Fun fact: I watched the pilot for Enterprise for the first time right before watching Discovery.
Both pilots left me with much the same feeling.
I love Enterprise. All of the senior staff are great. Archer, T’Pol, Trip, Reed, Hoshi, and Travis. They all are interesting characters in their own right. And Scott Bakula is a fantastic actor.
The main problem Enterprise has is actually addressed by Archer himself—they keep getting drawn in to the temporal cold war so much that Archer has to straight up tell Daniels to knock it off.
I haven’t seen more than the pilot for Enterprise, but save from the song choices it wasn’t bad. The actors are decent, but I’ve no desire to see the rest of the show. Same with Discovery. I enjoy Michelle Yeoh but the crew interaction doesn’t endear me to them at all.
I did not enjoy Michelle Yeoh. As I said, often I can’t tell if she’s asking a question to make sure her crew knows the answer or because she herself is genuinely asking. And when she picks on two crewmembers because they finally agree on something, I can’t tell if she’s being sardonic or jovial. For what it’s worth, I guess I wish her accent wasn’t so thick.