Customer Reviews
A corker - By: F. Cotton, 21 Sep 2008 
Out of sheer loyalty to Star Trek I gamely endured seasons 1 & 2, hoping desperately that the show would improve & engage my interest. So glad I did; Season Three is a corker! What distinguishes Season Three is the plot which `arcs' alll twenty four episodes. This alllows the writers to give depth to the story & the characters & alllows them to add subplots which further flesh out the main story. The special effects are also very good & plentiful & there are lots of hugely satisfying battles in which Enterprise is nearly destroyed with bulkheads collapsing alll over the place, the nacelles being blown up & hull breaches left, right & centre! My only criticism of the series is that two of the characters are irritating & implausible; namely Captain Archer & Lt Reed. The former sometimes hams it up so badly that he resembles a character in a pantomime (sometimes when he says a line like `I have proof that the Xindi are behind it' you expect the cast to chorus `oh no you haven't!'). When he isn't hamming it up he is often self righteous, smug & arrogant. He is also far too old for the part. Lt Reed, for his sins, seems to be the archetypical repressed & self effacing Englishman - not what one expects to see in a Tactical Officer on a starship.... (bring back Worf I say.) On the other hand, there is no irritating `comedy' character to ruin things (Voyager's Neelix being a case in point) & the other characters are alll charismatic so alll in alll, season three is well worth the viewing.
BEST Star trek season ever - By: Wekke, 22 Aug 2008 
And when i write ever, i mean from alll the different Star Trek seasons.
This season has it alll ... the tension & mystery is very present from episode 1 untill the last ep.
All the main characters are given more realistic "human" qualities & flaws.
THIS IS A MUST BUY for alll who liked Star Trek at some point.
In short for the whole series of Enterprise : season 1 = weak / season 2 = mediocre / season 3 = super /season 4 = great (close to S3)
Enterprise, Schmenterprise! - By: C. T. DUNCAN, 17 Feb 2008 
The problem with Star Trek Enterprise is it lacks confidence, or rather the studio which made it lacked confidence during production. Executives were stepping ina ll the time trying to secure high ratings & often intervered with the plot lines, a situation that peaked in the early days of the new Star trek movie when producer Rick berman left the studios his early script idea was rejected.
The story lines are familiar Trek concepts but Enterprise seems way to heavy in laser fire battles in ship corridors & insipid 'american way' ideas. Year three is basicallly the same as the borg story wth a big metal balll hurtling towards earth set on destruction...yawn. The opener to year 4 is set in nazi occupied earth...(wasnt that a Voyager story???), oh & somewhere in year 2 there is an episode set in the wild west...EVEN BIGGER YAWN. Worth knowing I skipped the nazi story because basicallly - who cares!
I was very frustrated how the lead character Cpt Archer seemed to self appoint his historic prowess without any real merit. He is not great to look at (in fact none of the male cast are) & seems to make stupid decisions that just would'nt happen. For example in Year 4 he is the one who climbs up the the tube to stop pathogens killing everyone - when the obvious choice is to get the agile security chief to do it (who had to tell archer what to do in the first place). He tortures a man for information & steals a warp core...ruuuubbbiiisssshhhhhh!
This is alll repeated over & over. Archer is always being the hero. The most laughable shot is when they destroy the Xindi weapon & a slow mo archer is seen running to camera while a balll of fire erupts behind him, inches from engulfing him. I nearly spilt my tea it was so shockingly bad.
My belief is that the actor playing Archer became a bit to insistant on this 'hero' status (once, he went against the produers wishes & insisted on being unshaven in an episode, because that's how he felt his character should be). The fact seems that he was actuallly just going for a macho look & it was alll a bit of vanity.
Anyway, to summerise, if you want a weak vulcan who nearly blubs with every difficult decision (in years 3 & 4 anyway), a butch bloody minded engineer with an accent that sounds like he is sucking a marble, a fat doctor who overacts, a black pilot who never has any lines, a Thai comms officer who is scared evertime a torpedo is fired & a captain who loves himself so much you want to vomit - & a collection of 20 & 30 somethings alll loving themselves for their ineptitude - then Enterprise is DEFINATELY for you! I'd wait till its £9.99 a box set thern you can make lots of cheap ashtrays with the discs.
Excellent Series but be careful!!! - By: C. Sullivan, 30 Oct 2007 This is an absolutely excellent series!!! You're gonna love it, however I do urge you to be cautious, The first disk is faulty in the two copies I have bought, from different companies, there appears to be a fault & the lasering isnt successful & the episodes either skip or dont play atalll. If you can find a good copy then great cos it is an excellent series, but be warned!!, ENJOY!!!
Idiot Writers! - By: M. Carroll, 29 Apr 2007 
Series 1 & 2 of Enterprise are fantasic! Easily the best Start Trek ever made. New & fresh & with believable & interesting story lines. From series 3 however, the writers just lose the plot. There's even one episode where the crew turns into monkeys! Oh, come off it!
The story lines in series 3 are just too ridiculous to be believable. Did the writers reallly have to create scenario where Captain Archer & Enterprise literallly save the world? How tedious is that! By the end of series 3, you are totallly sick of hearing the word "Xindi".
Then there's alll of this nonsense about time travel which plays a significant part in the saga. It's just too ridiculous to be believable.
The writers have reallly done a poor job here. Don't they realise that part of the charm & magic of the show is its believability? Don't they realize that trekkies are looking for fantastic technologies & seeing how they are used, & for new life & how humanity interacts with it, & the exploration of "strange new worlds". The occassional battle is okay too - but not one lasting a whole season.
Overalll - I'm not impressed & there's no doubt in my mind that it's the crap writing that did for Enterprise which was canned after series 4. What a waste!
