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Complete series cast summary:
	Scott Bakula	-	Captain Jonathan Archer / - 98 episodes, 2001-2005
	John Billingsley	-	Dr. Phlox 98 episodes, 2001-2005
	Jolene Blalock	-	Sub-Commander T'Pol / - 98 episodes, 2001-2005
	Dominic Keating	-	Lieutenant Malcolm Reed / - 98 episodes, 2001-2005
	Anthony Montgomery	-	Ensign Travis Mayweather / - 98 episodes, 2001-2005
	Linda Park	-	Ensign Hoshi Sato / - 98 episodes, 2001-2005
	Connor Trinneer	-	Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III 98 episodes, 2001-2005

Based on the official Star Trek Chronology, the series begins ten years prior to the founding of the United Federation of Planets, and ninety years after the events of Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt (1996). Episode one takes place approximately 115 years prior to the start of Raumschiff Enterprise (1966), and 213 years before Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987).

Admiral Forrest is named after DeForest Kelley, the late Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) actor who played Leonard H. McCoy. Similarly, Commander Williams and Admiral Leonard from the pilot Star Trek: Enterprise: Broken Bow: Part I (2001) are named after series stars William Shatner (James T. Kirk) and Leonard Nimoy (Spock).

Art imitates life imitating art. During the opening credits a brief shot of the space shuttle Enterprise is seen. During the roll out of this real space shuttle, Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) creator Gene Roddenberry and many members of the original Star Trek cast were in attendance. The space shuttle was named Enterprise because of a huge letter campaign from Star Trek fans. Therefore, the opening credits are for a show about a fake ship, named after a real ship, which is named after a fake ship, that is named after the fake ship, for which the show is named.

The first name of Captain Archer was initially to have been Jeffrey. While the (American) producers of the show didn't see any problems with this name, UK fans pointed out the link to disgraced author, actor, and politician Jeffrey Archer after learning of the name over the Internet. The name was changed to Jackson, but there was exactly one person in the country named Jackson Archer. To avoid lawsuits, Jonathan was chosen for a name, because there were twenty Jonathan Archers.

Scott Bakula (Captain Jonathan Archer), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), and Connor Trinneer (Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III) are the only actors to appear in all 98 episodes of the series.

The episodes Star Trek: Enterprise: Home (2004) and Star Trek: Enterprise: Daedalus (2005) both reveal that Earth and Vulcan are sixteen light-years distant from each other. According to Gene Roddenberry, James Blish (who wrote short-story adaptations of episodes from the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) series, plus one original novel, "Spock Must Die!"), and multiple background sources (including endorsements from various scientists from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), planet Vulcan would likely be in orbit around the trinary star system 40 Eridani, a real-life trinary star system located 16.45 light years from Earth.

This is the only Star Trek series to have the same regular cast throughout its entire run.

During filming of the series pilot, Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987) actors Brent Spiner (Lieutenant Commander Data) and Jonathan Frakes (Commander William T. Riker) visited Scott Bakula on the set to give him advice about what to expect while working on the series. Both Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes guest starred in season four with Brent Spiner playing Data's creator's grandfather Dr. Arik Soong and Jonathan Frakes playing his original character looking at a retrospective history of Enterprise.

Travis Mayweather was originally going to be a Lieutenant, because of his extensive space experience, but was made an Ensign, due to the age disparity between him and Malcolm Reed.

Footage created by Industrial Light & Magic for Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt (1996) showing the launch of Cochran's ship, the Phoenix, is included in the opening credits.

Majel Barrett, Joseph Ruskin, Clint Howard, and Jack Donner are the only actors to appear in both this series and Raumschiff Enterprise (1966).

T'Pol's age became a matter of some debate among fans (and a minor running joke on the series itself) during the show's first 3 seasons. According to the original writers' "bible" for the series, she is 67 years old at the time of Star Trek: Enterprise: Broken Bow: Part I (2001), a fact confirmed by Jolene Blalock in interviews. In the season three finale, Star Trek: Enterprise: Zero Hour (2004), however, T'Pol revealed that she is actually 65 years old (and will turn 66 on her next birthday). It has been speculated that either the writers shaved a few years off her age (since bibles are only guidelines), made a mistake, or T'Pol is lying about her age, and is really 70.

