Enterprise is vastly underrated. Too bad it got canceled. 🙁 Watching the Trek universe in the age of humans struggling to figure out the things that later become givens was immensely fun.
Agreed. It wasn't helped by the fact that most shows need a season or two to really get settled in to what they want to be, and there's a lot of people who see "prequel" and immediately translate that as "garbage". I mean, yeah, there are a lot of limits on what a prequel series can do before the fans decide to watch something else. The prequel can't interfere with the established storylines of the already-existing characters and entries; the benefits of more-advanced special effects can't always be used for in-universe tech, because they'd upstage the tech that was supposed to exist later; and the bigger the stories the prequels tell, the more the audience starts to wonder why no one mentioned them in the later in-universe stuff.
@@DJRonnieG Those movies were so OOC for the universe they had to change how time travel worked in said universe, going from a more Back to the future style to MCU style time travel. I'd love to read or watch something either fan-made ( Fanfiction, Fan series, Fan movie, etc.) or official work on how the future temporal star fleet (either the one's from Voyager or Enterprise.) tackle why they left it as is to develop separately. Or what measures would be taken to reverse it, whether that be through infiltration or more.... shall we say direct methods.
Everyone always dumps on the cheesy intro song, but Enterprise had my favorite intro sequence of all the trek shows. I loved seeing that brief history of human exploration as it really goes to the heart of the Star Trek franchise. Also, the best feature of any Enterprise will always be the plot armor.
"The SWEET SPOT, that supposedly, "all ships have one". A point in the ship, where the artificial gravity, "flips", and you can actually float up, and sit safely... on the ceiling. Travis, showed Tucker, and explained it to him...briefly.
@@jesusmora9379 I just reread my thing here, and..you're right. I blame my English writing teachers, insisting on so many commas in even the shortest sentences; it's, really, a huge, nusance.
Dates back to the Original Series, it was in one of the early scripts but got cut, the writer later wrote tie-in fiction and included it in (at least) one of their books.
@@berthulf That's an amazing bit of history far too few ever hear of. Thankfully someone saw fit to eventually get it in a show..before it was lost forever.
The phase cannons weren't fitted because the ship was rushed into leaving spacedock early, it's also why the targetting system wasn't up to scratch to begin with as there hadn't been the time to get everything completed.
It's been a long time since I saw the series, but didn't Archer not even want the torpedoes? I seem to remember him having wanted the NX-01 to be exploration and diplomacy only, and being pissed at being overruled.
The ship did not even have all the spare parts loaded. When an important machine part failed, one out of five, Archer had to negotiate with an easily offended alien species for a spare. The warp drive works with four, but not with three. If this happens out of communication range, nobody will ever find out what happened to the Enterprise. Archer then brought his dog do the negotiations and let it pee on a sacred tree. When they offered him the opportunity to apologize, he thought they should apologize to h i m , because the dog got sick from it.
The NX01 was designed by my long time friend, Doug Drexler. If you watch the ST:E episode: "Deadstop", I made the NOMAD desk model in Maywether's cabin. I visited the sets, and they were awesome. The engine room was huge!
Yea it looked cool Everything was minimalistic and functional No waste But the enterprise D is my favorite design That B.T.E Dan man who actually wants us to build a full size Enterprise Should start with the NX 01
Yeah should have replaced the catwalk with the transporter since it wasn't an intended feature. Catwalk was just a place they fled to and hoped it would protect them
Star Trek Enterprise is the most realistic out of all star trek show, some area of NX-01 have no gravity, the shuttle dock using docking clamp, and it’s electronic system is similar to today electronic system
And crappy 4:3 TFT monitors hanging everywhere like they did in the real-world early 2000's. I actually liked that a lot! It gave the NX-01 this sloppy improvised prototype vibe.
ENT was decent, might be the last good thing in ST Universe. Especially I like ships of that era, Andorian, Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, Xindi, and of course NX-o1, all look great to me
Check out Lower Decks. Yes, it's a comedy, but it has that heart that Discovery and Picard seemed to have lost, and it pays homage and respects the media that has come before it.
