The ship arguably gained its status as the most famous space-exploration vessel in history due to its historic five-year mission from During this mission, Enterprise encounted the Romulans for the first time since the Romulan-Earth conflict, engaged the robotic " Planet Killer " vessel, traveled back in time to 20th-Century Earth, and played host to Khan Noonien Singh , a product of lateth Century genetic engineering who once fought in the Eugenics Wars.
Kirk's Enterprise had a crew of , 14 science labs, an observation deck, a massive lower deck which included main engineering, and a shuttle bay.
The ship's armaments included forward phaser banks and photon torpedoes. The starship underwent several refits, most notably in , which involved an upgrade of most systems and the replacement of the bridge and warp-drive nacelles. In , Admiral Kirk assumed command from Captain Spock during a training mission when the Enterprise was diverted to investigate Regula 1. Ultimately, this divergence would result in Kirk's second encounter with Khan, and a brutal combat between Enterprise and the ship Khan hijacked, the Reliant.
Captain Spock died on this mission. Shortly before its decommissioning in , Kirk took the Enterprise -- against orders -- to the Genesis Planet to rescue a rejuvinated Spock. As of , due to its placement in the Star Trek timeline, Enterprise is the only Star Trek production whose continuity is not affected by the events of the film reintroducing the crew of James T.
Kirk , making it the only TV series in the Star Trek universe to maintain continuity in both the prime and alternate realities. Enterprise was created in the hopes of revitalizing the Star Trek franchise since ratings for the previous series, Star Trek: Voyager , had waned near the end. Intended to be more modern, with characters far from Gene Roddenberry's 24th century Utopian Humanity, Enterprise was situated in one of the least explored eras in the Star Trek universe and a time only years from present day.
Enterprise was set in the 22nd century , at a time before the Federation and while United Earth was just becoming a player in interstellar politics. The producers — under the guidance of Roddenberry's successor, Rick Berman — sought to set the series apart from those that had come before, creating nearly every set, prop and costume anew and tending toward a more encompassing, "you-are-there" style of storytelling.
This was soon decided to be too far removed from the style of the franchise as a whole, and so the premise was redrafted. Enterprise , like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine before it, featured numerous story arcs throughout its run. Story lines included the Temporal Cold War and the Xindi arc that took up the show's entire third season. The series was the first to incorporate lyrics into its opening theme song unused lyrics did exist for the original series' fanfare ; it also did not include the words Star Trek in its title until the third season episode " Extinction ".
Premiering on 26 September with a strong opening, the two-hour pilot " Broken Bow " garnered a 9. Ratings, however, declined over the next few seasons, dipping to an average 2. As early as the second season , rumors of the show's imminent cancellation pushed the producers to find new directions to take the series.
While many critics were impressed with the new pull of the series, ratings remained low, and the show was canceled at the end of its fourth season. Even so, Enterprise accomplished a number of technical firsts for a Star Trek series. It was the first series to air in high definition , with " Exile " being the first episode to air in that format. It was produced with third-generation Sony HDTV cameras starting in Season 4; the first 3 seasons were filmed with traditional 35mm film cameras which were then transferred to digital for broadcast.
Launched in the year , the NX-class starship Enterprise the first of United Earth 's advanced warp five vessels was at first on temporary assignment. Though years of preparation still lay ahead, the ship was unexpectedly put into service when a Klingon national crash-landed on Earth , putting the entire planet at stake should he not make it back to his people.
Under the command of United Earth Starfleet Captain Jonathan Archer , son of the famed scientist Henry Archer , the crew of Enterprise succeeded in their mission, but found themselves surrounded by deeper mysteries.
Warranting the extension of their assignment into a full-blown mission of deep space exploration, the crew of Enterprise set off into the unknown, taking with them a Vulcan science officer or chaperone named T'Pol and a Denobulan doctor named Phlox.
Enterprise 's first years were rocky; while the ship made contact with such species as the Suliban and the previously mentioned Klingons, such contact was not peaceful. In its first two years alone, the ship's crew found themselves in armed conflict with a range of species from the Tholians to the Coridanite to the Borg By its third year in space, an alien species known as the Xindi brutally attacked Earth, killing millions.
The NX was dispatched to a remote and previously uncharted area of space known as the Delphic Expanse in order to prevent the Xindi from completing their ultimate goal of destroying Humanity. While the mission was successful, after nearly a year in the Expanse, the ship suffered severe damage and many losses.
Upon returning home, Enterprise served a more diplomatic role in the service of United Earth, easing relations between the Vulcans, the Andorians , and the Tellarites , and paving the way toward a Coalition of Planets , an alliance that eventually lead to the founding of the United Federation of Planets.
Though still often tumultuous, Enterprise continued its mission of exploration as well, bringing Humans in contact with even more new worlds and new civilizations. During its four-year run, Enterprise was nominated for 17 Emmy Awards , mostly in "technical" categories such as visual effects and makeup.
The opening credits for Star Trek: Enterprise contained a number of images referencing modern-day as well as historical exploration and space travel leading up to the launch of Enterprise NX in , including the Enterprise OV shuttle, named in real life in honor of Star Trek. Also used in the sequence is a clip of Zefram Cochrane 's ship, the Phoenix , from Star Trek: First Contact , and the real-life animated footage of the Mars rover.
Captain Picard defies orders and swoops in with his jagged new Sovereign-Class vessel to kick a little Borg ass and save the fleet. It tells you all you need to know about the swashbuckling version of Star Trek you're about to watch. This ship is a one-shot hero. It appears only in "Yesterday's Enterprise," one of the best episodes of "The Next Generation" and most thoughtful uses of time travel in the series.
Accidentally transported to Picard and Riker's era, the ship and her crew must choose to return to certain death in their rightful time, sacrificing themselves to protect a Klingon outpost and ignite the Klingon-Federation alliance that blooms a peace in the 24th century.
TNG will forever be my Trek show. I watched it live with my dad and rewatched the collection of episodes he recorded to VHS. I am a Picard man. The ship, though. For all its neat features like the holodeck and the battle bridge, the Enterprise-D looks like a Mercury Sable station wagon on the outside and a mid-sized American city's convention center on the inside.
By the mids, the Ford Mustang had puttered through years of uninspiring s and '90s design cues and needed a breath of fresh air. Then, in , the fifth-generation Mustang roared onto the scene with a look that deliberately echoed the sexy 60s design, updated for the 21st century. Say what you want about the rebooted Trek movies of the 21st century, but J.
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