| Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Fourth Season |  | Directors: Allan Kroeker, David Barrett, David Livingston, David Straiton, James L. Conway
Actors: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery
Studio: Paramount
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Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
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Running Time: 939 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.7 x 2
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Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 2001
Release Date: November 1, 2005
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Despite the near-certainty of cancellation, ratings in the cellar and nothing left to lose, the fourth and final season of Star Trek: Enterprise was unanimously hailed as the best. After ending season 3 with a mind-boggling cliffhanger, series creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga handed show-runner duties to executive producer Manny Coto, who rejuvenated the flagging franchise by bridging the gap between Enterprise and the future developments of Star Trek: The Original Series. By recruiting lifelong Trek experts Mike Sussman and the husband-and-wife team of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens to his writing staff, Coto ensured that political events in the Enterprise timeline would lead to a "coalition of planets," thus forming the Federation cornerstone of Star Trek's future. But first, Coto had to find a way to extract Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) and his battle-worn crew from an alternate timeline--the result of the continuing Temporal Cold War--in which the Nazis have invaded U.S. soil in 1944. In the normal Enterprise timeline, political upheavals have left relations between Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, and Humans in a state of near-disastrous chaos. Into this blazing cauldron of action-adventure, Coto and staff introduced story arcs that connected to Star Trek's future, including a three-episode arc ("Borderland," "Cold Station 12," and "The Augments") in which Dr. Arik Soong (played by Next Generation alumnus Brent Spiner) and his superhuman "Augments" chart a tragic course that would lead, in future generations, to the creation of Spiner's cybernetic NextGen character, Data. "The Forge," "Awakening," and "Kir'Shara" returned T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) to her native Vulcan, where encounters with the legendary philosopher Surak, and zealous sect called the Syrannites, lead to pivotal history with the Vulcan High Command. In subsequent episodes, Phlox (John Billingsley) would discover the reason why some Klingons lack "cranial ridges" (thus solving a vexing Star Trek mystery), and "In a Mirror, Darkly" marked and eventful return to the "Mirror Universe" from the original series episode "Mirror, Mirror," for what Coto aptly describes (in the bonus featurette) as a two-part "romp," complete with a "Mirror Universe" title sequence, the reappearance of the U.S.S. Defiant from the original series episode "The Tholian Web," and a glorious recreation of a "Constitution Class" starship bridge that gave long-time Trekkies a breathtaking rush of nostalgia. In the closing episodes, the formation of the Federation is threatened by a radical xenophobe (Peter Weller) whose isolationist tactics lead Trip (Connor Trinneer) and T'Pol to a future of interspecies parenthood, and while the series-ending "These Are The Voyages..." is considered a disappointment by some, it provided a suitable Next Generation tribute to Star Trek's past, present, and future. Considering the daunting challenge of tying up loose ends while looking forward in a way that demanding fans could appreciate, it's fair to say that Enterprise reached a satisfying conclusion that its cast and crew can be proud of. DVD features
It's only fitting that Season 4's bonus features have a bittersweet quality, celebrating the Star Trek franchise while acknowledging its uncertain future. For the first time on any Star Trek series, closure was imposed prematurely, and "That's a Wrap" (a video from the Enterprise wrap party at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood) has the privileged feel of an emotional family reunion. (Unfortunately, Jolene Blalock and Connor Trinneer were unable to attend.) "Inside the 'Mirror' Episodes" offers a closer look at those enjoyably nostalgic episodes ("we put the 'Ho' back in Hoshi" jokes Mike Sussman about Linda Park's "empress" persona), and in "Links to the Legacy," Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens explain how they brought Enterprise closer to its original Star Trek heritage. "Visual Effects Magic" charts the astonishing advancements in digital effects since the comparatively crude effects of Next Generation, and "Enterprise Secrets" reveals an affectionate assembly of behind-the-scenes personnel on the final day of shooting. There's one final Easter egg (NX-01 File #10) about the ultimately futile "Save Enterprise" fan protest against series cancellation (with appreciative comments by Scott Bakula and Connor Trinneer), and as always, the informative audio and text commentaries are fan-essential features loaded with detailed trivia and anecdotal history. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
Set in the year 2151, Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew explore space aboard the newly commissioned starship Enterprise.
