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Summary: Enterprise
Review: Although it is true that "Enterprise" broke the mold, sending us back in time to just a few years from now, I was hard on my assessment of the story line during the first 5 or 6 episodes of the first season. However, as I understood it, I became captive by the heroism and the adventures. Season two was more interesting as they travel farther into the unknown. But season three really hit a homerun. The possibility of Earth being destroyed and the subsequent drama to try to stop such destruction is incredible and fascinating. The turn of events after mid-season (3) are amazing and teaches us a lot about ourselves as a human race.I would recommend everybody to see it with eyes wide open. The acting is nothing like "Next Generation", "Voyager" or "Deep Space Nine". These are real people, very much like us, going on a discovery and revealing space trip where "no one has really gone before". A true predecessor to Start Trek's Kirk, Spock and McCoy.
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Summary: Enterprise is Exceptional Drama
Review: This series has tremendous appeal for a number of different reasons. It's excellent drama in its own right, but it also gets back to the original concepts of Star Trek, peaceful exploration. You can feel the thrill of being "out there." But more than that, you can experience the discoveries while watching a set of very human, appealling characters. Handsome heros for the ladies, hot chicks for the men. If you want sex appeal, you've got it in this show. Luckily there's more to the characters than good looks, though.
The stories vary in style depending on which writer(s) were responsible for the episode. Some have nifty robots, machines,or ships featured, others concentrate on moral dilemmas or unexpected danger from an alien. Most fit in witty and interesting dialogue and inter-relationships, but I've found this series doesn't degeneratate into soap opera. They throw in the odd comedy, something Trek has always done well.
If you're an original fan concerned with fitting every detail into the Trek universe, you will have some frustration. The writers did make cannon errors. But if you're willing to take it as it's own excellent Trek with Rodenberry's concepts, you will enjoy this as much as the original series.
If you're not a Trek fan you can be caught up in the drama and characters of this show a lot more easily than in some past Trek series. There's a particularly cute chief engineer that gals can't resist, another favourite is the Captain's beagle dog. The Captain himself is approaching 50, but has some build, which they make sure to show off. Guys I've talked to consider the Vulcan science officer and/or the oriental communications officer hot.
I really love watching with my husband and young son, but some parents are leery of the language and sexual content, which is more excessive in this series than most other Treks. You'll want to screen it before deciding if it's for your children. I've found it a good springboard for discussion, because there are science and other issues of interest to all ages and walk of life.
All in all, if you like Trek, Sci-Fi, good drama, or even just watching intelligent heros, you should enjoy Enterprise.
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Summary: HELP SAVE ENTERPRISE
Review: Im being a bit stupid here really but il give it a go anyway!Im writing this review to get across to people that Enterprise is a great series and has come a long long way from the disapointing first season.Ive been with it all the way and hope that this messege will make people keep faith with it.Tell your friends,families who ever and help keep Enterprise on the air!Enterprise being released on DVD whould be amazing.Season 3 is the greatest Star Trek season EVER!!!!
ENTERPRISE RULES!!!
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Summary: Best Trek since the '60s
Review: I'll give Enterprise three stars. It started out pretty good, then hit a lean period for a while, then really, really picked up in season 3 and has become a great show. The characters are definitely it's strong point. They're likable, imperfect, and generally sympathetic. Especially in season 3, where the Vulcan T'Pol starts getting emotional. She really adds a great deal to the series in my opinion. Dr. Phlox is also interesting, as he accepts the various alien traditions without passing judgement upon them, which is quite a breath of fresh air for the franchise. Lt. Reed and Ens. Marriweather are also entertaining and likable. Scott Bakula as the Captain does a competent job of acting, and manages not to ruin the ensemble. As far as it's bad points, it had a habit in the first two season of lapsing into the dim-witted moralism that Berman and Braga are such devotees of. In one episode, the Enterprise crew discovers a large, secret Vulcan surveillance post on a planet, then rats out their Vulcan allies and informs the enemy of it's existence. In other words, this ain't no Tom Clancy novel with realpolitik and such; just your usual simple minded sermonizing. That episode was also a laugh a minute for its continuity errors - Archer subjects himself to a beating for what we later find out was no reason at all, etc. One particularily chuckle inducing moment came in another episode where the crew finds some aliens on a planet, and they are quite ashamed to admit that they were engaged in hunting game. Only in Hollywood could someone think that people are ashamed to go hunting, much less aliens from another planet. But despite its flaws, it limped through the mid period of seasons one and two and arrived at this glorious season three, complete with story arc, action and adventure and - a new discovery for the current batch of Trek writers - the idea that tense situations can produce tense emotions, aka "drama". Or maybe it's just the acting.
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Summary: Best Trek Ever! Best Show on TV!
