Star Trek: Enterprise: The Full Journey [Region Free]

As with the Next Gen Full Journey box set, I starved myself of the purchase of the single season Blu-ray releases of “Enterprise” banking on the possibility of them releasing a Full Journey set for this series too. So they did, I saw it, pre-ordered it on Amazon, received it and blasted most mornings of my bank holiday weekend watching the special features that I've been gagging to see for years! - My verdict? - Wow...Okay confession time: At the time of writing this I haven't actually watched any of the Hi-Def releases of the episodes yet so I can't justifiably wax lyrical about the quality of the picture or the audio, although I trust it'll be great. I think the show was shot in Hi-Def in anticipation of it becoming the norm and thus the producers deserve a thumbs up for their foresight; unfortunately they warrant a slap for only rendering the CG special effects in 720P so all of those sequences needed to be upscaled to 1080 (tut-tut!).As one of those nut job fans I owned all the episodes on DVD and have indeed seen all of the episodes a couple of times so from a fan's perspective I will say that contentwise I genuinely liked this show; I thought it's contribution to Star Trek in the grand scheme was largely positive and in my opinion it wasn't deserving of the flack it received from what was obviously a significant vein of the fanbase whose lack of interest ultimately brought to a close a golden age of Trek on TV. - Was the show really that bad boys and girls? -- Really??Let's talk special features:CBS have packed some fantastic, often feature length supplementary materials into the Blu-ray releases of Enterprise and I lapped it all up. Also these releases have carried over all the special features that were included on the DVD releases as well so we are talking about as complete a library of documentary and conversation-style material as any fan of Enterprise could ever want.The in-conversation pieces offered numerous revelations:• Brannon Braga, who we've obviously seen over the years, here and there; fans know who this guy is but I've only ever seen him interviewed as a participant in an ensemble of interviewees, but in these special features for Enterprise he pretty much scores centre stage. I really appreciated his frankness and his objectivity regarding the shows decline; I always saw him as pretty closed but here he's opened himself right up and grabbed ownership of all these factors he felt let the show down and my god, gives everything else that screwed the show over a bit of an ass kicking as well (mainly the studio); this guy is showing everyone his cards.• The conversation between Berman and Braga was great (I could have sat through another hour of that). Berman is also pretty frank and doesn't mute his distaste for the administration shift at the studio.• John Billingsley comes across as clearly having given the series a lot of reflection over the years offering some truly honest and sober opinions on how the show had evolved and presents himself as an articulate and very smart guy.• We all knew that “Enterprise” was UPN's biggest show, yes? (I didn't actually) - Did anyone know that not everywhere in the States even gets UPN (about 80% coverage) and of those that do they would tend to put the show off for sporting events which is a common practice for network television!• The ratings for “Enterprise” were on the decline right from the pilot, it can not be denied; but then so had the ratings on Voyager and DS9 and we all know they got their full seven seasons. But despite the disappointing numbers “Enterprise” was consistently outpacing the SyFy channel's “Battlestar Galactica” by around a million more viewers a week (I've heard that BG is a good show although I've never seen it) and yet the powers that be pulled the plug on “Enterprise” anyway.• The new administration at Paramount didn't get the show at all but they wanted to meddle with everything, the most outrageous suggestion being: “You've got a café on the ship, let's place a pop band in the corner” and a very telling measure of their combined intelligence when at a script discussion one of the board members asked: “Err, Rick... What's a hull?” the discussion having just closed on a story that takes place on the ships hull!I always placed the blame for the cancellation of “Enterprise” squarely at the growing presence of reality television; being so bold as to say that had reality TV been around in 1987 that even the mighty Next Generation would have died before it's time, especially since TNG took more than two years to find its stride; I still think that actually. Combine the return on investment offered by reality TV, the competition offered by an increasing pool of Sci-Fi television and add some bizarre studio politics into the mix and the results are inevitable; “Enterprise” never really stood a chance.It's the era of television in which “Enterprise” was launched and the mindset of the audience that such an era of television had nurtured. I'd wager that had “Enterprise” been conceived and aired in 1987 history would have remembered this show as having been a big hit and it would have seen completion of a full seven seasons, engaged in the big screen adventures and spawned numerous spin-offs.I'll submit that with this new Trek show having recently been announced, everyone involved needs to dissect the franchise, separate what works from what doesn't be it story, production or business model perspectives; there's a lot to learn from the “Enterprise” story. Paramount should start by calling up Berman and Braga cos they'll tell them straight!

