Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise ( Enterprise then Star Trek: Enterprise ) is a American Televised series in 98 42 minutes episodes, created by Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and diffused between the September 26th 2001 and the May 13rd 2005 on the network UPN. In France, the series is diffused since the January 4th 2004 on Jimmy. With the Quebec, the series is diffused on Z tele.

Synopsis

Fifth televised series of the universe Star Trek , created by Gene Roddenberry in 1966, Star Trek: Enterprise tells the lived adventures, in XXIIe century (from 2151 to 2154), by Jonathan Archer, captain of the vessel Enterprise NX-01 and its crew. This ship is the first vessel of the type Distorsion 5 sent by the Ground to explore the galaxy.

Distribution

Stars invited

Episodes

See also: List of the episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise

Comments

The community of the Trekkie S at the beginning was somewhat divided in connection with this series. Certain fans expressed their dissatisfaction in connection with the series Enterprise , informant whom she rapes the gun which had been established in the preceding series and films. Others found that this series returned to the original spirit of Star Trek , by having a very large proximity of spirit with the Original Série.

To take a more precise example, some consider that You pol. is not sufficiently faithful to the gun of the Vulcains such as it was establishes with the character of Spock in the Original Série, others consider on the contrary that it brings a lighting and a new depth to the extrusive rock …

Credits

The credits differ much from that of preceding series Star Trek : indeed, all the other series show sights of space, with the vessel or the space station in the center of the series. Enterprise , on the contrary, proposes credits recalling to us the history of space exploration. Instead of an instrumental music, the topic is a song interpreted by Russell Watson.

Philosophy of the history

Enterprise illustrates perfectly the philosophy of the history of Gene Roddenberry, which postulates a moral development of the various species of the galaxy through the centuries. Here, as we are one century before the series of origin, the Klingon S are even more violent one, the human ones utter swearwords, the Vulcan S lie, etc

To note that the behavior of Vulcains which is presented to us in Enterprise is relatively different from that of the later series: they lie, they consider that mental fusion is a practice to be proscribed, etc That is also explained not only because we are one century before the original series (and thus that Vulcains are developed morally than than they will be thereafter), but because the lesson of Surak, the founder of logic, was perverted. It is only during the fourth season of Enterprise , when the Katra of Surak is found, and that its teaching of logic will be restored in its original purity, that Vulcains will become what will show us of them the original series…

NX-01

The episodes Remember me ( Remember Me , TNG ) and Épreuves and Tribulations ( Trials and Tribble-ations , DS9 ) establishes both that the Entreprise of Kirk is the first spaceship to bear this name, without saying however explicitly that it is the first vessel of the Fédération thus named. This assertion of Kirk is explained by the fact why this one refers to classification NCC-1701. The vessel of Kirk is the first to name " NCC-1701 Enterprise". Thereafter of other vessels will bear this name, like that of Picard| ( NCC-1701-D Enterprise ). In the series Star Trek: Enterprise , the vessel is not numbered NCC-1701, but NX-01, indicating by there that it is about a prototype of engine of distortion 5. This change of classification makes it possible to keep the coherence of the assertion of Kirk.

Appearances of species of other periods of Star Trek

The Ferengi S and the Borgs are species which appeared in Star Trek: the new generation, and which was unknown at the time of Kirk.

  • the meeting of Archer with four Ferengis in Règles of the boarding ( Acquisition , Enterprise ) objection what is indicated in the last outpost ( The Last Outpost , TNG ), episode of Star Trek: the new generation, supposed to be the first meeting enters the Federation and Ferengis. The justification given of the scenario writers is that Ferengis never give the name of their species to Archer and moreover this one says to them at the end of the episode never not to return close to the Ground. One can estimate that no other contact with Ferengis occurred consequently before the last outpost …

