This series was strong out of the gate. Every time they improved the ship it was like watching the cannon unfold. The time war and the necrid expanse was a great story arc. And the eugenics plot. Better than most sci/fi could dream of being.
I think the "time war" totally messed up the show. In fact, IT SUCKED! The careers of the actors were failed by the concept of a "time war". Episodes should have been self-contained, like the originals. Voyager survived an underlying plot only because it was at the foundation (plus the hottie Borg chick). But to introduce a "time war" to a show where there was so much room for imagination is like the most stupid thing ever. Give that dog some more cheese.
+schitlipz Some of the time war was interesting to see. Especially the episode called "future tense" when they find the ship that was from the future and everyone wanted a piece of it.
I loved this series, it really shown a light on how helpless our first steps were into space before the founding of the Federation. These types of origin stories always get me.
One of the best series, I loved captain archer because he was the first, they weren't strong at first due to the unknown of what's out there, but they learned and got stronger, that's the point! Archer is an awesome captain because he's not all serious with everything, he's friends with the crew and encourages getting to know the ensigns no one ever sees, but at the same time he does the job and people know that about him, that's why I liked enterprise and it's story, hands down
+Ian Mccown This is why Earth and their allies, before the Federation, realised that even on peaceful exploration, you still needed offense weapons. Just in case.
In TOS The NCC-1701 Enterprise had enough Firepower to Destroy the Entire Surface of Eminiar VII (When I say Destroy I mean like every square centimeter is turned to Glass, All Structures, People, Anything above the Topsoil is just GONE. If the NX-01 had even a fraction of this level of Firepower then it would be a menace in space combat.
For some reason I like this show the best of all Star Trek what's interesting about it is that they're not overpowered they struggle with the truly dangerous expanse of space. Their technology is not vastly different from what we currently have. It makes it very interesting
When you watch any Trek show its much better when u watch it 10 years later when life challenges gives you wisdom and you can see the silver lining in each show which gives you inner strength . My all time favorite is the last episode were Riker listens to Tripp tell him and then ask him " Do you know anybody like that " Riker says " one or two " All about people we trust who don't hurt us .
I don't know why people criticise enterprise so much. I found it one of the most enjoyable Star Treks, the whole story line of the Vulcans holding back the humans and the element of pre-prime directive discovery made you feel like you was on an exciting journey of discovery with them. Sure there was a few crappy episodes (some were even worse than TNG: sub rosa) however whenever I see Trekkies critique ENT they always point out technical errors and story line plot failures, to be honest I don't care about that if it's entertaining to watch then for me that's what makes good television. I loved the temporal cold war plot and all the times the timeship would visit. T'pol was a great character too on a par with Seven of nine and Tuvok from voyager. I liked Archer as captain, he was primitive compared to more modern captains but that's what gave him his charm. I really wish they hadn't have cancelled the series as they could have done so much more. Hopefully in the future online only Star Treks will be less influenced by so called critics and success will be measured by subscription revenues alone. I'm really looking forward to Star Trek: DIS, they should bring it to Netflix so us non US citizens can pay to watch it legally.
well even the best tv shows have episodes that are just not that great. i mean the best tv series ever. not every episode can be a bombshell, there's always a few duds.
That's one of the things I liked about early Enterprise episodes is that they weren't quite powerful enough to win in a firefight, more like TOS and less TNG where there was no threat the Enterprise couldn't defend against. If the writing on Enterprise were better they could've made better use of the concept.
Gordon Borchers I agree, but the NX-01 found it's feet during the 3rd season with that refit before going into the expanse, it became almost like a battleship that could swing far above it's weight class.
WaveForceful "Battlecruiser" is the technical term you want: much as the klinks in Search for Spock referred to the 1701 as. Lighter, faster, but as heavily armed! :)
Yeah the constitution class was considered a battlecruser, and was often marvel by aliens races and could more than hold it's own against the warships from the other neighbouring powers. Even one alien confronted Kirk about making peaceful first contact in a vessel so heavily armed. I guess we have the Xindi to thank for why the Federation decided to make all their ships as heavily armed as they possibly could be so they could protect themselves or wage war if necessary, The NX-01's experiences made this imprint.
+Gordon Borchers The biggest weakness of Enterprise was the casting. They all sound like miniature 12 year olds! No presence. Should have gotten more stage type actors who could carry a scene. Not drama college level actors.
Huh, interesting perspective. Do you feel this way about Scott Bakula as well? To offer a different point of view. I think that's kind of what they were going for. Baseball cap wearin', blue-jeans sportin' folk. People whose profession is space exploration, but whose personalities were grounded more in the now. Not the "better" Humans of TNG. Patrick Stewart was perfect for TNG, he gave it gravitas and you could buy him as this ultra-moralizer. But he isn't necessarily someone you might find working at SEARS. Bakula kind of is; he's in a sense the everyman. Although I wouldn't mind seeing Sir Patrick play a picard-esque SEARS employee. Giving impassioned speeches about the merits of the five-point sales system. And how showing up late for you shift makes you undeserving of wearing that name tag!
