Star Trek: Enterprise - Seasons 1-4 (2001-2005)

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I just finished watching Star Trek Enterprise the Complete series on the 2K Blu-ray format (many hours of bonus features and some episodes have two separate commentary tracks). All 24 2K Blu-ray discs had flawless playback with no issues (even the two scratched discs playback perfectly fine). The 2K Blu-ray format is more reliable than the DVD format. The 4K Blu-ray format is approaching the same reliability. If the demand exists perhaps one day an 8K or 4K restoration of the 35mm negative with new 4K special effects or 2K upscaled special effects to 4K for seasons 1-3 and then released on the 4K Blu-ray format would be ideal. However, for budget reasons season 4 was placed on 2K (1080P) videotape and would end up at best being released as a upscaled 4K season. But sometimes some TV series there is not enough demand to spend the money to do a 4K restoration, so this 2K Blu-ray version is the best version released so far.

Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Series was released on the 2K Blu-ray format on 1-10-2017 and then received a re-release on 9-21-2021 (both versions have exactly the same disc image and I own the 1-10-2017 version for my private collection).

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-...lu-ray/169583/ (1-10-2017 release)

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-...4983/#Overview (9-21-2021 re-release with disc images being the same as the original 1-10-2017 release)

Star Trek: Enterprise was originally planned to run 7 seasons just like Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, all ran 7 seasons for each TV series. However, Star Trek: Enterprise was not popular enough to run 7 seasons and instead was canceled after season 4. So that is why there is only 4 seasons instead of 7 seasons. Popular science fiction TV series like the original Stargate SG-1 TV series ran 10 seasons. Overall, I liked Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Series on Blu-ray. This prequel TV series takes place in the 22nd century 100 years after the Star Trek First Contact movie and 100 years before the 23rd century Star Trek original series and 200 years before the 24th century Star Trek Next Generation. Star Trek: Enterprise is not rated according to the Blu-ray boxset and also according to the Blu-ray.com database a not rated TV series. TV series are never summited to the MPA for a rating since it is not a movie and instead is a TV series, however most likely the MPA would give this TV series a PG rating overall and maybe a PG-13 for one episode if the MPA did decide to rate this TV series. Also, most likely Star Trek: Enterprise would get a TV-PG rating overall and maybe a TV-14 rating for one episode. While overall there is no nudity in Star Trek in terms of private parts being shown, and the violence is mild most the time. There was one episode where there was partial rear female nudity where the butt can be partially seen. This is a more modern Star Trek TV series and some of the episodes show a little more skin and is a more sexy style TV series for some episodes, but still considered a family friendly TV series by many science fiction fans. I like how the one Vulcan was cured of an incurable disease that she caught during a forced mind meld in a prior episode. That was cool seeing the fictional Vulcan character being cured. There was one parallel Universe episode of Star Trek that was very cool with unique Star Trek uniforms that had a more sexy look since the parallel Universe has an evil Empire version of the Star Trek crew. Star Trek: Enterprise has a lot of time travel stories that are very awesome and also a few parallel Universe stories. There was this one episode where the timeline is changed and the Enterprise returns to earth during World War II in the 1940’s, where an advanced alien race helps Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Because of the alien race from the future giving Nazi Germany advanced technology, Germany takes over a large portion of the USA in the east and also Moscow. Germany is about ready to win World War II and take over the entire world until the timeline is reset back to normal. Another episode that takes place in the modern 22nd Century Star Trek universe, shows human beings being against space aliens living on earth and they try and make earth 100% humans only with no space aliens allowed on earth. The 22nd Century humans and Vulcans are considered more primitive when compared to the 23rd and 24th century. One episode has a human being that looks similar to the android Data, this human being is a criminal that also is a brilliant scientist that makes advances in artificial lifeforms and as a reward in the 24th century they make the android Data look just like the scientist (However the android Data has a better moral code and is much more ethical when compared to the human scientist that looks like Data). I liked the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise which shows William Riker and Counselor Deanna Troy are creating a holodeck image of Star Trek: Enterprise from 200 years ago. Some people thought this means that Star Trek: Enterprise was just a fictional holodeck program, but my understanding is that it just met the Star Trek Next Generation crew from the 24th century was just studying a simulated 22nd century historical record of Captain Jonathan Archer and other crew members like TPol (which are two of my favorite fictional characters).

The bonus features are in 2K (1080P) using the MPEG-4/AVC codec (one bonus feature is 1080i using the MPEG-4/AVC codec). Many of the bonus features are in 480i quality using the MPEG-2 codec. While the lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master audio soundtrack sounded good, I wish this Star Trek TV series would have instead received a 7.1 lossless soundtrack like a few other Star Trek TV series have received. Overall Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Series on Blu-ray was an excellent TV series. It was a unique TV series that is very awesome at times. Many times the Starship Enterprise crew saves all life on earth and sometimes all life on various other planets.

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In the Star Trek: Enterprise TV series, there is a lot of evolution occurring with many lifeforms in the galaxy. Apes evolved into humans on the planet earth according to the TV series. But on some other planets these lizard creatures became the intelligent species just like humans, but they look like lizards since they are lizards. On another planet these insects evolved into intelligent creatures like humans, but they look like insects. There are also these neat intelligent sea creatures that travel in an aquarium of water on a spaceship. Many unique creatures in this TV series thanks to evolution (of course the TV series is fictional). There is also the universal language translator that gets its bugs worked out so that one intelligent species can communicate with another intelligent species.

