See, I don't think Enterprise took too long to find itself a good format and quality... not when you look back at the other series.
Each one of them (TNG, DS9, Voyager) were all pretty poor for the first three seasons. It's only when you get into season four that the actors look more comfortable in their characters, the writers get better at writing for those characters, and the plots start to get better. The same was true of Enterprise - it took the first three seasons for it to find its feet, but then it hit its stride in season four. It was just cancelled prematurely, before it could build on that.
I'm looking forward to the new series - I'll hold judgement about it until I've seen it (or maybe a few seasons of it, if it follows the previous patterns
), but it's good that they're making Trek series again. A few people who worked on the previous series have been announced as members of the production team for it, so there's a chance that they'll be able to bring some of the old magic to it.
