Why Enterprise Is Better Than You Remember
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- Today's Lost and Found brings us back to the beloved franchise Star Trek with my thoughts on the last remnants of your father's Trek, Enterprise! Enterprise was, well, as I say, a weird show. It sometimes was a bit too cool for its own good but it still felt like Star Trek. It's an entertaining space adventure akin to what we have seen from Deep Space Nine or Voyager. It has grown a fanbase thanks to its characters and at times, fantastic writing.
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I want to apologize to everyone who either clicked on the video, watched or have commented on it. I did another gaffe (this is becoming a running theme on my channel, unfortunately). My thumbnail includes the title with 'Enterprise' spelled incorrectly. This gaffe was a huge mistake on my part and one that, for the moment, I will have to live with. Unfortunately, CZcams rewards consistency, especially with thumbnails, titles, tags, and descriptions. Fixing the title at this point would kill the growth on this video. This is a decision I've made, at least while the video continues to do well. I apologize in advance for those who may think differently about my content. I work and put tens of hours into each video. Sometimes, mistakes happen. I do apologize.
LOL... not the first channel to have spelling mistakes in titles. I watch a lot of electronics videos and one channel in particular seems to always have obvious spelling mistakes either in the title or other text in the video. He doesn't proofread even though he has 500,000+ subscribers (EEVblog). Proofread, proofread, proofread, then take a break and check it all again. Also helps if you get someone else to watch your video for errors before hitting the upload button. Not many apologize though!
Didn't notice, don't worry about it.
Enterpise! 😀 Had you not said something i never would have noticed.
Hey, we all covfefe from time to time, will not be your last. Just keep putting out content and move on from there.
Enterprise was a great show. It started off slow, and progressed. Just when it was hitting it’s stride, they pulled the rug out.
It’s my personal opinion, though those who watched the entire series knows it to be true.
Enterprise was done dirty. They deserved at least a fifth season.
Amen!
I would have loved so see the beginnings of the federation in later seasons. Especially if that meant more Shran. Lol
@@b.c.2281 It still bothers me that Enterprise got cancelled just when it was hitting its stride. Enterprise got a raw deal.
It seemed as though Enterprise was being set up to fail from the get-go with an abysmal first two seasons, then it didn’t pick up steam until halfway through the third season, and it finally embraced the prequel idea in its fourth season. The damage had been done in those first two-and-a-half seasons, and it was hard for ENT to catch up, especially when newer sci-fi shows, like BSG and Stargate seemed to capture the audience’s attention.
Unpopular opinion: I love 'Where my heart will take me'.
It was sligjhtly better than Elton John "Rocketman" which was choice #2)
It’s name is Faith of the Heart. I love it as well, both Russell Wilson and Rod Stuart’s versions.
@@Phoenix_254 The song is actually called 'Where my heart will take me' 😅
joram. tffb I believe that is checkmate in your favor sir.
@@Phoenix_254 :D
The Xindi arc and anything involving the Andorians were so good. The crew were also really well cast and gelled pretty quickly.
Enterprise rocks. I didn’t know how good we had it when it was running.
I always liked Enterprise. I liked it's slightly less high-tech "magic" and it's more low key feel.
It did feel more visceral than the older shows. The technobabble was definitely toned down to far more believable levels, though the deus ex "magic" was still there in a lot of episodes. I guess in that way, it does really work as a nice bridge between more realistic sci-fi and the older Trek.
@@schadenfreude3236 Yeah, Voyager especially had too much "techno-babble" for me anyway.
@@gsr4535 - I would probably agree. In a way. I don't know that it had more babble per se, but it seemed a lot more out-of-place and not as believable. But then, Miles, Scotty, and Jordy were far more believable engineers than Torres imo.
@peter - Yeah, I think a grittier version would have fit better for me. Something that wasn't so polished. They were barely a century out from World War III and it seems like a bit of a jump to me.
I think it met its goal of showing how many of the familiar elements of Star Trek developed: warp drive, phasers, transporters, the Prime Directive, and even the Federation itself.
Commander Shran, was also an amazing character.
I agree!
Love Shran he was great
Kept seeing The Question when he talked though lol
i'd say the character was about as weak as ENT usually has, just that jeffrey combs could read the back of a shampoo bottle out loud and would manage to make it engaging. in other words, he saved the usual ENT shlock with a really good performance
true...we needed way more episodes with the Andorians
Just finished Enterprise as my first series completion and honestly can't imagine how the others could get any better. It felt like you were at home on the ship and after a while I started singing along to the opening theme song.
DS9 feels even more like you’re at home
Hahaha. Damn you are more tolerant then me. I want to kill myself every time the theme song starts to play.
That's how good Star Trek was, even the lesser show still feels this way.
I’m with everyone else. This was underrated and it’s only appreciated now in light of what we have. And yes. That last episode was so offensive that I was angry on behalf of the cast and crew well before I ever found out what their opinions were lol
Well said!!!! Totally right 🤗🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I watched it not knowing it was the last episode. What a slap in the face it was..
@@CrypticCocktails i watched clips of it and refuse to watch the whole episode. Braga and Berman just ruined that last episode. Manny Coto who had taken over writing and production completely by season 4 was totally against "these are the Yoyages".
Anyone notice the Vulcan lady on Enterprise had Restlylin filler injected in her lips. What some actors will do for Hollywood.
@@marcydenville1756 I don't know why Jolene did that. I guess when you can afford it, you go all out and get plastic surgery you really don't need (didn't help Phyllis Diller either)! It made T'Pol's lips look a bit unnatural for a Vulcan.
The characters seem like actual people.
watching Enterprise makes me realize I kind of hate Picard as a captain
I don't hate Picard, and I like Patrick Stewart, but his arch, Shakespearean style is definitely weird for a show that was supposed to be about emblematic humans in the future.
Definitely true and that really made me like it.
I agree. I forgot that they are an actor hahah
@@welfaiewfb8802 I get the love for Picard but he has never been my #1 Captain. I was always the Sisco kind of guy or even Kirk lmao
Enterprise became a great show in the forth season, when it became an extended love letter to the Original Series. The two-part Mirror Universe episode and the arc that explains why the TOS Klingons look human were brilliant. Sad the show was cancelled just when it really found its voice.