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 Star Trek Enterprise Fourth Seasons - These Were The Voyages.... August 13, 2005
DEAN M. Dent (SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA USA)
71 out of 76 found this review helpful
The fourth season of Star Trek Enterprise was the season that most Trekkers have been waiting for, with homages to the original series(Mirror Universe,The Eugenics Wars,Orion slave women,T'Pau), as well as rectifying continuety errors(The Vulcans,The Klingon "forehead" issue).Unfortunately,the show was cancelled prematurely as the show was becoming what Trekkers been waiting for since "Broken Bow".
One of the biggest contributing factors for the success of the fourth season was supervising producer Manny Coto,an original series fanatic who brought Enterprise back on the right tracks as far back as season three.Sensing that the show wasn't going to see a fifth season,Executive producer Rick Berman handed the reins to Coto, who set about in correcting the many elements in Trek history that have been disregarded,which drove away even the most dedicated fan.
The season's format was tweaked to make room for multi episode arcs which dealt separately with The Eugenics Wars(The Augment trilogy featuring Brent Spiner as Arik Soong),A Vulcan Civil War(featuring Surak, and T'Pau),A Klingon Virus (resulting in the humanoid Klingon foreheads from the original series), and the mirror universe featuring the USS Defiant from The Tholian Web.
One of the biggest disappointments of the season itself was the final episode "..These Are The Voyages" which takes place on the Enterprise-D, featuring Riker and Troi.Instead of giving the NX-01 crew a dignified send off,they were used supporting characters in a glorified "Next Generation" episode.
The finale (written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) was called a "Valentine to the fans".But the real valentine was the entire fourth season which finally gave the fans what they wanted,and the most problematic Star Trek series a dignified ending, dispite it's weak finale.
Great final final season August 6, 2005
Ted (Pennsylvania, USA)
117 out of 131 found this review helpful
The final season of Star Trek Enterprise is quite good and has some great episodes. The season also conains several story arcs.
Storm Front part I
Archer learns that he is an alternate timeline on World War II era Earth where Aliens from the future helped the Nazis invade America.
Storm Front Part II
Silik Helps Archer defeat the aliens and restor the timeline.
Home
The Enterprise returns to Earth and the crew get both a Hero's welcome but are also criticized for some of their tactics.
Borderland (part 1 of 3)
Several genetically engineered humans known as Augments leftover from the Eugenics wars hijack a Klingon ship and the Enterprise crew attempt to find the enlisting the aid of Arik Soong who took them out of cold storage and raised them.
Cold Station 12 (part 2 of 3)
Arik Soong and the augments escape and go to the facility where the embryos of the other augments are in cold storage. Their intentions are to revive the embryos. The take the prople at the facility hostage and the Enterprise crew begins a rescue attempt.
The Augments (part 3 of 3)
The Augments attempt to start a war with the Klingons but are killed. The hostages are rescued and Soong is recaptured.
The Forge (part 1 of 3)
The Earth embassy on Vulcan os bombed and the Vulcan High Command asks the Enterprise crew to assist them and locate the suspected culprits who are living in one of the deserts.
Awakening (part 2 of 3)
Archer and T'Pol locate the Syrranites, a group of Vulcans hiding in the desert who are blamed for the bombing. They seem to be too pacifistic for that deed.
Kir'Shara (part 3 of 3)
Archer attempts to locate the Kir'Share which contains Surak's original writings. The Vulcan High Command is found to be the real bombers and the leader is deposed.
