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Star Trek: Enterprise
2001 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
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During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
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They cleared up the TOS Klingons discrepancy in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (Season 4 episode 16, “Divergence”).
I won't spoil it to you, so, off the top of my head I'd recommend you watch star trek tos season 01 episode 22 "space seed" then the movie "the wrath of Khan" then Star Trek Enterprise season 4 episode 6 "the augments" then DS9 episode 16 season 5 'dr bashir I presume ?' (chronological order, switch ST Enterprise with ds9 if you want release order).
There's a kind of resume of all that in Strange new world first episode (there's also another episode regarding genetic modification but considering it didn't prevent all the other episodes from happening then I suppose it can be skipped but it shows how strong is the opinion of the federation on the subject).
I don't remember they talk much about the eugenic wars in TNG so it's most likely why it's not on your radar.
They are all on Netflix at the moment. If you want to watch only one episode I highly recommend the Star Enterprise one (and there's a nice tie-in with TNG ;).
I recall an episode on Enterprise (2001) that showed Vulcan's living amongst them before the Prime Directive was ever a thing.
Yep -- https://screenrant.com/star-trek-enterprise-vulcans-earth-1957-first-contact/
This explains an aspect of sci-fi I never really got (aside from how simple it is to depict): "Entertainment" across species often means bringing in scantily-clad dancers. Apparently the writers were just partially mimicking some of what was already on TV.
(I like it more when they don't do that, since they had more room to play with reactions - like Phlox at movie night in Star Trek: Enterprise. He found it a lot more interesting to watch the audience.)
Also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0572231/ (Star Trek: Enterprise, "Rogue Planet")
I think the "polarized hull" is only in the Star Trek Enterprise prequel which takes place prior to the founding of the federation and takes place where humanity had just achieved Warp 5 and has pathetic weaponry. Every single other Star Trek show (Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space 9, and the later movies) use shields as in "shields up" or "raise shields". I believe the new Star Trek Discovery should also have shields.
I'd personally recommend:
* The Next Generation (starting point, but be prepared to sit through the slower first seasons). * DS9 * Voyager (however optionally skip anything from the Kess seasons that you feel like)
I only liked about 1/3rd of Star Trek Enterprise episodes, the entire series is kind of filler. Has that same wasted potential feeling that I got from Stargate Universe; it COULD have been more interesting if the pacing had been better and if they had focused on fitting the stories in to an overall plotline (much more like Babylon 5; which, BTW, you should TOTALLY watch if you haven't).
Star Trek Discovery was good, but is more an edgier more action packed thriller kind of series than the earlier series. I do like where they're going with rebooting the overall universe though and I feel that this brings the modern FX capacity in to the series in a way that makes sense for today.
For something you can show to your parents or if you generally don't get Star Trek, the Orville is a GREAT comedy focused take on the ideas that Star Trek (everything) classically presented, but covering modern social issues.
>Someone could write a Star Trek episode where they actually take seriously the possibility that the transporter is a bad idea and ban it in favor of shuttlecrafts.
Star Trek Enterprise kind of did that, because it was set in a time when transporters were new technology and deemed unfit for anything but cargo. Unfortunately because it's a franchise staple to see the away teams beaming down to planets, they took the coward's way out and quickly forgot it.
I was watching an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where Trip was staring at four PADDs in the mess hall while trying to rewrite warp-drive equations.
Sometimes I wonder if multiple simultaneous iPad use is in the future of computing.
This is the plot of at least one Star Trek: Enterprise episode.
All of the Star Trek series of the '90s/'00s overlapped quite a bit (in writers/universe/stories/cast) and some of the later ones fill in some of those missing details.
The Federation has a currency, "Federation credits" -- they discuss a deal priced in credits for control of the Barzan wormhole, and Federation crew use these credits to make purchases at the Ferengi-run bar on Deep Space 9. The Ferengi keep all their wealth in the form of latinum, precisely because it can't be replicated. Presumably the only reason they need these credits is to facilitate trade between species; I don't remember them ever discussing how the crew get the credits.
The replicators' energy comes from the ship's warp engine, the same thing that powers everything else, and from recycled material. They can both convert matter to energy and energy to matter. We know they use the ship's energy because when Voyager is stranded with limited fuel, the first thing the captain does is ration replicator usage by the crew, and pick up a chef to start cooking fresh food instead of replicating meals. The energy source for the engine, in turn, was controlled annihilation of matter (deuterium) and antimatter (anti-deuterium). The ships all had Bussard ramscoops with which to collect deuterium from interstellar space for use as fuel -- that was the red part on the front of the nacelles on the Enterprise D in TNG for example.
In an episode of ST:DS9, they discuss the fact that the Federation does restrict the ability to replicate dangerous objects like weapons without authorization. Trade in weapons is always implied to be heavily regulated.
All that said, most of it is really left to our imaginations. I was hoping Star Trek: Enterprise, the prequel to the rest of the series, would shed some light. Unfortunately it wasted 3/4 of its time on weird time travel plots that could've taken place in any of the series, and only tried to get back to explaining how the Federation came about at the very end... just before being cancelled.
I do not recall any real attention paid to such aspects of the transporter. I do recall, however, the inventor of the device showing up in an episode of Enterprise[1] and referring to all the dialog that came up when the device was new; his comment? "Metaphysical nonsense."
[1] - Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Daedalus" - Dr. Emory Erickson according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)
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