Star Trek: Enterprise

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Season 1
  • Network: UPN
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2001
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 73 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 73
  3. Negative: 5 out of 73
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  1. Kai82
    Nov 10, 2020
    6
    It follows the tradition of TNG, DS9 and Voyager before with a weaker first season. This does not mean it is bad or garbage. It means there are not many excellent and outstanding episodes here. Lets start at the beginning: After Voyager ended a new Star Trek show was green-lighted. They chose the idea of a prequel. It is the story of the first human spaceship that sets out to explore theIt follows the tradition of TNG, DS9 and Voyager before with a weaker first season. This does not mean it is bad or garbage. It means there are not many excellent and outstanding episodes here. Lets start at the beginning: After Voyager ended a new Star Trek show was green-lighted. They chose the idea of a prequel. It is the story of the first human spaceship that sets out to explore the realm outside of our solar system. It is set 90 years after the first contact with the Vulcans. The Vulcans wanted to protect and guide mankind because they though they were not read for space exploration yet (I think they were at least partly correct). This lead of cause to some animosity. Many things are not invented or established. The pilot episode two parter “Broken Bow” starts with a Klingon crashing on Earth hunted by Suliban pursuers (New species in Star Trek). He is shot and injured by a farmer. Captain Archer convinces his superiors to bring the Klingon to the Klingon home-world with the newest spaceship (prototype) Enterprise. It is the first grand voyage of humans into the realm outside the solar system. I will stop here because of spoilers. It is an excellent start and I wish there were more episode in this category. However like in all previous Star Trek shows the actors must adept to their characters, the interactions, themes and new ideas must be established. It is basically the testing ground of ideas versus what works or gets fan interest and can best be described as world building. The special effects look good and I think there is mostly nothing wrong visually and artistically. The soundtrack is good and the intro theme is praiseworthy. Excellent song and visuals. I think I continue with my recommendations / favorite episodes: “Broken Bow part 1 and 2”. Already described and a really good start that makes you to want to see more. “Unexpected” for the humorous situation. Even Klingons have a good taste for humor;-). “Terra Nova” for the set up, story and conclusion. I must admit that I have a problem with the 70 years and not done anything sooner. Makes no sense and is pretty unlikely. “The Andorian Incident” for the first appearance of Shran and setting up the conflict between Vulcans and Andorians. Bonus for the conclusion. “Dear Doctor” would be undoubtedly a great episode. But the argumentation for the conclusion are unconvincing and leave a bad taste. I think they committed an unforgivable crime here. In short: Great concept and idea that was wasted with weak arguments. “Detained” for the moral dilemma. Great idea and well executed. Worth to discuss because there is no black or white and no easy solution. “Two days and Two nights” for the idea were everyone gets what the others wished for;-). Also a nice change in paste and focus on interactions. The season final “Shockwave part 1” (part 2 is episode 1 in season 2). Great final episode I chose not to spoil more than the cold gets hot. Overall this has some good episodes and many unremarkable ones. I even have forgotten that I watched some of them. It is not terrible but also not remarkable enough to get a higher rating.… Expand
  2. WorldofLucky
    Apr 27, 2018
    5
    A very big disappointment, but not for the reasons I had ignored watching it the first time around.

    Enterprise has good actors, and the occasional great performance, especially from my favorite, Jeffrey Coombs who played the Andorian Shran with an occasional recurrent role). The sets I thought were great, along with the costuming for everyone except T'Pol (which this comes into the    A very big disappointment, but not for the reasons I had ignored watching it the first time around.

    Enterprise has good actors, and the occasional great performance, especially from my favorite, Jeffrey Coombs who played the Andorian Shran with an occasional recurrent role). The sets I thought were great, along with the costuming for everyone except T'Pol (which this comes into the problems I have).

    The problem comes down to the writing. It is the laziest, sexist, unimaginative writing that I have seen in the Star Trek universe, overall more so then even the first season of ST:NG. The number of rape/assaults that occurred randomly on the show (mostly using mind-melds as the stand in) were fairly common. They even had T'Pol who seems to be the constant recipient of this do it back to someone else. That bothered me a lot.

    Then we get into the sexist treatment of T'Pol in general, constant forcing her into those situations, combined with that stupid body fitting outfit she wore, instead of the normal uniform. The ramrod writing of trying to shoehorn her into scenes such as the decon room where they have her sweating and posing sexually while waiting for the decontamination happens.

    I also need to point out that there were very few original ideas in the series as well. Instead of taking this opportunity to maybe do something more gritty (maybe on a Babylon 5 level) they instead reworked a lot of episodes (well sometimes not even reworking) from the original series. They also tended to not tell stories linearly, instead starting from the end and going back which is not their strength (stay in your lane).

    In addition there was no actual character progression, any progress in a character that was learned in a story disappeared within two more episodes. Not even counting the fact that the behavior of the characters would sometimes be 180 degrees from what they said in other episodes. I wonder if they even had a plot bible, which is a book or data store that records all the personality traits of each character and things that happen to change them, this way multiple writers have the same base character for each of their stories and it allows them to slowly change a character.

    Overall the sad writing is what made this show sink for me. I can't blame the actors at all, they did what they could. It was a chore to finish Season 4.

    Pros: The actors worked hard on this and did make it more watchable (especially Jeffrey Coombs).

    Cons: The writing was a mess, no permanent progression, no real original ideas, just rehashing old subjects.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#14 Best TV Season of 2001
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#8 Most Discussed TV Season of 2001
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#8 Most Shared TV Season of 2001

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Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Terry Kelleher
    Jun 27, 2013
    42
    To make new fans, show more enterprise.
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  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Noel Holston
    Jun 25, 2013
    70
    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]
  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Jun 25, 2013
    60
    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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