10 Amazing Behind The Scenes Secrets From Star Trek: Enterprise 

I think Enterprise is severely underrated. It has fans, that's true, but I don't think it gets enough recognition in fan circles. Enterprise bought so much to the table, and told a fabulous story of the first Enterprise crew.

The more times we get references to Enterprise in recent times the more I want a continuation/sequel to Enterprise.

RIP to Manny Coto. His love for Trek was evident with episodes he wrote/produced and he was showeunner for S4 which was my favorite

I'm so glad to see that Enterprise is finally getting the love that it deserved, regardless of the theme song.

I hope that Enterprise gets the true conclusion it deserves one day. One could say I have....faith.....of the heart...

I LOVED Enterprise as well as the opening song. I even liked when they modified it a little in the third season. It shows humankind's advancement throughout the centuries and the culmination of the Enterprise NX-01 warping out of orbit is perfect. Not a cheesy song at all.

We still need Season 5 of Enterprise!

One of the songs played at my ex wife's funeral was the Enterprise theme. Regina wanted her favorite geek things highlighted, Star Trek, LoTRs, Harry Potter.

I loved Enterprise. Really wanted to see the refit Enterprise. And they really need to do a movie or streaming special and retcon the last episode.

Enterprise was brilliant. Early star fleet development and where they wanted to take it was fascinating. So much better than more recent Trek outings.

I loved the opening sequence. It was soft, understated, and flowed through the past, present and dropped the viewer in the near future with an unspoken promise of discovery. It did not have a bold theme, but it left the viewer wanting to see what will come next.

God, I loved Enterprise so much. Can't sing its praises enough. It had a much higher success rate and much lower fail rate than Voyager, or even TNG. It didn't quite hit the same heights as TNG at its best, but it was much more consistent.

Nice to see this series getting some much deserved recognition, it’s definitely one of the best series! 🖖🏼

If I ever get launched into space I am gonna play Faith of the Heart as I liftoff.

Found this show, sadly, after it was cancelled... Love it!!!

I really liked Enterprise and now knowing what unused ideas were thrown around and what also was planned for a 5th season, it would have been an interesting season had it have been made, which I wish it had have been. I don't mind the theme music used for Enterprise, but I remember wondering what that song sang by Rod Stewart and used in the movie Patch Adams was doing being used as a Star Trek theme? The theme music should have been original for the show, like every other Star Trek theme before it. Had they have used Archers Theme as the theme music instead, that would have worked as it fits very well and is perfect for a Star Trek title sequence theme and with the guitar and drums it was a bit different than other Star Trek themes used. Yes the full DS9 theme had a guitar and drums in it, but that version was never used in the show. While I did like the temporal cold war, I do agree that it's a show about the early days and we wanted to see what life was like for humanity before the vessels, technology. Starfleet, Prime directive, red alerts etc...Star Trek was known for and trying to make Enterprise futuristic, took away some of that feel. I didn't like the finale and if it wasn't for the cancellation, things might have went much better as we would have got to see the birth of the Federation in more detail than the rushed ending we got.

Another fun note is that the actor who played Spike on BTVS auditioned for the character with a southern accent. Ultimately they went with a British accent, and to be fair that was 100% the right call.

I really enjoyed enterprise and its concept of our first step into the great unknown and even had a tear come to eye when I heard archer’s theme music in discovery

Love all of this positive energy for Enterprise. Maybe we could at least get a 10-13 episode Archer miniseries to properly wrap it up.

I always liked Enterprise and I'm still disgruntled about the cancellation. I've recently started a rewatch of the series and am in the early part of Season 3.

I have vehemently disagreed with the idea of "franchise fatigue" over the years as it sounds like a deflecting excuse for poor production effort (which, let's face it, Berman and Braga and any suits above them are to blame for when it came to Voyager and Enterprise). But I suppose fatigue CAN be a thing if that lack of effort gets prolonged or doesn't take diversifying risks like modern Trek does. Also, making the proposed 5th season refit of the ship canon does go against what we saw in "These Are the Voyages..." ...But since that episode SUUUUUUCKED, I'll go along with it. After all, I tend to write off "Turnabout Intruder" and "And the Children Shall Lead" as events that, if Kirk & Company were real people in another reality watching our tv shows, would point at and say "yeah those events didn't happen at all like that".

There was a writer (I can't remember his name right now) who wrote a Star Trek: Enterprise novel that explained that Trip did not die but was recruited to work for Section 31. The novel was brilliantly written to help understand the REAL reason Trip was "killed." In the novel I believe Jonathan Archer and/or T'Pol were the ones from Enterprise who believed Trip was alive.

5:23 What's worst is that Terra Prime closes with a great monologue by Archer that kickstarts the Federation wonderfully with no need for These are the Voyages...

