When they finally saw the stuntman in the suit for the first time, it was nothing like Shatner had pictured he said it just looked like a guy with pieces of slate stuck to him. Small problem: The costume wouldn’t be ready until the day before filming. The studio told Shatner he could afford one Rock Man, so he came up with a plan for exactly how he’d film it to make his one Rock Man look like ten.
It would feel like Dante’s Inferno! The plan was to have ten Rock Men, until they learned the cost would be $350,000 each-which meant three and a half million dollars just for the ending. The script called for the Furies to transform into Rock Men who’d explode from the dust, breathing fire and granite. But, as it stands, it's easily the finest hour of this underrated Trek series.Įnterprise is on Netflix until September 30 and on Paramount+ for the foreseeable future.As William Shatner and writer David Loughery describe it, the movie’s original ending was huge in scope and highly cinematic, but every time the budget got whittled down, another key element disappeared they chipped away at the ending until there was very little left of it. Had Enterprise continued for a fifth season, the events of this epic two-parter would have certainly created several new plot points. The only thing standing between this conspiracy and total chaos is the crew of the Starship Enterprise. This group wants Earth for humans only and is going to great lengths to make it happen. The plot focuses on an extremist xenophobic group that takes hold on Earth.
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Many hardcore fans consider this to be the true series finale, and not the actual last episode, “These Are the Voyages.” The crowning achievement of Enterprise, this two-part story is technically two episodes, but you have to watch both. These folks will phase you if you cross them. (Matalas also has a story credit on the Enterprise episode “Stratagem,” which is worth watching as well.) 2. This episode is one of the best examples of Trek doing a horror story well, and the events have far-ranging impacts on the rest of the show.īut, perhaps most important, “Impulse” is one of the episodes of Enterprise that sports a writing credit from Terry Matalas, the new showrunner for the forthcoming second season of Star Trek: Picard. In this episode, Enterprise encounters a Vulcan ship in distress, only to learn that a specific substance, called "trellium-D" has turned all the Vulcans into insane murderers. Vulcan zombies! In Enterprise Season 3, the crew spends most of their time trying to deal with a hostile multi-species alien culture called the Xindi in an area of space called “the expanse.” (No connection to the contemporary sci-fi series of the same name.) But, in the expanse, the wild final frontier of this early Trek prequel gets a little wilder. Vulcan zombies don’t raise their eyebrows.or drag their feet. But if you’re looking for a minimalist approach to the show, the following five episodes are your best bet. After Enterprise leaves Netflix, the series will, of course, still be streaming on Paramount+, along with the rest of the Trek shows. It caught a lot of flack at the time it was released, but over time, you have to just accept that it exists.īut, in addition to the canon connections and world-building, Enterprise also contains a few stand-out, utterly thrilling episodes. In short, Enterprise is kind of like The Phantom Menace of the Trek canon.
The plot of Star Trek Beyond is a direct outgrowth of everything that happened on Enterprise, and, tonally and aesthetically, Discovery’s first season is as much a direct sequel to Enterprise as it is a prequel to TOS. Enterprise is kind of like The Phantom Menaceof the Trek canon. In an attempt to tell the story of what Starfleet was like 100 years before The Original Series, the show not only ran into a lot of canon problems, but long-term, created a huge amount of foundational continuity that the rest of the franchise still relies upon. While there’s a certain amount of been-there-done-that to many of Enterprise’s plots, its overall quality right out of the gate was, arguably, higher than TNG and Voyager. A good amount of Trekkie dogma will tell you that Enterprise - a retroactive prequel set before The Original Series - is the worst of all the post- Next Generation shows.