Tag: Star Trek: Enterprise

  • ‘Quantum Leap’ Season 2: Release Date, Cast, and Everything We Know So Far

    ‘Quantum Leap’ Season 2: Release Date, Cast, and Everything We Know So Far

    Originally debuting back in 1989, Quantum Leap became a cult classic over the course of its original 4-year run, amassing a worldwide following. Starring Scott Bakula (Star Trek: Enterprise) as the time-jumping physicist Dr. Sam Beckett, the show earned itself a plethora of awards, including Primetime Emmys and Golden Globes. Ever since the closing credits…

  • How Firefly And Futurama Changed The Fate Of Star Trek: Enterprise

    How Firefly And Futurama Changed The Fate Of Star Trek: Enterprise

    “Star Trek” was the undisputed king of sci-fi television in the 1990s, but it lost that crown in the 2000s; prequel series “Star Trek: Enterprise” ended the franchise’s reign with an abbreviated four season run (2001 to 2005). Different shows won the hearts of online fandom, including two contemporaries of “Enterprise” — “Futurama” and “Firefly.”The…

  • Before J.J. Abrams, Star Trek Almost Got Its Own Version Of The Dark Knight Trilogy

    Before J.J. Abrams, Star Trek Almost Got Its Own Version Of The Dark Knight Trilogy

    The post-9/11 world was rough on “Star Trek.” The not-super-popular “Star Trek: Enterprise” debuted on September 26, 2001, and the world wasn’t in the mood. The U.S. president at the time, George W. Bush, began to affect violent, revenge-forward rhetoric, and many U.S. citizens were in a bitter, wounded mindset. While some may say that…

  • Star Trek’s Temporal Cold War And Its Messy Behind-The-Scenes Origins Explained

    Star Trek’s Temporal Cold War And Its Messy Behind-The-Scenes Origins Explained

    “Star Trek: Enterprise” was originally intended to be a lot more low-tech than it was. “Enterprise” is set roughly a century prior to the original “Star Trek,” and show co-creator Brannon Braga initially conceived of a series that was a lot more earthbound. There were to be no transporters, no phasers, and — perhaps most…

  • The Real-Life Military Tech That Inspired Star Trek: Enterprise’s Ship Design

    The Real-Life Military Tech That Inspired Star Trek: Enterprise’s Ship Design

    Because it was set a century before the events of “Star Trek,” the 2001 series “Star Trek: Enterprise” had to undergo a massive design overhaul. The title ship couldn’t look as slick or as roomy or as functional as the U.S.S. Enterprise did in 1966, so the designers backscaled everything 100 years. They eventually found…

  • Star Trek’s Jolene Blalock Had One Big Problem With The Writing For T’Pol

    Star Trek’s Jolene Blalock Had One Big Problem With The Writing For T’Pol

    Sharp-eyed Trekkies can easily see a throughline connecting Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) from “Star Trek: Voyager” directly to T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) from “Star Trek: Enterprise.” Seven of Nine was brought onto “Voyager” in its fourth season as an attempt to boost flagging ratings, a mercenary tactic openly admitted by the show’s creators. On the…

  • ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Season 4 Mysteriously Disappears From Paramount+

    ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Season 4 Mysteriously Disappears From Paramount+

    Despite previously claiming to be the home of every Star Trek series, a few notable franchise entries have started being removed from Paramount+. Following the abrupt and sudden cancellation and removal of Star Trek: Prodigy from the streamer, the folks at Trek Core noticed that the fourth and final season of the early 2000s prequel…

  • Alex Kurtzman Says Star Trek Crossovers Will Only Happen If The Story Dictates It

    Alex Kurtzman Says Star Trek Crossovers Will Only Happen If The Story Dictates It

    From the start of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in 1987 until the end of Stuart Baird’s 2002 film “Star Trek: Nemesis,” the franchise skipped merrily along a single, linear timeline. If a decade passed in the real world, a decade also passed in “Star Trek.” The NextGen era was so well-constructed, and so beloved…

  • Getting Back Into Picard’s Head Wasn’t A Problem For Patrick Stewart

    Getting Back Into Picard’s Head Wasn’t A Problem For Patrick Stewart

    Following the release of “Star Trek: Nemesis” in 2002, it appeared that “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was effectively at an end, and “Star Trek” in general was on a cultural wane. “Nemesis” notoriously didn’t gross well, opening to a paltry 18 million, on a 60 million budget, eventually only earning about 67 million worldwide.…

  • Star Trek: Enterprise Ending Explained: Those Were The Voyages…

    Star Trek: Enterprise Ending Explained: Those Were The Voyages…

    “Star Trek: Enterprise” — originally just called “Enterprise,” – was once considered by many Trekkies to be the black sheep of the pre-Abrams era. While it still had many of the same creative people working behind the scenes (the show was created by longtime Trek honchos Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) it deliberately struck a different…