My wife and are are just about finished binge watching this show - it's really good!

Of course the intro song is cheesy, but that's why it's great. there is of course a big amount of nostalgia for me, as this was the star trek show that ran as I was a kid, but i just love it. I sing along every day.

I'm sad to see that not many people liked Enterprise. I loved it. I was so sad when it ended.

To think that Alice Krige could have been on Enterprise to show us how the Borg Queen came to be is a very sadly missed opportunity. It would have been great to see.

I enjoy Star Trek: Enterprise .

I really wish there was a 5th season

I still remain that, if this era of trek ever gets revisited in any form, they should do what the novels did and retcon trips "death" into a Section 31 cover up and he is actually alive, just the records were changed.

As a physician, and hardcore Trekkie, I was delighted to hear that Braga's favorite Enterprise episode was "Dear Doctor" as it is mine as well. The depth of the exploration of medical ethics, and the admiration of Dr Flox towards Capt. Archer's final decision were superb examples of incredible writing and understanding of the actual characters. Great stuff!

Shoutout to the Enterprise Blu-ray bonus material. All of the interviews were surprisingly earnest and self-critical, and thus excellent sources for TrekCulture videos 😀

I've always wanted to see first contact with Betazed. I always hoped that Enterprise would get to it at some point and was really disappointed when we didn't get to see it. I always thought it'd be interesting to see the first interactions with humans and a telepathic species that was so open. I'd imagine it would be very disconcerting for the Federation to meet a species that could so easily read there minds.

I think Demons/Terra Prime would have been a great finale. Everyone in the crew gets to do something, there was an awesome villain and the emotional scenes (one in particular and if you've seen it you know which one I mean) still hit with so much impact.

I have come to really love and appreciate Enterprise!!

Since "These Are the Voyages" is just a rando TNG holodeck story, its easy to ignore anything that happened in it (outside of the Enterprise-D parts; those can be considered canon).

I'm loving Enterprise so much! From the beginning! Watching it right now for about the 7th time..

I’m watching enterprise again for the…. I’ve lost count… time. It was the first Star Trek TV series I watched start to finish. It’s the one I keep watching again and again and again. I’m most of the any through season 2 on my current binge and I’m yet to encounter an episode that is distinctly bad.

I loved the theme song. The opening of the show, esp from S1 E1, told me pretty much exactly what to expect. And I loved that.

Sean, you are my favorite WhatCulture narrator. But if you sing that theme song again I might have to bump you down on the list! 😂😂😂

Regeneration was a brilliant episode! Extremely well executed too.

Honestly, I HATED the into song of enterprise but enjoyed the show when it was airing. But imho it has aged like wine and today, I fkn love the cheezy intro!

Love Enterprise. It competes for my favourite with DS9.

I love the theme song, it’s so optimistic and forward-looking. Starry eyed, perfect for a show about going to the stars

I'd love to see the cast of Enterprise reunited for a three year spin on Paramount Plus similar to Picard. A story arc that would call on the original crew to come together to face an old or new threat to the time line. There are plenty of story ideas that can bring all the characters of Enterprise back. I look forward to seeing it.

ENT will always have a special place in my heart because it taught me english. but they didn't stay with their premise. and they had a temporal war and Archer never once uttered: Oh Boy...

The picture of Spike really got me. I think I prefer Trip in this case... Like, come on, imagine T'Pol saying Spike instead.

I initially disliked STE because of it's darker tone, but I found it immensely entertaining and humorous years later when I binge-watched the series.

Thing is though, if (and when) they decide to revisit Enterprise, there's nothing to stop them ignoring These Are the Voyages. Because it's portrayed as a "historical record", some 200 years in the future, whos to say that recording is wrong, or been changed in some way. Even without the endless potential with time travel, they can still have Trip take command of the upgraded NX-01 for a revival series. As for the theme tune... I love the song for the first two seasons, but they went in the opposite direction they should have for season 3 onwards. They should have made it progressively more instrumental and grander, leading into the original Courage theme (re, Discovery)

Garfield* Reeves-Stevens And thank you for #1; huge huge love for the NX-01 refit in my heart ❤️

"Many others will sing along any time they hear those opening lines." I actually caught myself starting to sing when you started.

I love Enterprise. It's had it's rough patches but it's an excellent show.

There is still so much story to tell for this era - surely... they should bring it back, hive off the last episode and continue to season 5.... or do we want to see the crew 20 years later as part of the series with another enterprise crew?!

the NX01 refit is one of the best canonical additions in all of Trek.

Dear Doctor is one of my favorite episodes across all Trek.

