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DVD Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Third Season
Described by series cocreator Brannon Braga as "a single episode that lasts 24 hours," the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise is arguably the best in the show's four-season run. With the epic "Xindi saga" as the season's primary story arc, the series found its tonal focus in the unpredictable space of the Delphic Expanse, where alien encounters and matter-warping spatial anomalies forced Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) to make extreme decisions that tested his ethical boundaries. Realizing the need for a fresh viewpoint, Braga and cocreator Rick Berman hired Manny Coto, a TV veteran who conceived or wrote several of the season's finest episodes (not forgetting Mike Sussman and other members of the series' first-rate writing staff). Coto's involvement was instrumental in shaping the Xindi saga, which began (with season 2's cliffhanger) when Earth was attacked by a Xindi probe--a massive weapon which Archer must now destroy. This vital mission dominates season 3, deriving its potent drama from an impressive variety of characters and subplots focused on the five-species Xindi council, which finds its voice of reason in Primate member Degra (season regular Randy Oglesby) and rancor in the Reptilian Commander (Scott MacDonald), pivotal characters whose fates will be tragically intertwined.
Despite lower ratings and budgetary cutbacks (as evident in several ship-bound episodes with minimal casting), season 3 was equally strong as a showcase for the Enterprise regulars, with plenty of fan speculation rising from the sexy and soothing Vulcan "neuro-pressure" sessions between the insomniac Tucker (Connor Trinneer, better than ever) and T'Pol, whose hidden addiction to a toxic compound allows Jolene Blalock to mine the volatile depths of her character (who now sports a more appealing hairstyle and wardrobe). Meanwhile, security chief Reed (Dominick Keating) engages in heated competition with Major Hayes (reliable guest Steven Culp, from the first season of Desperate Housewives), the leader of NX-01's Military Assault Command Operation (or MACO), which Reed views with territorial suspicion. And while Enterprise still fumbled to develop the characters of Hoshi (Linda Park) and Travis (Anthony Montgomery), John Billingsley continued to bring clutch-player excellence to his role as Dr. Phlox in several highlight episodes including "Doctor's Orders" and "Similitude," the latter featuring equally strong work by Trinneer in an ethically complex (and fan-favorite) examination of the cloning--a typical example of Star Trek at its best.
The alternate timeline of "Twilight" also honors the classic Trek tradition, while "Harbinger" reveals the existence of the trans-dimensional Sphere Builders, whose moon-sized creations affect Enterprise throughout its season-long mission. Finally, the crucial appearances of blue-skinned Andorian Shran (Jeffrey Combs) bring both suspense and comic relief to the season's grim proceedings, adding depth and tentative alliance to Enterprise's pre-Federation politics--a crucial element that assumes greater importance with the jaw-dropping cliffhanger of "Zero Hour" and the surprises in store for season 4, which will bring Enterprise ever closer to the original Star Trek timeline.
DVD features Gathered on disc 7, the season 3 bonus features for Enterprise are consistent with features on seasons 1 and 2: Identical in presentation but different in content. The "Xindi Saga" featurette summarizes the creative and practical decisions that resulted in the season-long story arc; "Enterprise Profile" acknowledges the popularity of "Trip" Tucker and Connor Trinneer's successful effort to transcend the character's "hayseed" image; and "A Day in the Life of a Director" finds Roxann Dawson (aka B'Elanna Torres from Voyager) well in control as she helms the episode "Exile." As with previous DVD sets, three more "NX-01" files are hidden as "Easter eggs" on the Special Features menus, and they include further appreciations of the Enterprise writers, the work of costume designer Robert Blackman, and John Billingsley's hilarious anecdote about Phlox's prodigious sexual endowment(s). The outtakes are amusing but all too brief, perhaps owing to the higher stakes (and lower ratings) of a dramatically serious season. --Jeff Shannon
Review(s): DVD Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Third Season
Does Paramount Smoke Crack?
Great show! Really it is...
But WTF? $80 or higher a season?
what makes em think we'll pay twice as much for a season of star trek than any other series?
I'll pass till they can figure out the real market value of this franchise
Season 3, THE XINDI BEGINS!
The 3rd season, which at this point is now known as "Star Trek: Enterprise" and also the remix of "Where my heart will take me" from a Gospel like song to a more upbeat rock version of the show. But anyway, I think the best episodes on this sete were, The Xindi "because they were the ones that started it with the attack on earth", another episode would be "North Star", in which an old western "Skag" Outsider was hung just because he was a skag. The other episode that caught my eye was called "e2" in which 150 yrs back, the same Enterprise crew was founded by the same crew as the current Enterprise! But all in all, season 3 is one of my favorite episodes in which will lead towards the season 4 multi-story-arc finale.
Worst season ever
I watched the first and 2nd seasons and at first I didn't like this new Enterprise. However by the time I had got to the end of season 2 I was beginning to change my mind and was growing to like this crew. But then I bought season 3. Oh my god I am bored to death. I've just watched half the season - 3 discs - and Ive seen maybe one episode that I enjoyed - out of 12! Firstly the whole season is a single story that just continues and continues. I hate that. I like it when every episode is a self-contained little story of its own. That way you can just grab a disc, stick it in the player and pick an episode at random. But not here, no, you have to watch every damn boring episode in sequence or you wont have a clue whats going on, and every episode begins with "Last time on Enterprise". I've seen a number of episodes in which literally nothing happened at all in the whole show. That episode where Hoshi goes to stay with that telepathic alien was so boring. Absolutely nothing happens. Then there's another episode where the doctor has to put the crew to sleep while they pass through an anomaly and we watch for 50 minutes as he wanders around the ship with Porthos and occasionally chats to T'pol. But other than that NOTHING happens. I was bored out of my mind. I couldnt believe that was an episode. The creators must have run out of money that week and decided to make a cheapo episode where they only had to pay one actor. Oh yeah and in this season Archer and the crew have lost all their morality. We literally see Archer torturing a man by suffocating him to the brink of death. Then there's the idiotic episode in which they encounter a planet that looks like the "Wild West". That sort of garbage hasn't been done since the original series. And finally I lost my temper when I got to the episode "Similitude" in which Tucker is injured and they decide to clone him so they have body part they can transplant from the clone. We watch as this kid grows up in a matter of days all the time going on about his "memories" which of course are really Tuckers memories. That is total BS. A clone is simply a physical copy of a person, thats all. It is NOT the same bloody person. It has not had the same experiences so how the hell could it have the same memories. Stupid. Im so disappointed with the first half of this god-awful season that I cant even be bothered watching the rest, and will not bother at all buying the last season.
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