Star Trek’s Best Season! (Enterprise Season Four)

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[jeffdave]

I think you have it spot on, a fantastic season with some of the best story arcs of any Star Trek series. The mirror universe episodes are the ones I go back and watch most regularly.

[woodrude]

I read somewhere that 'future guy' was supposed to be an older Jonathan Archer' would have been interesting to find out. Enterprise would have been worthy of a seven season run

[SaltpeterTaffy]

I would say season 6 of DS9 is a contender for greatest season of Trek, but you are not wrong about the quality of this season. Everything Jeffrey Combs has ever been involved in is pure gold and season 4 is packed with Shran goodness. Besides all of his Star Trek appearances, he's also The Question in Justice League Unlimited, possibly the greatest piece of superhero media ever made.

[Calculon]

The ideas they had for Season 5 looked really promising its a shame Manny Coto has never come back to the franchise, imagine him and Terry Matalas coming up with ideas

[johnsaunders]

100% agree. I loved enterprise. I definitely wanted more by the end.

[yvmmbxc]

Enterprise season four is indeed one of the best seasons of Star Trek. I put it up there with DS9 season five and six and TNG season four and five.

[waynevanhardeveld]

Season 4 of Enterprise is the perfect example of how respecting and observing canon guides writers into creating more engaging and nuanced stories. Canon isn't something to be afraid of, or to be thrown away when it's inconvenient, it's the rock on which you build a great story.

[Unpainted_Huffhines]

To this day, the intro sequence for "In a Mirror Darkly" is probably my favorite Star Trek theme.

Before that episode, the mirror universe was just a hokey polar opposite where good was bad, and bad was good, and people wore goatees because they were evil.

But in those episodes, they flesh out that the Mirror universe is just a universe in which Humanity indulges the depths of their potential, instead of the heights like in the Prime.

Humans are (seemingly) very good at warfare, conquest, slavery, brutality and bloodlust, and the Mirror universe shows us a possible future where we embrace that instead of peace, coexistence, freedom, rule of law and compassion. I find it fascinating.

[werre]

The Mirror Darkly twoparter was jaw-droppingly awesome.

[billhodgson]

Season 4 was my favorite Enterprise season. Enterprise was just getting interesting when they cancelled it.

[MegaRayland]

“These are the voyages” may not have been a great episode, but I always loved seeing the final interaction between Archer and T’Pol before the speech. The buildup throughout the seasons, going from mutual respect to trust, reliance, and eventually friendship, was wonderfully done because it was never forced. They both remained in character only slowly lowering their objections to the other over time and a number of shared events.

And their final hug, both with Archer smiling and T’Pol not shocked by it but rather fully embracing it, is fantastic.

Neither Archer nor T’Pol get enough credit for being a fantastic captain and a great Vulcan character.

[Hibernicus]

I agree 100%. I was very wary of _Enterprise_ when it was announced, because I wasn't really a fan of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Not only did I expect them to port their flaws as writers over the prequel series (they did), but I knew, I absolutely _knew_ they were going to piss all over Star Trek continuity (they did), because they didn't like the original series. In Manny Coto, _Enterprise_ finally got a showrunner who _did_ love the original series, and worked to make _Enterprise_ a proper prequel series, that respected and tied into the continuity of Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek. It's a shame he wasn't running the show from the start. We might have gotten more than four seasons.

[LtFoodstamp]

"Best and Most Consistent Season of Star Trek Ever Produced"

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[SharDarksoul]

This season is very good. Among the best Trek ever made.

[benruniko]

I love Jeffery Combs. Every Star Trek episode he is in is very much elevated by the energy he brings :)

[MrBlueBurd]

My favorite scene in all of Trek is in this season. The scene between Soval and Archer during the Syrannite arc, where Gary Graham plays a pitch-perfect Vulcan, not as a dead, emotionless being, but someone who needs every last drop of his decades if not outright century of experience in controlling his emotions to not let the roiling, infernal outrage within him come to the surface... And yet, is still capable of realizing that what he needs now is not a Vulcan, but a Human. An angry, stubborn, emotional, yet logical, Human, who will go to the ends of Vulcan to find out what REALLY happened.

And Archer realizes Soval isn't a bad guy. Just someone he had disagreements with, but just because you have a disagreement with someone doesn't mean they're your enemy.

[alechay]

Totally agree enterprise was high quality

[backfirecomics]

According to Brannon Braga, "Future guy" was intended to be Archer from an apocalyptic 28th century, guiding the fate of the Enterprise and the Federation in order to avoid that apocalyptic future. This storyline was intended to run through seven seasons (as all other Trek shows had received). By the time that they found out the show would be cancelled with S4, they didn't have enough production time left to reveal Future Archer's full backstory and wrap up the temporal cold war as intended. So none of this came to pass.

[jolemaire]

So underrated, such a shame we did not get more.

[markallen]

As long as T'Pol is in her catsuit and walking away from the camera, it's a worthwhile episode.