  • the decision to reveal the Borg in the episode Regeneration of the second season also irritated certain fans who saw there a historical violation of continuity of the universe of Star Trek , and this same if this appearance is fully justified in continuity of deterioration of the temporal line carried out by Borgs in the film Star Trek: First Contact . Indeed, in the film Star Trek: First Contact , Borgs go up time until 2063 and try to assimilate the Earth at that time. Picardy stops them, but the episode Regeneration poses that part of the remains of the Borg sphere would have been crushed in the the Antarctic. It is there that scientists find them, before the nanites (dormant because of the cold) do not reactivate them. Moreover, one temporal paradox (a loop) is suggested well that dubious: perhaps are this these same Borgs which will have announced the existence of the ground to their collective, which will spend 200 years to be moved physically, which would precisely correspond to confrontation Borg-Humanity started in the series TNG with the 24e century, and leading to the return towards the past of the film First Contact . One can however reproach the fact that Borgs, when they face the Enterprise of Archer, do not say celebrates it sentence “We are the Borg! ”, whereas the character of Hu in I, Borg ( TNG ), also separated to him from the collective, pronounces it (one will be able to always argue that its separation with him was not temporal).

Stigmatization of mental fusion vulcaine

Some criticized with twists the stigmatization of mental fusion by the company vulcaine described in Contamination ( Stigma , Enterprise ), considering that it is in total dissension with the presentation of this technique vulcaine in the films the Anger of Khan (II) , In the search of Spock (III) and the episode stone of Gol ( Gambit , TNG ).

However, the change of attitude towards mental fusion is explained perfectly in season 4 of Enterprise , when Katra de Surak is found. It is all the culture vulcaine which is affected by the return of the heart of sound larger philosopher, and its teaching is restored in its original purity. One can logically conclude that it is thanks to this major shift in the culture vulcaine that the stigmatization of mental fusion completely disappeared when the original series begins.

In addition, the stigmatization of those which practice mental fusion in Enterprise allows some extremely interesting scenarios on the set of themes of the homophobie, or that of the rape (You pol. being the victim of a telepathic penetration forced in an episode).

Claimed controversy around Undertaken

Brannon Braga, the executive producer of the series, was opposed publicly to the idea that the series Enterprise was not sufficiently faithful to the continuity of the Trek universe: I totally and completely disagree. It' S the dumbest how in the world and I amndt so tired off hearing it .

Some fans complained in connection with the use of the “phase pistols” whereas the phaseurs are supposed not to exist not yet (see below), or of the description of a vessel Romulien having a shield occulter ( cloaking device ) whereas in the episode of the original series, “Zone of terror” ( Balance off Terror ), it is supposed being a completely recent invention. One can however claim that these contradictions are unimportant taking into consideration inconsistency existing in the original series, which precedes fixing by the gun.

The list which follows is the census the few problems of continuity encountered in Star Trek: Company . The titles of the episodes of the other series are followed of ( TOS ), ( TNG ), ( DS9 ) and ( VOY ) to indicate their source, that is to say the original series, the new generation , Deep Space Nine and Voyager , respectively.

  • the episode Matter of time ( has off Matter Time , TNG ) however establishes that there did not exist phaseurs in XXIIe century, the crew of the Archer captain has “guns of phase” ( phase pistols ), which seems well to be a version XXIIe century phaseurs. Moreover, the captain Pike uses lasers in the cage ( The Cage ), the pilot of the original series ( TOS ) suggesting that the transition with the phaseurs occurred in the first episode of this series and that consequently they were an innovation of XXIIIe century.

  • the first contact with the Klingon S, represented in the pilot episode of the series Ahead all ( Broken Bow , ENT ), contradicts partially what was established by the captain Picard in the First contact ( First Contact , TNG ) and by the doctor McCoy in the dove ( Day off the Dove , TOS ). Picardy affirms that the first contact took place centuries ago, but which it was followed by decades of war - what is apparently not the case in the chronology of Enterprise - and Dr. McCoy claims that they are wild enemies since about fifty years at the time of the dove , that is to say more than one hundred of years after the period of Ahead all , which implies that this first contact did not involve the war. Picardy also affirms that this incident will lead to the awakening of the need for monitoring of the companies about to carry out navigation with distortion, before establishing a first contact, a situation completely different from that described in Ahead all .

