Season One

[darkshadow0001]

As of late I decided to watch season one of Enterprise via Netflix. It's been awhile since I've seen the episodes, and while I watched the first three, I'm thinking, what was so bad about season one? "Fight or Flight" and "Strange New World" were decent episodes, and is what Trek is all about-- exploration. I'm not discrediting anyone's opinions and I do realize Enterprise was poorly executed but I don't think it was all that bad. Season four was good, but I thought they were getting into way too much like the 23rd Century. I mean it was cool to see the Defiant and everything and I loved the opening arc of the season, unless it's later episodes of season one, so far I don't find a whole lot a bad about it.

 

[LeadHead]

Season One wasn't all bad, but it didn't seem to lead anywhere. It had a couple of good firsts, first contact with pre-warp species, the comet episode. Honestly watching it, very few of the episodes had the feeling of the first time a Starfleet crew is encountering this phenomena, more like an episode of Voyager.

 

[apenpaap]

Season One was largely OK. It was season two that was really crappy. (Though it has good episodes, it's largely bad)

 

[Count Zero]

Season one wasn't bad at all, with the exception of "Acquisition". It was season two that mostly dissapointed, although it has some very good episodes and usually good ideas even behind the mediocre or bad episodes.

 

[darkshadow0001]

Oh, I always thougth it was season one that was considered bad. It's too bad this show didn't last its full seven seasons, I really miss my weekly Trek series

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

There are widely ranging opinions on all the seasons. I've seen love and hate and everything between expressed for each season, and the series as a whole. Personally, I enjoyed the whole thing, from beginning to... well, almost the end.

 

[Reanok]

I liked Season1 of Enterprise some of my favorite shows from season1 were Fight or Flight ,Breaking the ice. Strange new world.Also the show that intoruced the Vulcan and Andorin conflict. Of Course Shran. The Andorian incident and Shadows of P'Jem.I liked the characters and for the most part enjoyed watching most of the shows the first season.I didn't care for Favorite son or Terra Nova.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Now, you see I quite liked Fortunate Son because it showed some conflict between Starfleet and humans who were already out there. It gave Mayweather something decent to do and in his own area of expertise. Even Terra Nova has its moments. Again something I think only Enterprise could do, the pesimistic outcome of an early attempt at colonialism... having the whole group go native. I don't know, it's underrated and puts Archer on the spot, in front of T'Pol. Not even being able to communicate with his own kind. There's something spinetingling about that moment when they hear that old recording from Terra Nova's final days. A desperate voice who has mistaken a natural disaster for something engineered by Earth. Go on, tell me to don't trackback because I speak nothing but shale...

Something about Bakula's performance is spot on in these initial Season 1 stories. Debating whether it was right to "fly on by", at the Captain's table in Fight or Flight. This show's attempt to replicate Kirk's private moments of indecision. Not that Archer never had his moments of weakness on the bridge, but it was a question of still finding ways to be the right sort of C.O. I imagine Archer only had glorified freighter Captains and Moon shuttle pilots to look to, who were never far out of range.

I haven't examined Season 2 closely for a while, but weren't there equally good, bad and 'meh' episodes in it compared to Season 1? Take Singularity for instance. You can label that as something of a Voyager retread, but by focusing on the characters instead of the phenomenon and all that techno jargon that goes with it... it just took it to another level. The story wasn't about the Enterprise trapped between black holes, it was about a internal power struggle and a crew learning what makes each other tick... There's also a fine line between comedy and terror being expertly trod. Come to think of it, did Trip actually fix the Captain's Chair... or was Archer just humoring him. He still didn't look comfortable in it for a long while after, until they got him his Season 4 throne in fact.

 

[Lady Conqueror]

I loved Season One personally. I never quite understood why it got the flak that it did. Even when plots weren't the best there was some lovely character interaction in every episode and Travis & Hoshi did get some stuff to do in these early days - it was Season 2 where they got rather sidelined (then again I loved Season 2 as well).

Even Terra Nova has its moments. Again something I think only Enterprise could do, the pesimistic outcome of an early attempt at colonialism... having the whole group go native.

Terra Nova had a good beginning but as soon as the Novans showed up it went rather downhill imo. They were annoying and idiotic.

 

[SFRabid]

The more you watch Enterprise the better it seems to get. I enjoyed season 1 much more the second time I watched it. Maybe I was less obsessed with what I thought the show should be and was ready to watch it for the show it was.

 

[teacherkarl]

The more you watch Enterprise the better it seems to get. I enjoyed season 1 much more the second time I watched it. Maybe I was less obsessed with what I thought the show should be and was ready to watch it for the show it was.

