Enterprise was DEAD before the Xindi Arc... by season 2 it had shown it was flailing going nowhere. PC lectures, limp wristed "social conscious" captain... What should have been a mans man leading a manly crew out into the unknown was turned into a bunch of wusses tied up in nonsense.
Andromeda was great the first few seasons... once they had the commonwealth recreated though... went down hill big time...
"What should have been a mans man leading a manly crew . . ."
. . . sailing to manly ports, like -- Key West, and San Francisco.