Because the show is one hundred years before Kirk, some old technology has reappeared: - flip-open communicators - manual sliders on the transporter - the science station viewfinder - Most of the sound effects for the Enterprise come from the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) - including all the bridge sounds, doors, communicator chirps, and most of the panel sounds. Instead of shields, the Enterprise has polarized hull plating, and instead of hand-held phasers, the crew are introduced to phase pistols. There are no photon torpedoes, simply torpedoes (until the start of season three). The transporter has only recently been approved for transporting bio-matter (people), and no one on the crew trusts it. It has four docking doors for shuttlepods. The design of 22nd century Enterprise NX-01 bears a striking resemblance to the 24th century Akira Class starship, first introduced in Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt (1996). Enterprise carries a designation of NX-01 which, according to established canon, indicates a prototype starship. It also indicates the first Starfleet starship to use this naming convention. Enterprise is the first Starfleet vessel to use the new warp 5 engine developed by Zefram Cochran and Jonathan Archer's father, Henry.

This was the first Star Trek series to have an actual theme song, a fact that caused controversy among fans, who were split on the idea. The pilot episode used a different piece of music for the closing credits (in fact, an instrumental of the opening song) from the rest of the episodes. Beginning with the third season, the theme was revised to be more upbeat.

The American astronaut shown in the opening credits is Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut in space, and later commander of Apollo 14. There is also archive footage of: Charles A. Lindbergh next to his plane Spirit of St. Louis, the Enterprise Shuttle, Amelia Earhart next to her plane, the Wright brothers flight combined with Robert H. Goddard the father of modern rocketry writing his theories on a blackboard, Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 with which he broke the sound barrier and astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins as they board Apollo 11 to become the first men on the moon.The astronaut seen floating in space next to the shuttle with the jet pack is Astronaut Bruce Hartwell, the first to test the jet pack, nicknamed the Buck Rogers space pack.

The first and last lines of the series are the same: "...where no man has gone before..."

It had been reported that NBC, the network that carried the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966), was interested in acquiring this series, but lost out to UPN.

The Chief Medical Officer of the Enterprise is Doctor Phlox. The name Phlox was a character of the Hierarchy race from the Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995) episode Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager: Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy (1999). However, the name of the character in the Voyager episode was only used in the script, and was never mentioned on-screen.

In the Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert: Yesterday's Enterprise (1990), two references are made to planet Archer IV. Since no one has ever mentioned this in connection with Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), it is probably coincidental. In Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), we see a a starship named "Archer" on the tactical display; a planet named after one of the founding fathers of the Federation is not too hard to believe.

William Shatner was in talks to make a guest appearance on the show during the fourth season. The DVD documentaries "In Conversation - Rick Berman & Brannon Braga" and "Decommissioning Enterprise (part 2)" shed light on the proposed story, which involved a time displaced version of the Mirror Universe Kirk, who was sent back in time by way of the Tantalus field and ended up being the cause of the split between the two universes. Shatner's guest appearance eventually fell through because of a dispute about his salary, and the two part 'In a Mirror Darkly' became the fourth season's Mirror universe story instead.

Scott Bakula jokingly suggested prior to the filming of the two-hour premiere that Captain Jonathan Archer's middle name might be Beckett, a reference to his previous television series, Zurück in die Vergangenheit (1989), in which his character was Dr. Sam Beckett.

The first season hinted at a budding romance between Doctor Phlox and human Crewman Elizabeth Cutler. Tragically, actress Kellie Waymire died in 2003 before their fictional relationship could be further explored.

The Captain's chair, used in the fourth season, was originally from the Enterprise-E bridge set in a deleted scene from the ending of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), which included Steven Culp, who had played Major Hayes in Enterprise's third season, as Picard's new First Officer.

Julia Rose, who has a recurring role as a space marine (MACO) in the 2003-2004 season, wears a uniform previously worn by Hilary Swank in The Core - Der innere Kern (2003). According to a September 2003 interview with Rose, the uniform still has a label with Swank's name on it.

T'Pol held the rank of Subcommander. This rank is traditionally associated with the Romulans. However, since the Romulans and Vulcans were originally one race, it would make sense for them to have similar terminology or military structures.

Originally Jolene Blalock's character of T'Pol was supposed to be called T'Pau. This was the name of a character that appears in Raumschiff Enterprise: Amok Time (1967), an episode of Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) written by Theodore Sturgeon. They changed it at the last minute because if they used the character of T'Pau, they would have to pay royalties to Sturgeon's estate every time T'Pau was used, i.e. every episode of "Enterprise." Incidentally, the character of T'Pau later made an appearance in the three-part Vulcan renaissance story arc in season 4.