Give Lower Decks a shot. It's a comedy, but the best way to describe it is, it takes Star Trek Cannon and Lore VERY serious... But doesnt take itself serious.
picard is alright im binging it atm,its tone is dark with a "the federation is collapsing,im old etc" kinda vibe? but each star trek series has a vibe to it,IE voyager is literally about being lost and trying to get back home with hostile shit on the way...TNG is the federation at full power and ENT is humans being outmanned and outgunned and a small fish in a big pond but punching up etc
Yeah I wish they had concentrated more on the politics and the founding of the federation and not on the xindi storyline but I agree it was the last star trek as far as I am concerned.
I loved the theme song. The show was extremely well written. Well acted. And the clever episodes where they filled in the gaps. The defiant. The different looking Klingons. The tholians. The first meetings with the Andorians. That and the Vulcan was smoking hot second only to seven of nine.
You used the TNG warp scale, which is meant to be used in eras AFTER the original cast movies. Unless the creators of Star Trek: Enterprise stated that they were using the TNG warp scale, Star Trek: Enterprise would have used the TOS warp scale, and in the TOS warp scale warp 5 isn't over 200 times the speed of light, but 125 times instead.
In ENT: "The Expanse" and "The Xindi" they used warp 5 with 200 times the speed of light (50 lightyears in 3 months)! They were not consistant with the warp scale in ent, or in any show. That's why things like subspace distortions, the Cochrane factor, and other neat in-universe explanations found their way into the scripts. It's very relative. And don't forget, it's not the ship that moves through space, it's the space that moves... Gives you a headache when you imagine a couple of hundreds of ships "traveling" at warp speed simultaniously - and it does not explain what it is on the sol scale... :D For me personally it is already hard to imagine the in comparison very simple relativity theory of Einstein in a mathmatically correct way. Let alone quantum mechanics.... Warp Drive would be something based on physics beyond quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity and in relation to a subspace that is unknown to today's physics. So I was always happy with the "inconsistencies" and trusted the writers to be as reasonable accurate as possible or needed.
One of the very few Star Trek ships I really, really like. The “early tech” look made the NX-01 more real and believable to me than most other ships in the Star Trek franchise.
NOTE: We used the TNG scale for warp speeds when figuring out the speed of warp 5 and warp 4. Warp 5 is still roughly double warp 4 in the TOS scale, but the exact number of times is wrong: warp 5 should be 125 x speed of light and warp 4 is 64. (we should have used the TOS scale, since this is before TOS)
If you used the TNG scale you would realize that warp speed is NOT light speed. Warp 10 is the speed of light. This is why you cannot go faster than the Warp 10. It would require infinite energy and you would be every where simultaneously. This is also why the ships Max speeds are always Warp 9.996 and Warp 9.998 and such.
@@jamesmarciel5237 no, that is not the case, in the TNG scale light speed is 1 cochrane, warp 1. Warp 10 is simultaneously being in every place of the universe at once.
And I almost thought i wouldn't understand the nice diagram too, but fortunately it was British Ben talking nonsense :P Assuming the solid green/yellowish, wich turns into a dotted line after warp 3.0 is the ship-speed, you can extrapolate this line to Warp 5.0 where it intersects the line that marks 125x speed of Light on the logarithmic scaled y-Axis. Btw, does anyone know what the red line means? Extrapolating the red line to Warp 5.0 we would end with something above 200x speed of light. Could this be the TNG-Warpscale?
@@derphysiker1062 the red line is supposed to be power usage. The idea being that it's hard to cross the boundary but then it gets easier again. Not fully supported by what we see on screen but that's what it's supposed to be as far as I know
I really wish the nx got the refit sooner while the show was ongoing as it really makes it look more like a traditional star fleet ship. And ST Enterprise was criminally underrated
Warp Speed is a Cube factor of the warp speed Warp 1 - Speed of light Warp 2 - 8 x Speed of light Warp 3 - 27 x Speed of light Warp 4 - 64 x Speed of light Warp 5 - 125 x Speed of light
At least it was in TOS which ENT uses. I. In the 24th century they use a different scale where 10 is infinite speed so warp 5 is 200x on that scale. They just used the wrong warp scale in the video
It would take days to get to a nearby star at 125x. They made all the way to the Klingon homeworld in a few days and they hadn't reached warp 5 at the time. If Vulcan is 16.5 LY from Earth and Qo'noS is 143 LY distant, NX should take weeks to get between homeworlds, not days.