The fourth season was written that way because the production knew it was their last season. They decided to take risks that they would have never considered and the result was am amazing season.
@@gobblox38 - Too bad the writers didn't get that risky kick in the butt in the early seasons. To make them take risks instead of playing it safe. Enterprise really came into it's own in the later seasons.
I always felt the 'why Klingons look human' two-parter was one of the weakest storylines, as it was only there to explain something that wasn't necessary...
Dax 100 years earlier in Trials and Tribbilations; "Oh Koloth, you look so good without your ridges!"
Dax in DS9 during Blood Oath: "Oh wow, all four of you got your ridges back! How long did that take? Has everyone gotten their ridges back? Are there any residual effects?"
It was entirely to over-explain a joke. It was a budget issue. Gene Roddenberry said to imagine TOS Klingons with TNG ridges on them. He would have been irate at this explanation. He once screamed at a writer that fake science was not a good enough reason to invent things that didn't make sense.
@@TheBigExclusive to be fair, every Star Trek series started weak. TNG didn't get good until the third season at the earliest.
Ive seen every episode of every series and for me. Enterprise season 3 is THE BEST. And Enterprise is by far my favorite series.
after spock t pol is the best vulcain off all time what a performance
She's definitely a classic Vulcan, but I don't know if I can place her above Sarek.
I like T'Pol's chr. development from the icy, aloof Vulcan to the softer, even sweeter Vulcan science officer who's vulnerable at times and even admits to missing Trip Tucker st times. She even brings herself to pet Cpt. Archer's dog Porthos when she felt he -and she herself-needed it.
No, Tuvak is the best after Spock.
Tuvok
Personally the Enterprise theme song didn’t offend me, I liked it. The one constant in life is change, accept it and life isn’t so stressful.
As far as the sexuality aspect, all Trek has it, it’s just that enterprise was in your face about it and not hiding it with humor or something like that.
Jonas Beach .. I loved the theme song!
Mike Davis,
I am glad I am not the only one. If people’s issue is with the theme song, then that’s not a big deal, because you can fast forward it if you don’t like it. Overall the show took too long to get going and by the time it hits its stride, it was cancelled.
Jonas Beach .. agreed👍
I also love the intro song, and I enjoy every decon scene to it's fullest.
Let's be real if the original series was on Netflix and not a product of the 60's there would have been partial nudity at least
There's an Enterprise novel called "The Good That Men Do" that takes the final episode and sort of retcons it to something much more satisfying. Basically the history that Riker and Troi were watching was altered to hide what really happened on Enterprises trip home. Tripp's death was faked so they could insert him undercover with the Romulans. Notice he winks at Archer as he goes in the chamber before he dies, which made no sense at the time. It makes the rushed and strange ending sort of irrelevant, and the way things played out after was much much better, just wished they could've made that into the series, but at least the book was made at all.
I have that book. Love it!!
my daughter enjoyed this series and was inspired with the theme song especially showing the greatness of man from the exploration of the sea till exploration of space. She even made a powerpoint presentation karaoke for the theme song in her class project which she showcased how we as humans prevailed in conquering space.
I was actually angry when they canceled Enterprise.
I felt that way too, even more so when the greatness was replaced with the ADHD JJ and then Kurtzman rubbish.
People started hating Enterprise before it started coz of Voyager being like the weakest link of the franchise before. But by the end of it most of the Fandom was shocked
In season 4 the entire crew turned into whores...even Captain Archer he even hoed with the asian woman...that is what ruined the show and led to cancellation...imagine if they would have done season 5 every one would be fucking everyone.
@@GLBizzie it's because Berman and Braga produced and wrote seasons 1 and 2 and part of 3 before Manny Coto took over and started putting out much better material. They just never took any risks early on when they could have delved into a whole bunch of different stories like the Earth Romulan War, etc. Manny Coto said years later that Berman and Braga shot down a whole bunch of his episode ideas before they finally took a step back and let him have free reign in season 4.
I was overjoyed
Carbon Creek is perfectly Trek
Fantastic episode.
I wanted a Carbon Creek spinoff, I loved those characters!
Carbon Creek was probably inspired by Margaret Wander Bonanno's Trek novel "Strangers from the Sky".
THANK YOU! So glad someone besides me enjoyed that episode. I even felt guilty for a time, wondering if liking Carbon Creek was something akin to liking Threshold lol
a personal favorite
Actually I enjoyed Enterprise the most out of all of Star Trek. Other than the theme opening music and the non stand alone episodes style it was great.. I loved the casting and the connection to the roots of star trek which I believe was the key to it being what it's creator Gene would have approved of. I Never had an issue with the sexy interaction in fact I enjoyed the grown up content they were able to show that they couldn't during the 60s. Lastly the ending was stolen by the next generation crew which was sad but making the chef who was always talked about during the series and never shown to be the next generation's number two I thought that was a good touch there.
Glad to see another Enterprise fan. Some genuine things I did like about the finale but I think it mostly left me sour.
@@NaterTot I agree. I think CBS All Access would let "Enterprise" get away with more than network tv. I thought at first, it was cancelled because T'Pol let down her robe and showered with Trip, but I'm glad that and her skimpy outfits wasn't it (I think some of Troi's outfits were skimpier). I didn't like the holoprogramme because it deleted necessary scenes that explained Trip's supposed "death" and put in those unrelated to the episode ( Pegasus, Data's call to Troi), I personally prefer new episodes with the last one in season 4 redone, but the movie idea is ok if the series is a no-go.
The showrunner for Enterprise's last season, Manny Coto, did a great job making the show finally start to feel like a Trek prequel. I've seen notes for stories that could've been in season five and wish we could've gotten them.
Also, I love that they were able to get Dean Stockwell to appear in an Enterprise episode.
