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Under intense scrutiny, the debut season of Enterprise earned a passing grade from critics and Star Trek fans alike. Voyager ended its seven-season run just four months earlier, and fans were skeptical when Enterprise premiered (on Sept. 26, 2001, on UPN) with a theme song ("Where My Heart Will Take Me," composed by Diane Warren and performed by Russell Watson) that defied Trek's revered theme-music tradition. This and other early reservations were dispelled when "Broken Bow" got the series off to a satisfying start, beginning in the year 2151 and establishing a pre-Federation focus on humanity's delicate relationship with the Vulcans, the controversial launch of the NX-01 Enterprise on an exploratory mission, and the potentially devastating consequences of the mysterious Temporal Cold War involving a time-traveling splinter group of the Suliban, a nomadic alien race. While establishing a testy relationship between Enterprise Capt. Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and his smart-and-sexy Vulcan Sub-Commander, T'Pol (Jolene Blalock, in a short-banged wig and form-fitting "catsuit" that were later redesigned), the series introduced engineer "Trip" Tucker (Connor Trineer), whose surprise development in "Unexpected" made him a fan favorite; communications officer Hoshi Sato (Linda Park); helmsman Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery); weapons expert Lt. Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating), and chief surgeon Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley), a well-mannered Denobulan recruit from Earth's Interspecies Medical Exchange. As a "prequel' series that predates the original Star Trek by 150 years, Enterprise built upon established Trek lore with episodes involving Vulcans ("Breaking the Ice"), Klingons ("Sleeping Dogs"), the blue-skinned Andorians ("The Andorian Incident," "Shadows of P'Jem"), and the Ferengi ("Acquisition") while offering stand-alone episodes (notably "Dear Doctor," "Fortunate Son," and "Shuttlepod One") that further acquainted fans with the Enterprise regulars. Early Trek technology is also introduced (including "phase pistols" and the rarely used, still-risky transporter), and the series drew strength from what many felt would be its primary weakness: unwritten history and the initial indecisiveness of Archer's bold foray into the unknown. Ending with a dazzling "Shock Wave" cliffhanger that leaves Archer stranded in a decimated Temporal Cold War future, Enterprise set a strong foundation for the events of season 2. The bonus features included on the Enterprise: Season One DVDs are almost worth the price of the set, if only to see nearly nine minutes of hilarious outtakes, maintaining a beloved tradition of Star Trek bloopers. The sight (and sound) of Jolene Blalock laughing out of character is pure gold, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that Blalock is just as smart as she is sexy, as proven by her astute observations (along with the rest of the Enterprise cast) in the "Cast Impressions" featurette. It's the usual complimentary fluff included with all Trek sets, but it's obviously sincere, confirming fans' conviction that Enterprise should have lasted beyond four seasons with this close-knit ensemble. Series creators Brannon Braga and Rick Berman deliver a typically dry commentary on "Broken Bow," setting the record straight on debate over the show's "not retro enough" production design (as Braga notes, "you can never please everyone") while defining their concept of "The Right Stuff of Star Trek." As always, Mike Okuda's text commentaries offer a wealth of Trek trivia and detail from Trek's historical canon. Fans will love the "Enterprise Secrets" revealing low-tech solutions to lighting the warp core and dispensing "replicator" beverages, along with an entertaining profile of Vaughan "Admiral Forrest" Armstrong, who holds the record for Trek guest appearances. The other featurettes are perfunctory, but "Creating Enterprise" provides valuable first-season perspective, and the "Time Travel" feature offers a handy reference for the many time-travel episodes from every Trek series. As usual, Easter eggs (three of them, titled "NX-01 Files") are hidden on the special-features menu, offering short interview clips culled from the primary featurettes. The deleted scenes demonstrate how non-essential material can be sacrificed, and because they don't include post-production sound or visual effects, fans can see and hear the actual soundstage atmosphere of Enterprise's principal photography. --Jeff Shannon
| ACTORS: | Scott Bakula |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 7 |
| UPC: | 097360569643 |
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Customer Review of Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete First Season
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If you Love All things Star Trek , then you will love this.Absoulutly amazing, But I'm angry because they Cancelled the Show But, to Preserve Enterprise, Buy them and Never forget.!!!. Live long And Prosper!!
