Star Trek: Enterprise

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Season 4
  • Network: UPN
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2001
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 3 out of 22
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  1. WorldofLucky
    Apr 27, 2018
    3
    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
  2. Kai82
    Nov 22, 2020
    4
    The fourth and last season of the show. Season 3 struggled with low viewer numbers while I say it was intense, matured and entertaining. A frequent complaint was that it became to dark (Basically correct but it was not darker than the Dominion war later in DS9) and that the overarching story arc made it difficult to follow if you missed an episode (Also valid especially later in theThe fourth and last season of the show. Season 3 struggled with low viewer numbers while I say it was intense, matured and entertaining. A frequent complaint was that it became to dark (Basically correct but it was not darker than the Dominion war later in DS9) and that the overarching story arc made it difficult to follow if you missed an episode (Also valid especially later in the season). However fan response helped to green-light a fourth season. For me this was a strange season. It has great episodes but also a slow start and a horrible final episode. I quickly lost interest after the first episode. Basically it lost me as fan while I must admit the later material is partly excellent. It has excellent stories related back to the eugenic wars, Vulcan culture, a certain section, an old enemy from other Star Trek shows and the mirror universe. On the other hand the conclusion of a certain war (reoccurring story arc of the show) is underwhelming, there are more weaker episodes (especially the early once are boring) and the final of the show and season is a basically a TNG episode (This is not a typo) while also being underwhelming and made some bad choices for characters I care. While I am at it I think they could have done more with the continuation of T’Pols and Trips arc (huge disappointment for me). Overall this was my least liked season and I cant blame them for canceling the show even as Star Trek fan. I want to thank the cast and everyone involved for the show. Thank you for the good entertainment and best wishes for you all. My recommendations are: “Borderlands” and “Cold Station 12” are practically a two parter with interesting concept and story (Must be vague because of spoilers). “Babel One”, “United” and “The Aenar” are connected and start a new story arc for an enemy that we all knew would appear sooner or later. Good story and execution (Yes I am again vague because of spoilers). “In a Mirror, Darkly part 1 and 2” for the mirror universe characters and the dark setting that is strangely so enjoyable entertaining. Finally “Demons” and “Terra Prime” for an intense story and matured themes. If all episodes were as good as these it would be a remarkable season and praiseworthy.… Expand