Review: This has to be the best Star Trek ever. The story writing, characters, direction, sets, effects, music -- everything gels perfectly. I love how each episode is a complete story, yet part of a much larger web that reveals itself over time. While part of me can't wait to see where it's all going, I really hope it never ends; I'm loving the mystery, and thought-provoking science fiction, but also the thought-provoking parallels to current world events. I also love how the characters are three dimensional and develop over time. Kudos especially to Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock for creating two rich characters. I love this show. I really hope it lasts!!! And I want the DVDs!
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Summary: Trek's First Frontier
Review: On September of 2001,the UPN network and Star Trek producer Rick Berman introduced viewers to Enterprise (later renamed Star Trek Enterprise in season three).
This fifth live action series from the franchise took place a century before James T. Kirk's five year voyage of the original series.This series follows the pioneering voyage of the first warp five ship in the early days of Starfleet, before the formation of the United Federation of Planets.
This first crew of the NX-01 led by Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), consisted of the Vulcan liason/first officer T'Pol (Jolene Blalock), Chief Engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker (The great Connor Trennier), British armory officer Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating),Communication Officer/ linguist Hoshi Sato (Linda Park), Helmsman Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery), and Denoblian Chief Medical Officer Phlox (John Billingsly).
At first the series was sampled by Trekkers curious about the beginnings of the Federation.Soon viewership dwindled by it's racy tone, disregard of continuity, the fact that NX-01 looked technologically advanced to Kirk's NCC-1701, and it's theme song which was a AOR pop song(!!!!).The stories felt prefunctuary as to appeal to a larger audience, which was the previous Star Trek Voyager's biggest flaw.By the time of the second season, it was pretty obvious that Enterprise was a disappointment to viewers who felt Trek was stale (indicated by 2002's Star Trek Nemesis's poor box office performance).
By the end of season two, the show took on a different course as Enterprise respond to an attack on earth (allusions to 9/11), and try to stop the Xindi race from developing a weapon of mass destruction.This story arc continued into the third season with exciting and surprising results allowing for more action and suspense that hasn't been seen since the end of Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
Hopefully Berman has finally taken the fans pleas to heart and continue to take Enterprise into bold new adventures
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Summary: If they can put a man on the moon . . .
Review: Unlike TOS, in which episodes had, with few exceptions, independent story lines, the episodes of Enterprise build on each other sequentially. It's one long story, and if you miss episodes you miss out on material that is relevant to the ongoing story line. So let's hope the studio gets the lead out and gets the DVDs to market.
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Summary: And then I discovered Enterprise
Review: I love this series. It has all the good points mentioned by the other reviewers - it seems more authentic than the other series and the team gels very well. I love the fact it conveys the spirit of adventure a lot more than any of the other series - no jaded adventurers here everything is s discovery and we are on the journey with them. I don't agree with most of the reviewers who criticise the music - I like it as I think it goes well with the idea of the programme: naive, gung-ho, idealistic. I thought the song was perfect - totally reflecting the feelings of the human crew members - very American discovery and Manifest Destiny in the 22nd Century. This was the best move ever made in the Star Trek series of programmes - well done to the originators.
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Summary: Old Trekker
Review: As an old Trekker (I saw the original "Cage" when it originally aired and a CD of the various Star Trek soundtracks is currently playing as I write this) I was excited when I heard about "Enterprise." If you take them for what they are and the era in which they were produced, the original and the clones each have their good and bad points. From what I have been able to see, "Enterprise" has more good than bad. Unfortunately, my local cable provider did not carry the channel on which "Enterprise" was being broadcast and I had to "Rube Goldberg" my old antenna to pull in a barely watchable signal. Since they didn't pay much attention when I requested they add a UPN channel, I have dumped my cable and had a satellite system installed. Now "Enterprise" comes in crisp and clear. The actors carry the characters they play quite well, especially Bakula's Archer. The interactions seem a little unrefined and the atmosphere is a little dark but I expect that in this prequel to the original, unlike the Next Gen. sequel. But, I do like the way the episodes have been serialized to some extent. I am looking forward to the DVDs so I can catch up on the episodes that I have missed.
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Summary: high-end Star Trek!
Review: I can only say that this series, Enterprise, brought Star Trek into the 21st Century. Somehow, Enterprise to me seems to be the 'realest' Star Trek, by combining a visual 'feel' of excellent Star Trek production with an X-files mood at times, and also by pulling the plot and overall story closer to the present we live in than ever. I think scripts were never stronger, and although the time-frame in that future Star Trek 'history' is in essence technologically less evolved than other Star Trek series, Enterprise (by being performed, filmed and produced with incredible talent) definitely allows for very subtle, and very fantastic science-fiction.. My opinion is that Enterprise picked up on the very thing that made 'Star Trek: First Contact' the best and most popular Star Trek movie, which is kinda hard to specify, but if you liked First Contact, then you're definitely going to love Enterprise!
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