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 - Wonderful series, terrible ending.I fell in love with this series after watching the first 2 episodes. Though I knew that this was the final season, I thought it would be a lot better than it was. I didn't like the episodes where the crew was evil. First of all, the storyline came out of nowhere. Trip and Topol had just resolved their personal issues, then suddenly, we're in an alternate universe where everyone is evil and treacherous. Why? So that they could give older fans a flash back to the original Star Trek ship and uniforms from the 1970's show. After watching the first one, I just skimmed through the second. Thankfully, it was only two episodes. Finally, the season and series finale. When other reviewers tell you that it was terrible, please believe them. This was the worst series finale I have ever seen. I didn't mind the flashbacks or that the story was being told by another Star Trek series. What bothered me was how they rushed to tie up all lose ends and ultimately killed off a pivotal character in the series. There was no reason to do it except for the shock factor. Again, this is a good series, but the writers could have done a better job with this final season. Rating:  - Great Star Trek!It took Star Trek: Enterprise four years but they finally started telling real Star Trek stories. Heck until the third year they were calling show just Enterprise. Now aside from the crappy theme song, made worse and pop-tuney in the third season by jazzing up the base line, Season Four stands out as some of the best Star Trek stories ever. (Just ignore the Space Nazis in Stormfront, Manny Coto the show-runner for the fourth season was saddled with that ignominious storyline by the inept Michael Berman and Brannon Braga) This season is brimming with wholesome Star Trek goodness! We get to see Surak of Vulcan, the schism that seperated the Vulcans and the Romulans, we see Brent Spiner as Data's ancestor Dr. Arik Soong, a geneticist whose work favors the Eugenics Wars Augments of Khan Noonian Singh, we see how the Tellarites and Andorians first made peace, (with a nifty side trip to Andoria's frozen moons), Green Orion Slave Girls and we even get to find out how the Klingons lost their forehead ridges in the original series but had them back for the movies and Enterprise's pilot. All in all some great story telling. It's sad that the best Star Trek Enterprise episodes came after the decision was made to cancel it. If you're a Star Trek fan you'll love this DVD set. Rating:  - Great experience!My dvd's came as ordered in an unopened package and they were delivered very quickly at a reasonable price. I will order from this seller again Rating: - Why Did It Have To End At This Point?Many many Star Trek fans such as myself,after seeing this will wonder why just when Enterprise was starting to hit it's stride that it's creators abandoned the field while it was ahead. That didn't stop the series from being triumphant for all concerned for the most part. After resolving the Xindi dileama in the beginning of the season Captain Archer and his crew find themselves on a newly xenophobic Earth (seeing Phlox's face puff out Raptor-style in a bar fight is a classic moment of this series) and the mission continues. But the writers have chosen to do something a little different this season.Rather then focus on a lot of individual episodes this season mainly focuses on four loose story arcs. The first revolves around the character of Arik Soong (Brent Spiner-obviously bought in to help bolster ratings) who is trying to reawaken a series of genetically enhanced embryos with surprizing results for him. The other involves a younger T'Pau (YES the same character as featured in Amok Time) involving herself with a group of renagade Vulcans who embrace the less repressed "true teachings of Surak" and mind melds;that arc is also marked by T'Pol marrying and finding her and Trip are mentally connected. There's also a mirror universe story arc,involing the resolution to two TOSS episodes including 'Mirror Mirror' and 'The Tholian Web'-we actually get to see a full bodies Tholian. That isn't the only TOS references here-in 'Affliction' and 'Divergence' we discover about how the Klingons of Kirk's era had no head ridges. There are some personal favorite episodes this season.Such as "Daedelus" where we meet the inventer of the transporter played by Bill Cobb and learn of his secrets. In "Observer Effect" the crew are inhabited by Organians (another TOS reference) with the exception of Phlox who has to foil their plot. Of course another TOS reference is the appearance of the manipulative green Orion slave girls in "Bound". My favorite story here is "Terra Prime",a politically based story of a sort Enterprise tended to have danced around-in this case revolving around a group of humans who no longer want aliens on Earth,as well as the first Vulcan/Human hybrid child who sadly dies. What bothers me as much as everyone else is the finale-it has many problems. For one thing,the choice to transform the story into one that takes place five years after "Terra Prime" BUT ALSO it takes place mostly in a holodeck fantasy on the Enterprise D during TNG's episode 'Pegesus' (with a very aged looking Frakes and Sirtis reprising their classic roles). But most insulting to Star Trek and Enterprise is that for the first time since TOS left the airwaves in 1969 this was the first Star Trek series finale to be a standard episode lengh show rather then a 90 minute episode as the finales of TNG,DS9 and Voyager had been.And for that and only that reason I deduct one star for this otherwise enjoyable season,one that will actually make you regret this series didn't last just a few years longer then it did. Rating: - The series turned decent just before its end.When "Enterprise" (they left the words "Star Trek" out of the title when the series premiered) hit the airwaves, I wanted to like it. I really did. I had been a fan of "Star Trek" ever since the mid '70s when I was a kid and started watching the original series in syndication. "The Next Generation" (at least for the middle of its seven year run) was good, and "Deep Space 9" was good toward the end (even if it took ripping off an ongoing interstellar war concept from "Babylon 5" to get it there). But the franchise really started to go south with "Voyager", and there were two big reasons for this: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. "Voyager" had real problems, and most of them could be traced back to Berman and Braga, who were who were finally responsible for the writing and the whole direction of the show. When I first heard they were going to helm a new series, and set it in the pre-Kirk era, I was worried. Those worries grew worse when I read that neither of them cared for the original series. Not only were they likely to make some of the same mistakes they made with "Voyager", but on top of that, they had no affection for the original show, and were likely to crap all over its continuity. Sure enough, they did exactly that. Consequently, it came as no surprise that the series' ratings sank lower and lower each season. Then, perhaps at the insistence of someone inside Paramount Studios, perhaps not, Berman and Braga stepped aside and turned creative control of the series over to Manny Coto, and what a world of difference it made. Not only was Coto a far better writer (as were the assistant writers he hired), but he _did_ like and respect the original series. Not only was the quality of the stories improved dramatically, effort was being made to link the show in with the original series' continuity, instead of disregarding it. The improvement in continuity made the show a lot more enjoyable to long-time "Star Trek" fans, and the improvement in the quality of the episodes made the show a lot more enjoyable all around. It really is a pity the show couldn't have begun with Coto in creative control from the outset. It might still be on the air. It would almost certainly have been able to run out seven seasons the way all the three other sequel series did. At the very least, we would have had more than one season of good episodes.
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