Daedlus
Emory Erickson, the inventor of the transporter visits the Enterprise to test a new long range transporter but is found to have a real motive of trying to save his son who was lost in a transporter accident years earlier.
The Observer Effect
Two noncorporeal life froms take over the minds of various Enterprise crewmembers in an effort to study them.
Babel One (part 1 of 3)
The Enterprise is bringing the Tellarite ambassador to prace talks with the Andorians but gets a distress call from Shran who says that a Tellarie ship attached his. It is learned by Archer that is is actully an unknown ship capable of disguising itself as other ships.
United (part 2 of 3)
Archer attempts to create a temporary alliance between the Andorians, Tellarites, and Vulcans to locate the Romulan ship that has been attacking them. The ship is caught and the peace talks resume.
The Aenar
The Entrprise crew learn the Romulan ship was operated by remote control. They then attempt to locate a reclusive Andorian subspecies known as the Aenar to see their possible connection to the ship. It learned that an Aenar was kidnapped and forced to operate the ship.
Affliction (part 1 of 2)
Phlox is kidnapped and forced to assist the Klingons in defeating a contagious illness affecting their species.
Divergence (part 2 of 2)
With the help of the newly launched Columbia, Phlox is rescued and a cure is found for the disease. Unfortunately, a side effect of the cure is that the ridges of the Klingon's forehead disappear. Children of the affected Klingons will also be affected.
Bound
Archer is given a gift of three Orion slave girls, but their pheremones are causing male crewmembers to act strange.
In a Mirror, Darkly part I
In the Mirror Universe, The USS Defiant from Kirk's era in the Normal Universe appears and the Tholians capture it. The mirror Enterprise attempts to capture it. (it is recommended that newcomers watch the TOS episode, "the Tholian Web" before watching this two part episode)
In a Mirror, Darkly part II
In the Mirror Universe, Archer captures the Defiant and intends to use it to conquer the Terran Empire.
Demons (part 1 of 2)
A xenophobic human group known as "Terra Prime" attempt to stop talks to create a cooperatuve between several alien races.
Terra Prime (part 2 of 2)
The leader of the Terra Prime group threatens to destroy Starfleet unless all non-Humans leave Earth's solar system.
These Are the Voyages...
In the future Commander Riker huses the holodeck to experience the founding of the Federation and Archer's involvement in the founding.
The Series finale was also intended as a franchise finale but I found it disappointing. Otherwise the final season was quite good.
Praise for this 5-Star season despite a bittersweet ending August 25, 2005
Tuvan Uner (Virginia,United States)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
This was without a doubt the best season ENTERPRISE ever put together. The bar was raised after an equally impressive third season and Manny Coto's stories did not dissapoint.
This season's episodes dealt with Eugenics War, Romulan, Vulcan, and Mirror image storylines that made you remember what made Star Trek so great.
Unfortunately the series was cancelled by UPN,a network more focused on attracting brainless Reality television followers. It was clearly apparent that the powers that be no longer valued the show and cast it off, leaving many unanswered questions about storylines such as the Temporal Cold War and future Romulan Wars. Hopefully these issues will be addressed in future Star Trek series' or movies if there are ever any.
In conclusion the show was torn apart not only by UPN and its lack of vision but by the group of people who helped propel it to legengary status-the fans.
We saw the great schism that gave birth to two sets of Star Trek fans, the loyalists and the nitpickers ( bashers or haters as some call them). The loyalists were a brave bunch of loyal fans who enjoyed the show for what it was worth and tried to save it despite what other fans thought of the show.
The nitpickers were a radical group of people who claimed to be fans and used every oppourtunity to bash the show for every little reason. They hated the show simply because they had nothing else to do. And to add insult to injury they claimed to be the "true" fans of Star Trek. I found this disturbing.
I pray for the day when we can sit back and enjoy a show for what its worth, to not insult the show and its fans and cause controvery because of every little cannon violation. I dream of the fans uniting and putting an end to foolish bickering that does more harm than good.
