Star Trek’s most controversial series has had it’s fair share of behind-the-scenes drama.
Read the article here: https://whatculture.com/tv/10-amazing-behind-the-scenes-secrets-of-star-trek-enterprise
Listen to The TrekCulture Podcast – Tuesdays on;
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1wrqDG8mOTlshuZCYanhUV?si=5d782898e1254754
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/trekculture/id1542785135
Acast: https://play.acast.com/s/trekculture/
For more awesome content: http://whatculture.com/topic/star-trek
Follow TrekCulture on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrekCulture
Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/TrekCultureYT
#StarTrek #StarTrekENT #StarTrekEnterprise
So Rick Berman has a Horgon on his fireplace.
That's really well done, It looks like it was always there.
I like the video clip of Malcolm whilst Sean talks about the title of the show not having Star Trek in it, and it being risky. Malcolm is shaking his head – Nah
Gosz, I love Star Trek Enterprise, but hate the opening so much xd Only the two Mirror Universe episodes had good opening 😛
The thing about the theme song is that it's Archer's song. When you think about the 1st season tension between Starfleet and Vulcans, there can be a lot of parallels found in the lyrics.
Enterprise really flushed out the cultures of the Vulcans and the Andorians very well. Too bad it was canceled.
Enterprise for me was both unwanted after Voyager and too "slow" at the start. As stated it took until the second season to take off and by then it was too late… the first season was the hook and it failed in that task. Then after Voyager… especially End Game we WANTED a time war series hinted at several times in Voyager, and doubled down on in Enterprise… but instead of getting a show placed in the distant future policing time… we got /another/ prequel.
I did like it after the second season… but I really did not like the first season.
Enterprise had a rough time being on UPN. I loved the show and it is my Star Trek, cheesy intro song and all. I wish they had a season 5 for the refit, the show was finding its legs before it got cut off
I fell in love with the refit design the moment I saw it, and nothing I've seen since has changed my mind. It is a bit "busy" and impractical — does it really need booms and full-length pylons? — but to dismiss it outright as bad ship design is to miss the point. It had to perform a dual role as both an acceptable modification and a visual shorthand connecting the 22nd and 23rd centuries (or, if we're being literal, the 2000s and the 1960s). It certainly achieves both of those, even if the latter informs and arguably limits the former.
Sure, you can fantasy-engineer around some of this if you need to. Perhaps the new secondary-hull engine is so experimental that the old one needs to be kept in place as a backup, hence two sets of plasma conduits? But at the end of the day we know why it looks the way it does. It's because the NX class has booms and the Constitution class has full-length pylons and it has to evoke both. And to me it achieves that beautifully.
Now all it needs is a guest appearance and hero shot in Strange New Worlds…
Regeneration was a brilliant episode! Extremely well executed too.
Let's see: 1) I didn't mind the theme song. 2) I didn't need Star Trek in the name. 3) The temporal cold war was a stupid idea and I hated from the first moment. 4) I hated the season with the Xindi. It wasted time on the show's story arc. 5) The finale might have been OK if they hadn't killed Trip. 6) Klingons were introduced too early. First contact with them should have happened midway in the first season. And, they needed to have the same level of technology (or less) than the Humans. When we first meet them, they were more like TNG Klingons.
I really thought that the show's focus was telling the story of the founding of the Federation, and every season needed to have some goal as a step along that path, and it was just hard to see any of that progression. There needed to be a lot more times where things happen that the crew would see as insignificant and we would know how important it would turn out to be. Even when they tried this, they kept flubbing it. In the TOS episode "Balance of Terror", the fact that Romulan ships could cloak was new and yet, in the Enterprise episode where we first meet the Romulans, not only did the ships cloak, but the minds would cloak too.
Wherever You Will Go – by the Calling was used by Sky as a series promo…..great song and would have been a much better theme I've always thought.
