Star Trek: Enterprise: Season Four

Star Trek: Enterprise: Season Four, 2004-2005. A spaceship crew forms interstellar alliances.

Created by Rick Berman, & Brannon Braga. Directed by Allan Kroeker (5 episodes), David Livingston (3), Mike Vejar (3), LeVar Burton (2), Michael Grossman (2), David Straiton (2), Marvin V. Rush (2), Roxann Dawson (1), David Barrett (1), & James L. Conway (1). Written by Manny Coto (9), Michael Sussman (7), Judith Reeves-Stevens (5), Garfield Reeves-Stevens (5), André Bormanis (4), Ken LaZebnik (2), Alan Brennert (1), Michael Bryant (1), Berman (1), & Braga (1). Starring Scott Bakula, with John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, & Connor Trinneer.

Concept: Gee, I wonder if they'll manage to form some sort of... federation.. of planets? Oh, the tension. D
Story: C
Characters: C
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: D
Music: D
Enjoyment: About half the episodes are bad, which is a pretty good ratio for Enterprise. Meanwhile, the good episodes are very good. If the show had gone on for the usual seven seasons, it might have been great by season six or so. Probably not, though. A lot of the time, the writers just don't seem to have any grasp of what makes good television. C

GPA: 1.6/4

Star Trek: Enterprise: Season Three

Star Trek: Enterprise: Season Three, 2003-2004. A spaceship crew tries to save Earth.

Created by Rick Berman, & Brannon Braga. Directed by David Livingston (4 episodes), Roxann Dawson (4), Allan Kroeker (3), David Straiton (3), LeVar Burton (3), Mike Vejar (3), Robert Duncan McNeill (2), Michael Grossman (1), & James L. Conway (1). Written by Chris Black (6 episodes), Berman (5), Braga (5), Michael Sussman (5), Manny Coto (4), André Bormanis (3), Brent V. Friedman (2), Terry Matalas (2), Phyllis Strong (2), David A. Goodman (2), Paul Brown (1), & Jonathan Fernandez (1). Starring Scott Bakula, with John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, & Connor Trinneer.

Concept: Gee, I wonder if they'll save Earth from complete destruction? Oh, the tension. C
Story: D
Characters: C
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: Villains by Dr. Seuss. D
Acting: C
Music: D
Enjoyment: It could be worse. I guess. There's only one or two good episodes, and lots of bad. It usually tips towards the watchable end of the Bad spectrum. C

GPA: 1.6/4

Star Trek: Enterprise: Season Two

Star Trek: Enterprise: Season Two, 2002-2003. A spaceship crew explores the galaxy.

Created by Rick Berman, & Brannon Braga. Directed by David Livingston (5 episodes), James A. Contner (4), Roxann Dawson (3), David Straiton (3), Allan Kroeker (2), Mike Vejar (2), James Whitmore, Jr. (2), LeVar Burton (2), Patrick Norris (1), James L. Conway (1), & Robert Duncan McNeill (1). Written by Berman (13 episodes), Braga (13), Chris Black (5), Mike Sussman (5), Phyllis Strong (5), John Shiban (4), David A. Goodman (2), André Bormanis (2), Dan O'Shannon (1), David Wilcox (1), Allan Kroeker (1), & Hans Tobeason (1). Starring Scott Bakula, with John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, & Connor Trinneer.

Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: I can tell them apart now, so that's nice. C
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: D
Music: C
Enjoyment: It's a lot better than the first season, but that's not saying much. And the later episodes are mostly better than the earlier episodes, so the season probably seems better looking back than it is. C

GPA: 1.8/4

Star Trek: Enterprise: Season One

Star Trek: Enterprise, 2001-2002. A spaceship crew explores the galaxy.

Created by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga. Directed by Allan Kroeker (3 episodes), David Livingston (3), Mike Vejar (3), James Conway (2), LeVar Burton (2), Roxann Dawson (2), Terry Windell (1), Robert Duncan McNeill (1), Winrich Kolbe (1), James A. Contner (1), Les Landau (1), Rob Heddon (1), James Whitmore, Jr. (1), Jim Charleston (1), Patrick Norris (1), David Straiton (1), & Michael Dorn (1). Written by Berman (19 episodes), Braga (19), Mike Sussman (5), Phyllis Strong (5), Fred Dekker (3), Maria Jaquemetton (3), Andre Jaquemetton (3), Stephen Beck (2), André Bormanis (2), Chris Black (2), James Duff (1), Tim Finch (1), & Alan Cross (1). Starring Scott Bakula, with John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, & Connor Trinneer.

Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: About half the characters have interchangeable personalities, and it took most of the season just to be able to tell them apart. There's only seven of them, but 26 episodes later, I still don't think I could name them all. D
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: When they use practical effects, they're often very good. C
Acting: D
Music: D
Enjoyment: There are two or three good episodes. And there are Andorians with animatronic antennae, which is wonderful. Other than that, it's all crap. Most of the cast are bad. There's almost no character writing to speak of (despite entire episodes that exist purely for character development). Most of the stories are painfully unimaginative, and those that aren't are too incompetently written to work. There was enormous potential with this show. The "right stuff" of the Star Trek universe, as its creators inaccurately describe it, would have been pretty damn cool. This is more like Scripts That Were Rejected By Voyager: The Show. D

GPA: 1.5/4