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Enterprise Synopsis?
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Posted by: Crash331

I have just started watching Enterprise (recorded the showing last night) and now I am very interested in the new season coming up.

Is there anywhere I can go to fill me on in the history between first contact and enterprise and also a place to read about the general story that has happened in the past few seasons. Enterprise seems to have a continuing story, unlike the other Star Treks and I am a bit lost in this human-hating, superweapon-building, Xindi race.

Posted by: sjm3rd

Crash: This is the 2nd season of Enterprise, not the 3rd. I'm not sure whre you can read up on what happened. But, 1st season, Archer's dad helps build a warp5 starship (I think his specialty was the engines). The Vulcans are against it saying humans aren't ready yet. But, they go anyway and one of the Vulcans gets to come along as a science officer/pajama model (inside joke).

The first season ends with the Xindi slicing off part of Florida and 5 or 6 million killed. One of them is the chief engineer's sister and he's mad! The second season opens with Archer taking the Enterprise in to the "Expanse" to find the Xindi and stop them from destroying all of Earth with a complete version of the weapn they used to destroy Florida. When they go, the Vulcans are peeved and say it's a suicide mission and they tell the science officer (Vulcan) not to go. By now, she's kind of loyal to the Engerprise and she quits her Vulcan position so she can stay with them.

Basically, the Xindi don't hate humans. For some reason, they believe Earth/humans will destroy them in the future and they're trying to prevent that by destroying humans first.

That's basically it, extremely over-simplified and glossed over! Watch repeats this summer and you should be fine. Remember, this is the 2nd season so you haven't missed that much. I think about 100 years have passed since warp drive was discovered and some number less than that that the Vulcans have known humans. The Vulcans are always trying to slow down the earthlings.

sj

Posted by: Sauterelle

quote:
Originally posted by sjm3rd
Basically, the Xindi don't hate humans. For some reason, they believe Earth/humans will destroy them in the future and they're trying to prevent that by destroying humans first.

Right, this ties into the Temporal Cold War. Seems someone from the future* has told the Xindi that the humans will destroy them in the future.

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* I have my own theory on who this is. :cool:

Posted by: Crash331

^Is it Q???

So the second season is starting up on 2/8?

Also, why do the Vulcans try to limit humans so much?

Posted by: Sauterelle

Ah, here we go....

Enterprise Story

It's episode by episode, but if you have a little time on your hands. ;)

Posted by: Crash331

Thanks.

Posted by: TivoGeezer

quote:
Originally posted by sjm3rd
Crash: This is the 2nd season of Enterprise, not the 3rd.

No, it is the 3rd season. Check out StarTrek.com and go to the Library and Episodes and you can get synopses on all of the episodes of Enterprise.

Although there have been reoccurring themes throughout the series, the current season is following the search for the Xindi exclusively.

Posted by: Crash331

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Posted by: JYoung

quote:
Originally posted by Crash331

Also, why do the Vulcans try to limit humans so much?

Because most of the Vulcans are written as arrogant, angry d*ckheads who think that humans are not ready to explore deep space yet.

Posted by: Sauterelle

Crash, who I think it is...

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)
I think that Ambassador Soval is a Romulan Spy. In the Pilot episode, Soval gets rather testy... very un-vulcan like.

I believe that the Mysterious Future guy is an older (future) Soval who's mucking around with the timeline. Likely with the support Romulan High Command.

Posted by: JYoung

Btw, interesting rumor about Enterprise on Cinescape.

Also, Extra is supposedly running a piece on how Jolene Blalock's contract wasn't renewed for next year and she's trying to get released early.

Posted by: Crash331

I hope not. She's hot. She kinda looks like that Karate Kid and boys on the side girl.

Posted by: Big Deficit

GREAT NEWS! Getting rid of Berman is the first best step to righting the star Trek ship. I fear it may be too little too late to save Enterprise though, it's doubtful that anyone can pull it out of its rating tail spin. Hopefully, with a more creative person in charge, a future Star Trek universe project will revive this franchise. It looks like Jolene may be the first rat to leave this sinking ship, I wish her well. It's not like there's much value to staying around, beside a pay check. There's little hope for a post series movie career for this bunch! I doubt she'll be out of work for long.

Posted by: JYoung

quote:
Originally posted by Crash331
Enterprise seems to have a continuing story, unlike the other Star Treks

Didn't watch Deep Space Nine, did you?

Posted by: Crash331

Nope, nor Voyager. I have only watched TOS and TNG.

Posted by: DLL66

DS9 sucked...........bad!

Posted by: EchoBravo

quote:
Originally posted by DLL66:
DS9 sucked...........bad!

On the other hand, many who've been watching Trek for years believe it was the best of the five new series. I loved the giant ensemble cast and the true character development. IMO, Elim Garak and Weyoun were two of the most interesting Star Trek characters ever. Those who hated DS9 are perhaps part of the problem. The extra phaser fights, tighter outfits and sonic shower scenes the short attention span crowd demands have nothing to do with great storytelling.

Just thinking of episodes such as "In the Pale Moonlight," "Valiant, " "Far Beyond the Stars" or "It's Only a Paper Moon" makes me all tingly inside (only half-kidding, there).

Give it a second look. Especially seasons 5-7.

Posted by: GameGuru

I couldn't stand to watch DS9 because of the Ferengi (sp).

Posted by: allan

I wasn't too thrilled with DS9, but what REALLY killed it for me was that they kept moving it around and I couldn't keep track of it.

Posted by: vman41

For think DS9 had several respectable seasons, but I started losing interest about the time Worf joined the crew. I liked complexity of the later Cardassian characters.

Posted by: asifc

quote:
Originally posted by allan
I wasn't too thrilled with DS9, but what REALLY killed it for me was that they kept moving it around and I couldn't keep track of it.

Yup, I probably would have watched alot more of DS9 if I had my TiVo back then. :D

Posted by: drew2k

quote:
Originally posted by asifc
Yup, I probably would have watched alot more of DS9 if I had my TiVo back then. :D

Don't let your prior history with bad scheduling stop you from revisiting DS9 now ....

IMHO, DS9 was definitely the most complex, character driven Trek of all, so buy or rent the box sets and take another look.

Posted by: DLL66

quote:
Originally posted by EchoBravo
On the other hand, many who've been watching Trek for years believe it was the best of the five new series. I loved the giant ensemble cast and the true character development. IMO, Elim Garak and Weyoun were two of the most interesting Star Trek characters ever. Those who hated DS9 are perhaps part of the problem. The extra phaser fights, tighter outfits and sonic shower scenes the short attention span crowd demands have nothing to do with great storytelling.

Just thinking of episodes such as "In the Pale Moonlight," "Valiant, " "Far Beyond the Stars" or "It's Only a Paper Moon" makes me all tingly inside (only half-kidding, there).

Give it a second look. Especially seasons 5-7.

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I gave DS9 a second, third, fourth, and fifth try.........................i didn't feel it......The show didn't work for me. It wasn't because there wasn't any "action", it was because it was just plain boring! C'mon now, they had to bring Worf in! The stories still sucked!

Posted by: Crash331

I have never seen DS9 but the idea of it just doesn't seem fun to me. TNG was my favorite because of all the exploring and the impossible situations the crew gets into, which were eventually solved, usually by the awesome Picard, by the end of the episode.

DS9 always seemed more like a soap opera and less like a TNG-exploration-problem solving show. Of course I am just basing this on what I know about DS9, which, to be honest, is not much at all.