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Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 4
Into this blazing cauldron of action-adventure, Coto and staff introduced story arcs that connected to Star Trek's future, including a three-episode arc ("Borderland," "Cold Station 12," and "The Augments") in which Dr. Arik Soong (played by Next Generation alumnus Brent Spiner) and his superhuman "Augments" chart a tragic course that would lead, in future generations, to the creation of Spiner's cybernetic NextGen character, Data. "The Forge," "Awakening," and "Kir'Shara" returned T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) to her native Vulcan, where encounters with the legendary philosopher Surak, and zealous sect called the Syrannites, lead to pivotal history with the Vulcan High Command. In subsequent episodes, Phlox (John Billingsley) would discover the reason why some Klingons lack "cranial ridges" (thus solving a vexing Star Trek mystery), and "In a Mirror, Darkly" marked and eventful return to the "Mirror Universe" from the original series episode "Mirror, Mirror," for what Coto aptly describes (in the bonus featurette) as a two-part "romp," complete with a "Mirror Universe" title sequence, the reappearance of the U.S.S. Defiant from the original series episode "The Tholian Web," and a glorious recreation of a "Constitution Class" starship bridge that gave long-time Trekkies a breathtaking rush of nostalgia. In the closing episodes, the formation of the Federation is threatened by a radical xenophobe (Peter Weller) whose isolationist tactics lead Trip (Connor Trinneer) and T'Pol to a future of interspecies parenthood, and while the series-ending "These Are The Voyages..." is considered a disappointment by some, it provided a suitable Next Generation tribute to Star Trek's past, present, and future. Considering the daunting challenge of tying up loose ends while looking forward in a way that demanding fans could appreciate, it's fair to say that Enterprise reached a satisfying conclusion that its cast and crew can be proud of.
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Despite the near-certainty of cancellation, ratings in the cellar and nothing left to lose, the fourth and final season of Star Trek: Enterprise was unanimously hailed as the best. After ending season 3 with a mind-boggling cliffhanger, series creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga handed show-runner duties to executive producer Manny Coto, who rejuvenated the flagging franchise by bridging the gap between Enterprise and the future developments of Star Trek: The Original Series. By recruiting lifelong Trek experts Mike Sussman and the husband-and-wife team of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens to his writing staff, Coto ensured that political events in the Enterprise timeline would lead to a "coalition of planets," thus forming the Federation cornerstone of Star Trek's future. But first, Coto had to find a way to extract Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) and his battle-worn crew from an alternate timeline--the result of the continuing Temporal Cold War--in which the Nazis have invaded U.S. soil in 1944. In the normal Enterprise timeline, political upheavals have left relations between Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, and Humans in a state of near-disastrous chaos.
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Description
The final series of Enterprise finally gave its fans what they had been waiting for with wonderful homages to earlier series and a commendable attempt at finally rectifying some core Star Trek continuity errors. The introduction of multi-episode arcs also helped Enterprise to finally reach its full potential bringing to the audience such memorable storylines as The Eugenics Wars and the Vulcan Civil War. Whilst Enterprise may not have been the most immediately popular of the Star Trek franchises, in its final season it definitely proved itself a worthy addition to the series.
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Synopsis
The Star Trek franchise continues with its fifth spinoff television series, Enterprise. Set in the 22nd century (100 years before the stewardship of Captain Kirk), the prequel series charts the intergalactic adventures of the first humans to explore the far reaches of outer space on the eponymous Starship Enterprise NX-01. Ship commander Captain Jonathan Archer (Quantum Leap's Scott Bakula) leads his crew on a pioneering mission to chart new planets and alien civilisations at a time when the United Federation of Planets is in its infancy. John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, and Connor Trinneer costar as Bukula's intrepid crew. This collection includes every episode from the fourth and final season, which attempts to tie up loose threads and storylines from previous Star Trek incarnations.
Enterprise, Schmenterprise!
Review date: 2008-02-17 Rating: 6 out of 10
The problem with Star Trek Enterprise is it lacks confidence, or rather the studio which made it lacked confidence during production. Executives were stepping ina ll the time trying to secure high ratings and often intervered with the plot lines, a situation that peaked in the early days of the new Star trek movie when producer Rick berman left the studios his early script idea was rejected.
The story lines are familiar Trek concepts but Enterprise seems way to heavy in laser fire battles in ship corridors and insipid 'american way' ideas. Year three is basically the same as the borg story wth a big metal ball hurtling towards earth set on destruction...yawn. The opener to year 4 is set in nazi occupied earth...(wasnt that a Voyager story???), oh and somewhere in year 2 there is an episode set in the wild west...EVEN BIGGER YAWN. Worth knowing I skipped the nazi story because basically - who cares!
I was very frustrated how the lead character Cpt Archer seemed to self appoint his historic prowess without any real merit. He is not great to look at (in fact none of the male cast are) and seems to make stupid decisions that just would'nt happen. For example in Year 4 he is the one who climbs up the the tube to stop pathogens killing everyone - when the obvious choice is to get the agile security chief to do it (who had to tell archer what to do in the first place). He tortures a man for information and steals a warp core...ruuuubbbiiisssshhhhhh!
