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Star Trek - Enterprise - Series 1 - Complete (Slimline Edition)


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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 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. --Jeff Shannon


Best trek season by far
Review date: 2008-11-05 Rating: 10 out of 10

Season 1 of enterprise starts off with a bang like they all do, but this one is not based off your typical trek respect and consistency, but it's replaced with grudges, hard feelings, misplaced loyalty and a better character building season. what stands out is the use of more violence and a better foundation for in house jokes, which work out better then previous albeit more obvious.

Season 1 starts off when a Klingon's ship crashed most conveinently in a corn field, (which also happens to be a joke in season 2) and is being hunted by 2 yellow skinned aliens with red clothes, later known as the Suliban who happen to be a major factor throughout season 1 and 2 but virtually none in 3 and less in season 4. the Suliban were killed by the Klingon's disruptor rifle when the building he shot at exploded. the Klingon was injured by a farmers rifle.

We then meet Captain archer, Adimral forest, Ambassador Soval, T'Pol and the medical officer who joins the team when Archer was given 3 days to gather his team, Phlox. the tension between Archer and the Vulcans are apparent right away when Soval looses an argument to Archer and storms out of the room. later on archer brings a young woman, Hoshi Sato into the team when she wants to know more about the Klingon language. soon enough the rest of the team are all together and set off to take the Klingon back to his homeland, we also get a closer look at the Suliban and the excellent cgi effects.

And thats just episode 1!, throughout the series the Enterprise crew meet up with the Andorians and a man named Shran who is also a major factor throughout the series and yet more of the Suliban.

A must buy if you want action by the bucket full. i might also add, this is probably the only trek series where there is much much more action, cgi and other stuff then TNG, DS9, VOY or TOS.

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Star Trek: Enterprise - The Future, Is Closer Than You Think...
Review date: 2008-10-30 Rating: 10 out of 10

I Hate Everyone who says this is a Terrible TREK Show.
As Personally I Didn't See the point in Shamless Babylon 5 Rip-Off STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE(Read up on Wikipedia this is true!: J. Michael Straczynski had taken B5 to Paramount Pictures first and paramount took the plan and apparently gave it to brannan braga and said make a Star Trek Series out of it(Also I Admit that Seasons 1,2,5,6&7 Were OK))

The Story Picks up approximatley 75 years after STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, ENTERPRISE Tells the tale of the first crew of the legendary ship, under the Command of Captain Jonathan Archer (played by 'Quantum Leap's own Legend Scott Bakula), as they take on The Suliban and their Temporal Cold War, But By the end of the series Archer takes after (or before in this case) James T. Kirk; Wanted by every Alien not yet part of the Federation...

Featuring some prototypes of well known star trek tech (Phase Pistols, Scanners, Transporter, Shuttlepod) it is clearly star trek Jim, But Not as we know it.

With well known aliens making guest appearances like the Klingons ("Broken Bow", "Unexpected", "Sleeping Dogs", "Marauders", "Judgment",
"Bounty", "The Expanse", "Borderland", "The Augments", "Affliction",
"Divergence") The Romulans ("Minefield", "Kir'Shara", "Babel One",
"United", "The Aenar") The Borg ("Regeneration")
and the Andorians ("The Andorian Incident", "Shadows of P'Jem"
"Cease Fire", "Twilight", "Proving Ground", "Countdown", "Zero Hour",
"Kir'Shara", "Babel One", "United", "The Aenar", "In a Mirror, Darkly",
"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", "Demons", "Terra Prime", "These Are the Voyages...")

All In All I am Impressed and enjoyed this Show From It's Pilot "Broken Bow" all the way to it's series finale "These Are The Voyages..."

This is a show not to miss Wether your a Trekkie, a Quantum Leap fan, Or you'd just like something different to watch...

Get Into STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE....

"We Hit One Bump and Your Fired!!!"
Scott Bakula to Anthony Montgomery in a Season 3 Outtake.


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Actor(s):
Anthony Montgomery
Dominic Keating
Scott Bakula
John Billingsley
Jolene Blalock

Creators:
Scott Bakula (Primary Contributor)
John Billingsley (Primary Contributor)

Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437954435
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2008-07-28
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 1147 minutes

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