Enterprise Home (2001–2005) Online

2001–2005 Scott Bakula John Billingsley Jolene Blalock Allan Kroeker

Original Title :: Home
Genre :: TV Episode / Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
Year :: 2001–2005
Directror :: Allan Kroeker
Cast :: Scott Bakula,John Billingsley,Jolene Blalock
Writer :: Gene Roddenberry,Rick Berman
Type :: TV Episode
Time :: 43min
Rating :: 8.1/10

Enterprise Home (2001–2005) Online

Enterprise is finally back home and the crew is taking some time off. T'Pol invites Tucker, who has nowhere else to go, for a trip to Vulcan. Back there she finds out Koss, still wants to marry her, even after she rejected him. Phlox finds out opinions of aliens have changed after the Xindi attack. In a bar he's 'asked' to do further drinking in the Vulcan consulate. Archer meets an old friend, Erika Hernandez, who has been appointed captain of the second warp 5 starship, the Columbia. After a not so well briefing with the Vulcans who have some offending questions about the destruction of the Vulcan ship Seleya in the Expanse, Archer decides he needs to take some time off in the mountains. He is joined by Erika.

Episode cast overview:
	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
	Joanna Cassidy	-	T'Les
	Michael Reilly Burke	-	Koss
	Ada Maris	-	Captain Erika Hernandez
	Gary Graham	-	Ambassador Soval
	Vaughn Armstrong	-	Admiral Maxwell Forrest
	Joe Chrest	-	Bar Patron
	Jim Fitzpatrick	-	Commander Williams
	Jack Donner	-	Vulcan Priest

It is finally stated in this episode that the planet Vulcan is 16 light-years away from Earth. Author James Blish once placed Vulcan in orbit around the star 40 Eridani A, part of the star constellation Eridanus, which was subsequently adopted by Gene Roddenberry. If there were to be a planet there (which has yet to be found), it would indeed, like Vulcan, be unusually sunny, and 16 light-years from Earth.

Archer mentions captain Jefferies as one of the designers of the NX-class starships. This is a reference to Walter M. Jefferies, one of the designers of the original starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) from Звёздный путь (1966): The Original Series, after whom the 'Jefferies tubes' of all Star Trek series are named as well.

This episode marks the first and only time that Phlox puffs up his face like a blowfish. This is a defense mechanism that is instinctive to Denobulans.

T'Pol threatens to declare the kal-if-fee when her betrothed, Koss, informs her that he intends to go through with their prearranged marriage. Koss responds by suggesting that T'Pol's "Human friend" Trip Tucker might make a suitable challenger. In TOS: "Amok Time", T'Pring, a Vulcan woman betrothed to Spock, does declare the kal-if-fee with Spock's "Human friend" Captain James T. Kirk as the challenger. "Amok Time" was the first Star Trek episode to visit the planet Vulcan.

This episode is very similar to the TNG Season 4 episode "Family"; both episodes use the crew's family and/or personal relationships to explore the repercussions of a recent traumatic event.

Koss was previously mentioned, but not seen, in the Season 1 episode "Breaking the Ice".

Joanna Cassidy, who plays T'Les in this episode, originally auditioned to play the role of Voyager's captain, Kathryn Janeway.

At the beginning of the wedding ceremony, the official repeats the language used by T'Pau in TOS: "Amok Time".

While Archer and Hernandez are rock-climbing, Archer points out a star in the evening sky, around which orbits the first class M planet his crew visited (as chronicled in the Season 1 episode, "Strange New World"). This planet was later named Archer IV in his honor. Despite Archer's skepticism, a colony would later indeed be established on the planet, just as Hernandez suggested, with a thriving population of 700 million by 2268. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise", "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II" production art)

This episode introduces the theme of xenophobic Humans later seen in "Demons" and "Terra Prime".

This episode features both the first appearance of the planet Vulcan on Star Trek: Enterprise and the first glimpse of Vulcan cities in live-action Star Trek. (The Vulcan city ShiKahr had previously been depicted in TAS: "Yesteryear".)

