Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Fourth Season
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Movie Reviews of Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Fourth Season
Movie Review: Enterprise fourth season
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent; Wish the series went on forever! Only problem is same for whole series, the menu reeks havic with some DVD players on almost every disk.Movie Review: Very good final season, terrible series finale
Summary: 4 Stars
I think this final season of Enterprise barely even got produced. Shot on video instead of film to cut costs, then the season was cut by two episodes yet I still think most of it was very good television.
The first bad sign you see is the first thing on Disc #1, sales promos for all of the Trek's DVD sets. Six discs instead of 7 with a reduction in the number of extras, the inside "Mirror" episodes feature was nice, the best of the features.
I did like almost all of the episodes, even Stormfront I&II (although the Tempporal Wars and the Suliban got dumped immediately). The Vulcan episodes, after four years, finally got around to finishing up almost 40 years of speculation about Vulcan history (naturally Archer saved Vulcan and ensured it's future as we have always known it). It was strange seeing them portrayed as such poor characters.
The Augment episodes touched on the old original series episode about Kahn and his superhumans, later revisited in "Affliction" when it turns out the Klingons got a hold of some Augment DNA and tried it out on their own people with disastrous results (which explains why in the original series Klingons looked human and why Worf wouldn't discuss it in DS9 "Trials and Tribbleations"), Archer and Phlox saved the day.
The Romulans are even seen, by us- not Enterprise, in a few episodes as were two species of Andorians.
"In a Mirror, Darkly" parts 1 &2 was a very interesting side trip, kind of surprising (read the Okuda's text commentary in part II), the only real stinker of the season was the finale "These are the Voyages", in which the producers turned what could have been a good episode into the Troi & Ryker show, that was disgusting.
Movie Review: Great season...save the finale.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a huge fan of Star Trek. I love the original, TNG, and DS9. I also enjoy the first three years of Voyager (before it became the Borg-Barbie hour). Enterprise, however...let's just say, I've never been overly-enthusiastic about it. I thought season one was alright. Not the most spectacular thing I'd ever seen, but not bad. "Broken Bow" was probably just about the best series debut along with DS9's "Emissary". Other than that, though, pretty average. Season 2 lost me as soon as they decided to do a Borg episode (does the word prequel mean anything to anyone?). While I'd heard buzz of some improvments, I didn't even bother with the third season. Reading about it online, the whole Xindi thing just didn't sound all that interesting to me, and still pretty much seemed to be ignoring that this show, by its nature should probably be showing us things which would ultimately lead to what we became familiar with in the original as well as all of the other series.
Finally, along came season four, and what do I hear? Stories about genetic engineering (a la the infamous Eugenics War), the differences in Vulcan behavior compared to the other shows, the Mirror Universe. Even more astonishing, I hear that the stories are actually really good. Something which I'd almost never heard to describe an episode of Enterprise before. I even hear, as the show's cancellation was confirmed, that we'll get some stuff dealing with the formation of the Federation. Topping it off, as the final send-off of this starship Enterprise, there would be what was described before its airing as "a valentine" to the fans for the past 18 years of virtually non-stop production of new Star Trek stories for television, which would also feature fan favorites Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis from The Next Generation. Unfortunately, as it would turn out, this episode was typically regarded as anything but a valentine by most fans.
I recently picked up the boxed set on DVD, and I have to say that this really, truly is a great season of Star Trek in general. It is astonishingly so for Enterprise in particular. Unfortunately, though, the only drawback, just as fan reactions suggested, is the series finale "These are the Voyages...". While not the worst episode of Star Trek ever, it is, to put it simply, grossly inappropriate as the final sendoff for the crew of the NX-01. The biggest flaw comes from the simple fact that you aren't even watching the "real" characters. Instead, all the action dealing with Archer and crew is a mere Enterprise-D holodeck recreation being played back by Commander Riker. The premise is that he is doing this during the events of the season 7 TNG episode "The Pegasus", in which he had to decide whether to continue to follow an order to conceal the fact that the starship Pegasus was conducting illegal experiments with cloaking technology which resulted in the deaths of several crew members (And it was thought, the destruction of the ship itself). The problem is that the whole thing comes off as though no one bothered to watch "The Pegasus" before putting pen to paper. The stuff aboard the Enterprise-D just does not flow with the TNG episode it's supposed to be tying into. At the same time, the mission which Riker is recreating really has pretty much nothing to do with his own dilemma. Not only that, but as you aren't even watching the "real" characters anyway, all of the stuff aboard the NX-01 is pretty well irrelevant. After all, how can we be certain that what was played out on the holodeck is actually true to what really happened (much like watching a historical movie. Titanic, for example)? One great reason to watch the episode at least once though is the final tribute to Star Trek in which it starts of with the Enterprise-D, then transitions to the 1701, and finally the NX-01, while Picard, Kirk, and Archer recite the famous narration "Space. The final frontier..."
