Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Fourth Season
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Star Trek Enterprise DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 939 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-11-01 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Paramount |
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Movie Reviews of Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Fourth Season
Movie Review: Thank You Manny Coto For Reconnecting Enterprise with "Star Trek"
Summary: 5 Stars
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.