Kirk was still kickin when Pike's Enterprise shipped off, though. Seems the movie should be about Archer. I'd prefer Voyager, but what else is there to say?
Yeah what put me off about the 'Enterprise' series is that it didn't really try to do anything different with the series. I mean this very early in the Federation, and they still have all the standard Star Trek technology: transporters, replicators, tricorders, etc.