I LOVE ENTERPRISE, the series is absolutely awesome, I was steering away from it at first due to so many critics but I enjoy Enterprise as much as TNG. It different there is no question but the stories and plot are still captivating and they did an excellent job of making the technology older then TOS. The story lines pay homage to TOS while adding alot of depth and complexity, I hear complaints of the story straying from Canon but aside from a few tiny instances, it stays true to Trek.
Had? It's underappreciated just because they didn't have the same saucer and secondary hull design for the 'newer' Enterprise's, and all the tropes weren't there. Compare this to the STD that's available for a subscription fee, Star Trek Discovery. That's hammered in the final intellectual nail into the franchise coffin, that J.J. Abrams started building. There is nothing Star Trek about any of the new Star Trek; they're all (terrible) action flicks. It's all pew pew 'splosion light shows for idiots that drool at seeing shiny things. Star Trek used to be about exploring possibilities and the human condition. Many of the alien races encountered were simply allegories for a facet of humanity. In this series itself, Ambassador Soval stated as much, that humans, out of all the species in the (Star Trek) galaxy perplexed him because we encompassed all the traits of the other species; we are both capable of greatness, and self-destruction.
If you watched the series, you'd understand why they werent prepared. They had the defensive capabilities back then. But just had a very important mission to embark on before they were installed. They had a phase canon on board actually, but it wasnt installed yet. Thanks to their own ingenuity, they figured out on their own how to even get a much higher yield out of it than it was initially designed for. Having to make it on your own has it's advantages.
I loved Enterprise, I thought it was so underrated. The people who say this isn't Star Trek are on drugs. Just look what Star Trek is now since the reboot, it's so crap!
terrible acting horrendous writing but remember someone will always like a low quality product. (no disrespect intended) But it's ENT is why we got JJ Trek and STD. You don't get more by taking less and thats how consumer goods work.
@@zairman which means you want to reward bad Trek...you're entitled to the opinion but I'll stick with a more consistent non bias perspective. Few watched it just like few are watching Nu Trek.
Man...with your comment you just made my day, really :) I am just smiling here. I LOVE S.T. Enterprise exactly because it`s the closest (in time) to our time and it shows the first struggles, etc. Can`t wait for the newest Star Trek movie! Live long and prosper :D
I seriously live ST:E, the only thing i hate is the god awful ending which made absolutely no fucking sense. If they wanted to end the series, end it on an episode like Terra Prime. That episode gave closure
***** ya but the writers were not up to the challenge or the producers were scared creating that cannon. Instead they go into the expanse and pretty much pull a Voyager. There were some gem episodes but ya fuck the zendi and the sphere builders. STE should have been about the birth of the federation instead the squabbled with time travel bullshit.
***** The writers and producers could have focused on antagonists like Paxton and his Terra Prime movement for a couple of seasons or use the Romulan subterfuge of trying to sabotage Vulcan society (their attempt to transform Vulcans into a more militaristic one in line with their ideals) and the growing United Earth and their Coalition of Planets as the underlying mythology of the series.
To put it simply, this series was just not very fun. It's actually very realistic, but with no holo decks, no Q and all of that, it was drab. In the other series, the ships were like mansions flying through space. Here, it was like a trailer park home flying through space. It was dark and very claustrophobic to watch. The rooms were small and dark, I always enjoyed when they got off the ship so they can open up the space. Once again, I believe this was the most realistic series, if we ever do travel the stars, it will look a lot more like this than it did on Voyager or The Next Generation. But I like my Star Trek to be fantasy, not necessarily realistic
Chad Heroman I liked how in the last Episode Riker enjoyed history and spent time on it in the Holodeck...I liked how to people in the 24th century, the NX-01 was like comparing Sputnik to the ISS, extremely primitive but very well respected as it gave birth to mighty starships like the Galaxy class.
+Chad Heroman That realism made me enjoy it more. It did feel tighter, but that enhanced the sense of being on a spaceship. Q was a pain, I didn't enjoy the Q episodes, and the holodeck seemed to me just a way to invent plot devices as will. But this series had a good discipline that made it have to find stories from the actual situation: exploring the galaxy.
Good analysis, and I agree with you. I enjoyed this series but found the over-arching storylines to be bland in comparison to the other Stark Trek's. That said, I loved Archer, Trip and T'Pol. Archer was a true pioneer and visionary.
1:13 "What kind of weapons? Our sensors can't penetrate their shielding." 1:35 "They're charging weapons." How the heck do you know? Your sensors can't detect them.
Connor Reeves also, the station that aired Enterprise made a fatal mistake for the show: putting it in the same time slot that Stargate Universe was in on the Scifi,channel mutually destructive for BOTH shows.
Season 1 of Star Trek Enterprise was my favorite season of all Star Trek series. Every mission was about exploration and not silly conflicts with unrealistic races like Klingongs and the rest.