  • In the episode Xyrilliens ( Unexpected , ENT ), the crew meets a vessel provided with a technology of screening ( cloaking device ) although in Zone of terror ( Balance off Terror , TOS ), this technology is regarded as any news, and Spock even affirms that invisibility is only one possibility theoretical.

  • In the episode the lost colony ( Terra Nova , ENT ), it is known as that the colony Terra Nova was the first established by the Human ones out of the solar system, then in Guerre, love and companion ( Metamorphosis , TOS ) Zefram Cochrane goes in the colony of Alpha Centauri shortly after 2119.

  • Of many members of the crew of Enterprise , in particular the captain Archer, the commander Trip Tucker, lieutenant Reed and Dr. Phlox are informed of the Pon farr , the period of coupling vulcaine - in the episodes the spirit Vulcan ( Fusion , ENT ), Diplomatic incident ( Fallen Hero , ENT ), Vacances on Risa ( Two Days and Two Nights , ENT ) and Bounty ('ENT ) - however nobody, and in particular Dr. McCoy, is not informed of this period of the life vulcaine in the evil of the country ( Amok Time , TOS ).

  • part of the actions ( has Part off the Action , TOS ) states clearly that the communications subspatiales had not been invented before 2168, but in unknown Voyageur ( Silent Enemy , ENT ) the crew of Archer deploys and uses relays of communications subspatiales whereas this episode proceeds into 2151. Moreover, In the episode the Black Well ( Daedalus , ENT ), it is question of a project of teleportation subspatiale; and in the episode a dangerous Discovery ( Regeneration , ENT ), Borgs is suspected of having sent a transmission subspatiale to their collective, which implies that the human ones which suspects them should be informed at least of this technology.

  • the term of First Contact seems to refer to the first formal meeting between two foreign species, which is established by the meeting between Humains and Vulcains in the film First Contact , without taking account of the clandestine visits of the Earth by the extraterrestrial ones before 2063, as described in the episodes the arrow of time ( Time' S Arrow , TNG ), Suicide ( Death Wish , VOY ). However, First contact ( Carbon Creek , ENT ) depicts the clandestine visit of the Earth by Vulcains in 1957 like a first contact.

  • the crew of Archer meets nonbody forms of life based on energy in the invaders ( The Crossing , ENT ) whereas Spock claims that this type of forms of life is a possible possibility in a wolf in the sheep-fold ( Wolf in the Fold , TOS).

  • In The Breach ( ENT ), it is indicated that the Dénobulien S, which belong to the program of medical exchange with the Human ones and Vulcains, are informed of Tribules, whereas Dr. McCoy makes of it the discovery in Tribulations ( The Trouble with Tribbles , TOS ).

  • Before the episode Regeneration ( ENT ), one sees a great quantity of photographs of probes borgs, which are however unknown database of the Federation and thus of the commander Data at the time of the meeting of the Company-D with Borg in Doctor Q ( Q Who , TNG ). Moreover, Dr. Phlox discovers, in this same episode, that the particles omicron are harmful for the nanosondes borgs, an unknown characteristic in all the episodes of Star Trek: The new generation and of Star Trek: To travel concerning Borg.

  • intra-vehicular teleportation is regarded as extremely dangerous in the dove ( Day off the Dove , TOS ), but the Archer captain uses it in Chosen Realm ( ENT ) without any mention of a difficulty or an unspecified danger, whereas this technology is still experimental in Enterprise .

Moreover, certain fans complain owing to the fact that the series does not preserve continuity within itself. For example, an episode of the first season establishes that Vulcains do not consume food with their hands, to You pol. eats a gressin with the knife and the fork. However, a one posterior season consuming episode the watch of the popcorn to the hand. Some fans, however, accept the fact that these inconsistencies come simply from the adaptation of You pol. to his existence with the Human ones, and the majority of its “contradictions” during the third season can be explained by its actions in the episode “Ramming”.

The producers of the series declared on several occasions that, whatever the duration of this series, it will be probably the last series Star Trek for the near future.

References

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