 Star Trek: Voyager Redux: Enterprise
As with Voyager before, Enterprise repeated the same errors. At its core, the show had promise. With very little of early Federation days nailed down, it seemed like a good idea to go back and tell the story. But instead of sticking with some of the canon that did exist, Brannon Braga and Rick Berman rebooted the entire Star Trek franchise, which angered about 10 million viewers. Season one continued the ever increasing schism between the fans. And while I liked Bakula on Quantum Leap, he -like Kate Mulgrew before him - was woefully miscast. The supporting cast, with the exception of Jolene Blalock, showed their limitations as actors (when they got lines). The stories were mostly retreds of previous Trek episodes and while both Berman and Braga were aware of the issues of continuity, they felt that if the adhered to it too much, then the show could not work. They continued to believe that Trek viewers -at least the newer, younger ones (and, admittedly, the group advertisers like) - were only concerned about the how weird the story was and if it had half naked females parading around. This misstep by them, by fulling ignoring the fans who had watched TOS, TNG and DS9, was increasing ENT's end week by week. Paramount can be blamed also, for not stepping in sooner. Berman and Braga's now almost incestuous relationship with Trek caused then not to see the forest for the tree's. Had they realized that fan base was deeply divided, and had they analyzed who was not watching Trek anymore instead of small band who were, maybe something could've been done. Then again, maybe its doom was already sealed by the time Insurrection came out in 1998. And then there is the fan base. They too can be blamed for this, as this schism did not begin with ENT. It really started with VOY. As a network show, VOY had different standards to live up too than it's syndicated brothers, TNG and DS9. Racier plots and emphasis on action and violence became the criterion, while a device called the Temporal Reset Button was used week after week. And while TRB is a useful tool, but to rely on it for every episode got you caught in a never ending loop of Easter Peep type stories; all full of air with no substance. Plus, people who were in there teens or early 20's when TNG premiered were not 15 years older, wiser and now considered less desirable by the advertisers. ENT was, I guess, designed for the guys and girls who were the same age as the ones who saw the first season of TNG. But these new groups of kids, now brought up on a diet of science fiction being everywhere, felt Trek was a dinosaur. So all that remained, in the end, was a few really dedicated fans who felt that, yes the show was not as good as it could be, but it still needed to stay on because it was Star Trek. I will concur to a point, but that's mostly because I hate reality shows and procedural dramas that have overtaken the air waves. Give me a good science fiction story that challenges the mind, then I'll watch. I once read that science fiction is a dangerous genre, for it can be seem as anti-Christian and anti-establishment. It brings up thought provoking ideas and presents a possible world were there is no hatred, no poverty, and no religion. It's the possibilities that scare people. But even as Star Trek has framed a lot of peoples lives, such as wonderful idea of a utopian world and taught us some good values, it has entertained us for nearly 40 years. Both VOY and ENT might be considered entertaining shows, but they are NOT the next step in Star Trek's evolutionary life that TNG and DS9 were.
 First season of "Enterprise" has "The Right Stuff"
With a theme (with sung lyrics!) that might not have felt out of place on a soft rock album (the theme was written by the diva of rock bombast Diane Warren), "Enterprise" faced viewer apathy after the decline of "Voyager" almost from the moment it premiered. Unfortunately, the series got caught in the post-"Farscape" wave of action driven science fiction. As a result, it was very easy to overlook Scott Bakula's determined Captain Archer and crew as they braved the "unknown". Set 150 years before classic Trek, "Enterprise" had a retro feel that wasn't quite everyone's cup of tea. Some fans treat the series as if it was some sort of future history and, as a result, criticize the inconsistencies of the show. Folks, it's a TV SHOW. The sophisticated "future history" developed from the very first season of the original Trek all the way to this series hampered the development of this series from the get go. While I wasn't always thrilled with the quality of the writing during the first season, the often criticized co-creators/executive producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman took a risk by going into the past and showing an edgier Earth prior to the formation of the Federation. At this stage in the franchise life, the fact that "Enterprise" took a number of risks made it noteworthy even if the series wasn't always successful. The Temporal War storyline showed a tremendous amount of imagination that led to some of the most successful episodes this series. Sadly, just as "Enterprise" began to hit its creative stride, UPN cancelled the show making "Enterprise" the shortest lived live action Trek spin-off since the original series. When "Broken Bow" unspooled on TV screens in late 2001, fans of the Trek franchise could relax; the characters don't always get along and there's enough conflict and suspicion to make the drama onboard ship almost as compelling as those on other planets.