I want to start off thanking Star Trek Discovery, it's so awful that it made me go back to Enterprise and now I realise how infinitely better then Discovery it is! No political agenda, no action over storyline, actual likeable characters, episodes you can watch without having to watch everyone prior to it (episodic, not one long film). At first the theme song put me off Enterprise when it first aired, and it's still awful now, but Enterprise itself is a good show, TNG and Voyager are better, but it's not far off. Thank goodness Discovery was a one off disaster, Strange new Worlds is amazing so it seems they've learnt the errors of their ways.

T.N.G., DS9 & The Voyager which had 7 seasons which Enterprise had only 4, this is fav out of the Star Trek franchise.Enterprise was first to made in widescreen & a song in the opening credits.The uniform are different to those 3, besides this is the prequel to Captain Kirk's mission, like Kirk they USE hand held communicator not pin one.

Great box set but word of warning to those ordering it’s not the one shown in the picture, ordered the BluRay box set with the lid on top that is shorter and longer with better cardboard to match the sets of STOS and TNG I own, this came as the newer one in similar box but taller and less long. As the set I got often cheap would try and swap but got it on Prime day so cheaper price for this that others and match my DS9 and Voyager DVDs so not bad only one star off, but not the same as the photo and not what I ordered so buyer beware.

I've been a fan of Star Trek: Enterprise right from the star and so for going back to university I brought the complete box set and I can't argue about the price as it is quite bargain for what you're getting.I've given the full five stars but there is one small thing I have noticed. The way the DVDs are placed in the slots means they do on the odd occasion slip out out of place when being handled.In regards to the packaging, the main box is slim, compact and practical, doesn't take up that much room The lid slides off and on easily enough to get access without damaging the box. The individual season cases are quite visually pleasing. They open up in the same way a book does, displaying all DVDs, which the DVDs are easy to get out, though too easy on occasion. Generally the front positioned discs are the ones that slip.DVD content. You get all the episodes across the four series of Enterprise plus a load of bonus material for each series including gag reals, photo galleries, mini documentaries and behind the scenes along with commentaries and deleted scenes, which is all pretty interesting to watch.This box set has it covered, enough to keep this Trekkie happy during her coffee breaks.While Enterprise isn't everyone's cup of Earl Grey, it is chronologically the only series not to have been affected by the reboot of the franchise and is a nice look into the early days of Starfleet's expeditions into deep space. You get to see some familiar faces and species, explanations into events mentioned in previous series and introductions to new ones. Though a word of caution, the finale of the final series isn't the best of endings.

La serie es excelente, pero esperaba mas de la presentación del paquete de Bluray debido a que esta muy simplona, demasiado básica la caja y algo frágil, el rack que sostiene los 24 discos de la colección, viene separado de la caja para mayor comodidad en su manipulación pero es frágil en la parte del lomo. La presentación de los discos en cuanto a caratula es muy simple, todos discos vienen decorados en un color azul cielo con leyendas que indican el numero de disco y temporada al que pertenece para diferenciarlos entre si. Tampoco tiene libro o booklet como se le conoce, como lo dije, es una presentación demasiado básica, por eso le daría 4.5 estrellas pero como no hay medios puntos, la dejo en 5 estrellas de todos modos.

