodes. They were the only episodes that dumped the corny theme song and opening credits, and that created a much more exciting beginning for the story that was about to unfold.