In the wake of the destruction of the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia on February, 2003, an opening screen was added to the episode Star Trek: Enterprise: Stigma (2003) (first air date February 5, 2003), which read "In memory of the Columbia crew...You will always be an inspiration." Further, just as the original U.S. Space Shuttle prototype (which never reached space) was named "Enterprise" after the ship in the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966), so it was revealed in Star Trek: Enterprise: The Expanse (2003) (first air date May 21, 2003) that the second Starfleet prototype ship (designation NX-02) was named in honor of the "second" Space Shuttle (actually the first to reach space), Columbia. Although the initial glimpses of NX-02 were of an incomplete ship in dry dock, she was seen more extensively in a story arc in season four. It should also be noted that an "S.S. Columbia" was mentioned in the original Star Trek (1966) pilot, (The Cage), and a scout ship "U.S.S. Columbia" (designation NCC-621) appears briefly in Star Trek: Der Film (1979).

Longtime Trek actor Vaughn Armstrong (famous for his many alien roles on various Trek series) appears here as a human for the first time. His character, Admiral Maxwell Forrest, is the commander-in-chief of the fledgling Starfleet.

Only Star Trek series besides Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) The Original Series (TOS) to end "prematurely" as a result of a cancellation by the network as opposed to a decision by producers. When the series was threatened with cancellation after the third season, a fan campaign via internet was able to renew it for an additional season, but after disappointing ratings, the show was canceled anyway; the same thing happened with TOS after the second season.

Costume designer Robert Blackman decided to look forward from the present rather than backward from Kirk's time, thereby creating uniforms that resembled futuristic NASA uniforms instead of earlier versions of those seen in the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966). Blackman was also tired of having to hide all the zippers in the previous Star Trek series' costumes, and incorporated 13 visible zippers into each of the new jumpsuits. However, the suits were designed to be so trim that the actors were hardly able to carry anything in any of these pockets. In fact, practically none of the zippers actually featured a pocket behind them.

According to Jolene Blalock, a decision was made to change T'Pol's make-up - particularly her hairstyle - after three days of shooting. All Blalock's scenes for the first few days had to be re-shot.

During the run of the series, at least one reference is made to four of the other six series in the Star Trek franchise. The starship Defiant in the Mirror Universe (from the season four two-parter "In a Mirror, Darkly") is explained in the episode to be the same one from Raumschiff Enterprise: The Tholian Web (1968) in Raumschiff Enterprise (1966). Dr. Phlox makes a reference to the Binar species, who appear in Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert: 11001001 (1988) in Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987). There is at least one reference to The Cardassians who were the main nemeses in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)), and finally, there was a reference to the Delta Quadrant in Star Trek: Enterprise: Regeneration (2003) which ties into the Borg presence in Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995).

Jeffrey Combs (Shran/Krem), Gary Graham (Vulcan Ambassador Soval), and Matt Winston (Crewman Daniels) are the only actors, besides the regulars, to appear in all four seasons.

The theme song to the show, called "Where My Heart Will Take Me" and performed by Russell Watson, was composed by Diane Warren for the film Patch Adams (1998), and was recorded under the title "Faith of the Heart", by Rod Stewart, for that motion picture.

The arm patches for the Enterprise crew, which features an overhead view of the Enterprise, is based upon the NASA mission patches, which features the image of the rocket, capsule, or space shuttle used on the mission.

In various episodes, we see a small statue on top of a shelf inside Captain Archer's office. The statue is that of a man standing with his arm reaching out towards the sky. This is a smaller-scale model of the twenty-meter tall statue of Zefram Cochran that Geordi describes to Cochran himself in Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt (1996).

"Star Trek" was originally left off the title because of its overuse in previous franchise titles, and because "Enterprise" was just as instantly recognizable for the fans. Since the idea was to also attract non-Star Trek fans, the first seasons tried to limit the technical aspects of the show and make it more character-driven. From Star Trek: Enterprise: Broken Bow: Part I (2001) all the way through Star Trek: Enterprise: Anomaly (2003), the show was simply known as 'Enterprise'. After the second season suffered low ratings, the third season adopted the title "Star Trek: Enterprise" starting with Star Trek: Enterprise: Extinction (2003). When Star Trek: Enterprise: The Xindi (2003) re-aired, "Star Trek" was added to the title. However, in re-airing "Anomaly", the title remained simply "Enterprise".