This review is not for those for whom Enterprise was your first Trek series. You love it, it's yours, and that's fine. My review is for those of us who watched Trek over decades and weigh this show's merits against the other incarnations.During the 4th season of Star Trek Enterprise, a call went out across the internet to save the series from cancellation. I happily responded "Let it die and good riddance".Pointless inclusion of Ferengi, holodecks, lame computer graphics (the Enterprise looked cheap even for 2001. Was that the Gorn? Say it ain't so!), and the tedium of directionless writing summed up this series. The early exploration of space by Starfleet (consisting solely of one vessel, a rather stupid decision) should have been depicted with a sense of wonder. Instead, it all felt routine. Meeting aliens from the original Star Trek series like the Vulcans, Tellarites, Klingons, or Andorians should have been an amazing event in human contact. What a sense of awe, meeting entire civilizations for the first time! Instead, they spent their time exploring every cave set left over from Voyager.So like many of the original Trek fans who stayed away from this series, I was not impressed. After the first few episodes, I would check in now and again and see how the series was doing. I was usually appalled and/or bored. So there are a lot of episodes I missed. For instance, I never saw "The Andorian Incident" from the first season, setting the stage for the revelation that the Vulcans of this time are not followers of Surak, and they need to be led back to the straight and narrow by Archer and crew. (Did they really need to trash the Vulcans to make Enterprise interesting? There are entire civilizations here that would have provided plenty of conflict without slapping graffiti all over Vulcan culture and turning them into Romulans).What is compelling to me now is that the cast and producers acknowledge the show's shortcomings in the extras. Go see the Special Features for Season One, they've got Brannon Braga talking about the ratings dropping. They've got Jolene Blalock expressing her considerable ire that T'Pol was just written (as introduced) to nag the humans. We've got some real honesty here, which I find refreshing. It goes a long way, to coin a phrase.What went wrong with Enterprise could fill entire internet servers. My first example is introducing holodeck technology in first season's "Unexpected". The writers were enamored with the idea of impressing Trip, the Klingons, and the audience with being able to use their newly-found computer background generating. Did they ever stop and think that exploring "strange new worlds" would be far more exciting than impressing us with whether you can generate holodeck settings for the fourth Trek series in a row? (Not to mention that they gave Klingons advanced technology with which to ravage the quadrant with.)In the first season extras, Brannon Braga cites an all-human cast as the reason for their ratings slide. But I think it was because we were yet again saddled with aliens of the week in rubber Halloween masks. In the aforementioned episode, "Unexpected", why put a beautiful woman in a gruesome glued-on mask as Trip's love interest? Why did that poor woman in "Unexpected" have to sit in makeup for 3 hours to look awful?Think of Kirk's "Wink of an Eye", where he battled a rival over the beautiful Deela played by Kathie Browne. Unrealistic? But rubber foreheads are no more realistic, real aliens might look like a praying mantis, a column of quartz crystal, or a sentient fog. All too expensive for Enterprise. So why not put these beautiful (and handsome) guest stars in some spare makeup and get on with the plot? Same for every episode of this series.Speaking of which, it would have been a nice conclusion to the "Broken Bow" pilot if the temporal cold war had resulted in the Klingons reverting to their Fu Manchu appearance from Kirk's time. This would have neatly explained the Classic Trek look, would have obviated the stupid story of genetically-modified Klingons (just so Brent Spiner could have a guest shot), and would have neatly introduced in stark terms the menace of the time-traveling aliens.Which brings me to the thing that I think collapsed the ratings for most, seeing the trailer for Ferengi on Enterprise was what ensured I would never be a forgiving viewer and fan. In the NextGen pilot "Encounter at Farpoint", it was established the Federation had never seen the Ferengi. For 70 years, Excelsior-class starships had been exploring deep space, and still had not reached Ferengi territory until the 1701-D Galaxy class was built. And yet we were expected to believe Ferengi just "show up" on Enterprise? Just because you had some of their rubber masks lying around? The producers never understood that the Ferengi were the reason DS9's ratings never improved, and thought we wanted to see them on Enterprise as well. Wrong. They were about as welcome as WWE wrestlers doing guest spots to help UPN (the failed Paramount television network).But those are the reasons the show failed. In rewatching the episodes as a complete set, I find there are highlights and highpoints in the series. It is worth watching again, even if the silly producers introduced a post-9/11 story to be topical. (Gee, there was a Vietnam war in full swing in the 60s, yet Gene Roddenberry didn't hammer us over the head with that, did he?)Bottom line is that you'll want to buy this DVD set because the actors give it their all, and the bonus features at the end of each season. If the cast was let down by writers and producers who were suffering Trek fatigue, then that's how history records the show's fateful demise. But we can support Scott Bakula's earnest captainship, and the rest of the cast's hard work. People worked hard to get this series off the ground, and to get it out each week. In the final analysis, that's all that matters today. And we celebrate them for it.(Oh, and if I still haven't sold skeptics on this boxed set. This is the only Trek series to include Outtakes!)

