Another thing about the "Enterprise" series, is that, it misses the time frame mark Gene Rodenberry had laid down. Christopher Pike was theee very first Captain of the Starship enterprise. I thought Kirk was the second, perhaps I am wrong and the new movie will delve deeper into this issue. In any event, at this point, I do not know where the Captain played by Scott Bakula fits in ??

I remember Pike being the first captain of the Enterprise in the pilot of the original series, but I thought they meant that version of the Enterprise. There have been lots of ships named Enterprise, so that's how I thought they reconciled that part in other series.

The Star Trek: Enterprise series starts off with the first warp drive ship made by Zefram Cochrane. It sort of segues from the movie First Contact, where the warp drive emits radiation that is detected by a nearby Vulcan ship. The Vulcans land on Alpha Cantauri, where the Cochrane ship was launched from. That is the beginning of a relationship between Vulcans and Humans, and the Enterprise series is based on that. It's a prequel to all the other series and is set a few decades after the Cochrane ship, after warp drive research has matured somewhat. A couple generations have passed, and one of Cochrane's student/colleages has improved warp drive and developed a starship based on it. This ship is later piloted by his son, Jonathan Archer, who becomes the captain of that new ship called Enterprise.

As far as the Starship goes, the Enterprise was NCC-1701.... no bloddy A, B, C or D !! ( words of scotty )

I guess I owe it to myself to start watching the series. I'll get over the Bakkula thing.

catch up with ya later,

Scott L

The prequel Enterprise is an NX-01, and is a "United Earth" ship. It was supposed to predate the United Federation of Planets. I haven't watched the whole Enterprise series yet, but I think it goes into the formation of the Federation.

I think you might like the series if you start from the beginning. It's kind of fun to watch them, they act like a bunch of cowboys. It is how I would expect us to act, and sort of makes a good segue into the behavior of the cast in the original series. By the time you get to the Next Generation, they're all sort of utopian and idealistic. I mean, the early crews were idealistic too, but in a different way. More sure of themselves, more confident that they can do what's right on their own intuition. The later crews seem to want to philosophize on the "Prime Directive", while the early crews are more cavalier about it. The first crew in the Enterprise Series doesn't even have a prime directive yet, so they tend to jump right in.