The Mars rover footage in the opening credits is actually a still image of a Mars rover sliding across a still image of Mars. On Blu-ray copies of the show, the wheels can be seen not moving as the vehicle moves, as a still image would not be animated.

The interiors were inspired by a visit to a docked nuclear submarine.

Jeffery Combs has the distinction of portraying eight different characters on Star Trek series. He has played the roles of Brunt, Weyoun, Shran, Tiron, Kevin Mulkahey, Penk, Krem, and a holosuite guest. He is one of only five actors to play seven or more different characters in the Star Trek franchise, the others being Randy Oglesby, J.G. Hertzler, Vaughn Armstrong, and Thomas Kopache, all four of whom have appeared in at least one scene together with Combs.

Connor Trinneer discovered a lot of his friends were closet Trekkies when he got his role.

This is the first television series to include footage actually taken on another planet: the Sojourner rover from the Pathfinder probe on the surface of Mars in the opening titles.

The only Star Trek series where the entire cast is credited in the opening credits in alphabetical order. For prior series, the performer playing the captain (William Shatner of Raumschiff Enterprise (1966), Patrick Stewart of Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987), Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Kate Mulgrew of Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995)) was always listed first, regardless of alphabetical position. For this series, Scott Bakula gets top-billing anyway because his name is (conveniently) alphabetically first, among the principle cast.

Although produced in widescreen since 2001 in anticipation of HDTV, actual broadcast of the series in HDTV by UPN did not begin until the fall of 2003, midway through season three.

There are two animal actors who portray the male character "Porthos" on this series. The two female beagles are named "Prada" and "Breezy the Beagle", the latter being younger.

Graphic designer Michael Okuda made sure that over the course of the series, the graphics on the Enterprise computer monitors began to move closer to those on the original series Enterprise computer panels.

This was the first "Star Trek" series whose opening credits did not consist of a series of dramatic camera flybys of the ship or space station. Instead, it is a build up of historical (and fictional) events that led to the show's era.

Malcolm Reed was named for a minor character in C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower books, which were also a major inspiration for the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966). Both characters were English and came from families that had generations of career Navy men, although Malcolm Reed in Enterprise was the first to join Starfleet.

Subtitles are a common feature used throughout the series to translate whenever characters are speaking in non-English. Prior to this series, there have only been two individual episodes in total from two different Star Trek series to feature subtitles: Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert: A Matter of Honor (1989) and Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager: Tattoo (1995).

This is the only Star Trek television show that is part of both the Classic Universe (Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) The Original Series, or "TOS", Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995) and the first ten movies) and the alternate Kelvin Universe started by J.J. Abrams (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek: Beyond (2016)) which takes place in a divergent timeline. This is because the timeline was altered after the events of Enterprise, but before the events of TOS.

According to producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, fans were split almost equally on the idea of a prequel series. About half of the initial reactions to the idea were positive, and half were negative.

The 'Star Trek Crews' from all the Star Trek series were ranked #2 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" (August 1, 2004 issue).

This series did not use the traditional sound stages reserved for Star Trek series, because one of the stages, which last held the Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995) sets, was demolishing sets following filming of the last Voyager episode Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager: Endgame (2001).

Several episodes feature clips from classic movies as the crew enjoys occasional "Movie Night" diversions. Most of the films that have been featured, such as Wem die Stunde schlägt (1943) and Der Hofnarr (1955) are, naturally, Paramount films (and Enterprise is produced by Paramount). However, one episode prominently featured footage from Frankenstein (1931), a Universal Studios production. By using films from its own libraries, Paramount thus avoided having to pay royalties.

In many of the ready-room shots, a common modern-day CD rack can be seen on Captain Archer's desk. In fact, these common CD racks make another appearance (slightly modified) to appear as computer circuits onboard the Vulcan vessel Seleya during the third season episode Star Trek: Enterprise: Impulse (2003).

Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) once auditioned for two different roles on Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995), one of which was Tuvok's son Sek. Montgomery was the last actor to read for the role of Mayweather.

The solar system in the title sequence is described in German.

