
Paramount Home Video - Paramount Home Video
Release date: 2005-05-03
DVD
Director:James L. Conway
Actors: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery
1, 1st, First, One, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, TV Shows, Television




I really wanted to like this series. The ship looked great, as did the uniforms, and the chance to see how the Federation was formed was too good to be true.
Literally.
Instead of getting the back story of Star Trek (doesn't anyone understand what a prequel is for?), we get all new aliens never before seen or mentioned, despite the massive effect they have on Earth.
Still, I tried to give this series a lit of slack, even defending it to a friend who gave up on it much sooner than I did. I explained away their naive and often idiotic decisions when encountering hostile aliens by the fact that they were more of the astronaught mentality, not military. That could only go so long.
What totally turned me off, however, was the episode in which Flox (sp?) discovered a cure for a dying alien race and decided NOT to treat them. Yep, that's the doctor I want on my ship. "Sorry Captain, but by contracting this disease, you are obviously SUPPOSED to die. Besides, if I cure you, Commander Tucker might not get to be promoted to Captain."
We've been talking about ordering this for a long time and couldn't decide between individual seasons and the boxed set. After reading many reviews with problems people had with sets being foreign releases, we opted for the individual season. It was exactly what we expected and we're having fun watching it and looking forwarding to ordering the following seasons! Shipped in the time frame expected and received ptomptly. Thanks!
Upfront, I love Star Trek. When I was 3 I thought Picard's opening words of TNG were the pledge of allegance. I've seen most, if not all, the Star Treks ever made. So, from NetFlix, I decided to watch all of the episodes in order of every series. Naturally, I began with season 1 of the prequel series Enterprise.
Captain Johnathan Archer (note, JOHN Archer, JIM Kirk, JEAN-LUC Picard, and Kathrin JANEWAY), son of Zephram Cocraine's pal and fellow warp engineer, and warp test pilot, is put in charge of the first human warp 5 vessal, Enterprise. Archer and his crew, including Vulcan science officer T'Pol, engineer Trip Tucker, and Dr. Phlox, seek out new species and new planets (new to humans, at least) and find themselves in the middle of a Temporal Cold War none of them were prepared for...
Season 1 largely deals with humanity beginning its quest amongst the stars. Relations with alien species and the ongoing saga with the Suliban are at a prime in this season, with several of the more minor characters remaining seemingly 1 dimensional for this season. But, for a first season, Enterprise has a surprisingly bold and delightful way about it that only a Star Trek series might have...