I fully recommend this show as well. I just finished binge watching this series for the first time. I was always turned off by the pilot episode and poor reviews and never got past that first episode, but I gave it a shot after watching Picard and I Discovery. Enterprise has some excellent character drama that had me shed tears, particularly in episodes centered on Trip like the cloning episode, but maybe I'm just getting softer in my middle age.
Am I the only one who liked the first two seasons the best? Although it was exciting having a bit more action. The Macos too were cool.
I also loved the first season the most
Season 4 was the best season but I enjoyed the simple optimism of season 1 Discovery-centered Archer.
I absolutely agree. The show was about beginnings and exploration, and the whole Xindi thing and Season 4 just drove it off the rails.
Me too, the pop intro mentioned in the vid only started on season 3 and the character demeanor change and different cinematography style was too jarring and too dramatic in later seasons
I watched S1 recently and it's even better than I remember. Even the pilot.
Regardless of what anyone else thinks I loved this series. Though many others think t-pol was hot I thought Hoshi was the sweet and smoking lass of the crew. In the two part episodes where she takes over enterprise and claims her role as empress she's truly plays herself as a hot hot bad ass.
I always loved Hoshi!
I don't remember anyone on Enterprise as an Empress. That sounds more like STD.
Hoshi was and still is my favourite.
My thoughts on the opening song...
When you look at it against the other series' theme songs, with their orchestral grandeur, yeah, it seems a bit off. However, if you instead look at it in the context of the show itself, and the aesthetics of the time this show represents, a pop song makes a bit more sense. I'll explain...
Other than phase blaster type weapons and warp capable ships, the Earth of Enterprise wasn't that different from our own aesthetically speaking. The farmer in the first episode was dressed like a farmer of our time, right down to holding a phase shotgun thing, and still kept his grain in a silo like any you would see today. NX-01 wasn't all plush carpeting and comfy chairs, it was as spartan as a submarine, quarters included. The upper command of Starfleet's uniforms included a tie with a Windsor knot for god's sake!
Using that metric, a song about going where my heart will take me is a fine fit for a show about humanity's first tentative steps into the larger universe.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who GETS this... It sounds like SOMEONE's got Faith... of the Heart...
i watched Discovery, and Enterprise became a masterpiece!
Picard and Discovery make Enterprise a Star Trek masterpiece. Enterprise episodes are a bit heavy, though after watching the social crap of Discovery and rehashing and poorly edited Picard's "boring" episodes, Enterprise is like "coming home," to use a TOS term. In Enterprise I say, "he is captured again, and tortured again?" And though the Reptilians and Insectocides are interesting, I got tired to seeing them. I good test for me is the ability to rewatch. About a third of TOS are dumb, though they have the best crew. They've got Lenard Nemoy and William Shatner. The Next Generation had a hologram deck, and Whoopee Goldberg. A key to a successful ST series is the relationship and loyalty of the captain and his/her #1. In every series, but STD, you've got that. Im rewatching Enterprise right now. Its nice. It makes sense. and I feel Im in the ST realm, not with the current crap.
@@robertgroeling7387 I only liked Whoopi as Guinan. Can't stand her on "The View", but I never liked it much anyway. I did like Miles O'Brian. Colm, Frakes, Stewart, and others did a musical-themed play in Atlanta many years ago. Sir Patrick even played violin with the Atlanta Symphony!
the last episodes should have been a daniels episode about the legacy of archer and crew and making him decide to form the federation
Last episode made it seem like the whole 4 seasons was a holo novel story
Last ed episode was a season cliffhanger
Agree. I liked the temporal arc and the augments.
@@Shadothecat Like the endings of Dallas and Newhart.
Agreed. Otherwise, season 4 was really good.
Star Trek: The Original Series had a huge amount of sexuality--only it was shown at levels appropriate to the late sixties. Enterprise was no different, only the censors were more relaxed 40 years later. Sexuality is consistent with Star Trek.
Sure. To the level we received in Enterprise? I don't really think so. I think they all did but again, I think the level was taken up a notch to attract more viewers.
So true. Like they did for Voyager. They got rid of the short woman, for a blonde with big breasts. I did like seeing T'pol in that tight outfit. Dam she was hot.
Also TNG early seasons had lots of weird conversations about sex and how its natural form of human expression and whatnot, very cringy. Star Trek always had some weird sexuality going on, and Enterprise mostly had people applying lotion on themselves. Coming from a mostly tropical country that seems rather trivial to me
@@NaterTot Proportionally, it's in line. For modern times, it's barely steamy. For TOS's time, it was out there. And remember...Data was fully functional!
The decon scene was weird. I wonder if the network forced them to do something sexy as a publicity stunt.
I liked this series 2nd best after DS9...it had the most fleshed out characters that actually seem like real people.
I liked it better than "DS9".
@@virginiaconnor8350 nah man.. The War Storyarc was too majestic
@@GLBizzie Ive seen nearly every "main" series episode from TOS to STD, numerous times, and of all the ST series' DS9 has the least bad episodes, a few dumb episodes and some really annoying characters, though overall, great fun to watch. I spent one of my greatest Summers watching from first to last the entire series. It was a great Summer.
For me it's third behind ds9 and tng
This was my favorite Trek. It's so grounded, and the first steps were really enjoyable. The 4th season was incredible
I liked Enterprise a lot more than Voyager or Discovery. I just wish they would have done less time travel crap.
Yes, I think many fans were less than keen on Voyager, and possibly because of that, many my age (Gen-X) never gave Enterprise a chance.
Personally I put TOS and DS9 my joint favourites and Ent once it got to season 3/4 places it my 3rd favourite. Yes it had issues but all things we love have those at least it didn't have two men replacing Capt Kirk as TNG did which I missed most of that series 1st two seasons because it seemed directionless to me until the following it did hit high gear and Voyager seemed never to get going and was far too inconsistent but that is just my opinion. The less said about STD the better.
I know right, they really should have focused more on the Earth-Romulan war rather than the whole time travel plot. They could have easily replaced the Sphere Builder temporal war with sneaky Romulans and nothing of importance would have been lost
Voyager was a nice show. That was my first Star Trek series i watched. Enterprise was okay .. sort of. But it didn't have the cool utopistic feeling of the earlier shows.