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> A terrific transfer highlights "Enterprise". This is the best looking of all the Trek series committed to DVD to date. While I'm a fan of some of the previous series, many of them including "The Next Generation" suffered by comparison because they had optical effects that were shot on video. Each successive series has been an improvement in terms of the overall look compared to the last. "Enterprise" is the first "Star Trek" series presented in anamorphic widescreen. The image quality, minimal pixilation and minimal digital artifacts make this one of the best transfers Paramount has done for one of their TV series. The sound is presented in 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital Surround. The surround speakers are used extremely well throughout most of the series particularly the two hour pilot episode.
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>Again, this is one of the most generous packages Paramount has released. When the series first aired Paramount saved all the scraps and trimmings as the series was cut for airing in anticipation of the DVD release. It's unfortunate that this release comes after the show has been cancelled (releasing it last season would probably have helped both boost ratings and sales of the set). Packaged in a handsome case resembling some of the equipment on the "Enterprise" (it reminds me of an oblong warp engine), this is also one of the best packaged sets. Inside each set each disc is housed inside a dark blue disc multi-disc holder similar to "Voyager" but with a plastic slipcase to keep it all together. There's also a booklet with a complete list of each episode and a synopsis.
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> There's lots of very nice featurettes but, more importantly, outtakes, a gag reel and scenes trimmed for time. Of all the featurettes "O Captain My Captain" which focuses on star Scott Bakula is among the best. A veteran of the TV series "Quantum Leap", Bakula is not strange to science fiction or fantasy (he also starred in "Lord of Illusion"). It appears that Paramount has been listening to criticism of other sets. "Admiral Forrest takes Center Stage" focuses on a frequent guest star throughout the Trek sage beginning with "Star Trek: The Next Generation". "Inside Shuttle Pod" one is a very cool featurette focuses on the ship that ferries the crew to the planet and back (the transporter is so new no one wants to use it on anything living). We get a peak at the design and ways it performs including clips from season one. "Cast Impressions" are interviews with the main cast of the series discussing their roles during the shooting of the first season and how they see their characters fitting into the Trek saga. "Star Trek: Time Travel and Temporal Cold Wars and Beyond" discusses the use of time travel as a central theme to the series beginning with the classic Trek episodes "City on the Edge of Forever" and "All Our Yesterdays". Finally "Creating `Enterprise'" interviews Braga, Berman and production designers on the challenges of creating a "retro" look for the series that suggests the series takes place nearly two centuries before "Classic Trek". There's a discussion of the "future history" of Starfleet (which actually wasn't even called Starfleet until well into the first season of the original series. It was called "Earth Command Central"). The challenges and pitfalls of creating optical effects and props that look like they could have been predecessors to what we ended up seeing in "Star Trek" is also discussed and examined. There are, of course, numerous Easter eggs and their pretty easy to find. Just make sure to click around the screen and you'll discover them. They consist of an occasional outtake or brief interview segment with cast or crew members.
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> We get one commentary track from Braga and Berman on the pilot episode "Broken Bow". It's an improvement over none for every set since the beginning. Paramount is taking steps in the right direction. Braga and Berman's commentary is a bit dry but full of information on the writing of the episode as well as why some inconsistent decisions were made regarding the Trek universe (i.e., why do the Klingon's look here like they do on "Next Generation" vs. Classic Trek. I do have to agree that fans have to get a life about this and other aspects that are a bit inconsistent with the Trek saga. Otherwise, you're working within a straight jacket; you'll drive yourself insane with the contradictions and restrictions of the series). There's also a text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda on two episodes which can be, at turns fascinating and completely trivial. Actually, it's kind of fun to go from one extreme to the other. Some of the info is witty, some worthless just like a verbal commentary track.
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>"Enterprise" demonstrates that Paramount is finally headed in the right direction when it comes to DVD. There's a commentary track, text commentary track (unfortunately on the same episode but it's also the most interesting), outtakes, a gag reel and deleted scenes. I'm sure someone will always complain about the packaging. I LIKE the packaging and feel it's the best designed of all the Trek series (including the bulkier "Next Generation" set and Classic Trek. There's also a booklet which actually has a synopsis of each episode. I'm hoping that seasons 2, 3 and 4 increase these extras continuing on this positive trend. Kudos to Paramount for doing such a nice job of an underrated series in the Trek saga. I'm a huge "Deep Space Nine" and "Next Generation" fan but still feel that the spirit of this series is much more in keeping with the original series.
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