Writers make mistakes and then they can correct them such as the case where in SEASON 4 we finally saw how Klingons got their flat foreheads from TOS. Of course the real reason was in the TOS years they couldnt afford the prosthetics.
Did Star Trek need a rest? Of course it did. Did Berman & Braga suffer from writer burnout? You bet your ass. Did the show have some truly weak episodes? Most definately. But like an infant the show needed some time to grow and mature. Alas this was not to be.
I just want to say that I thought that this show was wonderful and had the potential to be even greater. I didnt think 7 seasons was realistic but a 5th season would've been perfect to tie up loose ends and give this brave crew a proper sendoff they more than deserved.
What we are left with is a watered down one hour (instead of the normal two hour series finale in all other modern Star Trek finales) episode called THESE ARE THE VOAYAGES...an episode that was truly weak and had no substance whatsoever.The mindless and unnecessary death of a popular character was also mind-boggling. After such a great season to have it end on such a weak note is offensive. Offensive to the cast, offensive to the franchise and last of all offensive to the fans.
I hope someday we can pick off where this show left off and erase the insult that is THESE ARE THE VOYAGES...we can ressurect a wonderful character that was prematurly killed off for reasons unkown.
Than maybe, just maybe we can rebuild a once proud franchise and finally go where no man has gone before.
Goodbye Star Trek - Enterprise April 6, 2006
Sweet_Gemma (Germany)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
It is a bittersweet symphony, this unfortunately, last season of ST - Enterprise. It contains some of the best episodes of the series, but also the worst one of possibly the whole franchise- "These are the Voyages", titled as "Valentine for fans" by the writers, but it was the exact opposite of that, a slap in the face of those who liked Enterprise and its crew as well as the cast. I won't go into detail, this episode may have been average as a stand-alone one in the middle of a season, but as a finale it was just bad. Totally ignoring any character development established in the previous seasons, only a 1-hour finale instead of the established 2-hours, but to bring more insult, bringing in two characters from TNG and delegating Enterprises' own cast to the rank of gueststars. I didn't need a farewell to the whole franchise, I wanted a fair farewell to Enterprise and we didn't get that.
As for the rest of the season, it contains gems like "Home", "Demons", "Terra Prime" and the Vulcan-Arc trilogy "The Forge", "The Awakening" and "Kir'Shara".
Enterprise was in my opinion the best of all Trek series. While many Trekkers might disagree, I think it was the most human Trek and most suited for the casual viewer, not only the die-hard fan.
The DVDs are what you come to expect of Paramount, the extras are okay, but not as generous as the previous seasons, the bloopers are painfully short. Although as expensive as the rest of the bunch , I think it is well worth the money.
I wish it wouldn't have been cut short.
Goodbye Star Trek - Enterprise,
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
Enterprise at Warp 5! September 17, 2006
Geek Chic (NY USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This season was the absolute best that Enterprise had to offer! Enterprise finally saw its potential realized under the masterful direction of Manny Coto. The best characteristic of season 4 was that fans finally saw references to the Original Series that we had hoped to see much earlier on in the show. Intriguing stories, action, creativity, and developing the relationships among the crew in a more meaningful way were the traits that made it such a disappointment to have it cancelled after such an amazing season. Under the vehicle of Season 4, one gets to travel to the Mirror Universe with the Enterprise crew, see a Gorn, and see the bridge of the USS Defiant (old school style).
The only drawback to this season is that it contains the final episode by Brannon and Braga titled "These are the Voyages" which is nothing more than a rather stale Star Trek: The Next Generation holodeck episode in which the Enterprise characters are forced into the background while two overaged and overweight TNG characters take center stage and proceed to bastardize the Enterprise we were just getting to know and appreciate after such a wonderful season. My suggestion: Buy the DVD set but don't bother watching the last episode to avoid a huge let-down.
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