Star Trek: Enterprise, titled simply Enterprise for its first two
seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by
Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It originally aired from September 26,
2001, to May 13, 2005, on UPN, spanning 98 episodes across four
seasons. The sixth series in the Star Trek franchise, it served as a
prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. The show is set in the 22nd
century, a hundred years before the events of The Original Series and
just prior to the formation of the United Federation of Planets. The
series follows the adventures of the Enterprise, Earth's first
starship capable of traveling at warp 5, as it explores the galaxy and
encounters various alien species.Following the culmination of Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine and with Star Trek: Voyager scheduled to end,
UPN asked Braga and Berman to devise a new series to continue the
franchise. Rather than setting it in the 24th century alongside Deep
Space Nine and Voyager, the duo decided to set Enterprise in an
earlier period, allowing them to explore new parts of the Star Trek
fictional universe. Wanting a more basic, relatable, and
character-driven series, Berman and Braga concentrated the episodes
around a core trio of characters: Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott
Bakula), Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Connor Trinneer) and
Sub-commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). The show broke with Star Trek
convention in several respects: in addition to dropping the Star Trek
prefix, Enterprise used the pop-influenced song "Where My Heart Will
Take Me" (performed by Russell Watson) as its theme. It was filmed on
the Paramount lot in Los Angeles, California, on the same stages that
housed the Star Trek series and films since the abandoned Star Trek:
Phase II in the late 1970s.The first two seasons were characterized by
stand-alone episodes that explored topics like humanity's early
relations with the Vulcans and their first encounters with the
Klingons and Andorians, alien species already familiar to the Star
Trek franchise. Wanting to attract greater viewers, UPN called for
changes for its third season. The series was renamed, pursuing more
action-driven plots and a single, serialized storyline: the crew's
mission to prevent the Earth being destroyed by a newly introduced
alien species called the Xindi. UPN cancelled the series after its
fourth season; a fan-led campaign for a fifth proved unsuccessful. The
cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005 marked the first time in
eighteen years that no new Star Trek episodes were produced, the
beginning of a hiatus that continued until the launch of Star Trek:
Discovery in 2017.
seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by
Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It originally aired from September 26,
2001, to May 13, 2005, on UPN, spanning 98 episodes across four
seasons. The sixth series in the Star Trek franchise, it served as a
prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. The show is set in the 22nd
century, a hundred years before the events of The Original Series and
just prior to the formation of the United Federation of Planets. The
series follows the adventures of the Enterprise, Earth's first
starship capable of traveling at warp 5, as it explores the galaxy and
encounters various alien species.Following the culmination of Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine and with Star Trek: Voyager scheduled to end,
UPN asked Braga and Berman to devise a new series to continue the
franchise. Rather than setting it in the 24th century alongside Deep
Space Nine and Voyager, the duo decided to set Enterprise in an
earlier period, allowing them to explore new parts of the Star Trek
fictional universe. Wanting a more basic, relatable, and
character-driven series, Berman and Braga concentrated the episodes
around a core trio of characters: Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott
Bakula), Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Connor Trinneer) and
Sub-commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). The show broke with Star Trek
convention in several respects: in addition to dropping the Star Trek
prefix, Enterprise used the pop-influenced song "Where My Heart Will
Take Me" (performed by Russell Watson) as its theme. It was filmed on
the Paramount lot in Los Angeles, California, on the same stages that
housed the Star Trek series and films since the abandoned Star Trek:
Phase II in the late 1970s.The first two seasons were characterized by
stand-alone episodes that explored topics like humanity's early
relations with the Vulcans and their first encounters with the
Klingons and Andorians, alien species already familiar to the Star
Trek franchise. Wanting to attract greater viewers, UPN called for
changes for its third season. The series was renamed, pursuing more
action-driven plots and a single, serialized storyline: the crew's
mission to prevent the Earth being destroyed by a newly introduced
alien species called the Xindi. UPN cancelled the series after its
fourth season; a fan-led campaign for a fifth proved unsuccessful. The
cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005 marked the first time in
eighteen years that no new Star Trek episodes were produced, the
beginning of a hiatus that continued until the launch of Star Trek:
Discovery in 2017.
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