"Enterprise" Broken Bow: Part 1 (2001)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

James L. Conway

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek creator)
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Enterprise" (2001)

Original Air Date:

26 September 2001 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Enterprise, Earths first vessel capable of exploring the universe, is to embark on a dangerous first mission: bringing back a chased Klingon to his home world.

Plot Keywords:

Klingon | Vulcan | TV Series Pilot | Space Exploration | Star Trek

Cast

Scott Bakula	...	Captain Jonathan Archer
John Billingsley	...	Dr. Phlox
Jolene Blalock	...	Sub-Commander T'Pol
Dominic Keating	...	Lieutenant Malcolm Reed
Anthony Montgomery	...	Ensign Travis Mayweather
Linda Park	...	Ensign Hoshi Sato
Connor Trinneer	...	Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III
John Fleck	...	Silik
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister	...	Klaang (as Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr.)
Vaughn Armstrong	...	Admiral Maxwell Forrest
Jim Beaver	...	Admiral Daniel Leonard
Mark Moses	...	Henry Archer
Gary Graham	...	Vulcan Ambassador Soval
Thomas Kopache	...	Vulcan Attaché Tos
Jim Fitzpatrick	...	Commander Williams

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Klingon

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:12 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

Porthos the Captain's pet beagle is the only character, besides the regulars, to appear in both the series premiere and the finale.

Quotes:

Capt. Jonathan Archer: [Archer's first meeting with T'Pol] Volatile? You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass.

Soundtrack:

Where My Heart Will Take Me

Strong start overall

A strong pilot, this two-hour episode does an excellent job of setting up the characters and background for "Enterprise," the "prequel" to the original "Star Trek" series. It stumbles a few times into "Trek" convention and cliché--candy-colored space strippers never seem to go out of style, and I can already foresee snickering references to T'pol as "Seven of Vulcan"--but the ensemble looks strong, the characters are well-drawn, and one can already see hints that this particular crew will have to be more resourceful, in different ways, than those of earlier (later?) series. Scott Bakula hits the right note as a captain with Kirk's brashness and daring but without his smugness and swagger, and I look forward to the ways in which the series will feature the engineer, weapons master and communications officer (not just a glorified phone operator anymore!) as supporting players. The writers seem to have picked up on the one big mistake made in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Deep Space 9" and "Voyager": Instead of starting with a big ensemble cast and giving characters short shrift, it's starting with a smaller core of characters to which a little more variety can be added later--which I hope happens, because after about a half-dozen episodes, more variety will be needed.