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Star Trek Enterprise Fourth Seasons - These Were The Voyages....
By DEAN M. Dent
The fourth season of Star Trek Enterprise was the season that most Trekkers have been waiting for, with homages to the original series(Mirror Universe,The Eugenics Wars,Orion slave women,T'Pau), as well as rectifying continuety errors(The Vulcans,The Klingon "forehead" issue).Unfortunately,the show was cancelled prematurely as the show was becoming what Trekkers been waiting for since "Broken Bow".
One of the biggest contributing factors for the success of the fourth season was supervising producer Manny Coto,an original series fanatic who brought Enterprise back on the right tracks as far back as season three.Sensing that the show wasn't going to see a fifth season,Executive producer Rick Berman handed the reins to Coto, who set about in correcting the many elements in Trek history that have been disregarded,which drove away even the most dedicated fan.
The season's format was tweaked to make room for multi episode arcs which dealt separately with The Eugenics Wars(The Augment trilogy featuring Brent Spiner as Arik Soong),A Vulcan Civil War(featuring Surak, and T'Pau),A Klingon Virus (resulting in the humanoid Klingon foreheads from the original series), and the mirror universe featuring the USS Defiant from The Tholian Web.
One of the biggest disappointments of the season itself was the final episode "..These Are The Voyages" which takes place on the Enterprise-D, featuring Riker and Troi.Instead of giving the NX-01 crew a dignified send off,they were used supporting characters in a glorified "Next Generation" episode.
The finale (written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) was called a "Valentine to the fans".But the real valentine was the entire fourth season which finally gave the fans what they wanted,and the most problematic Star Trek series a dignified ending, dispite it's weak finale.
132 of 148 people found the following review helpful.
Great final final season
By Ted
The final season of Star Trek Enterprise is quite good and has some great episodes. The season also conains several story arcs.
Storm Front part I
Archer learns that he is an alternate timeline on World War II era Earth where Aliens from the future helped the Nazis invade America.
Storm Front Part II
Silik Helps Archer defeat the aliens and restor the timeline.
Home
The Enterprise returns to Earth and the crew get both a Hero's welcome but are also criticized for some of their tactics.
Borderland (part 1 of 3)
Several genetically engineered humans known as Augments leftover from the Eugenics wars hijack a Klingon ship and the Enterprise crew attempt to find the enlisting the aid of Arik Soong who took them out of cold storage and raised them.
Cold Station 12 (part 2 of 3)
Arik Soong and the augments escape and go to the facility where the embryos of the other augments are in cold storage. Their intentions are to revive the embryos. The take the prople at the facility hostage and the Enterprise crew begins a rescue attempt.
The Augments (part 3 of 3)
The Augments attempt to start a war with the Klingons but are killed. The hostages are rescued and Soong is recaptured.
The Forge (part 1 of 3)
The Earth embassy on Vulcan os bombed and the Vulcan High Command asks the Enterprise crew to assist them and locate the suspected culprits who are living in one of the deserts.
Awakening (part 2 of 3)
Archer and T'Pol locate the Syrranites, a group of Vulcans hiding in the desert who are blamed for the bombing. They seem to be too pacifistic for that deed.
Kir'Shara (part 3 of 3)
Archer attempts to locate the Kir'Share which contains Surak's original writings. The Vulcan High Command is found to be the real bombers and the leader is deposed.
Daedlus
Emory Erickson, the inventor of the transporter visits the Enterprise to test a new long range transporter but is found to have a real motive of trying to save his son who was lost in a transporter accident years earlier.
The Observer Effect
Two noncorporeal life froms take over the minds of various Enterprise crewmembers in an effort to study them.
Babel One (part 1 of 3)
The Enterprise is bringing the Tellarite ambassador to prace talks with the Andorians but gets a distress call from Shran who says that a Tellarie ship attached his. It is learned by Archer that is is actully an unknown ship capable of disguising itself as other ships.
United (part 2 of 3)
Archer attempts to create a temporary alliance between the Andorians, Tellarites, and Vulcans to locate the Romulan ship that has been attacking them. The ship is caught and the peace talks resume.
The Aenar
The Entrprise crew learn the Romulan ship was operated by remote control. They then attempt to locate a reclusive Andorian subspecies known as the Aenar to see their possible connection to the ship. It learned that an Aenar was kidnapped and forced to operate the ship.
Affliction (part 1 of 2)
Phlox is kidnapped and forced to assist the Klingons in defeating a contagious illness affecting their species.
Divergence (part 2 of 2)
With the help of the newly launched Columbia, Phlox is rescued and a cure is found for the disease. Unfortunately, a side effect of the cure is that the ridges of the Klingon's forehead disappear. Children of the affected Klingons will also be affected.
Bound
Archer is given a gift of three Orion slave girls, but their pheremones are causing male crewmembers to act strange.
In a Mirror, Darkly part I
In the Mirror Universe, The USS Defiant from Kirk's era in the Normal Universe appears and the Tholians capture it. The mirror Enterprise attempts to capture it. (it is recommended that newcomers watch the TOS episode, "the Tholian Web" before watching this two part episode)
In a Mirror, Darkly part II
In the Mirror Universe, Archer captures the Defiant and intends to use it to conquer the Terran Empire.
Demons (part 1 of 2)
A xenophobic human group known as "Terra Prime" attempt to stop talks to create a cooperatuve between several alien races.
