Description

  Star Trek - Enterprise

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-FI

Year: 2003

Country: USA

Runtime: 42 min (98 episodes)

Director: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Cast: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, Dominic
Keating, John Billingsley, Anthony Montgomery
,Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Mark Correy

.: Plot :.

The first two seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise
depict the exploration of interstellar space by
the crew of an Earth ship able to go farther and
faster than any humans had previously gone, due to
the breaking of the Warp 5 barrier, analogous to
the Bell X-1 breaking the sound barrier. The crew
faces situations that are familiar to Star Trek
fans, but are unencumbered and unjaded by the
experience and rules which have built up over
hundreds of years of Trek history established in
previous Star Trek series. Star Trek: Enterprise
takes pains to show the origins of some concepts
which have become taken for granted in Star Trek
canon, such as Lt. Reed\\'s development of
force fields and Captain Archer\\'s questions
about cultural interference eventually being
answered by later series\\' Prime
Directive.

A recurring plot device is the Temporal Cold War,
in which a mysterious entity from the 27th century
uses the Cabal, a group of genetically upgraded
Suliban, to manipulate the timeline and change
past events. Sometimes sabotaging
Enterprise\\'s mission and sometimes saving
the ship from destruction, the entity\\'s
motives are unknown. Agent Daniels, a temporal
agent from the 31st century, visits Captain Archer
occasionally to assist him in fighting the Suliban
and undoing damage to the timeline.

In the past ninety years since Star Trek: First
Contact, the Vulcans have been mentoring humanity
to what they see as an appropriate level of
civilization, routinely holding back scientific
knowledge in an effort to keep humans stranded
close to home, believing them to be too irrational
and emotionally-dominated to function properly in
an interstellar community. When Enterprise finally
sets out, the Vulcans are often conspicuously
close by. This generates some conflict as, in
several early episodes, Archer and others complain
bitterly of the Vulcans\\' unsubtle methods of
checking up on them.

Rating: 7.3/10