After Enterprise none of the films looked and felt remotely Star Trek. I'm afraid that the new Picard series is going to be also a stupid flashy crap, like Disco or the JJVerse films.
Peter Petermann ...Enterprise was good but during the time ratings ruled a show
My only criticism is that I wanted to see more first contact of the species we heard in TOS.
Likewise!
Random: Did you see the Andorian behind Vash in "Captain's Holiday?"
The characters of Archer, T'Pol and Phlox are in my top ten favorite Star Trek characters. But I really hated the entire Xindi storyline.
Why?
@@ThreadBomb They should have backfilled the emergence of the Federation instead of a new villainous race.
@@JAGUART Probably true or gotten into the earth romulan war in season 3 instead. The Xindi story line wasn't bad partly because Manny Coto took over writing and production midway through season 3 making that arc much better than what Berman and Braga did in seasons 1 and 2.
I liked that story line …. Lots of action too .
I absolutely loved this show, it's my favorite from all the other ones in the Star Trek Series. I don't know what it is about Enterprise, but the characters just seem to come to life and although they will never hear me say it, I want to thank all of them from the bottom of my heart for making this wonderful show.
This was my all time favorite series of Star Trek! I recommend it!
I just ignore the final episode. Also who doesn’t want to see the half naked Jolene Blalock.
No Kidding I loved her sexiness on the show!
William H. Baird the woman deserved to be a member of the Star Trek franchise.
I have to admit that the first time I saw "Enterprise"', I didn't like it-I thought it was too dark like "DS9", but after watching it on Hulu-a bit late since I didn't get Roku til last year-I really liked it more so and want it renewed more than ever. I remember writing to get "TOS" renewed and it worked in a different way than I expected. Thanks for being positive about the series. The only thing I didn't like about the last episode was the "TNG" holoprogramme (please, no more holo-programmes by any ST story) and maybe the episode "A Night in Sickbay". They could've shown a story about T'Pol's visit to Carbon Creek where het great grandmother visited in '57. If they could re-do the last episode-using "The Good That Men Do" and "Kobayashi Maru" books-then "Enterprise" could have gone into the Romulan War and beyond to "Rise Of the Federation" where T'Pol is captain of the Endeavour and Archer is an Admiral. I would've preferred a different theme song/video for each season and maybe a blooper or gag that went along with that story at the end of the episode. Just an idea.
I saw 1/2 nudity and women kissing women on "DS9". That was enough. What was shown on "Enterprise" was at least more decent than what I saw on "TNG" as well.
Virginia Connor if what u wrote is true then I need to see TNG again. Also plz point out the indecent episodes.
Enterprise had my favorite crew of all the series.
Same here. It had my favourite all time captain.
I feel bad that I don't like Mayweather or Hoshi. But the rest of the characters are all terrific and underrated.
I loved them and I hated the fact that they killed Trip. The ending was just offensive!
Its light years ahead of discovery
More like three quarters of a mile. But hey, at least it isn't the worst Star Trek anymore!
Better than bad is not good.
Discovery is amazing. It is the third generation of Star Trek.
@@RolandThePaladin1 And like every third generation of anything, it runs everything into the ground.
@@mito-pb8qg Pardon? I am a huge fan of every Trek series, and Discovery fits right in with the franchise. What don't you like about it?
Yeah. This was a cool show. It caught so much flack unnecessarily.
Yeah the online trek community was brutal to it at the time. Many were still salty about Voyagers finale, and there was an almost rabid disdain for Berman and Braga by then. A TOS prequel was not a particularly popular concept from the start, and having it developed/run by two guys on record as not fans of TOS had many fans in an irrational adversarial position from day one. The theme song didn’t help either lol
@@kdotmann Yeah i agree with this as well. Fans were totally turned off by the last 3-1/2 years of Voyager which were atrocious. Berman and Braga had run of ideas by the end of Voyager and Enterprise was doomed from the beginning. If they had only turned the show over to Manny Coto earlier they probably would have had more seasons.
It remembers me how dissapointed I was when I heard Enterprise stopped after season 4.
Enterprise had it all !! One of the best teams, the better effects and the stories were great !
Some rich producer should bring the whole staff and actors together to produce the 3 missing seasons we're still missing. No mather their ages now, in Star Trek can happen anything when it comes to time and space !
Or do a movie showing the early Federation, with all the Enterprise characters reminiscing and showing flashbacks to their later missions and exploits and maybe a bit of the Earth-Romulan war.
Unpopular opinion, the Xindi arc was actually good gripping drama.
this isn't an unpopular opinion, this is fact
I would love to see an Enterprise movie!
they can still make that
I think there is a fan made movie playing during the Romulan War. That might come at least a bit close.
CMDR Ulon That is as close as we will have for an Enterprise era movie. There were talks about an actual movie set in that era with the cast reprising their roles. Including Connor Trinneer as Trip. But unfortunately, it wasn’t gonna happen.
I think it's far too late for that.
I’ve been saying for almost 20 years it was a crime canceling this show early.
I cry everytime I see Archer come back and hug T'Pol.
It couldn’t possibly have been better than I remember - because I loved it to begin with.
I love DS9 but Enterprise is a close second
People forget that the first two seasons of TNG were awful, but because it was the sequel to TOS and the show had so many die-hard fans, it got time to establish itself and find its heart. Enterprise never got the time and people were burned out by so many series following on each other's heels, a lot of the fans just turned into savage critics rather than supporters, and certainly the network had no appetite for sticking with the franchise, which was felt to have run its course. As a die-hard fan of Enterprise even I admit that a few of the episodes (especially the early ones) were terrible, but let's remember that quite a few of the TOS ones were cringeworthy even at the time; I'm old enough to remember watching TOS when it aired, and for all that I loved the show, there were some episodes so awful I've never watched them again in all the years since.
*Seasons
@@rbshow211 The person on the original post is most likely British, in alot of European countries a season of a show is referred to as a series.
*Seasons
The first two seasons of TNG had some awesome episodes.
Exactly ( Pre-Beard #1) TNG episodes are awful!