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Of, course the TV series is fictional.

[brtracker2023]

I just finished rewatching all four seasons and I've always enjoyed Enterprise but I like it even more today. It was so much fun to see how the characters developed over the series and I'm genuinely sad that there aren't more episodes to look forward to.
The first two seasons were really good but three and four took it up to another level. Fantastic television.

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by brtracker2023

I just finished rewatching all four seasons and I've always enjoyed Enterprise but I like it even more today. It was so much fun to see how the characters developed over the series and I'm genuinely sad that there aren't more episodes to look forward to.
The first two seasons were really good but three and four took it up to another level. Fantastic television.

The boat left a long time ago, but I remember a time when I was holding out hope that a fifth season might happen anyway. Some of the ideas the writers had for such a season would have been amazing! At this point, even if it somehow did, I wouldn't want it. Not if Kurtzman or his hacks are involved.

I'm grateful for what we have, wish more people watched it when it was still on the air originally 20ish years ago. I agree, seasons 3 and even more so 4, took it to another level. In my opinion, Enterprise Season 4 might be the overall best written single season of Star Trek outside of TOS Season 1.

[Telemachus]

When this show came out I don't think they knew what the audience wanted the first season or two, it was boring to me, they really pulled a reverse Sliders making it good later. Someone back in this thread said Voyager ended on a high note and the prequel thing was a bad idea, I agree. Many people I hear talk about the show thought similar when it was on. Once they hit a stride later on actually making the show cool, it felt like everyone had left, I did. I didn't even see the later seasons until Netflix. The Mirror Darkly episode I'm still fascinated with, it's extremely well done and just cool. That TNG bokend finale though, shameful, should have been some midseason episode and not the send off. This show ended weak which was a shame. Casting was pretty great, characters were well written, Enterprise tap dances all over any of the newer TV because no one writes good characters anymore, but I can say that about many old shows, I'm sure Voyager feels like TOS at this point.

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

When this show came out I don't think they knew what the audience wanted the first season or two, it was boring to me, they really pulled a reverse Sliders making it good later. Someone back in this thread said Voyager ended on a high note and the prequel thing was a bad idea, I agree. Many people I hear talk about the show thought similar when it was on. Once they hit a stride later on actually making the show cool, it felt like everyone had left, I did. I didn't even see the later seasons until Netflix. The Mirror Darkly episode I'm still fascinated with, it's extremely well done and just cool. That TNG bokend finale though, shameful, should have been some midseason episode and not the send off. This show ended weak which was a shame. Casting was pretty great, characters were well written, Enterprise tap dances all over any of the newer TV because no one writes good characters anymore, but I can say that about many old shows, I'm sure Voyager feels like TOS at this point.

Here's what happened. When Voyager went off the air, Rick Berman, the man running the franchise at the time, felt Star Trek should take a rest, maybe do a few films here or there, but no new TV show. The studio however wanted a new show to replace Voyager on UPN, Paramount TV network at the time. They were going to make the show with or without him, and he decided he wanted to have some say, so he stayed.

The next issue was that Berman and the studio disagreed on when the show would be take place. I should preface with this. Star Trek has always been a hard show to write for. Part of that is due to Gene Roddenberry's instance that humans in the future wouldn't have hatred or bigotry towards each other. This of course is one of the reasons that so many are attracted to the show as fans, but it is also the reason that Star Trek has gone through so many writers over the years. Good television is built upon conflict, and to keep to Gene's rules, that means writers have to get REALLY creative in finding the conflict, and that tends to burn writers out faster than on other TV shows.

Now, going into the summer of 2001, add to that there were 400-500+ episodes of Star Trek produced between TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager by that time AND the level of technology in universe was getting so sophisticated, it was making it harder again from a writing standpoint to put the characters in any serious danger. Some of the tech that came out of the TNG films and Voyager made it harder to write a new show set after.

So, for the sake of the writers, Berman wanted to take the then new show, Enterprise, into the past before TOS for two main reasons. A.) he hoped the technology being less reliable in that era would allow for more exciting situations and B.) he hoped that fans would accept that humans before TOS weren't as perfect as Kirk and friends were, yet, which would allow for more conflict and tension on the show.

The studio just wanted something in the future after Voyager and they would not budge on that idea. That is how the temporal cold war element came to be. The studio eventually backed off of the idea (which clearly was holding the show back) and Manny Coto got promoted and helped to direct the final few seasons of the show. It was really Coto's idea that Enterprise needed to better connect to TOS, which is why we got season 4. The last episode came out of the studio canceling the show with such short notice and Berman and his fellow executive producer Brannon Braga, wanted to bring things full circle from their run on the franchise, which started with TNG.

In my opinion, I agree with you, "These Are The Voyages" would have been better as a mid-season episode, and then probably seriously re-worked. The previous two episodes should have been the actual series finale. I'm not mad at Berman and Braga though. I've always felt their heart was in the right place when it came to Star Trek, something I do not feel has been the case since they left.