Terra Prime (part 2 of 2)
The leader of the Terra Prime group threatens to destroy Starfleet unless all non-Humans leave Earth's solar system.
These Are the Voyages...
In the future Commander Riker huses the holodeck to experience the founding of the Federation and Archer's involvement in the founding.
The Series finale was also intended as a franchise finale but I found it disappointing. Otherwise the final season was quite good.
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Thank You Manny Coto For Reconnecting Enterprise with "Star Trek"
By M. Hart
Following the success of four live-action TV series and ten feature-length films, producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga attempted to create a fifth live-action "Star Trek" series that would be set approximately 100 years prior to the time of Captain Kirk (during the original "Star Trek" series of 1966-1969), 200 years before the time of Captain Picard (during the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" of 1987-1994) and 100 years after the fictional character Dr. Zefram Cochrane flew the first warp-capable spaceship, as depicted in the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact".
The new series, entitled "Enterprise", debuted in the fall of 2001, months after the previous "Star Trek" series, "Voyager", concluded its seven-year run. As the show's title implied, the ship used in the show was named "Enterprise" and had serial number NX-01 with a maximum speed of warp 5. It's crew was comprised of Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula, formerly the lead actor of the sci-fi TV show "Quantum Leap" of 1989-1993), Vulcan science officer T'Pol (Jolene Blalok), pilot Ensign Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery), ship's communications officer Ensign Hoshi Sato (Linda Park), the Denobulan Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley), weapon's officer Lieutenant Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) and ship's engineer Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III (Connor Trinneer).
Over 12,000,000 viewers watched the first season's premiere episode, but subsequent shows had ever-shrinking audiences. The average number of viewers per first-season episode was about 6.7 million; for the second season, this number dropped to 4.4 million and for the third season, the number dropped further to 3.8 million. After nearly canceling the show after its third season, UPN gave it one more chance, but the average number of viewers per fourth season episode was only 3.1 million. UPN then cancelled the series.
Why did "Enterprise" fail to capture the attention of the estimated 30,000,000 "Star Trek" fans living in the U.S.A.? The blame rests primarily with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, who's combined strangle hold upon the show's writing during the first three seasons drove fans away. The fourth season, however, was placed under the creative control of Manny Coto.
Whereas the first three seasons of "Enterprise" were largely disconnected from the four previous "Star Trek" TV series, Manny Coto successfully reconnected the fourth season of "Enterprise" with the rest of the "Star Trek" universe. He began the fourth season by personally finishing the temporal cold war and other disconnected story elements from the first three seasons by writing the first two episodes of the fourth season himself. He then produced (and sometimes co-wrote) the next 19 episodes, most of which were parts of several multi-episode story arcs that filled in many holes that had been left from previous "Star Trek" TV series and the ten feature length films. He also corrected some of the mistakes created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga during the first three seasons of "Enterprise".
The first story arc (episodes: "Borderland", "Cold Station 12" and "The Augments") featured a guest appearance by Brent Spiner playing Dr. Arik Soong, who had continued the work done by geneticists that had created genetically-enhanced individuals such as Kahn (refer to the original "Star Trek" series episode "Space Seed" and the second feature length film, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn"). The second story arc (episodes "The Forge", "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara") began with the bombing of Earth's embassy on Vulcan and quickly makes Capt. Archer aware that Vulcan's population is dangerously divided. (No other "Star Trek" TV series spent this much time on Vulcan.)
The third story arc (episodes "Babel One", "United" and "The Aenar") featured the Tellurites, Andorians, Vulcans and Romulans. The Romulans try to disrupt peace talks between the Tellurites and Andorians. (This is the only time that the planet Andoria is visited during any "Star Trek" TV series.) The fourth story arc (episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence") featured Dr. Phlox, who is kidnapped by Klingons who want to stop a genetic disease that is changing their appearance to look more human.
The fifth story arc (episodes "In a Mirror, Darkly", two parts) is a trip to the infamous alternate universe. The sixth and final story arc (episodes "Demons" and "Terra Prime") is about xenophobic humans that want to undermine talks that may lead to a coalition of several planets, including Earth.
Manny Coto's fourth season episodes were great, but not enough people were watching. Of the 22 fourth season episodes, the best were those 19 that followed the first two and before the final one. The final episode ("These Are the Voyages...") was disappointing as it was written and produced by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Though it featured guest appearances by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis (as William Riker and Deanna Troi, respectively, of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"), this episode was as poorly written as the first three seasons that Rick Berman & Brannon Braga had strangled.
Of the 28 years of live-action "Star Trek" TV series, I regard the third season of "Enterprise" to be the worst, but Manny Coto's wonderful fourth season was one of the best. Sadly, what I and many other "Star Trek" fans had hoped would occur during "Enterprise" was the Earth-Romulan War (as eluded to in the original "Star Trek" TV series) and the formation of the United Federation of Planets (UFP); but neither of these could be produced because of the show's premature cancellation. Manny Coto would no doubt have made these stories wonderfully if he had been given the opportunity.
Overall, I rate the fourth season of "Enterprise" with 5 out of 5 stars. I wholeheartedly thank Manny Coto for reconnecting "Enterprise" with the rest of the "Star Trek" universe during its fourth & final season. Let us hope that any possible future "Star Trek" productions are not controlled by Rick Berman or Brannon Braga.
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