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List Price: $249.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 4151
Released: November 1, 2005 |
| Our Price: $185.34 |
| Used Price: $165.00 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Set in the 22nd century, a hundred years before James T. Kirk helmed the famous starship of the same name, ENTERPRISE takes place in an era when interstellar travel is still in its infancy. Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) has assembled a crew of brave explorers to chart the galaxy on a revolutionary spacecraft: Enterprise NX-01. As the first human beings to venture into deep space, these pioneers will experience the wonder and mystery of the final frontier as they seek out new life and new civilizations.
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Series Reviews:
To Go Where..... 
2009-12-13 - The series had some excellent writing and all the actors did a formidable job of being consistent and improving. The DVD set makes it easier to follow the continuing plots and story lines and gives the satisfaction of not having commercial interruption and having to "stay tuned for next week". Another advantage of having the series in a compressed time line is watching the characters evolve. And with the DVD it is fun to catch the occasional mistake that Editing overlooked (dialog between Ensign Merriwether and his mother in the cafeteria of the family freighter, mis-named the ship).
This series answered questions by laying background for the other Star Trek series and also cleverly inserted tid-bits relating to events yet to come. The viewer learns how relationships with other species evolved and how the roots of the Federation were established while many new plot lines were explored.
My only negative was obtaining a used copy. Although "checked", it was not fault free having at least two episodes damaged significantly on the DVD making them impossible to view in their entirety. Otherwise, I feel this series is well worth the time and price for those who are Star Trek and Sci-Fi fans.
ENTERPRISE 
2009-12-05 - Star Trek-Enterprise has been taking a lot of fire. I don't see it...I am going back through the entire series and all I've seen "bad" are one or two episodes that I think are weak, personally. I have found Star Trek-Enterprise to have plot depth and craftsmanship, series continuity, and character development. I think they are excellent and very well done.
This complete series collection is well done. I found no video or sound problems and a lot of extras. The menu presents a short learning curve and there is a minimum of overpackaging. Wish there could have been a fifth and final season to tie everything up and make for a more complete story.The series should have been given that chance. In today's market,with cheap reality shows and cheaply produced entertainment shows being the way most networks are going,doubt if we will see the budget committed to do another series.
Great content but poor transfer to video 
2009-10-01 - I love the series, but the transfer to DVD is poor. It compares poorly to a regular DVD movie, and also to the quality you will see on HDNET, where I first started watching the series. This tells me the source material is OK but the transfer is sloppy. I think this series was originally shot on film, which means this could be extremely crisp. On the first episode I could see major halos around the uniforms in the scene where Archer was talking Hoshi into coming on the trip while she was in South America. There is a lot of grain and fuzinees to the picture. This has nothing to do with the limitations of the media. It's just a quick and dirty transfer to DVD.
What a waste.
Excellent!
2009-09-12 - I have watched every episode. The best thing is the small film clips at the end containing conversations with writers, production staff & actors. The out-takes are interesting also. If you're considering buying this set; I encourage you to BUY IT!
A re-evaluation of the series
2009-09-10 - When I heard that this series was being added to the Star Trek universe, I was thrilled -- "Oh, boy!" I thought, "It's going to be exciting to have a back story to TOS!"
I sat down and watched it. Got the idea that the producers were trying to take first achievements away from Kirk, but, okay. I could live with some of that, although when they introduced the time war I found it a little hard to swallow. Then came the third season -- the Zindi season. Over half of it was devoted to preventing Earth from being destroyed. BORRRRRINNNNGGG! Where were the stories of exploration? The new species to meet? The friendly, gentle captain that I had grown to like? Suddenly, Archer's personality changed, people that I liked died (unnecessarily if it wasn't for the Zindi). I got tired of the of the long-winded Zindi story line -- and that, plus, what I thought were Berman, et al.'s desire to change the rules precedences that had begun in the original series (and, to a certain degree it was since it was based on Michael Okuda's rewrite of Star Trek history, which seems to ignore TOS), and I stopped watching it. I never saw the last season. Too bad for me and the rest of the viewers who gave up.
Well, it was on SyFy now for about two plus go-rounds, and still shows up occasionally. I've watched the entire series twice and a little more, and since I can't work and have lots of time to fill -- I became a junkie and watched 3 episodes a day (and no one come to the conclusion that I'm a bit balmy -- that's a given).
And, I have found out that there weren't any changes that took away from the start of the TOS, etc. cycle, but set some things up -- explained why Klingons looked different on TOS and in the movies and later; other things that I can't remember right now to list.
In short, I've come to love it. I'm still not too happy about the Zindi thing and the temporal time war, but I have found that it does serve as a wonderful prelude to the rest of the Star Trek universe. Now, of course, Scott Bakula is a big part of my love for it, but the other regulars came into the series fully-fleshed out and grew as the series continued. The stories, for the most part, are well-told and leave me with a feeling that I've not wasted my time watching it.
If you can, watch a few episodes. Then, turn around, save your money, and buy the series. My copy lives right next door to my collections of the first 2-episode at a time release ($1,400 worth) as well as the Blu-ray version that is coming out) of TOS.
I will always, first and foremost, love TOS the best -- I was 15 when it came out, and it gave me a great many aspirations. But Enterprise has become my second favorite.