Because if I recall, they didn't have any truly dedicated warships. It was all about exploration at this point, which makes alot of sense. Even in the later series, they were still exploratory vessels.
Ive got the first 2 seasons on dvd. The kool thing is, my Sony PS3 upscales reg dvds to HD, so it looks great on my lcd tv. Its too bad this show didnt do too well ratings wise when it was on tv. I enjoyed watching The Captain & his crew each week during their mission of exploration.
This is when the torpedos start to get good for combat but I ask a question when they were in broken bow episode 1 and 2 they used plasma cannon's in the second act of the episode why not still use them with the torpedos until they switch to the phase cannon's in silent enemy's as those could have worked agents the nausicaans as there ships Shields were not as strong.
The funny thing is though, when asked about the origins of the Prime Directive it's revealed in earlier series that the reason it was made was because a terrible first contact with the Klingons cause a bloody war that lasted decades, but in Enterprise the Federation hasn't even been founded yet and in the first episode of the show first contact is made... and it ends peacefully and on good terms.
The Axanar? Then their home world must be Axanar. If they only knew the battle that would occur there during the Four Years War between the Klingons and the Federation. Man, I can not wait for the Axanar fan made movie.
porpus99 Nope the suit is still ongoing afaik. Here, read the axanar faq: www.axanarproductions.com/faq/ "Axanar Productions made a settlement offer to Paramount and CBS within 24 hours of the lawsuit being delivered to the production’s offices, but it was rejected without a counter proposal. Axanar Productions continues its efforts to try and resolve this case as soon and as efficiently as possible, and remains optimistic that there is a mutually beneficial solution for all parties here." As long as the suit is ongoing, they can't continue to film axanar :-(
The time travel theme of the first was enigmatic because captain Nero would certainly taken the Romulan ship back to his home planet and made some kind of arrangement to prevent their sun from exploding with the red matter on hand, and beginning a twenty five year evacuation plan as a contingency. I have not seen the second so I will take your word on it. - It is still the best ST since TOS. Thank you for the FYI.
lord, i hate admitting it, but you were right. They were relying to much on the time travel stuff in the same way voyager was killed by to much reliance on the borg.
@OrangeOceanOctopus there weapons and "hull plating" where severly upgraded right after the first "Xindi" attack on earth, including "photonic torpedoes" that replaced the "missle torpedoes".
I forgot I wrote this. Thanks, I just always hated the term "tractor beam ". But it is faster to say than "stabilizing beam " 😃 I also liked the episode that introduced the term "red alert "
I can see this scenerio happening in the 22nd century star trek. When they armed the ship with phase cannons and photonic torpedoes I thought they had gone too far. Especially when on the old Cage pilot they were using laser weapons.
@Romulan112 it look like a Breen ship,according to their appearance in Deep Space 9. their ships used a kind of Electro-magnetic Pulse like weapon.this could have been their 1st. encounter but since we never saw them physically,who knows.
this is the second as far as I remember.... the first one was with that little ship which was using damn lasers against enterprise... they wanted just to scare it off or what but it blew up... wasn't that the first 'battle'?
They were supposedly planning on getting into the Romulan conflict (or, at least, the events leading up to it) if there was a season 5, but since (short of a miracle) they knew there wouldn't be one as early as the end of season two it was always pie-in-the-sky anyway.
Instead of a tractorbeam, they have a grappling hook. Instead of touchscreens,they have monitors with buttons around the edge, They have Nintendo Virtual Boy instead of the holodeck
God, why is it EVERYONE hates on this damn show!? OK, I have been watching Star Trek since 1992 and I have seen every episode of TNG, DS9, VOY, and Enterprise and I loved the story arc's and most the characters. None of these shows were perfect, but Enterprise was just as good as Voyager and few people I've met hate on Voyager.... So whats the deal? Is it Bakula, cuz I actually liked Archer and I also enjoyed Trip and T'Pol. Wasn't a huge fan of Reed or Mayweather, but I can forgive that. It was a good show and deserved to be on longer. Now what do we have? The new shitty JJ movies and STD which IS NOT Star Trek. Now I read that Tarantino is doing the next movie... Say what you will, but compared to the new stuff Enterprise rocked.
Because most people judge a show on the results of quality elements such as good script, tone, acting, etc. Not based on fights over who is the "best" Star Trek captain.
Small error: Archer and the away team took the time to change into their uniforms while the ship was under attack. Personally, I wouldve said: screw it, I´ll command the ship from inside a damn space suit if i have to! Also love Reed asking for permission to launch a torpedo. Might aswell have asked for permission to pee on them to mark their territory, about the same damage and amount of annoyance involved, but I think Worf would be better at that after all...
The Enterprise NX-01 is my favorite out of all Enterprises. Poor thing had shit weapons though. Thank the Universe that later in the series it finally gets photon torpedoes and phasers lol.