When Enterprise 1st came out, I wasn’t a big fan. Then it started to grow on me and I did become a big fan. Then it was canned with the worst series finale in the history of TV.
Years later, I ran across Enterprise on Amazon Prime and pretty much binged on Enterprise. Now I love it even more! That pretty much broke my Star Trek heart as the possibility of this show coming back is virtually nil. But as Mr. Spock says, there are always possibilities...
I feel Enterprise never got a fair shake. Also, I feel the theme song was spot on!
Finally, I want to extend my gratitude and a big THANK YOU to all the cast and crew of Enterprise. I deeply appreciated your hard work and dedication.
The enterprise finale single handedly ruined both Enterprise’s chances at a good ending AND the TNG episode the Pegasus.
What made the series finale even worse is that even though six years had supposedly passed since the events in “Demons/Terra Prime”, the Enterprise crew weren’t participants in the Earth/Romulan War which was supposed to have occurred during that six year time span, and wasn’t even mentioned in the episode, giving the viewer the impression that it didn’t happen. The whole setup of the story left me wondering why Archer was even part of the ceremony establishing the United Federation of Planets in the first place when he, and the NX-01 crew had been relegated to being (apparently) traveling goodwill ambassadors, instead of being on the front lines in the Romulan War.
Also, the whole “Riker on the holodeck” plot line led me to conclude that the entire series was simply a product of Riker’s runaway imagination, combined with a holodeck that didn’t work properly (this idea was later played for laughs in an episode of Lower Decks) which simply begged for a cameo appearance from Lt. Reg Barclay, which probably would’ve made the finale, and Trip’s pointless, ridiculously out-of-character death, a little easier to handle.
After doing a rewatch of ENT on the H&I network recently with this thought in mind, this is my perception of ENT… it’s Riker’s imagination adding an interesting twist to “historical” events he’s watching play out on the Enterprise-D’s holodeck.
I enjoyed the show My favorite character on the show was the andorian's
Well said, pink skin.
I loved it...upset they were to lazy to finish it properly
THEY DIDNT HAVE TIME MAN... THE SHOW WAS CANCELLED... THEY HAD TO GO UP 5 YEARS APROXIMATELY
I am almost finished all 4 seasons of this wonderful series. And I can confirm that it IS much better than people remember! I believe it has many more good or great episodes than any other ST series, over the course of their full seasons. I can't explain it, but Enterprise seems to make me care more about the characters than any other series. It's also very dark in some episodes, including some of Archer's dubious decisions, which I find refreshing and more "real". The effects, settings,the look of the technology all seems to fit perfectly for the era portrayed. The great story arcs and plot lines that are contained over several episodes also made the series more exciting and epic. All in all , an extremely underrated series which should have been provided the opportunity to evolve over the 7 seasons all the other "new" ST series were afforded. At the very least it had legs for another few seasons. If you haven't watched it since it's original airing, I highly recommend you watch it again. You will be very pleasantly surprised. It's a geat show
Every few years I make the mistake of rewatching Enterprise. By mistake, I mean I start watching an episode or two and am immediately drawn into watching all of them (except for the last episode; the only good thing about it was the ‘new’ uniforms), and immediately start feeling despondent when I think of ‘what could have been’. Enterprise should have run for at least 2 more seasons. I would have LOVED to have seen the NX-01 refit with a new drive section.
Or this enginering section with would look a but like the tos enterprise
Doubting Thomas They planned on making at least seven seasons of Enterprise during production. But during that time, the ratings were eating at them, CBS bought out UPN and the constant pushing of cancellation is what did it. Just like TOS, they got pushed too far into cancellation. Damn shame. I grew up to ENT in my early teens and loved it. Another damn shame they didn’t make any movies set in the era like the TOS crew did.
Funny and interesting compilation you made, I like this 👍 I just restarted watching ENT but with my daughter who starts to be a Trekkie as well. Her favourite looks to be Reed. My fav is T'Pol 😊
Also will never understand the hatred for it, I know that not everyone's favourite but god, why these people still spreading hatred as well for people who loves this series...
Thanks so much for the kind comments. I think you're the first to compliment it for being funny. I try to make these informative but also entertaining. It isn't always easy and I don't always succeed on that balance.
@@NaterTot It is indeed informative and entertaining, I meant to say that. Balanced well. Have not seen any other good ENT tributes like this, so I bookmarked it. Your style of saying things and editing is really good, imo. Keep up the great job! 🎇
It's not my favorite by far, but I don't get hate for it, either. I don't think it's bad per se...just not as good as the others.
it was the continuity errors. they even admited one where they use the D7 because they were rushed. No longer the worsed but the show was handled wrogn till the end seasons
I loved Reed! Poor Malcolm...
I loved this show soooo much!
I have been watching Enterprise and man I am impressed. I love the ship and the look of the inside of the looks really good. The computer screens hanging on the the metallic looking walls . The beefy control panels. The claustrophobic feel of the ship almost submarine like. I think they did a great job capturing what a ship may look like in that time period. I really like it.
Guess who's been watching Star Trek during quarantine?
Well, really, I finished TNG and didn't really know where else to start. I decided to watch Enterprise and here's some of my thoughts.
One thing I immediately noticed was that Enterprise has a strong sense of continuity throughout the episodes-TNG's episodes never really seemed to correlate together at all, where as Enterprise might have one episode's actions affecting it well afterwards.
You get the sense that what happens in Enterprise matters more, and there's always more factors that need to be considered. Humanity's reputation among the Vulcans-How other influental factions might interact with the crew of Enterprise, it's much different when in TNG they typically 'reverted to normal' after every episode (Though I do really like TNG's characters).
It also helps that Enterprise has decent visuals. The sets appear to be more detailed, even the 'throwaway' episodes often have very well made sets. The visual effects are a slight improvement but nothing major.
My conclusion? Even what some to be consider not a good Star Trek series is still way better than most of the Sci Fi shows we get today.
One of my main problems with Enterprise was the incessant time travel, they way overplayed it. Especially when the whole point was overcoming the challenges with lower Tech.
