First off, no this is not a post about Data's song in Nemesis. :-)
I was just looking back at the history of all threads in the Star Trek chat forum area. It seems only yesterday we were discussing the pilot episode for Enteprise and practically wetting ourselves over the ST:TMP DVD
Anyway, I found some interesting threads among which is this one:
http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...&threadid=2726
This thread is a poll around the time "Breaking the Ice" aired asking whether people "approve of the way Enterprise is representing the time before the original series." Most of them, you will notice, said YES. And from the looks of the comments, most people, even the ones who complain to no end about the show now, thought it was doing a decent job.
It's interesting to note how our debate about ENT has changed... when it premiered the naysayers were mainly complaining about how it breaks established canon etc., now that debate has kind of settled down and we're arguing about the story quality.