Well, apart from the flashy graphics, and apart from the notable the absences of both the long-winded negotiations and hypothetical applications of modern-day/real-life scientific theories (a la TNG), the premise of Abrams' alternate universe is still sound and has potential. The only thing I think that really irks the majority of old-school Trek fans is the fact that in order for Star Trek to remain relevant to a younger audience, they have to entice/spoil them with more action and "bling".
Loved this series. If it was allowed to continue on the writers/production may have moved on to the Romulan war. Ohh what might have been. I put DS9 1 and Enterprise 2.
I actually thought it was the reverse. I don't see how the Borg were family friendly. In fact, when I was young I was completely terrified of the Borg. But again, to each their own.
Back then, they didnt have shields nor tractor beams. The vulcans did, but werent too eager to share their technology with Humans yet. Earth ships could just polarize the hull (reverse magnetic polarity), which wasnt all that effective. Probably about as helpful as a few more coats of paint. And instead of tractor beams, they had grapplers they fired like harpoons.
@Zreen001 Im aware of that however, the intefering and stumbling around like a fly got annoying. (even though it was very much a finding their feet series)
For all we know, they _are_ Breen. Although I think the _Enterprise_ novels took them in another direction, and I believe they showed up in STO but I can't remember what they were called.
Yeah, They should have stayed in a LOW tech era. AND DAMN' they go without any ship defense weapons??? The time plot bs, that's what killed this serie.
@sfs2040 indeed and its a "shame" they never used the "fire everything we got" , spatial torpedoes and photonic torpedoes hitting the target combined with phaser fire =)
This series was strong out of the gate. Every time they improved the ship it was like watching the cannon unfold. The time war and the necrid expanse was a great story arc. And the eugenics plot. Better than most sci/fi could dream of being.
I think the "time war" totally messed up the show. In fact, IT SUCKED! The careers of the actors were failed by the concept of a "time war". Episodes should have been self-contained, like the originals. Voyager survived an underlying plot only because it was at the foundation (plus the hottie Borg chick). But to introduce a "time war" to a show where there was so much room for imagination is like the most stupid thing ever. Give that dog some more cheese.
+schitlipz Is this a 'episodic' argument like TOS and TNG vs the season(s) long arc like DS9?
+schitlipz The Xindi arc killed it too!
+crashoverride1000 until they fucked up with the xindi. before it was doing sooo well but then they had to bring in the reptilians.
+schitlipz Some of the time war was interesting to see. Especially the episode called "future tense" when they find the ship that was from the future and everyone wanted a piece of it.
I loved this series, it really shown a light on how helpless our first steps were into space before the founding of the Federation. These types of origin stories always get me.
One of the best series, I loved captain archer because he was the first, they weren't strong at first due to the unknown of what's out there, but they learned and got stronger, that's the point! Archer is an awesome captain because he's not all serious with everything, he's friends with the crew and encourages getting to know the ensigns no one ever sees, but at the same time he does the job and people know that about him, that's why I liked enterprise and it's story, hands down
+Ian Mccown This is why Earth and their allies, before the Federation, realised that even on peaceful exploration, you still needed offense weapons. Just in case.
+Ian Mccown there was none of the goofy dressing up like a woman that we expected although the diversity crap reached a crescendo
In TOS The NCC-1701 Enterprise had enough Firepower to Destroy the Entire Surface of Eminiar VII (When I say Destroy I mean like every square centimeter is turned to Glass, All Structures, People, Anything above the Topsoil is just GONE. If the NX-01 had even a fraction of this level of Firepower then it would be a menace in space combat.
Richard Ched The NX-01 can destroy a mountain with it's phase cannons and seriusly destabilize the bio-sphere of a planet with his spatial torpedo.
For some reason I like this show the best of all Star Trek what's interesting about it is that they're not overpowered they struggle with the truly dangerous expanse of space. Their technology is not vastly different from what we currently have. It makes it very interesting
When you watch any Trek show its much better when u watch it 10 years later when life challenges gives you wisdom and you can see the silver lining in each show which gives you inner strength .
My all time favorite is the last episode were Riker listens to Tripp tell him and then ask him " Do you know anybody like that " Riker says " one or two " All about people we trust who don't hurt us .
I don't know why people criticise enterprise so much. I found it one of the most enjoyable Star Treks, the whole story line of the Vulcans holding back the humans and the element of pre-prime directive discovery made you feel like you was on an exciting journey of discovery with them. Sure there was a few crappy episodes (some were even worse than TNG: sub rosa) however whenever I see Trekkies critique ENT they always point out technical errors and story line plot failures, to be honest I don't care about that if it's entertaining to watch then for me that's what makes good television. I loved the temporal cold war plot and all the times the timeship would visit. T'pol was a great character too on a par with Seven of nine and Tuvok from voyager. I liked Archer as captain, he was primitive compared to more modern captains but that's what gave him his charm. I really wish they hadn't have cancelled the series as they could have done so much more. Hopefully in the future online only Star Treks will be less influenced by so called critics and success will be measured by subscription revenues alone. I'm really looking forward to Star Trek: DIS, they should bring it to Netflix so us non US citizens can pay to watch it legally.