That was all Berman and Braga. They were obsessed with time travel, the temporal cold war, etc. They were into that constantly in Voyager and fans just grew sick of it.
Don't make me ill, I don't even want to start on TNG. I liked the 1st version of the Enterprise theme song. The idea was to tie the show back to the history of space exploration, not to grandly mince down palatial staircases for Gentrified Earth after the Federation deported the Gimmies to work dilithium mines off world.
I guess we weren't all lucky enough to live through Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo though.
Totally agree! Season 1-2 Enterprise theme and video montage was PERFECT! Season 3-4 sped things up and messed up the symbolism of the slow progression in our technological advancements and in the music. And nothing beats seeing Chuck Yeager's strut, Alan Shepard's winking grin, the Apollo 11 astronauts, or the sight of the first Enterprise rolling out of the hangar. I've been so lucky to live through all of this, to see it happen in real life, and to dream of what might come in the future.
I liked the opening credits for one reason...
The insanely epic inverted opening during the Mirror Universe episode! You sit through that first lame opening several dozen times, but then THAT comes on? HOLY SHIT!
I'm in the minority, but I loved Enterprise. It wasn't as good as TNG or DS9 but I liked it more than Voyager.
yeah Voyager sucked especially the last 3-1/2 seasons.
@@chrisloesch1870 Voyager was superior
@@BishopWalters12 voyager was horrible. There’s no ifs ands or butts on that. It was easily the worst of the franchise up until ENT. And by the end of ENT it was still the worst.
@@chrisloesch1870 Incorrect
@@BishopWalters12 i beg to differ. Even the cast of voyager stated it was a terrible series, including Kate mulgrew who was a chronic drunk throughout most of the series and feuded constantly with Jerri Ryan and other cast members
Thanks everyone for watching. Really curious to hear everyone's opinions on this show. I've actually seen a HUGE amount of people die-hard about this show (which I was actually kinda surprised about). I'm sure it will be skipped over as well but I do realize I say 'track' and not 'trek' a lot. It's often difficult, especially when I get on a roll to control that. So, I do apologize. I hope you all enjoy!
Star Trek Deep Space Nine was my favourt Star Trek. I hated Enterprise when it first Started. The ship was an Akira flipped on its head, the in side was a subbmarine from the 20th centurie Scott Bacula ofton phoned in most of his first two years. It was insalting. Seasons 3 and 4 were amasing and got so much better and the show really felt like they were trying hard to fix the mistakes. Show runners where changed out people where fixed and the show felt a lot better. I started to love this show. Then like you said we got that final episode. WTF was that garbage. It was so stupid Riker looked was to old they made the last 4 years seem like a hollodeak program. It was dumb and ruined the hole show.
Great video. I'm going to share this with a CZcamsr friend the Anti Trekker.. don't let the name fool you... he is a HUGE trek fan.
The end was a season cliffhanger clearly
Likely discussing a middle story that was irrelevant to the goal of the next season's romulan war in season 5 or 6
Trips death was faked too
I for one loved the serie, especially the first two episodes. Obviously it wasn't perfect but it fits perfect in the Startrek Universe. The Starship was beautiful btw.
I really loved this show. I was around 9 or 10 when they aired it in tv. Before Enterprise, i had seen episodes from the original series, TNG and Voyager, but this was the first one i watced regularly. And for a small girl that had little experience with sci fi up until that point, this was amazing! I recently rewatched it, and while i now think that some of the dialogue is kinda cheesy, i still really love the show. I loved the three main characters, and i liked the other ones well enough, alrhough hoshi and travis were kinda underdeveloped. I loved the first 2 seasons, and the whole Xindi storyline was fantastic. I really liked all the seasons actually. About the three things you mentioned as cons, i have to say, i'm one of those few who actually loved the opening credits and the song. Is it cheesy? Absolutely, but it still worked for me, even though all the other instrumental theme songs are cooler and more atmospheric. I kinda agree with the whiole soft-porn argument. I didn't mind it that much, but i would have preferred less of it. Although to be fair, there'a nudity in the original series as well. And about the argument about the finale, i couldnt agree more. I was devastated when i watched it as a kid, seeing as Tucker was probably my fave chatacter. And i hated watching it as an adult, everyththing was rushed, the whole concept with the TNG crew might have been interesting if they only had 2-3 one minute scenes. What we got was bad, and so much more focus should have been put on the Enterprise characters. Also, i'm still not over trip's death. Great video.
We need more enterprise!
I enjoyed this series and rewatch it on occasion. There are some slow stretches and episodes I don't like as much as others, but in general I like all of it.
Enterprise was a good tv show. One of my favorites Treks
I liked this series. Loved the cast. Good stories. I too recommend it!
Enterprise was my personal favorite series installment. Watching the development and birth of franchise staples like photon torpedos, transporters, red alert protocol, tractor beams ect. It was fascinating and exciting.
Screen Rant is wrong. The worst Trek episode of all time is the one from Voyager where Paris takes a shuttlecraft to Ludicrous Speed, before hyper evolving into a pink lizard.
Warp lizard babies...
*shudder*
We don't speak of that.
I recently (earlier this year) watched every episode of star trek in chronological order and I must say having the last episode of enterprise being them stopping xenophobes and the last scene being trip and t'pol crying was flipping fantastic. So when I got to the true finale a good 200 episodes later I couldn't help but see it as a weird episode of TNG rather than a finale to enterprise so for me the second last episode is the shows finale
Another person who sees Terra Prime as the final episode. This is how it was meant to be. Ideally it was meant to all end better, but I'll settle for a Terra Prime ending rather than that episode which shall not be named :p
@@rhysiare Yeah it really is a true ending to the series and a damn well good one, as I said in my first comment going from Trip and T'pol crying at the death of the baby and that a child could be possible to then seeing spock in TOS is also just an awesome feeling
When I re-watched the entire series from start to finish, I finished with Terra Prime. I need not bother re-watching that travesty with Jonathan Frakes. In fact, I'd wish they would just remove that episode from the series and pretend it never existed.