Having finally watching Enterprise as an Adult it really is bittersweet that we never got the full 7 season treatment with enterprise, they could of given us so much more

I'm still of the opinion that the Finale wasn't planned on being the finale, but contracts got in the way for part of it with money there. Basically, the episode was planned for being part of the season when they were then told that the show was canceled, leading to a reshuffling and going for an ending they could fit in with some shifting of things. Plus the holodrama setup means that they could hint at things and change them for future real events however they wanted to (Same as the Kes time travel episode in Voyager where they reused chunks of that, but large portions never happened). So it became the finale and changed at the same time as everything else went crazy there

Sean, as an irishman, don't you think that the march of progress shown in the Enterprise credits is a little too... american:? No reference to Shackleton, Gararin, Thereskova, Custeau (you know, Roddemberry's inspiration for Picard)... Hell, they showed a generic sub, but not the Calypso!

The thing about the theme song is that it's Archer's song. When you think about the 1st season tension between Starfleet and Vulcans, there can be a lot of parallels found in the lyrics.

A hot take, I actually think the theme was perfect for this show. It gave the air of exploration and advancement of Humanity across the stars.

8:00 That was GREAT. Your editing crew needs a raise.

I LOVED the theme for Enterprise, as soon as I heard it I knew this was something different

0:09 WAIT.. was that a FARSCAPE reference my dear... lolol LOVE IT!!!

Hey, the song choice was far better than "Beautiful Day" would have been

I love Enterprise! It definitely deserved better.

Loved the show. I enjoy seeing the development on how we got to TNG and beyond.

I enjoyed the theme song cos its accurate, it was a long road getting from where humans were, to where they are now. The finale really did piss me off, so did the cancellation...would've loved to of seen more, especially the Kzinti, the Romulan War and of course the refit.

The reason of failed was because it was on UPN!! I mean it was tiny, how did they expect to have any viewers?? I watched a few episodes, but in actuality my sister had to tape the episodes and let me watch them when I got to her house or send me the VCR tapes. My local cable company didn't offer UPN!!

HELL YEAH! I knew what #1 was going to be before I clicked..I love this channel :)

I like to think that the series ended just before Archer is going to utter the first words of his speech that will inspire the foundation of the Federation: "It's been a long road, getting from there to here..."

Where My Heart Will Take Me" is the main title song of Star Trek: Enterprise played over the opening title sequence. Originally titled "Faith of the Heart", it was written by Diane Warren and originally performed by Rod Stewart for the 1998 movie Patch Adams. -from Memory Alpha It has always annoyed me that no one knew that song was not original to Enterprise. It has always

It still hurts that this fantastic series was cut off in it’s prime. It had found it’s feet so the following seasons would have been truly awesome. Loved the refit ship that we were denied. BTW. The theme as fantastic. Don’t know why so many fans objected. Pete.

We got robbed by not getting a 5th season 😢

Sean, thank you for making me feel good at the end of the episode every time.

The fact that the NX-01 DID in fact receive the refit puts the veracity of the entire series finale into question, as the NX-01 in that episode clearly has not been redesigned and was according to the dialog in the episode on its way to being decommissioned. Since we now know that the NX-01 refit DID happen, it means that the accuracy of the holodeck program that the finale took place in was dubious at best.

Great video, gang. When talking about the Borg Queen origins, though, you want to have a look at the 'Bootstrap Paradox'. A fascinating paradox that always tickles my fancy. Lovin' your work!

Archers Theme should have been the theme. Enterprise got cancelled because they started by doing what THEY wanted. It got better when they started bringing familiar elements from franchise. As soon as the song first started, i knew the show was in trouble. And yet Enterprise was way more trek than the new stuff.

The final episode was a work of genius!!!!

I’ve known about the Alice Krige Borg Queen origin for years - it’s be so cool to see it realised one day.

Enterprise is one of my favriot series. It's in the top three for me.

It would be wonderful if they decided to somehow pick the series up again... maybe do an enterprise mini series which is set 20 years after the events of the series, maybe begin with a memorial of Trips "death" only to reveal at the end of the episode how he's been a secret agent all these years, and use de-aging in select episodes and scenes, to tell the story about what happened in the 20 years... or maybe make the whole mini-series a single serialized story about the crew time travelling to the past to save Trip from his untimely end and change the future for the better, which would certainly be a twist on the whole cold time-war thing

I didn't mind Enterprise not having Star Trek in the title initially. I feel it was symbolic that this was set before all the Star Trek that we had known up to that point. As for the theme song, I'm actually one of the people that enjoyed it, but I much prefer the original version of it, not the updated more upbeat one they used in the later seasons. For those that hated the song, look up the Enterprise intro with the song swapped out for Archer's Theme, which was used as the end credits song. It fits well as the 'traditional' type of Star Trek intro. Oh and it's called 'Faith of the Heart', not 'Where my Heart will Take Me'.

