we really don’t give Star Trek: Enterprise enough credit for all its heavy lifting connecting Star Trek lore. andorians are FOUNDING MEMBERS of the whole damn Federation and we don’t know hardly anything about them until ENT. and we’ve heard about Surak before a few times but never actually learn about his teachings in detail until ENT. not to mention ENT finally pushes back on the “whole planet of aliens is culturally homogenous” trope by creating different cultures of Vulcans. we only ever see a few Orions before the crew stumbles into them. the ship has no shields, can barely make Warp 5, and routinely gets its ass kicked but the crew is like “yeah we’ll take these dinky phase pistols and hazardous transporters and save earth” and by god they do it. we could never have Kirk or Picard without Archer.