@@chimaican01 Yeah exactly what I'm going to do, it is a great finale
@@chimaican01 If they'd cut all that Riker/Troi/holodeck crap out, it could have been a fantastic ending. Shame to see it spoiled by a big ego BJ for Frakes, trotting out that irritating character and giving himself center stage in a series that had nothing to do with him.
I will give the opening this much credit: at least it felt optimistic and forward-thinking. A true callback to a vision of Humanity pulling together, bonding over our shared dreams and building towards a better future.
This show stands the rest of time, I can still watch it in reruns! And the best episode is where T’Pou ( or maybe her mother?) was stranded on earth in the 1950’s. Brilliant episode!
Yes. "Carbon Creek" is probably the best episode ever in ST.
Lots of good points. I've never truly understood the hate for that show.
Though I, for one, actually liked the original version of the Enterprise theme tune! :P
For a long time, I've been saying that we need a show where the heroes absolutely **cannot** fight their way through the majority of the time. A show which looks and feels like trek. Yes, that means a good deal of the 'nostalgia' that discovery fans tend to claim we want, but with a little dash of the disco modernism (just a dash, mind you, not a handful).
Gareth, thanks for the kind compliment. A lot of my knocks, in particularly the sexual scenes were just for 'entertainment' purposes. I don't really think they negatively effected the show or anything like that. I just found a joke to make. I think the actual theme is okay but I do prefer the more cinematic orchestrated music. It always just put me in the sense of discovery mood.
I have no issue with Disco. As I responded above, I believe there is a place in the world for both. If the audience finds entertainment in it, then there is no real issue with it. The whole thing is subjective anyways. I personally wish it had more of the Trek feel and some less of the 'well, this looks cool'.
I have issues with disco. In fact, I have done since it started.
Ultimately, I think it's trying too hard to be "hip" and "modern", not only in looks and content but in tone and style.
I've always thought that a good trek show should be able to be adapted to the stage with relatively small changes. Indeed, I think all good TV shares that. Disco, however, doesn't. Trek has always been an old school show at heart, going all the way back to the days of TOS, when the big thing in TV was to set it out like a stage play. Granted, back then that was the case because no one really knew other ways of doing it, rather than it being "the new hot thing".
It's why I think modern trek (and a lot of modern TV, to be honest) falls so flat. That lack of "stage acknowledgement" (for want of a better term) means we lose all the drama and all the agency of the piece. The actors just don't react to each other, they're not listening to one another and that's fatal.
It's all about flash & spectacle now.
@@NaterTot Season 1-2 music/video montage was GREAT! Season 3-4 sped it up and lost the meaning of progress in music and technology.
Nater Tot: "the franchise has morphed into something it almost isn't."
"almost"??
These Are My Personal Top 10 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek Enterprise:
10. The Catwalk
9. Carbon Creek
8. First Flight
7. Shuttlepod One
6. E2
5. Carpenter Street
4. Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments
3. The Forge/Awakening/Kir’Shara
2. The Concil/Countdown/Zero Hour
1. Demons/Terra Prime
Honorable Mentions:
Regeneration
In a Mirror, Darkly Part 1 and 2
North Star
Dead Stop
Detained
The Expanse
Bound
Thanks for the review. Not only Enterprise was a great Star Trek show we still want to see it back to conclude the story.
Enterprise was dated from the start because '24' came out at the same time which had season long arcs, and it was one of the first box set shows.
Enterprise was episodic, with a episode having a subplot of Hoshi trying to make a birthday cake for Malcolm...while over in '24', Jack was interrogating terrorists.
The TV landscape was changing, especially after 9/11.
Enterprise did eventually improve with the Xindi arc, but it was too late.
I grew up with TNG, thought it was the best but upon rewatch, I found DS9, followed in order by Enterprise, Voyager, TOS and TNG. Enterprise was a great show and deserved to see at least season 7. TNG was good but inferior to DS9 and Enterprise.
STE has just begun airing in Australia, YAY.
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Quick comment time!
( a ) New Sub!
( b ) I think the thing which most impressed me about your review (and argument) is summed up exceptionally well by Archer's attitude towards T'Pol from the first to last episode. That last hug that he offers her completely fit the over-arching Narrative and the Arcs for *both* characters. Well done, identifying that!
Wow. Thank you for the kind comments. That means a lot to me. 😊😊😊
ENT is actually my second favorite, after TOS. VOY was my least favorite. STD doesn't even chart because afaic, it's not Star Trek. When I found out Scott Backula was going to be in it, of course I had to watch it. Then they introduced Connor Trineer and that was it. I was hooked. And Dr. Phlox was adorable. I thought it was really an intriguing idea for them to have an alien doctor. I thought the entire cast meshed really well with one another, and the cherry on top was bringing in Jeffrey Combs as Shran! They should make some ENT movies. They'd be better than another JJ Trek or foul mouthed Tarantino Trek. In the meantime Axanar is shooting, with an expected release date of July 2020. VegasCon is gonna be awesome next year!
havent heard about Axanar gonna have to look that up..
@@rtrappjr I saw parts of it and liked it, especially since Soval will be in it. They need Shran there too.
Great video! I’ll have to start watching this!
In my opinion Star trek enterprise is the best star trek series. I'm rewatching it at the moment!
Currently watching Enterprise series and really liking it. It really has the heart of the show for that era. Like all shows there were flaws here and there and some not great episodes, however plenty of excellent ones, and it does stand up well with Voyager and Next Gen in storytelling with a decent cast and of course, captained by fan favorite Scott Bakula. Thank you for your review.
Instalike for you are a man of good taste. Enterprise gets better as time passes for me. That last season was hands down the best season of Star Trek. It may have had many many many issues but it had so much realized and unrealized potential
That. Exactly. It had so much potential and it was still 'Trek'. Thanks so much for the comment! :)
In my head-cannon, Tucker and T'Pal get their happy ending together.
Collean O'Brien Read the Enterprise books. You will get your wish.
@@claudemaassen2963 Thanks Claude. I had forgotten about the books. I used to read the ST:TNG ones when that was on the air!
Loved it first time around.
Still love it on DVDS
This series was absolutely excellent in my opinion...
