Customer Reviews
Back to the real idea - By: Sven Perscheid, 29 Dec 2009 
This is how Star Trek was meant to be.
The human kind had made contact with other species, get together as one humanity & starting to explore
space to extend knowledge & discover new possibilities.
In the beginning a lot of dangers awaits the crew, adapting to new technology, getting reallly the feeling how difficult first contact is,
find ways to solve impossible problems... & and and....
The actors are doing an excellent job making this visible.
The characters are believable, no "supertalents" or "heros", just human with known strength & weaknesses.
Also life on board. Like in a space navy vessel. The design of the Enterprise is reallly good, down to the smalllest detail.
The quality of the episodes?
Well, from perspective of style I would say like the original series. Enjoyable when picking up a random episode.
But you get the real feeling when seeing several episodes in a row.
The crew is slowly melting together as a team.
As with alll Star Trek series, this one also need time to pick up speed.
The story fits good. There are some minor points of discussion. The Klingons are from my point of view a little bit too friendly.
It does not fit with the information about the first days with the Klingons in the explanations of the other series.
The Ferengi fits better. Other species (not reallly mentioned in other series) are very interesting & fit in very believable.
Relationship with the vulcans are a little bit hostile, but this is explained also very good.
The Quality of picture & sound is up to date. Just in some space effects (landing on planets) you see some minor leaks in quality.
You can easily see the work with the green walll. This could be better.
The creature effects, masks, wounds in battle, is just fine.
Handling of the DVD itself is the best so far.
Why this series only last for 4 seasons?
My opinion: If you start comparing characters with the other series you will soon have a problem.
Kirk, Picard, Janeway are legends. Also the characters in the second line are much stronger: Spock, Riker, Chakote, Kira... well there are no real counterparts
in Enterprise.
The technology is much less advanced. This also might be a problem, because the crew of Enterprise has a real challlenge solving problems because of that.
In addition you can easily become the impression, that the crew is not reallly searching for new technology.
You can become bored or disturbed by this.
So you can do yourself a favor: STOP comparing from the beginning of the first episode. If you let the crew & story told on itself, you have a lot of fun.
Much better than you've heard... - By: S.C. Arthur, 15 Nov 2009 
Having been a fairly dedicated follower of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine & (to a lesser extent) Voyager in the `90s - the BBC2 repeats in the case of TNG, since I was only seven when it originallly ended - I recently decided to watch them again on DVD. For no particular reason I never saw Enterprise when it was on TV; it wasn't that I didn't like Star Trek anymore, or that I didn't like the sound of Enterprise or anything like that, I just never got around to it. Once I'd exhausted alll 21 seasons of the `90s shows (yep, quite a lot of time on my hands), I decided to give Enterprise a go, coming to it with relatively low expectations.
All in alll, I have to say that I've been very pleasantly surprised by this first season, especiallly coming off the back of Voyager, which never quite lived up to what it could have been. I think that's the key difference for me; Voyager had an exciting concept with the whole "stuck 70,000 light years from home" thing, but never reallly made alll that much use of it - a couple of episodes per season where trying to get back home was put centre stage again, but apart from that it was fairly standard "strange new worlds & new civilisations" stuff (which was fine, I guess).
Enterprise, though, reallly makes the most of its prequel status; limited technology makes for some very sticky situations, & more than anything else I think they've done a great job of constructing a galaxy where the Federation doesn't yet exist, & where Starfleet is far from a major military force - for the first time since the days of Kirk & friends, it truly feels as though the crew of Enterprise are out there boldly going etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, I loved the character work of TNG, & the political manoeuvring & alll-out war of DS9, but this, to me, is what Star Trek was supposed to be about in the first place.
A lot of people seem to think that seasons 1 & 2 are fairly poor, with Enterprise only getting going in its 3rd season (in keeping with recent Star Trek tradition, I suppose), but, like the 1st & 2nd seasons of DS9, I think this season is quite underrated; having not seen the rest of it yet I'm happy to believe that it gets even better, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that there's a lot of very good stuff here. True, there are a few lame episodes, but the same is true of every season of every version of the franchise, & the good far outweighs the bad.
A very good spin-off - By: Nuno A. Pinto, 18 Sep 2009 This spin-off is amazing! For the first time we can see how things were before the United Federation of Planets. The first explorations made by Humans on a Warp 5.0 spaceship class, 100 years (more or less) before the original series with no Federation regulations in place: first contacts are on almost every episode!
Just one smalll thing: there is no episode 20. But there are 25 episodes as the box states so I think there was a smalll mistake when numbering the episodes: 18-19-21-22...
Just Great - By: D. Males, 13 Jul 2009 If you value well written Star Trek & are interested to go back, in order to go forward then this is for you.
I think most of the main characters play their parts well, & it is interesting to see how the smalll familiar Trekky things evolve/are introduced eg phasers.
Overalll the series has captured the spirit of adventuring into the great unknown that is the warp drive Universe, with alll its races & other hidden dangers & delights. This is a combination of being bold(no pun intended) but also being a bit naive as commented upon by our observational character Tupol, who is in the ideal position of being Vulcan as well!
Well worth the money.
Star Trek: "In the Beginning..." - By: Christopher Pike, 10 Jul 2009 In the 22nd Century: Earth's latest breakthrough, a Warp 5 starship is being launched; its crew led by Captain Jonathan Archer, on a mission to return a wounded Klingon back to his people. This first assignment is a testbed for a more ambitious plan to explore deep space. Firmly believing humankind has been held back for too long by Vulcan interference, Archer is eager to embark on the voyage & prove them alll wrong. However outmatched by superior aliens equipped with far more powerful weaponry, this first crew face a steep learning curve. Among their challlenges will come Klingon aggression, militaristic Andorians & the Suliban; a race receiving aid from the future. Along the way, we discover familiar trek-nology from future Star Trek series at a less advanced stage including a crew scared to use the transporter, space suits & shuttle-pods.
I've been a fan of Star Trek since the early 80's, back when BBC2 began showing the Original at 6pm but doubt many were ever reallly that aware of Enterprise, because Channel 4 gave it such a low profile. In some respects it came too soon. Hot on the heels of Voyager, TV was saturated with the likes of Picard, Sisko & Janeway, alll running around in 24th Century shows, blinding audiences with technobabble... rather than offering straight forward adventure. Keep an open mind & give this a shot, it got better & better over its short 4 year run. One piece of advice, try to look beyond the theme music to the inspiring montage of human exploration. "Faith of the Heart" polarises opinon between love & hate. There are some thought provoking episodes in amongst the action & rough 'n' ready crew talk, as well some intrigue provided by the Vulcans who had never quite been explored this well before. By the time cancellation hit in 2005, we alll thought they had struck gold, exploring the backstory of countless original & Next Gen episodes (such as "How did the Federation form?", "Why did the Klingon's appearance look change?", "How did Starfleet fight a war with the Romulans, but never see each other?"). With so many prequel themes to explore, I reallly wish they hadn't pulled the plug... They should bring it back, especiallly since the new movie references a certain "Admiral Archer & his beagle"... albeit jokingly.
