Why I love Star Trek: Enterprise (Season 3 Review)

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[SwingingInTheHood]

Isn't it amazing how much more we all appreciate Enterprise after the past 14 or so years of Star Trek?

[Mark-wvdi]

Season 3 was some of the strongest Trek. A strong story arc, real drama with real consequences.

[cpob]

Damage has one of my favorite moments. The aliens have refused to trade and archer is contemplating in his dark quarters. Phlox makes a report.

Archer stands up and steps into the dark.
"How long have you been a doctor?"
'Nearly forty years'
"In your time as a doctor, have you ever had to do something you felt was unethical?"

Phlox steps forward joining him in the dark.
'Twice... why?'
"I'm about to cross a line I never thought I would. And given the nature of our mission, it probably won't be the last time"
'Probably not. May I ask what you're planning to do?'
"There could be casulties"
'I'll be ready'

[stephenshelton]

Enterprise was a vastly underrated show.

[PanzerF]

Jeffrey Combs, antennae, and blue make up ? Count me in !

[felipeignacioavilapizarro]

I always loved how intimate the show felt, the submarine like interior design, the pioneering spirit, and how in S3 explorers had to become soldiers in an almost kamikaze mission. S4 felt like the starting point for 6 more seasons, such a shame. I still watch it from time to time

[chungkingexpress]

Trip and T'pol's relationship becomes the heart of the entire show. When they hold hands at the end of season 4 (forget the final-final episode, it's not real) while mourning their daughter it's an amazing contrast to their first meeting when T'pol wouldnt even shake Trip's hand. Enterprise in so many ways proved to be a show about people from different worlds finding themselves in situations where they needed to trust each other to achieve a common good and I think the show, for all of the issues in the first two seasons, really stuck the landing on that theme in seasons 3 and 4. Trip and T'pol forever ❤

[andylaauk]

Enterprise was so underrated. I will admit that I only gave it a chance on reruns, so glad I did.

[CraigS]

I fully agree. I loved this season of Enterprise. This show was cancelled before it hit its stride. We all wonder what could have been...

[implodinggoat]

Its a damned shame it got cancelled. Enterprise was finally starting to come into its own.

[YabusameUK]

Enterprise is still my favourite Trek. I grew up with TOS and TNG aired as a teenager but Enterprise just seemed more raw and consequential. Its been a decade or two since I last watched it but the stealing from an ally episode really stuck with me to this day. I liked the fact that there wasn't always a perfect, moral, solution and Archer sometimes made tough decisions that no other captain seems to have faced.

Edit to add - loved the MACOs too.

[stevew]

I always found Enterprise to be my favorite Star Trek. There's real character evolution happening over the course of those four years - Archer started as a wide-eyed captain, was really turned inside-out by the grueling events of the Xindi story, and by season 4's end he became more hopeful as the local spacefaring races ceased hostility and allied together, effecting real change thanks to him. T'pol's constantly looking down her nose on the human crew at first and loosening up as time goes on, becoming a solid cornerstone of the team, was great to see (although I would have liked her to wear Vulcan robes rather than catsuits). Most of the main cast went through a lot of development (other than poor Mayweather), and Season 3 was a huge contributor of that development.

I think one of the greatest robberies foisted upon mankind is the fact that we never saw a Season 5 where Captain Shran joined the crew. Damn, that would have been epic.

[londonbobby]

Bringing Many Coto on to the production team really made a difference. Last two seasons of Enterprise are definitely among my favourites.

[LukeLovesRose]

Enterprise has totally grown on me over the years

[reneelorraine]

Enterprise I just enjoyed, should not have killed off Tripp. Thank you for this post.

[MrSpike]

I wasn't a huge fan of Enterprise when it first started, but gave it a second chance once I heard that they were going to do a Babylon 5 like season long story arc; and I'm glad that I did! Season 4 will always be my favorite, but the Xindi arc was fantastic and made me wish that we had gotten that season long Year Of Hell arc that was originally planned for Voyager.

Interesting fact about Carpenter Street: I remember reading an interview about star Jeffery Dean Morgan and he apparently HATED working on that episode so much that he almost quit acting all together because of it.

[martindice]

‘Stratagem’ is a brilliant episode.
But I remember the original Mission Impossible TV series where they did this sort of stuff quite a lot.
Great homage though!

[snake]

The events of this season also had a huge emotional impact on Archer. Exploring the Expanse nearly broke him, as we saw in season 4, where he gets his own version of the TNG episode "Family".

[dtrekker]

I recently watched the entire series for the first time. I've always been a Star Trek fan but never bothered to pay much attention to this particular series. I've seen all the other Trek shows but just never got around to this one until a few weeks ago. When I finished watching it, I couldn't believe that I overlooked it all these years. I'm 53 and it took me this long to realize that this series is one of my favorites, just behind TNG with my favorite being the original series. After finishing the series, I found a YouTube show called 'Shuttlepod' hosted by Connor Trinear and Dominic Keating from Enterprise and it is very good. They interview members of the show as well as other Star Trek series', as well as interviewing each other. It's definitely worth watching and gives a lot of insight on Enterprise as a series and how they all felt about being part of it. Great video here, Dave! Thank you.

[archstanton]

You're not alone, Dave. I like Enterprise a lot!