I started the show a few days ago on my own and am pretty deep into the first season. My only experience with Star Trek as a whole are a few episodes of The Next Generation. It got very comfy very quickly and I hope the execs didn't take over too much for season 2 and beyond. Thanks for the review and recommendation
T Pol looks great in season 3
You would think that TV executives had a better sense of taste and momentum and renew a show based on its quality and future cult following and not ratings. They should stand behind the shows and come to agreement with the producers to renew a fifth season by capitalizing off of reruns and future syndication. You would also think that coming up with the money to independently produce a fifth season should be easier for all these Hollywood connected bigwigs.
The ending was fabulous. Imaginative, clever, unexpected and very well done. I loved it more than any other Star Trek ending.
My biggest problem with this: the ship always felt extremely empty. Above the lead characters, who did everything, there was nobody else. In the TNG / Voyager, the ship was always busy, people were working, walking, chatting. The lead did a lot of things, but there was always other persons who got commands.
I love Enterprise. Especially the first season. And I have really come to love "Where My Heart Will Take Me". That montage encapsulates the spirit of JFK's fabled Camelot… a nation reaching to be honorable & inspiring, living up to our potential and the role mode we claim to be. And the song fits these sentiments perfectly. With the trainwrecks being wheeled out by CBS and there Woke group of laissez faire hacks that hold no real love of Roddenberry's creation nor his intent, Enterprise looks so much more outstanding and appealing. Only Star Trek Continues has surpassed Enterprise in the 21st Century.
This is my favorite childhood Star Trek series, beside, Voyager and TNG. I loved the character conflict of Archer. The intro music at the beginning of the series had much better pacing than toward the end of the series. I hate that they killed off Trip and the ending was painfully flat. 8/10. Softcore 10/10.
LOL Excellent ratings. :)
I liked the theme song and thought it fitted the spirit of the show very well. I don't recall ever hearing the original on radio, so had no hangups about it at all.
ENT - A study should be made on how Billingsley took Phlox from an unknown alien entity to a character on par with Spok's iconic measure but denied this stature due to the show's limited audience and overall castigation by Treknaughts (pun).
My evaluation for the rest:
Scott Bakula as Capt. Archer - never was convinced that another actor couldn't have played the part and delivered more but Bakula held his own ( ex. No one can imagine TOS or TNG without Shatner or Stewart but might see Voyager sans Janeway played by Mulgrew though it might be the writing, here). The water polo was a gimmick that tried too hard and failed but a minor blip. Archer was just a bit stiff and underwhelming but again, Bakula held the wheel enough to not veer off the road.
Jolene Blalock as Sub-Cmdr. T'Pol - a Vulvan in a cat suit. The idea obviously was from TOS movie but retooled for this purpose. The problem was the overt sexuality which could and should have been more subtle and reserved for limited scenes. She came across as eye candy first, Vulcan, second. And frankly, there is no lasting impression of her except eye candy. Blalock might have suffered from producers, writers and directors but she seemed plug and play in her execution.
Connor Trinneer as Cmdr Charles "Trip" Tucker III - classic Star Trek character. Trinneer is believable from the start. His execution appears effortless. One episode that was a disservice was when he convinced the androgynous character to exercise its rights ultimately leading to its death. He simply would not have been so impetuous (this would have been an Ensign doing this) and Archer giving him a moral lecturing in response was like having to eat bat. Anyway, Trinneer isn't replaceable and added quite a bit.
Dominic Keating as Lt. Malcolm Reed - in the tradition of TOS it seemed the writers and producers of ENT were looking for the classic triangle between Reed, Trip and Archer but ended up just with a binary tension between Reed and Trip. That aside Keating does a great job and is again, the essential to ENT. His subtleties are often overlooked, using great pauses, eye and face positioning and inflection that requires paying attention.
Linda Park as Ensign Hoshi Sato - not sure Sato was written as well as needed. She seemed quite capable of more range but seemed to be scripted with limited scope. Clearly an academic in space but the character's timidity seems unrelated to academia. Still, this is a good character and Park delivers what is asked but definitely is denied her character's IQ power in the scripts which would have made her more memorable.
Anthony Mongomery as Esign Travis Mayweather - Montgomery may have the chops but it is never a discoverable thing. He seems to be written with a substantial dose of "generic guy" serum. The relationship between Archer and Mayweather could have been a dynamic. Mr. Anal and Mr. Chill. As it stands, the character was essentially inconsequential.
Reoccurring
Gary Graham as Ambassador Soval - can't see anyone else doing it other than his predecessor. Graham rightly made one resent Soval.
Jeffery Combs as Cmdr. Shran - took a minor alien and made him a star. End story.
Matt Winston as Temporal Agent Daniels - the minute you learn he's a Temporal agent, you say, " I knew it". Great casting, here.
You might think with the critique that ENT is last on the list of favs. Nope. It is 2nd fav overall, TOS, first.
I think a movie would sell, 15 years later with some advances in tech for ship design but using the Temporal narrative.
i liked T'pol Trip thing... Enterprise ending was awful... the show was okay.. way better then a certain new show wich name we shall not speak...
Maybe we as fans just lacked faith.... Of the heart.
#Nice I see what you did there... :)
Hey this is great work thanks, loved enterprise.
I have been a fan of Star Trek since I saw TOS as a little boy in the '60's. I have watched every incarnation of the franchise and all the movies. As for ST:Enterprise I thought highly of it during its original run on UPN. The H&I network has been showing most of the episodes for quite some time now. I caught the last 2 seasons during the first run and I have watched from the beginning during H&I's 2nd run of the series. I believe I appreciate it even more now than I did during its UPN airing. I have been blown away by some of the story ideas, as well as the acting in the episodes. It is now nearing the end of the Xindi story line, which I have found very exciting and mostly very well done. It has almost been like seeing the series for the 1st time because I really didn't remember most of the episodes. I must say, though, that when I saw the final episode during the 1st H&I run I didn't remember it at all. Unfortunately my opinion was that it probably was on of the worst and most disappointing episodes of not only Enterprise but of the entire Star Trek franchise.