there was also a cochrane coefficient so it was slightly more then that but that is the basic formula. they added the coefficient because even at warp 5 traveling a light year would take just under three days so a trip to Alpha Proxoma (4.26 LY) would take about 13 or 14 days. still later they added warp lanes that were where the space/subspace boundary was weaker due to repeated warp passages along the same route. the upshot is that a warp factor whatever ship could make trips faster than the formula would allow otherwise.
@@virginiaconnor8350 No i liked the original cast as well but you know how hollywood politics go, and if the same writers were kept onboard it would still be similar
The NX-01 refit is in the Rise of the Federation books, as the Columbia-class. It makes a lot of sense, and it would have been nice to have been seen on-screen. They also missed out Chef; *clearly* the best feature of the NX-01 was the running gag(s) of a) the audience never seeing Chef's face, and b) being the only person on the Enterprise to be referred to by their title only. Everyone always criticises the last episode where Riker plays the part of Chef, but I think it was a nice nod to the running joke.
I was always under the impression that when they "polarized the hull plating" they weren't making the hull "harder", they were giving it some sort of charge that would dissipate various forms of incoming energy discharges, like weapons fire. That's why in the show we saw those blue waves coming off the hull when it was struck, it was acting like an electrical ground. Also, I dont think the catwalks were designed to protect the crew, from neutron storms or otherwise. From how they talked about it, they were probably more like Jeffies Tubes, just there so the crew could perform maintenance and repairs inside the nacelles.
Yes he makes it sound like the catwalks where design for people to go in in case of an emergency they were not they. In the episode thay had an emergency situation and they came up with the idea to go in the catwalk.
Yeah Catwalk primary role was that it was a service area for Warp nacelles. Since it was the only place that was shielded enough during the neutron storm it made for relatively safe, if cramped living space during such emergency. But the Warp drive had to be shut down IIRC, so there wouldn't be a radiation coming from nacelles.
Thank you for sharing your interesting TOP 10, I am sad that some narrow mind people cut the series short and I agree the refit would have been great as the connecting factor to the constitution class
Funny he posts the video today: right above my monitor is the Star Trek 2021 Ships of the Line Calendar and February has the NX-01 refit as it's feature ship. Great cutaway of the interior of the refitted ship which has warp 7 capabilities. Also full 360 degree views of the upgraded ship as well.
I love the nx-01 enterprise!!!! Just always felt closer to how space travel would be if we did have vessels for long distance....deep space exploration....no food replicators....instead they had chefs...the bridge was much smaller....no super shields...polarized hull playing instead....it isnt my fav star trek ship...that goes to DS9s defiant...but its def in my top 5...
Well, Osmium is the most dense metal that we currently know of, so it would be surely a viable protection against any kind of radiation. Problem is, it is ultra-expensive and super rare on Earth, so you'd have to mine it from metal asteroids, which would make it even more expensive. So it kinda makes sense that only the catwalk of the NX Enterprise was coated in that metal.
It also had a firepole, connecting the bridge to engineering. We never see it and there is no dialogue relating to it but Doug Drexler has recently mentioned it on another youtubers channel. That is probably the least known detail about this particular class of ship
@Chris George There's a Lobi weapons set, I'm missing the spacial torpedoes and console. I'm loving the phase cannons. There's also a warhead console on it, not a bad one at that
There's the full galley, the medical lab, the infamous decontamination chamber, and the "Sweet Spot", that spot halfway between the bow plate and artificial gravity generator where the gravity field is inverted, leading to a reversal of vertical orientation relative to the rest of the ship. Ensign Mayweather shows it in the first episode, if I recall correctly.
My favourite thing about the NX-01 was allways how the starfleet was just like "so we didn't actually put guns on the ship, so you just have to go on your long and dangerous mission without them. But here is a small number of crappy torpedos. You better hope you don't use them all." But to be real, i really liked the Upgrade the Enterprise got at the end of S2. The Show was great at showing progression in the Starfleet and it's technologie.
