And as much as many of you do not like it, Enterprise btw is canon, everything else that has been done is Fanon (including this ship).
(I happen to feel the same way about Voyager as many of youy feel on Ent...but it too is Canon, so we just have to deal with it 
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my problem with enterprise is that the ships look to advanced for the preTos era this series is set in and especially the romulans with their Jemhadar like warpnacelles, how the hell should such advanced looking nacelles evolve into those of the TNG warbird ??
Star Trek canon after DS9 makes no more sense to me cause they have overthrown all that we have know from TOS on to DS9 not only technically even design and visual vise and they even try to do this with TOS as the remastered version.
Star Trek is no more the vision Gene Roddenberry had with it, it has become the Paramount comercial milk cow and as there are more and more people that like all that have Star Trek in its name because it has the name Star Trek in it, the old Star Trek vision dies more and more.
You are correct to a degree...but just remember TOS was Gene's greatest work, and he was under the gun to a degree, by the studios...Once TNG happened he had full control. That control showed in the first 3 seasons of TNG were only a some off the eps were actually well done. It was not until others took the reigns of writing, directing, etc...that TNG began to soar. DS9 had even more free reign of others , but like all new shows it had its teething problems too. Ds9 was up against B5 which was essentially the same show theme wise...it was not until the Dominion were established, that story arcs began to fill out, and the characters really began to shine (I mean look at sisko or bashir, Avery had to returned to his Hawk-like character from "Spencer for Hire" before he was having some real chemistry. Bashir being set-up as "superman" was sweet because it showed that crap happened in the federation, and it was not at all "perfect". add to that the fact that the federation also had Section 31...leaves a lot to be said for the federation(not necessarily bad or good).
Now Voyager tried to go back to Trek's routes, but there was really only a few characters worth giving a damn about(even at the end of the series it was a huge lack luster), and there was way too much technobabble. Also Janeway's character was way to micromanaging...she had to be involved in every little detail, be it science, engineering, medicine, operations...I mean she knew just too much sh*t. The writers never let her just let people do their jobs with any confidence, until the last season or two...(I'm not even going to go into how Voyager ruined the Borg, created a bunch of stupid races that had way too much screen time, and had unlimited shuttles and equipment?...the ship never looked beat up...at least the Equinox showed signs of hardships. Where was that on Voyager?
Enterprise was supposed to be a revamping of Trek. It was not supposed to be a direct prequel. Yes, a lot of liberties were taken, some of them too far in the case of time travel...you did not really need it at all...but they did. as for the ships looking too new, I just say this, "its not the 1960's any more, so the prevalent fan designs weren't going to work". Now I'm not defendint the judgement to go with the design of the NX-01, but on the other side of things when ever Trek tried to pop in some stuff that was classic fans griped...I mean Fans bitched about seeing the USS Defiant firing aft torpedoes(!?!). It was the first time in years that a TOS Connie was seen on screen, and people bitched about hull aztecs and torpedoes? Enterprise had some faults, but by season 3 things were on the up and up(regardless of the minute details of costumes and nacelle designs). Hell compare it to some of the TOS eps that were for lack of a better term... just pointless or silly (Spock's brain comes readily to mind).
And What about Trek remastered? Fans are still griping about that! And all they're doing is tweaking backgrounds and external shots to give the eps some more depth. I mean at what point do you stop pointing a finger at Trek, and start looking to ourselves and our personal notions and ideologies of what Trek is or is not? You tell me?
I don't get bothered by the details of crap, if i did then I'd hate all of Trek...Hell as it stands, all I really care about are the ships. I don't care about the Eras they are "supposed" to be and crap like that. I just enjoy the shapes. I like aspects of Trek, but there will always things I will not like.
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