Aunque vaya contra la corriente general y se pueda considerar mi opinión herética, esta serie de Star Trek es la que más me gusta de las que se han creado para la televisión, aún reconociendo que no es, ni mucho menos, perfecta, como no lo es tampoco ninguna de las demás. Recientemente he visto las dos primeras temporadas de Discovery (que es la siguiente serie de Star Trek que se ha lanzado después de Enterprise) y me ha sorprendido gratamente por su diseño visual y efectos especiales que, me parece, pueden competir perfectamente con la última trilogía cinematográfica que empezó J.J.Abrams en el 2009 y, por supuesto, superan de largo a Enterprise. Pero también hay que tener en cuenta, para ser justos, el enorme avance de los efectos especiales en el tiempo transcurrido entre ambas producciones. Lo que no me acaba convencer de Discovery es que se apunte a la moda actual de que cada episodio "continuará" en el siguiente (tendencia bastante antigua porque fue iniciada en los folletines del siglo XIX) y hay que estar "secuestrado" por la serie hasta que termine definitivamente. Tampoco me convence el argumento desenfrenadamente dramático y pasional de los episodios. Reconozco que puede enganchar al espectador, pero, en muchos momentos, me ha dado la impresión de estar viendo una telenovela hispanoamericana en versión espacial... Prefiero el sistema que empleaban las series clásicas de episodios independientes (cada uno contaba una historia que terminaba en ese mismo episodio o, como gran concesión, en otro más que era una segunda parte), aunque, por supuesto, todos estaban relacionados entre sí. Que es lo que ocurre con Enterprise, aunque, para decir la verdad, en esta serie se combinan los dos sistemas. Conozco Star Trek desde que se empezó a emitir a finales de los años sesenta y principios de los setenta del siglo pasado (entonces yo era adolescente) y he vivido la creación de todas las que la siguieron (La serie animada, La nueva generación. Espacio Profundo 9, Voyager, las películas de cine y el "reboot" del año 2009, así como Discovery, sin contar con las distintas series que se pueden encontrar en YouTube con actores aficionados), por lo que me considero conocedor del tema para emitir semejante juicio. En fin, como dice el refrán, "para gustos están los colores", por lo que no voy a intentar convencer a nadie. Así que me ha hecho ilusión adquirir Star Trek Enterprise a tan buen precio y en formato BluRay, aunque las dos últimas temporadas no tengan audio ni subtítulos en español (pero los tienen en inglés, aparte de otros idiomas, como francés, alemán o japonés, si no recuerdo mal). Para mí, es un problema menor que asumo gustosamente y que, de paso, me "obliga" a practicar el inglés con la excusa de seguir unas películas que me gustan mucho.

もう20年近く前に再放送を８ｍｍﾋﾞﾃﾞｵにｴｱﾁｪｯｸしていましたが、この値段なので、思い切って購入。画質、音声とも、とても満足です。全ﾃﾞｨｽｸ問題なく視聴できました。