Sub Rosa was an abonination first class haha. No series in the history of men was that bad as that episode. XD
Criticising a new Star Trek series as a tradition that goes way back to the 80s.
well even the best tv shows have episodes that are just not that great. i mean the best tv series ever. not every episode can be a bombshell, there's always a few duds.
That's one of the things I liked about early Enterprise episodes is that they weren't quite powerful enough to win in a firefight, more like TOS and less TNG where there was no threat the Enterprise couldn't defend against. If the writing on Enterprise were better they could've made better use of the concept.
Gordon Borchers I agree, but the NX-01 found it's feet during the 3rd season with that refit before going into the expanse, it became almost like a battleship that could swing far above it's weight class.
WaveForceful "Battlecruiser" is the technical term you want: much as the klinks in Search for Spock referred to the 1701 as. Lighter, faster, but as heavily armed! :)
Yeah the constitution class was considered a battlecruser, and was often marvel by aliens races and could more than hold it's own against the warships from the other neighbouring powers. Even one alien confronted Kirk about making peaceful first contact in a vessel so heavily armed. I guess we have the Xindi to thank for why the Federation decided to make all their ships as heavily armed as they possibly could be so they could protect themselves or wage war if necessary, The NX-01's experiences made this imprint.
+Gordon Borchers The biggest weakness of Enterprise was the casting. They all sound like miniature 12 year olds! No presence. Should have gotten more stage type actors who could carry a scene. Not drama college level actors.
Huh, interesting perspective. Do you feel this way about Scott Bakula as well? To offer a different point of view. I think that's kind of what they were going for. Baseball cap wearin', blue-jeans sportin' folk. People whose profession is space exploration, but whose personalities were grounded more in the now. Not the "better" Humans of TNG. Patrick Stewart was perfect for TNG, he gave it gravitas and you could buy him as this ultra-moralizer. But he isn't necessarily someone you might find working at SEARS. Bakula kind of is; he's in a sense the everyman. Although I wouldn't mind seeing Sir Patrick play a picard-esque SEARS employee. Giving impassioned speeches about the merits of the five-point sales system. And how showing up late for you shift makes you undeserving of wearing that name tag!
That enemy ship should have a giant sign on it that reads:
"Welcome to space!"
This is the only Trek I haven't seen over a zillion times, so I'm starting to enjoy it.
I LOVE ENTERPRISE, the series is absolutely awesome, I was steering away from it at first due to so many critics but I enjoy Enterprise as much as TNG. It different there is no question but the stories and plot are still captivating and they did an excellent job of making the technology older then TOS. The story lines pay homage to TOS while adding alot of depth and complexity, I hear complaints of the story straying from Canon but aside from a few tiny instances, it stays true to Trek.
This series had so much potential.
Had? It's underappreciated just because they didn't have the same saucer and secondary hull design for the 'newer' Enterprise's, and all the tropes weren't there. Compare this to the STD that's available for a subscription fee, Star Trek Discovery. That's hammered in the final intellectual nail into the franchise coffin, that J.J. Abrams started building. There is nothing Star Trek about any of the new Star Trek; they're all (terrible) action flicks. It's all pew pew 'splosion light shows for idiots that drool at seeing shiny things. Star Trek used to be about exploring possibilities and the human condition. Many of the alien races encountered were simply allegories for a facet of humanity. In this series itself, Ambassador Soval stated as much, that humans, out of all the species in the (Star Trek) galaxy perplexed him because we encompassed all the traits of the other species; we are both capable of greatness, and self-destruction.
Don't worry. Ziggy says theres a 83.3% chance that you'll win this battle.
What is that from? I can't remember for the life of me.
Quantum Leap :-D
Right thanks. I can't believe I didn't remember that. Sheesh.
Too bad Al now a Cylon.
Ziggy was as accurate as a 1950s weather forecast.
If you watched the series, you'd understand why they werent prepared. They had the defensive capabilities back then. But just had a very important mission to embark on before they were installed. They had a phase canon on board actually, but it wasnt installed yet. Thanks to their own ingenuity, they figured out on their own how to even get a much higher yield out of it than it was initially designed for. Having to make it on your own has it's advantages.
I loved Enterprise, I thought it was so underrated. The people who say this isn't Star Trek are on drugs. Just look what Star Trek is now since the reboot, it's so crap!
terrible acting horrendous writing but remember someone will always like a low quality product. (no disrespect intended) But it's ENT is why we got JJ Trek and STD. You don't get more by taking less and thats how consumer goods work.
@@saquist Terrible acting and horrendous writing. Yep, that sums up the new Trek's easily. Enterprise was good and I wish it went 7 Seasons.
@@zairman which means you want to reward bad Trek...you're entitled to the opinion but I'll stick with a more consistent non bias perspective. Few watched it just like few are watching Nu Trek.
you got that right!!