The theme tune - in the bluray extras (filmed much later than the quote from 2002), Braga said on camera that he hated and regretted choosing that song. He also said it was a ready made song just "pulled off the shelf" when they were running out of time to choose a theme tune - just coincidence that the lyrics might fit the theme of the show.

We never knew who was the antagonist from the Temporal Cold War but i'm hoping that we eventually do. I still think it's gonna be some future Romulan.

Enterprise is my 2nd fave Trek after ToS. Also, I love the song and the opening graphics.

I couldn't get into Enterprise because I never knew when it would be on. The Fox station that carried it wanted to be a sports channel and would schedule Enterprise at the last minute and at different times every week.

Honestly, I think the theme tune would have better 'told the story' by starting with some non-lyric vocals (think throat singing and so on), adding in primitive instruments, and then increasingly modern instruments taking on the theme and adding harmonic complexity.

Intro song is an acquired taste. Personally, I prefer the intro music from 'In a Mirror, Darkly' two-parter. On a side note, Linda Park has very nice legs. 🙂

"West of Crichton". You rock.

Re: Romulan vs Xindi arc I think with some modifications, they could've made a much more compelling 3rd (or even 4th season), detailing major events of the Earth-Romulan War: 1. Earth is attacked by an unknown enemy. Enterprise is contacted by Admiral Forrest, and ordered to return to Earth immediately. 2. After several months of traveling at high warp, Enterprise returns to Earth. Crew morale is at an all-time low, and not even movie night lifts their spirits. 3. Starfleet and the Enterprise crew investigate the wreckage of the weapon used. 4. We come to find out the weapon was unmanned, but had a unique weapon signature. One which Enterprise had previously encountered in a Romulan Minefield. 5. Starfleet begins a massive build-up over the course of 2 years. The already in-progress NX-02 Columbia is launched, and 2 more NX-Classes (the NX-03 Discovery, and the NX-04 Atlantis) is rushed into production. 6. Each of these NX-Classes, as well as the original NX-01 undergoes a refit that includes a new secondary hull, faster engines, and an experimental shield system. 7. Pressed into action, the NX-03 and NX-04 are sent into space, to locate the Romulans, and if possible, attempt to make contact to resolve the situation peacefully. 8. NX-01 and NX-02 meanwhile are assigned patrol and defensive duties in the event of future Romulan attacks. 9. Meanwhile, the rest of Earth's defense fleet is upgraded with tech from their new allies the Andorians, and Tellerites, with some minor upgrades from the Vulcans. 10. Archer remains on Earth during this time as Starfleet Chief of Staff to Admiral Forrest, overseeing the fleet refit. T'Pol officially joins Starfleet and is given command of Enterprise. 11. NX-04 is destroyed at the 1st Battle of Cheron, with the NX-03 severely damaged. A distress call is sent, and the rest of the Discovery crew is rescued by a Tellerite freighter. 12. Archer is promoted to Admiral, and takes command of the brand new NX-05 Endeavour, and placed in charge of Earth’s NX-fleet. This signals the start of what will later be known as the "Earth-Romulan War".

If Legacy happens, some of these unfinished ideas should certainly be explored. Such as the origin of the Borg Queen, details of the Temporal Cold War, and the design philosophies in the development of Starships. Also, Star Trek Shorts should come back to bolster these aspects.

I wife had the Enterprise theme song played at our wedding as the Groom's intro, including the Warp drive sound at the end.

You missed a big one: The show was _really_ supposed to lean into the backstory of the first Starfleet warp ship and her crew, showing it's design and construction, and crew origins and assembly, over the course of the first season. But an Earth-bound "star trek" was flatly rejected by the studio.

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I personally would've loved to see a 5th season of Enterprise and seeing the NX-01 getting refitted to have a secondary hull

The problem with naming the show after the main vessel of all the previous shows (excluding DS9 and Voyager obv) is that if you have never watching star trek before or only ever heard about it in passing... Enterprise could just mean business or entrepreneur or to some sort of sailing show... while to anyone who has any love for the show would absolutely understand the name, reading it on your TV channel selector would hint at what it was... and I imagine that could have thrown a few people... especially those in their late 40's-50's who only ever heard of Star Trek as something that happened in the 70's and the fans were weird.

I was very late to the party with Enterprise but I loved it. Also, Faith of the Heart is a banger - I will not be taking any questions!

West of Croyden, or west of Kryten? Works for me either way 😅

Man, I miss Star Trek the Magazine. Love their in depth look at ships, locations, and uniforms

Enterprise!

Never understood the hate ent got for the theme song I think it’s very moving. Prob because I actually got to watch it while it was in syndication