It is amazing how the lens of time can change perception. When ENT first came on, I was suffering from VOY fatigue, and thought that ENT was lame, for the most part. By the time the 3rd season Xindi arc came around, I was barely paying attention to the series.

But now, I'm finding the series quite enjoyable, though Season 2 is still the weakest.

 

[darkshadow0001]

I liked Season1 of Enterprise some of my favorite shows from season1 were Fight or Flight ,Breaking the ice. Strange new world.Also the show that intoruced the Vulcan and Andorin conflict. Of Course Shran. The Andorian incident and Shadows of P'Jem.I liked the characters and for the most part enjoyed watching most of the shows the first season.I didn't care for Favorite son or Terra Nova.

Yes, I liked The Andorian Incident and Breaking The Ice as well. "The Andorian Incident" showed how fowl the Vulcans can be. Which really shocked me, because I never understood why the 24th and 22nd centuries to show Vulcans to be that volitile. I always thought in Kirk's era Vulcans were considered friends.

 

[Winterwind]

Having just re-watched Season One myself for the first time since it originally aired I agree. It wasn't that bad. In fact I enjoyed it much more this time.

There were weak points naturally (all shows have them) and to this day the short hop at warp 5 to the Klingon home world really, really bugs me. And Acquisition was simply horrid. But those are the only two things that really bother me. Other than that, I mostly enjoyed the season.

I even caught something that I missed the first time. In Terra Nova, Malcolm spins the wheel of the abandoned bicycle in a lovely homage McCoy's doing the same in Miri.

 

[ChristopherPike]

I even caught something that I missed the first time. In Terra Nova, Malcolm spins the wheel of the abandoned bicycle in a lovely homage McCoy's doing the same in Miri.

I noticed that nice little touch when this first went out... half expecting some deformed manchild to suddenly appear and start attacking him. There's the sad irony of turning over a welcome mat and the realisation they had to dismantle the Connestoga to build their homes. Despite the criticism it gets, I've gone on record before to say I like that episode. Maybe I just went with the adventure, colonists gone native firing projectile weapons at our guys, Archer being head strong and discovering his way isn't going to resolve anything. If anything lets Terra Prime down, it's the unshakeable optimism of Star Trek... and audiences expecting a Starfleet crew to do what they're not capable of, either drag the whole failed human experiment home or put them out of their misery.

I recently uploaded these "Next Time on..." trailers to YouTube and they make a nice overview of Season One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plm6s9dy5Ok

(Those critical of ENT will find the opening 2 minutes to be something of an oversell, promising more than the show actually delivered... but then that's true of most advertising.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIx7pYY1pYM

 

[darkshadow0001]

I just watched "Silent Enemy" today and found out this episode and "Broken Bow" seemed to be the only episodes I remember from Season One. Was "Acquisition" (Ferengi episode) season one, or a season two episode? I can't recall.

I really liked the idea of an enemy that was trying to out-think (so-to-say) Archer & his crew. It gave them a chance to see what kind of stuff they were made of. And, I was glad they decided not to return to Earth after all... that in a way could be a sign of weakness in their part. But I understand Archer's reasons.

 

[seigezunt]

My favorite moment from Season One so far:

 

[Infern0]

I liked season 1.

It was a slow grower, the second episode "Terra nova" i belive it was called was diabolical but other than that I liked it a lot.

Season 2 got a bit boring but there were some good moments.

Season 3 was the best season

Seson 4 I hated to be frank, The show needed ratings badly and instead opted to do a 5 episode arc on Vulcans which was so mind numbingly boring anything less than the hardcore would have changed the channel. (I liked it but not everyone is hardcore)

 

[darkshadow0001]

Seson 4 I hated to be frank, The show needed ratings badly and instead opted to do a 5 episode arc on Vulcans which was so mind numbingly boring anything less than the hardcore would have changed the channel. (I liked it but not everyone is hardcore)

Yeah, Season 4 was ok, had a lot of great episode, but a bit too much TOS in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I like season 4, but for some reason I thought it was a bit TOSey. I really liked the mirror universe episodes though, but I think it was trying to be TOS way to fast. That's why Enterprise should of lasted a few more years, so it could of leaned more that way at a slower pace.

About season one's episode "Unexpected", I don't think that it ruined continuity much. If you look at it, when holodecks were introduced in TNG, it was exciting because humans were using it for the first time. I didn't have a problems with aliens having the technology, I'm just glad they didn't overdo it.

 

[commodore64]

I didn't think any of the seasons were "crappy." I thought each had good episodes and bad.