The first Star Trek series to not use "starring" and "also starring" in the credits. Also the first to not name the characters being played by the actors [i.e. (actor) as (character)].

As with other Star Trek series, the number 47 appears numerous times throughout the show.

The bridge set has eighty plasma screens built into it.

Commander Tucker's nickname was originally to be "Spike". His eventual nickname 'Trip' comes from his being the third generation man of his family to be called Charles. Trip is short for triple.

Dominic Keating was denied a callback for a guest shot on Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995) because Rick Berman wanted him for this.

The advanced shuttle shown in Earth orbit in the opening credits bears the registry number "DV-169".

As of 2017, this is the only "Star Trek" series not to appear in comic book form during its original run.

The series takes place from 2151 to 2155.

In Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager: In the Flesh (1998), it was revealed that there is a member of Starfleet in the 24th century named Valerie Archer. It has been speculated that this is a descendant of Jonathan Archer. Valerie Archer's name, according to creator Nick Sagan, is an homage to Dave Bowman from 2001: Odyssee im Weltraum (1968) and Eleanor Arroway from Contact (1997), the latter written by his father, astronomer Carl Sagan.

Out of all the main Xindi characters, the Xindi-Primate (played by Tucker Smallwood) was the only one whose real name we never learned.

Chef is mentioned in all 4 seasons, but is only seen from the neck down in Star Trek: Enterprise: The Catwalk (2002), where he is played by Richard Sarstedt, and does not speak. The cast of 'Enterprise considered their on-set chef the "real chef" of the Enterprise.

In at least two episodes the crew, or some other group, are seen using a device that is a Bajoran tricorder from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).

Enterprise is the first "Star Trek" series to be shot in widescreen format, to allow for HDTV format airing. Enterprise is the fourth Star Trek series in the franchise's history to have a September premiere date, and the first Star Trek series in fifteen years to premiere in September. The original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966), Die Enterprise (1973), and Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert (1987) all premiered in September. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995) both premiered in January.

In Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert: The Battle (1987) the system that the Enterprise D is in is called Xendi-Sabu. Based on how it is pronounced in that episode, this is a possible reference to the Xindi from Enterprise's third season.

The series ended on May 13, 2005, the same day as Andromeda (2000), another series based on Gene Roddenberry's work.

It was later revealed that if the series had returned for another season, one of the major story lines would have been the beginning of the war with the Romulan empire as originally mentioned in Raumschiff Enterprise: Balance of Terror (1966). Another idea that never got to fruition was to explore the backstory of the Borg Queen (first featured in Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt (1996)). She was originally a Starfleet medical technician who got assimilated and abducted by a Borg drone from Star Trek: Enterprise: Regeneration (2003), and there were serious plans to bring back Alice Krige for the part.

Executive Producer Manny Coto has stated that if the show were renewed for a fifth season, Commander Shran (Jeffrey Combs) would have been made a member of the Enterprise crew and become a regular on the show.

Had the series been renewed for a fifth season, one idea that was pitched was to have the Enterprise undergo a 180-day refit to add a secondary hull attached to the ventral side of the saucer section, which would've included an improved warp core, and a larger, more powerful deflector dish. The NX-01 refitted redesign would have resembled the Constitution-class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from Raumschiff Enterprise (1966).

There was never a long-term idea for the identity of the mysterious "Future Guy" behind the Temporal Cold War, although some suggestions had been tossed around. According to the makers, he could have been a Romulan agent trying to interfere with the formation of the United Federation of Planets, a future version of Captain Archer actually trying to prevent some sort of massive disaster or devastating war, or even a Borg. However, none of these explanations stuck, so the decision was made to end the Temporal Cold War storyline early in the fourth season, and leave Future Guy's identity ambiguous.

When the series was canceled after its fourth season, an idea for a follow-up was to produce an eleventh feature film called 'Star Trek: The Beginning'. The film would have taken place shortly after 'Enterprise', during the Earth-Romulan war (a concept that was considered for Enterprise's canceled fifth season) and was intended to be the first of a trilogy. The central character would have been Tiberius Chase, an ancestor of James T. Kirk who goes on a secret mission to sabotage the Romulan war industry in retaliation for Romulan attacks on Earth itself. Shran would be the only familiar character to return, with captain Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 only mentioned briefly. A first draft of the screenplay was written, but the project was shelved due to a regime change within Paramount Pictures, who preferred to produce J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009) instead.