Seeing the special features on Season 2 of Enterprise (awesome btw) got me thinking about some of the ideas they had shot down. Ultimately it sounds like Enterprise was a show that was on the wrong network and done at the wrong time but had it been done at the right time, it would have been franchise changing had Berman and Braga and then Chris Black and the writing team got their way.
It got me thinking about how that series would have looked had we seen the first season set on Earth, exploring the journey to the vision Roddenberry had of humanity, I'd have loved to see the conflict between humans and aliens and how eventually they overcame those things, building towards the launching of the Enterprise, through the pain of risking lives in test ships, coming to terms with people dying because of it and ultimately at the end seeing the ship being launched you'd have felt like it was such an important thing after seeing all that they (the characters) had to go through to get to this incredible point where humanity was about to step out of the door into the black of space, really building the excitement of the words STAR and TREK. I just loved the sound of that idea.
How do you guys think Enterprise should have been conceived?