Destructor, I respect your view on Enterprise, but I myself enjoyed it, but it was by no means the biggest failure. Discovery has that dishonour. I believe one reason (among many, I'm sure) why you didn't like Enterprise is because it didn't focus on philosophy, but on war .
No, that was not my problem with Enterprise. I'm a spacetravel nerd. My problem was that it rewrote the existing history of the future. It didn't fit. The ship design was lazy(the producers wanted to use the Akira class design unaltered - the art dept had to push hard to get the funding to make the ship even remotely period-appropriate), and the depiction of our early voyages bore far too much similarity to 24th century life and nearly none to 21st century life.
In short, I didn't find it a believable depiction of our future.
TOS and TNG have those few extra centuries to iron out the kinks in human spaceflight, and so their push-button lifestyle makes sense, but Enterprise should have had more of a NASA feel to it. More science, engineering, and right-stuff muddling through. So many missed opportunities.
So it was unbelievable to me and hurt the overall credibility of the franchise. And, taken on their own, the episodes were weird and cheesy and most of the time the characters seemed to have a sixth sense about being in a prequel.
But that's only why I
didn't like Enterprise.
I think it was a failure in the eyes of Paramount/CBS bean-counters because it haemorrhaged viewers and alienated the fanbase so much that it ended up getting cancelled. Yes, it did better than TOS, but TOS got the ball rolling, so it gets a pass. Judging by the reception so far, Discovery doesn't seem to be a repeat performance - although CBS are keeping their streaming figures close to their chests.
Harb, great work - she looks much more like a Federation ship now. Only other thing I'd change is the font on the registry.