My middle child discovered Star Trek: Scouts through the Blaze and the Monster Machines YouTube channel. That sentence contains a small amount of absurdity if you have been watching Trek since the eighties, and a larger truth if you are willing to sit with it for a moment. Star Trek: Scouts is the franchise’s first preschool series….
Scott Bakula had already earned my loyalty before he ever set foot on the NX-01. I came to Enterprise as a Quantum Leap fan first, which meant I arrived with more goodwill toward the lead than a lot of viewers bothered to bring. That probably helped. Enterprise had a rough reception when it aired, and Archer took a lot of the blame for things that weren’t really his fault. Two decades on from the finale, I think the case for Jonathan Archer deserves to be made properly.