I always liked the nx-01 design. Its like the steampunk relative of the future federation star ships. It had that “futuristic” look of a sleek starship by not having the “neck” that connects the saucer section to the nacelles/deflector dish, yet it still had elements that would be integral to the designs that would come after.
Not gonna lie, the NX class and the Venator are my two favorite ships in all of fiction. When i played Star Trek Online years ago, i gladly purchased the pack and used the NX class in-game, no matter how bad it was, it was fun to play with. Really wish it would get more love and not be hated on so much :(
One feature that is often over looked was that it started off with Plasma cannons. They used them like twice before replacing them with the Phase cannons which is good cause the plasma cannons were pretty pitiful. They were used when tracking the suliban to their helix.
If I remember my Trek lore correctly, the warp factor is equal to the cube root of your relative speed to light; ie wf2=8c (2×2×2), wf3=27c (3×3×3), wf4=64c (4×4×4), ect; so warp 5 would be 125 times the speed of light. At least it would if TNG hadn't messed with the formula (now it's relative speed of light equals X to the power of ten 1/3ds or something like that) and capped wf10 as being infinite speed.
So when is British Ben going to start a "Generation Trek" YT Channel? Generation Tech = Alan's Primary Channel Generation Films = American Ben's Primary Channel Generation Trek = British Ben's Primary Channel
A lot of warplanes and tanks couldn't reach their design speeds in their initial outing. Tweaks modifications and sometimes outright redesigns have to be made in order for the vehicle to meet it's design specifications. I like the fact did the Enterprise couldn't quite reach warp 5 at first. They were rushed out of space dock without the ship being fully ready so it made sense for it not to be fully capable.
you know, I actually like the cheezy theme song. it's cheezy, but by the end of the show, the lyrics actually get pretty on-point with the context of everything else, and it even nails the atmosphere, I would say, the "now or never, and even if they win archer might still die.
Rip trip. Wanted to see him and topol to be together but instead they killed him off. Spent so much time watching this and caring for the crew. It shocked me and it still does cause it took me a while to process it.
At least they waited until the end to kill him off, seen to many shows that you meet a new character, get to see their backstory, and are then killed in an average of about 4 episodes.
Im probably one of the very few people that do not like the NX01 refit. I think to space out starship evolution that a secondary hull wouldn't happen for a while. And it loses the sleek design for a more bulky and awkward look.
.......Enterprise and TOS era warp scale is linear Warp 5 is 5 times the speed of light, it wasn until TNG when the scale became exponential with 10 representing infinite velocity.
I would have loved to have seen the NX-01 Refit in action.... All we get is a small snippet of it in Picard, Season 3. At least I have a physical model of it from Eaglemoss. That was a must-buy.
Drexler's NX-01 refit actually appeared on screen in the 2nd season of Star Trek: Picard; young Jean-Luc was playing with an Eaglemoss model in a flashback scene
I liked the NX-01 -- it's one of my favorite ships stylistically. The refit also looks cool, though I wonder why the deflector on the saucer stayed when they added one on the engineering hull....
I initally hated the show, but after a decade I decided to rewatch it, it was love. I really adore the series now and IMHO it is the best show Star Trek had (and has the best ship):
There was also the refit where the technology from the captured *Suliban Cell ship* was retrofitted to the NX, giving it a internally mounted warp drive, advanced shielding weapons and sensors, compact life support and a host of other systems that were rugged and low maintenance (as they were used by a small mobile rebel group that didn't have large maintenance facilities). Starfleet engineering reverse engineered all that tech early on when the captured Suliban Cell ship was taken straight back to Earth, instead of being left in the shuttle bay for off hours tinkering till it was lost. … … … _oh_ Still at least they had the upgrades from that captured Ferengi ship, including its extensive data base on regions even unknown to the Vulcans.
*Watching the movie. Spirit of Saint Louis with James Stewart it dawned on me the plane's tail number, N-X-211, (for "experimental") now I know where the inspiration arrived from on naming the Enterprise!* 🧐🖖
