I am always shocked when fic writers get me to like Kirk. Shocked, I say! But some of them can actually manage it! (And, yes, he is funny. He's funny even when he's not trying to be -- actually, the more gravitas or angst to the scene, the funnier he becomes -- so it's not surprising that he does well in funny episodes! :D )

One of my thoughts when we were waiting to hear if SGA would get a season 5 was "It has to go to season 5 - it has to beat Enterprise!".

I do sometimes have to fight off unbecoming fits of jealousy when I notice a show like, say, Smallville getting renewed for its umpty-gazillionth season (what is it up to, like, nine now?). I made it through a season and a half of that one, and from what I've heard, the part I saw was the good part!

My husband kept watching Enterprise, inexplicably, for a couple of seasons, so I got to see bits of it in the course of wandering through the living room when it was on. Nothing that I saw gave me any interest in going ahead and investigating further!

They did try. They failed. But you could tell they were trying.

Yeah, you can tell how hard they're trying; I really like that about the show. It's a funny dichotomy, though, because they'll be obviously working hard to earn their gold star and yet totally miss the boat by miles. And yet, they're working so hard!