Ikr. Picard isn't star trek anymore
Man...with your comment you just made my day, really :) I am just smiling here. I LOVE S.T. Enterprise exactly because it`s the closest (in time) to our time and it shows the first struggles, etc. Can`t wait for the newest Star Trek movie! Live long and prosper :D
One of the best Star Trek series by far.
I seriously live ST:E, the only thing i hate is the god awful ending which made absolutely no fucking sense. If they wanted to end the series, end it on an episode like Terra Prime. That episode gave closure
My opinion is this series had many more good stories to tell. The start of Federation,the Romulan war, would have been some epic shows.
*****
ya but the writers were not up to the challenge or the producers were scared creating that cannon. Instead they go into the expanse and pretty much pull a Voyager. There were some gem episodes but ya fuck the zendi and the sphere builders. STE should have been about the birth of the federation instead the squabbled with time travel bullshit.
***** The writers and producers could have focused on antagonists like Paxton and his Terra Prime movement for a couple of seasons or use the Romulan subterfuge of trying to sabotage Vulcan society (their attempt to transform Vulcans into a more militaristic one in line with their ideals) and the growing United Earth and their Coalition of Planets as the underlying mythology of the series.
+Baseshocks "pull a Voyager" lol
@@vanmoody yuup
well done with the editing. very to the point and loving it.
"Stand by port spit-wad...FIRE!"
Thank you for the Great video
Ahhhhh, our singular missle bounced off their sheilds! Better fire another singular one. Genius.
Awesome video! Great scene!
To put it simply, this series was just not very fun. It's actually very realistic, but with no holo decks, no Q and all of that, it was drab. In the other series, the ships were like mansions flying through space. Here, it was like a trailer park home flying through space. It was dark and very claustrophobic to watch. The rooms were small and dark, I always enjoyed when they got off the ship so they can open up the space. Once again, I believe this was the most realistic series, if we ever do travel the stars, it will look a lot more like this than it did on Voyager or The Next Generation. But I like my Star Trek to be fantasy, not necessarily realistic
Chad Heroman I liked how in the last Episode Riker enjoyed history and spent time on it in the Holodeck...I liked how to people in the 24th century, the NX-01 was like comparing Sputnik to the ISS, extremely primitive but very well respected as it gave birth to mighty starships like the Galaxy class.
+Chad Heroman That realism made me enjoy it more. It did feel tighter, but that enhanced the sense of being on a spaceship. Q was a pain, I didn't enjoy the Q episodes, and the holodeck seemed to me just a way to invent plot devices as will. But this series had a good discipline that made it have to find stories from the actual situation: exploring the galaxy.
+Chad Heroman Closterfobic?
Hookt on foniks wurkt phor me.
Good analysis, and I agree with you. I enjoyed this series but found the over-arching storylines to be bland in comparison to the other Stark Trek's. That said, I loved Archer, Trip and T'Pol. Archer was a true pioneer and visionary.
1:13 "What kind of weapons? Our sensors can't penetrate their shielding."
1:35 "They're charging weapons."
How the heck do you know? Your sensors can't detect them.
Zach Morgan non charged weapons no power signature when weapons are charging they give off a huge power signature which they can detect.
+Zach “Attack” Morgan They can detect the charging, I guess.
+Mark Patterson Sort of like how you can't see through curtains but if someone casts a shadow on the back you can see the silhouette.
@@TheStRyder91 peeper!
Correct me If I am wrong, but wasn't the first space battle in "Broken Bow" when the Enterprise fired some Plasma Cannons at some Suliban?
I do believe you are correct.
And we never see those plasma cannons again. Would have come in real handy here.
i watch this every day its so awesome
They cancelled Enterprise but not Voyager? O_o
The show started out around Voyager viewer numbers, then declined. Numbers talk louder than personal preference.
Connor Reeves
I don't disagree, but who the hell kept watching Voyager after season two?
Bart Smit
Exciting, perhaps. I'm not so sure how it takes the ribbon for cleverness.
Connor Reeves also, the station that aired Enterprise made a fatal mistake for the show: putting it in the same time slot that Stargate Universe was in on the Scifi,channel mutually destructive for BOTH shows.
***** I get what you're saying, but wasn't that Stargate Atlantis not Universe?
4:07 Yay, we were useful in this battle :)
Yes, I too enjoyed the show... at least the first 3 seasons... they never aired the last 2 seasons. Now I have all seasons on my PC.
Yes. Actually, this is one of my favorite episodes!
That's the first ENT Episode I've ever watched.
I love this scene. Fire the spacial torpedo!! No effect...
Phasers! We have none!
Shields! We have none!
I'm gonna have to get this series!
I want them to come back. Loved;
Season 1 of Star Trek Enterprise was my favorite season of all Star Trek series. Every mission was about exploration and not silly conflicts with unrealistic races like Klingongs and the rest.
Because if I recall, they didn't have any truly dedicated warships. It was all about exploration at this point, which makes alot of sense. Even in the later series, they were still exploratory vessels.
Hell of a way to make a friend but in the end it worked
This series is so cool.