On the whole, though, this really is an excellent season. If you don't mind the rather high prices Paramount asks for its Star Trek sets, I would definitely recommend buying this one.
Movie Review: Fabulous final season of humanity's destiny in space!
Summary: 5 Stars
I happen to consider the "Enterprise" series of the "Star Trek" franchise to be far and away the best of them all (and I love them all.) This has got to be the first time ever that a series was cancelled just as it was beginning to reach its full flowering, for Season Four is the best season of this series, surpassing even the excellent Season Three. In my opinion the entire cast reached a depth and complexity akin to a fine California Cabernet wine ... mellow, pleasant, and deep. All of the main characters really came to mean something to me, and some of the Season Four storylines were among the best science fiction you can find anywhere. Even the wonderful Original Series was in decline when it was cancelled--it is notorious that the third season of The Original Series was shot though with stinker episodes (see the episode "Turnabout Intruder" if you want to see some really awful stuff).
"Enterprise" features (must I use the past tense--no!) a hopeful vision of humanity's future in which Earth achieves unity (mostly--see the fine "Terra Prime" episode)and meets the other nearby interstellar civilizations as equals. The "Enterprise" vision of a united humanity reaching political maturity in which totalitarianism, war, and want have been eliminated is a wonderful prognositication of the future and this shining vision permeates the entire series, particularly the end of Season Three and all of Season Four.
One of the wonderful things about "Enterprise" is that it often shows how humanity is (i.e. might be) perceived through the eyes of aliens. I really enjoyed the "Forge" episodes dealing with the planet Vulcan, and the episodes that dealt with the Andorians were also excellent.
Season Four had some fabulous episodes. "Through a Glass, Darkly" is fine science fiction dealing with an alternate universe (the same one as "Mirror Mirror" in The Original Series.) "Terra Prime" shows that mankind in the Enterprise universe still has some growing up to do, but nevertheless Earth is shown as indeed well along in the process of maturing. The "Augment" episodes (the precursor to the Khan episodes in The Original Series) are also great entertainment. I even enjoyed the sometimes-panned final episode, although I might have handled it differently. The last episode did a fine job of wrapping up the series. If you want to know how much the "Enterprise" series meant to me, I will state that I was emotionally upset when I watched the final episode and realized that I would never see Captain Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Mayweather, Hoshi, Malcome, and the incomparable Dr. Phlox ever again, except in re-runs. This was a great series.
I suppose it is too much to hope that we will ever see a feature length Star Trek movie featuring the Enterprise cast and theme. Here is a good idea: the Earth-Romulan War! Often referenced, never shown, this is a story that is crying out to be made into a film.
Season Four deserves every one of its five stars.
Movie Review: End of xiandi threat and some new areas to cover
Summary: 4 Stars
The xiandi threat is over in the first part of this season but archer and enterprise are flung back into another alternate future of earth where another race of beings are helping the Nazi's to win the second world war. Unkown at the time sillig hitches a ride on enterprise back to the future because he wants to stop the other aliens from winning not for benevolent reasons but because they are the suluvond's enemies. Sillig gets caugth by Archer but agrees to help Archer because he wants to stop the other aliens more than Enterprise. He gets killed by a Nazi soldier and enterprise makes back into the present.The guy who played Data shows up in this season as scientist who is in jail for making genectically altered humans. He is sprung from jail to go on a mission with enterprise to capture the augments. He eventually takes over a ship with augments and plans to start somewhere else but the leader of the augments begins to go against him and he is confined to quarters but eventually ejects himself from the ship in a lifepod and ends up helping Enterprise destroy the augments ship. Two episodes deal with the alternate universe thing again...it comes up a few times in deep space nine. The show ends with Archer agreeing to help tran to get his daughter back from some unsavory people..tripp gets killed in this episode and starfleet comes of age.