"Enterprise" est la série prequelle de l'univers "Star Trek". Ce qui signifie que ses 98 épisodes (sur 4 saisons) prennent chronologiquement place avant tout le reste de "Star Trek" (628 épisodes & 10 films avant 2009), tout en s'adressant en priorité aux spectateurs qui connaissent ledit "reste".Seulement voilà : développer en 2001 une série au goût du jour (c'est-à-dire avec des effets spéciaux "dernier cri" et une mise en scène "tendance") mais supposée chronologiquement antérieure de plus d'un siècle à une série des sixties au look ultra-kitsch (i.e. "Star Trek: The Original Series")... cela relevait littéralement de l'exploit, pour ne pas dire de l'impensable !Or force est de constater que ce défi a magistralement été relevé par ses créateurs-auteurs-producteurs Rick Berman & Brannon Braga ! Ainsi, non seulement la série "Enterprise" aura réussi à mettre en scène une transition crédible entre le cynisme de notre monde et l'utopie trekkienne, mais elle sera également parvenue à unifier comme jamais l'univers "Star Trek" (le plus vaste à ce jour par le nombre d'heures de programme)... en "résolvant" avec maestria toutes les incohérences internes qui subsistaient encore entre les différentes périodes de ses trois cents ans de "timeframe" !Malheureusement, la puissante communauté des trekkers américains est longtemps restée divisée sur la vocation et la portée de la série "Enterprise". Car celle-ci prenait place dans un monde qui n'était pas encore celui de "Star Trek" (afin d'en expliquer justement la genèse, notamment par la fondation tumultueuse de la Fédération), tout en osant donner corps au mythe né de ce qui ne fut pas donné aux spectateurs durant si longtemps. Telle est au fond la condition polémique des prequels dont la mission ingrate est de s'attaquer au "mythe des origines" (cf. la prélogie de "Star Wars", "Prometheus" de Ridley Scott, la série "Caprica" de Ronald D. Moore...).Fort d'un casting très solide (campant des personnages délibérément imparfaits, humains en somme), les deux premières saisons "d'Enterprise" - dont la première devait prendre place uniquement sur Terre (au 22ème siècle) selon le projet initial de Rick Berman - furent portées par un concept original et une véritable inspiration d'auteur. Dans un style très "The Right Stuff (L'étoffe des héros)", elles auront exacerbé une des plus nobles constantes de l'humanité à travers les âges : la fascination pour l'inconnu, et la soif d'exploration... quel qu'en soit le prix ! A l'honneur : ces "fous volants" qui ont fait l'Histoire aéronautique puis astronautique des temps modernes.Le capitaine Jonathan Archer - incarné par le touchant Scott Bakula - restera la plus vibrante incarnation de cette quête d'ailleurs et de dépassement de soi, posant un regard vierge et insouciant sur l'enfance de l'aventure spatiale dans un cosmos donnant le vertige ! Soit quelque chose de largement inédit en série télévisée.C'est hélas seulement à partir de sa troisième saison post-9/11 (au style "feuilleton haletant" façon "24") "qu'Enterprise" reçut un soutien quasi-unanime du public et de la critique.Mais il était déjà trop tard : l'annulation de la série par CBS-Paramount tomba tel un couperet en 2005, au terme de sa quatrième saison (la série devait idéalement en totaliser dix, au minimum sept). Une mise à mort en plein essor qui laisse - encore maintenant - un goût bien amer étant donné l'exceptionnelle richesse thématique et les innombrables promesses de cette "Histoire du futur" en marche...Malgré tout, les scénaristes eurent le temps d'achever naturellement et élégamment "Enterprise" (sans cliffhanger insoutenable au contraire de tant d'autres séries "victimes du système"), apportant même un superbe point final à quarante années de créativité audiovisuelle.En 2009, JJ Abrams pratiquera un complet reboot - à la mode comicsienne - de "Star Trek" au cinéma... mais il s'agit là d'une autre histoire (et désormais aussi d'un autre univers).Puis, en 2017, Alex Kurtzman rebootera de nouveau "Star Trek" – mais cette fois hypocritement – via la calamiteuse série "Discovery" (sise de facto dans un troisième univers).Du coup, plus que jamais, le chef d’œuvre "Enterprise" représente l'un des apogées de la longue aventure trekkienne (entamée en 1964) et toute l'audace (trop souvent sous-estimée voire incomprise) de ce qu'il est désormais convenu d'appeler "l'ère Rick Berman" (1987-2005).Ce n'est que justice que la série prequelle soit éditée en Blu-Ray, car du club des six ("TOS/TAS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT"), elle seule fut directement postproduite en HD (quoique encore expérimentale à l'époque), ce qui représentait en 2001 une véritable innovation à la télévision américaine. Or douze ans après, c'est au mieux une déclinaison "HD ready" (720p) qui aura été diffusée aux USA (et proposée sur le catalogue iTunes). Il est donc grand temps que le public puisse enfin savourer une "full HD" (1080p) native (qui certes ne prendra toute sa mesure que dans la quatrième saison de la série) sans en passer - au contraire des cinq précédentes - par un lent et coûteux remastering.Et pour ne rien gâcher, cette édition Blu-Ray "d'Enterprise" bénéficie - comme celles de "The Original Series" et de "The Next Generation" - d'une avalanche de nouveaux bonus à valeur ajoutée critique (et en HD), sans complaisance ni auto-promotion, avec le concours très actif de l'auteur-producteur Brannon Braga.Enfin, cette édition internationale intégrale (sous pavillon britannique ou italien) est aussi élégante que compacte. Le coffret a beau être légendé en langue anglaise, les Blu-ray eux contiennent bien toutes les pistes française (audio et sous-titres).Bref, à recommander sans réserve à tous les amateurs de vraie et bonne science-fiction, exigeants aussi bien envers le fond qu'envers la forme.