You really left out Hoshi's golden moment??
Reid: They're targeting our engines
Tripp's face: (hell no they're messin' up my engines!!!)
on the NX-01, the engineers shovel coal into the warp-boiler core.
ALL ABOOOOOOOAAAARDDDDD!!!!
It looked to me like they actually were, in that awful "Ascension" mini-series.
Ive got the first 2 seasons on dvd. The kool thing is, my Sony PS3 upscales reg dvds to HD, so it looks great on my lcd tv. Its too bad this show didnt do too well ratings wise when it was on tv. I enjoyed watching The Captain & his crew each week during their mission of exploration.
now the blu rays are in 1080p or something
BEST STAR TREK SERIE EVER !!
for years they say,our torpedoes bounced off their shields but never shown it do that til now lol
This is when the torpedos start to get good for combat but I ask a question when they were in broken bow episode 1 and 2 they used plasma cannon's in the second act of the episode why not still use them with the torpedos until they switch to the phase cannon's in silent enemy's as those could have worked agents the nausicaans as there ships Shields were not as strong.
The funny thing is though, when asked about the origins of the Prime Directive it's revealed in earlier series that the reason it was made was because a terrible first contact with the Klingons cause a bloody war that lasted decades, but in Enterprise the Federation hasn't even been founded yet and in the first episode of the show first contact is made... and it ends peacefully and on good terms.
4:10 the man behind looks like steven segal!!!
The Axanar? Then their home world must be Axanar. If they only knew the battle that would occur there during the Four Years War between the Klingons and the Federation. Man, I can not wait for the Axanar fan made movie.
Axanar got axed by paramount and cbc so I don't think it's gonna be released. Such a shame :/
Nash Shrestha That's not what I heard. Last I heard they had resolved the case and were continuing with their work.
porpus99 Nope the suit is still ongoing afaik. Here, read the axanar faq:
www.axanarproductions.com/faq/
"Axanar Productions made a settlement offer to Paramount and CBS within 24 hours of the lawsuit being delivered to the production’s offices, but it was rejected without a counter proposal. Axanar Productions continues its efforts to try and resolve this case as soon and as efficiently as possible, and remains optimistic that there is a mutually beneficial solution for all parties here."
As long as the suit is ongoing, they can't continue to film axanar :-(
The time travel theme of the first was enigmatic because captain Nero would certainly taken the Romulan ship back to his home planet and made some kind of arrangement to prevent their sun from exploding with the red matter on hand, and beginning a twenty five year evacuation plan as a contingency. I have not seen the second so I will take your word on it. - It is still the best ST since TOS. Thank you for the FYI.
lord, i hate admitting it, but you were right. They were relying to much on the time travel stuff in the same way voyager was killed by to much reliance on the borg.
@OrangeOceanOctopus
there weapons and "hull plating" where severly upgraded right after the first "Xindi" attack on earth, including "photonic torpedoes" that replaced the "missle torpedoes".
I loved this show and its early space program look. The TNG ship was just a flying Ramada.
I love Star Trek enterprise better than what tv is now
A little trivia... 100 years later, James T kirk was awarded the Palm Leaf of the Axanar Peace Mission.
Enterprise was definitely the best of all the Star Trek series.
Thx.
a intense scene indeed
The best part was all the fade outs :D
n00b-trek
captains log: we're buggering off back home. we'll tell everyone there's nothing interesting out here.
@TOFMDrone
Those "missile torpedoes" are called spatial torpedoes and they are not replaced by the photonic torpedo, they are supplemented by them.
They've locked onto us with some sort of farming beam...perhaps a plow beam, or maybe even a tractor
I know .. 7 years .. but this is funny ...
I forgot I wrote this.
Thanks, I just always hated the term "tractor beam ". But it is faster to say than "stabilizing beam " 😃
I also liked the episode that introduced the term "red alert "
@@retluoc I get that .. I have some links to agriculture .. so the term tractor beam always loops me a bit .. 😁
I'd like to see the Refitted NX-01 go up against that ship. I think it would be a no contest, Photonic torpedoes would rupture it's shields.
I can see this scenerio happening in the 22nd century star trek. When they armed the ship with phase cannons and photonic torpedoes I thought they had gone too far. Especially when on the old Cage pilot they were using laser weapons.
@Romulan112 it look like a Breen ship,according to their appearance in Deep Space 9. their ships used a kind of Electro-magnetic Pulse like weapon.this could have been their 1st. encounter but since we never saw them physically,who knows.
Forgot how cute Tpol and Hoshi were....;)
this was actually the Enterprise NX-01's first fight with a massive alien vessel. That has to count for something!
and made some new allies. the axonar. not that we see them much.
this is the second as far as I remember.... the first one was with that little ship which was using damn lasers against enterprise... they wanted just to scare it off or what but it blew up... wasn't that the first 'battle'?
On the NX-01, for communicating with alien ships, they use a telegraph machine and Morse code.
