I have never seen any of the 'Enterprise' shows...I gave up after "Deep Space Nine"
After Rick Berman took over for Gene, I felt he went too dark. Like he was trying to turn it into "Star Wars" instead.....Star Trek to me was always built on hope and the thought that people were better than they thought they could be...
Enterprise is set 100 years after the Cochrane test flight of the Phoenix. It is set in the very early days of Star Fleet, even before the Romulan War forced the creation of the Federation. go rent some of the dvds I think that you will like it. The chief engineer has a Texas accent about as thick as mine, so I guess we Texans were not all wiped out in WWIII
now I know they did have an attraction.....they were VERY fond of one another but I can't see Picard having an affair with someone's wife. I think Jack Crusher was her 'college sweetheart'....I didn't get the impression he would have been ambitious enough for her...
I would put mine up against yours any day!! (I think there is still a recording of me around here somewhere) but you KNEW we would survive...we could hide out in the Dead Woods...
why wouldn't Picard take one on the sly? he bent the rules just as much as Kirk did, Picard would just intoned the correct political phraseology to make it sound OK. Kirk just bulled his way into whatever he wanted without an apologetic explanation.
the best doctor they ever had was McCoy (of course) but I DID like Beverly.....loved her hair. one of my favorite episodes was the one about the flight accident at Starfleet Academy