I still watch it all the time…
I remember hating the the song so much when this show came out that I stopped watching
I….I must be…..the odd one out. I liked The Are the Voyages
Funny how you put a picture up of your self that is slim …..lol
Your sacrilegious T-shirt has not been forgotten. I unsubscribed immediately, but wanted to remind you that ,even a complete moron, knows well enough to apologize. You,however, did not. You proudly wear IDIC symbols and then in contrast brazenly spit in the face of Christians everywhere. You disappoint me.
Very informative. I would have loved to see the NX-01 refit in action.
Wibble!! XD
Love Enterprise… always skip the theme song. I think Enterprise could be wrapped up properly with a proper motion picture… assuming we could get Jolene out of retirement
Huh.. Dear Doctor is my favorite episode of Enterprise as well. It's fantastic.
Trip is not dead, it's just bad written holodeck programm episode Riker accidentially visited … the weakest written part ever repaired for me
Big fan of Star Trek the original series. Watched it back in the 60’s as a 9 year old and been hooked ever since. Enterprise was an awesome concept, a prequel to Kirk’s Enterprise, wow a true fan’s dream. Low ratings were to be expected at the beginning. All Star Trek series needed to get a leg up to get an audience. From warp speed to the transporter and the universal language development was awesome. Then some putz decided to introduce temporal wars, and change the theme song’s tempo for some unknown reason and totally lost what Enterprise was supposed to be about.
The problem with naming the show after the main vessel of all the previous shows (excluding DS9 and Voyager obv) is that if you have never watching star trek before or only ever heard about it in passing… Enterprise could just mean business or entrepreneur or to some sort of sailing show… while to anyone who has any love for the show would absolutely understand the name, reading it on your TV channel selector would hint at what it was… and I imagine that could have thrown a few people… especially those in their late 40's-50's who only ever heard of Star Trek as something that happened in the 70's and the fans were weird.
Sure looked like James Marsters from Buffy in the thumbnail…
*Garfield Reeves-Stevens
I despise the theme. All involved should be woodchippered.
"West of Crichton". You rock.
Star Trek Picard is not canon. 9:53
True Star Trek Canon died in 2009.
I’ve recently been catching reruns of “Star Trek Enterprise,” and it has finally occurred to me that Jolene Blalock has zero charisma! Bad casting. Vulcans should be stoic, but still have a personality.
I disagree with the franchise fatigue as it was les moonves taking trek series with paramount keeping the trek movies & because of not liking scifi chose to cancel enterprise but thou some may hate enterprise while others like me really liked it, it was more a star trek series then any of the new series all the because many of the people working on new trek don't know or care about what star trek was all about
Seán: The. Beard.
Yeah, that's good to know, thank you. And yeah, that WAS narcissitic.
I hated all the nonsensical time travel gobbledigook in ST/E, every bit as much as the frequency of time "grandfather paradox" crap in ST/Voyager.
What made me happiest was those episode that filled in so many of the details we'd heard about in several of the Roddenberry Era shows.
That was when Enterprise was at its finest, and well worth viewing.
bit wack Simon Pegg criticising something in star trek given how bad at least two of his films where and how truly offensive his Scotty is. Should look to the log in his own eye.
I always thought the temporal cold war was clever way around the the tech problem.
Braga is a moron if he think Dear Doctor works
GENOCIDE IS NOT A SOLUTION TO ANY PROBLEM
I don't think the current crop of star trek shows do any allegories anymore. I can't recall any in Strange New Worlds (which is the most episodic of the shows)
modern trek is mostly garbage it really isn't keeping anything fresh. Its just copying other shows badly. except Picard S3.
Faith of the Heart detected
The enterprise being refit for season 5 was never guaranteed . Doug Drexler said he proposed the idea, but the show was cancelled before it could be approved or not. So we have no idea of it would have happened.
he also didn’t design the refit until after the series ended. So even if it was approved, there’s no guarantee it would have looked the same