This show was brutal
They were supposedly planning on getting into the Romulan conflict (or, at least, the events leading up to it) if there was a season 5, but since (short of a miracle) they knew there wouldn't be one as early as the end of season two it was always pie-in-the-sky anyway.
I couldnt agree more.
Instead of a tractorbeam, they have a grappling hook.
Instead of touchscreens,they have monitors with buttons around the edge,
They have Nintendo Virtual Boy instead of the holodeck
@TOFMDrone
True, but they can be seen in Enterprise's armory throughout the rest of the series, even though they're never fired.
God, why is it EVERYONE hates on this damn show!? OK, I have been watching Star Trek since 1992 and I have seen every episode of TNG, DS9, VOY, and Enterprise and I loved the story arc's and most the characters. None of these shows were perfect, but Enterprise was just as good as Voyager and few people I've met hate on Voyager.... So whats the deal? Is it Bakula, cuz I actually liked Archer and I also enjoyed Trip and T'Pol. Wasn't a huge fan of Reed or Mayweather, but I can forgive that. It was a good show and deserved to be on longer. Now what do we have? The new shitty JJ movies and STD which IS NOT Star Trek. Now I read that Tarantino is doing the next movie... Say what you will, but compared to the new stuff Enterprise rocked.
Because most people judge a show on the results of quality elements such as good script, tone, acting, etc. Not based on fights over who is the "best" Star Trek captain.
Small error: Archer and the away team took the time to change into their uniforms while the ship was under attack. Personally, I wouldve said: screw it, I´ll command the ship from inside a damn space suit if i have to!
Also love Reed asking for permission to launch a torpedo. Might aswell have asked for permission to pee on them to mark their territory, about the same damage and amount of annoyance involved, but I think Worf would be better at that after all...
The Enterprise NX-01 is my favorite out of all Enterprises. Poor thing had shit weapons though. Thank the Universe that later in the series it finally gets photon torpedoes and phasers lol.
She not as sexy as 1701 constitution class in my book.
2:10 Seemõs the saying - we dead in water, is known everywere =)
@miloootic thats funny I enjoyed this more than the next generation and voyager but that's just my opinion
Well, apart from the flashy graphics, and apart from the notable the absences of both the long-winded negotiations and hypothetical applications of modern-day/real-life scientific theories (a la TNG), the premise of Abrams' alternate universe is still sound and has potential. The only thing I think that really irks the majority of old-school Trek fans is the fact that in order for Star Trek to remain relevant to a younger audience, they have to entice/spoil them with more action and "bling".
Thank You for the kind regard. I believe you are mistaken.
back in the 22nd century when there were no deflector shields, photon torpedoes or phasers for the vessels, wow
Loved this series. If it was allowed to continue on the writers/production may have moved on to the Romulan war. Ohh what might have been.
I put DS9 1 and Enterprise 2.
And Kirk was understandably frightened; perhaps Rick forgot that power overloads render ships helpless, and radiation exposure kills...
=P
1:50 Can that process be any slower?
You would think a torpedo would be like a 50 megaton nuke by this time in earths history, instead of a mortar round.
Only part that bugged me was waiting until the enemy ship was directly over them to remember they still had impulse engines. 😕
I actually thought it was the reverse. I don't see how the Borg were family friendly. In fact, when I was young I was completely terrified of the Borg. But again, to each their own.
the ship looks breen
It would have been cool to see more of the Axanar.
Back then, they didnt have shields nor tractor beams. The vulcans did, but werent too eager to share their technology with Humans yet. Earth ships could just polarize the hull (reverse magnetic polarity), which wasnt all that effective. Probably about as helpful as a few more coats of paint. And instead of tractor beams, they had grapplers they fired like harpoons.
@Romulan112 It does look like an early Breen ship, I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
@biscuitninja torpedos use anti-matter, when it annihilates, it fully converts mass to energy. :P nukes are toys compared to anti-matter
the funniest peice of "n00b technology" is their "grappling hook" in place of a tractor beam.
@Zreen001 Im aware of that however, the intefering and stumbling around like a fly got annoying. (even though it was very much a finding their feet series)
They had pulse cannons and those (useless) spatial torpedoes when they launched. The prototype phase cannon was not yet installed.
this could have been a reoccurring enemy but the stupid writers went back to that boring time travel
+JAMES HULL yeah fuck the time travel bullshit!!!
JAMES HULL it would've been cool if they revealed that they are Breen
For all we know, they _are_ Breen. Although I think the _Enterprise_ novels took them in another direction, and I believe they showed up in STO but I can't remember what they were called.
NVM, I was thinking of the aliens who showed up later when the phase cannons were first installed on _Enterprise._
Yeah, They should have stayed in a LOW tech era. AND DAMN' they go without any ship defense weapons??? The time plot bs, that's what killed this serie.
I love all the series but enterprise was underrated
@sfs2040
indeed and its a "shame" they never used the "fire everything we got" , spatial torpedoes and photonic torpedoes hitting the target combined with phaser fire =)
Best ST series ever - almost realistic.