This is all repeated over and over. Archer is always being the hero. The most laughable shot is when they destroy the Xindi weapon and a slow mo archer is seen running to camera while a ball of fire erupts behind him, inches from engulfing him. I nearly spilt my tea it was so shockingly bad.
My belief is that the actor playing Archer became a bit to insistant on this 'hero' status (once, he went against the produers wishes and insisted on being unshaven in an episode, because that's how he felt his character should be). The fact seems that he was actually just going for a macho look and it was all a bit of vanity.
Anyway, to summerise, if you want a weak vulcan who nearly blubs with every difficult decision (in years 3 & 4 anyway), a butch bloody minded engineer with an accent that sounds like he is sucking a marble, a fat doctor who overacts, a black pilot who never has any lines, a Thai comms officer who is scared evertime a torpedo is fired and a captain who loves himself so much you want to vomit - and a collection of 20 and 30 somethings all loving themselves for their ineptitude - then Enterprise is DEFINATELY for you! I'd wait till its £9.99 a box set thern you can make lots of cheap ashtrays with the discs.
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Reviews
liked season 3 better
Review date: 2007-01-18 Rating: 8 out of 10
Pity the story of season three was ended, it was certainly the best star trek season ever!
Hope there will be another new star trek like season three in the future.
Season 4 therefor a little disappointing, the complete show in fact ends with the first episodes.
Leave them wanting more!
Review date: 2006-12-13 Rating: 10 out of 10
Considering that various Star Trek outings are there to explain, extend or justify the original Kirk series from 40 years ago could 'Enterprise' ever have lived up to our individual expectations?
Put aside past histories and expectations and enjoy 'Enterprise' for what it is...thoroughly entertaining.
On DVD the story lines run more smoothly, the characterizations are much stronger and it builds nicely through seasons 1-4; with even more great extras and outtakes.
Scott Bakula delivers the goods as the heroic Capt Archer - when they beat him down he jumps back up and spits in their eye! He leads an interesting mixture of crew incl. a Brit' and loathes Vulcans. And the
NX-01...well, she has a character all her own!
Okay, so odd stories are a little thin and the direction occasionally reduces the actors efforts to mere posturing.
But hey! there are 98 episodes with some wonderful verbal rallies and some true moments of cinematic brilliance.
Enjoy it for it's own merit.
Season 4...so sad...what will we watch now???
where did it all go wrong?
Review date: 2006-02-27 Rating: 4 out of 10
I was a great star trek fan. It's time to tell it like it really is. Times change and it is time for a rest. The feature films apart from first contact were dumbed down and lacklustre, badly written with poor scripts.I was hoping enterprise would take off after the lack lustre "voyager" series. I really didn't care if they got home or not before i died of terminal boredom. Enterprise i,m afraid just followed the trend. The scope of the series was severely limited by the tired imagination of its writers, run of the mill scripts "star trek by numbers" I didn't care for the characters or the obvious formula of the series. Even in the really bad original trek episodes (mainly in season three when Roddenberry had lost control) you still cared for the characters , the chemistry was there and they could act. Enterprise is inhabited by cardboard characters. Only Nimoy could inject likeability and complexity into the vulcan character. Enterprise suffered from obvious scripts, lack of inventiveness and social relevance. Hence the use of aliens which should never have appeared in enterprises timeline. It is evidence Trek has been run into the ground and made mundane by a lack of the corporation/producers to change it or experiment with it. The past trek good and bad has become a heavy anchor for anything coming after it because of the need to keep it consistant with its complicated history.
It needs a radical break with its past and gizmo saving device of the week to inject some new life into it. This should have been buried alive.
To boldly go...
Review date: 2005-11-10 Rating: 10 out of 10
This last season of Enterprise was actually a second successful season. As other Star Trek series, only after the third season things start to warm up towards better episodes with stronger build characters; unfortunately Paramount executives cowardly cancelled this show when things where starting to get really good. A shame.
The continuity of arc episodes, after the very successful recipe of thrilling third season, makes this 4th Season a must see, making me restore my almost gone faith on Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. The end of it was a little to rush (although comprehensible), and the tragic end of one of the characters was definitely too much unnecessary (reminds of Steven Spielberg's finales: just another easy way to touch the viewers).
There are several excellent episodes: the first two (WWII) and both of the Mirror Universe are the best of the better. The CGI is great, as usual; the MW aliens are also great. Special features are very good.
Unfortunately the subtitles options are very poor: again, there are only English subtitles and English for the hearing unpaired (but better this then none what so ever). There are no audio options besides English.
I sincerely hope Star Trek franchising will endure, and soon, really soon, there will be a new Star Trek series to boldly go were no man as gone before, marvelling us all with the GREAT Gene Roddenberry's (and Rick Berman’s continued) vision for the future of mankind. For Star Trek is the best of the best within Sci-Fi gender and will always have the best of the best fans backing it up. “Live long and prosper”.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jolene Blalock
John Billingsley
Dominic Keating
Anthony Montgomery
Scott Bakula
Creators:
Scott Bakula (Primary Contributor)
John Billingsley (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437862433
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 6
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2005-10-31
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 897 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)