UPN | Release Date: September 26, 2001
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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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New York Daily NewsDavid BianculliJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: The two-hour pilot is a wonderful show - the best start for a "Star Trek" series in its long and amazing history - and Bakula's instantly likable characterization is no small part of it. [24 Sep 2001]
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Houston ChronicleBruce WestbrookJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: Enterprise's launch packs a solid action punch and a strong sense of wonder. ... Yet for all its initial freshness, we wonder how far these missions can go beyond standard Trek stuff. You know: Enlightened humans have culture clashes with alien humanoids amid much yammering about prime directives and warp drives. [26 Sep 2001]
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Chicago TribuneAllan JohnsonJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: It rivals the wildly successful "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in appeal, action and style. [26 Sep 2001]
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Deseret NewsScott D. PierceJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: The two-hour pilot is very good and sets up what would appear to be a good premise for what will inevitably be a long-running series. The show looks good, the supporting cast is attractive and the characters are interesting, and "Enterprise" really does manage to spin what has become a science-fiction staple over the past 35 years in a new, exciting way. [25 Sep 2001]
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Dallas Morning NewsEd BarkJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: It all comes together in impressive fashion, with Mr. Bakula primed and ready to take command and keep the faith. [23 Sep 2001]
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NewsdayNoel HolstonJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have assembled an attractive cast and found a tone -colloquial, humorous, slyly sexy -that probably will make questions about the science in this fiction moot. [26 Sep 2001]
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Philadelphia InquirerJonathan StormJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: It has the usual cheeseball sets and gee-whiz computer graphics, but the quotas of weighty moral lessons and pseudo-scientific incantations seem to have been reduced, though hardly eliminated. [26 Sep 2001]
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Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: After suffering through too many poorly written, dramatically empty episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager," I was dreading the launch of UPN's "Enterprise" precisely because it came from "Voyager" executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Maybe it's the diminished expectations or maybe they've actually come up with something decent, but tonight's two-hour "Enterprise" premiere is surprisingly satisfying. [26 Sep 2001]
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Seattle Post-IntelligencerJohn LevesqueJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: It seems a little bolder than its most recent predecessors. [26 Sep 2001]
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The New York TimesRon WertheimerJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: The creators of "Enterprise," Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, don't reinvent Gene Roddenberry's wheel, they just give it a spirited turn. [26 Sep 2001]
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VarietyLaura FriesJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: The show not only gives its devoted fans what they love most --- continuity monitoring --- but rejuvenates a somewhat tired notion. [27 Sep 2001]
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Season 1 Review: It's an auspicious start for the fifth live-action "Trek" series, with less moralizing, less preaching and more action than past incarnations. [23 Sep 2001]
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Denver PostJoanne OstrowJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: Scott Bakula as Capt. Jonathan Archer is not as commanding a figure as some past captains. But his inexperience suits the prequel's tone. [26 Sep 2001]
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San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck BarneyJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's this sense of wonder that sets "Enterprise" apart from the more stodgy Star Trek offerings and injects some much-needed fresh energy into the 35-year-old franchise. [26 Sep 2001]
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Orlando SentinelHal BoedekerJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: It goes boldly and unapologetically where dozens of series have gone before.... If that's disappointing, the fifth Trek television series still has more going for it than either Deep Space Nine or Voyager did. And yet, Enterprise isn't going to challenge the supremacy of Next Generation or the beloved status of the original series. [26 Sep 2001]
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San Diego Union-TribunePreston TureganoJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: What "Enterprise" doesn't have are charismatic, fun characters. [26 Sep 2001]
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Washington PostDavid SegalJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: Bakula gives the Capt. Kirk thing his best shot, but the script is riddled with clunkers and jargon. Worse, "Enterprise" has a bargain-basement feel that lands just this side of camp; the space fights aren't much more convincing than PlayStation offerings. And everything is wrapped in a trite message about unity and the importance of getting along. [26 Sep 2001]