While rock climbing, Captain Hernandez tells Archer that her former high school will be renamed after him. She also says that she doesn't think Zefram Cochran has one named after him yet. Many decades later during the events in Star Trek:First Contact, Geordi La Forge reveals that he went to Zefram Cochran high school.

Archer reveals that 27 crew members died in the Expanse.

This is the only episode of Star Trek: Enterprise's 4th Season in which Xindi appear, albeit only as a dream sequence.

This is the first time since VOY: "Endgame" that a female starship captain has appeared on Star Trek.

Michael Reilly Burke makes his first of three appearances as Koss. He previously appeared in TNG as Goval and on DS9 as Hogue.

Gary Graham (Soval) was once considered for the roles of both Benjamin Sisko and Captain Janeway before the decision was made for Janeway to be female and for Sisko to be an African-American.

This takes place in 2154.

Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off in an online auction, including a Vulcan statue.

Jim Fitzpatricks (Commander Williams) uniform and an arctic gear undershirt worn was sold off in an online auction.

Gary Graham (Soval) also played the role of Tanis in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Cold Fire".

Gary Grahams (Soval) wig and a collection of his costumes were sold off in an online auction.

Captain Archer can be seen briefly wearing a deep red t-shirt. This could be viewed as a subtle nod to the command colours worn in ST:TNG. Particularly relevant in this series as cast members from that show guest star in a later episode.

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Jaberini

The Enterprise returns to Earth and Captain Archer and his crew are welcomed as heroes. In his speech, Archer recalls the twenty-seven crew- members that died along their mission. While the Enterprise is in maintenance, Captain Archer is invited for a debriefing for the Starfleet high command and the crew is released on vacation. T'Pol invites Tucker to visit Vulcan and stay in her home; however she finds that her mother T'Les was forced to an early retirement since the Vulcans blame T'Pol for the incident in the Vulcan sanctuary of P'Jem. Further, the only chance her mother has to return to her active life is through the wedding of T'Pol with her former fiancé Koss, whose father is very influent. Meanwhile Dr. Phlox goes to Earth with Lieutenant Reed and Ensign Maywheather and while drinking in a bar, he finds the prejudice of earthlings with aliens after the Xindi attack. In the debriefing, Archer feels offended by the Vulcan Ambassador Soval and while the report is on hold, he climbs the mountains with his old friend Captain Erika Hernandez to calm down.

"Home" is a very emotional episode of "Enterprise" where the best part is the series of revelations disclosed to Tucker and T'Pol in Vulcan and the climax is certainly the wedding of T'Pol. The analogy of the September, 11th with the Xindi attack and the consequent prejudice with aliens is very clear and is the strongest part of this episode. The effect of the assignment to the Expansion to Captain Archer is less engaging than it should be, but is not bad at all. In the end, it sounds ironic the salute of Captain Archer in the beginning telling that it is good to be home since most of the crew-members are feeling outcast indeed. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Lar" ("Home")

X-MEN

Finally back on Earth and at the correct time the crew of the Enterprise receive an official heroes welcome, however once the pleasantries are over things don't go so well, when Dr Phlox accompanies Malcolm and Travis to a bar he finds himself being abused for being an alien, Captain Archer finds himself in front of an enquiry over an indecent which took place some time before and when T'Pol returns to Vulcan with Trip she learns that her mother has lost her job due to T'Pol's involvement in exposing a Vulcan spying system hidden in a Vulcan sanctuary... she learns that the only way to help her mother is to marry a fiancé who she has no interest in.

This was an interesting episode which served almost entirely to introduce us to the new situation the crew find themselves in rather than to give the viewer a single story. By the end of the episode none of the issues was resolved, this may sound unsatisfactory but I found it to be a good character driven episode which left me keen to learn how the various plot strands will work out.

Modred

While "Home" is an interesting episode, it's also a very 'small' one-- where very little actually happens during most of the episode. There are no villains, no explosions, no serious problems---just the crew having some shore leave now that they've saved the Earth. Much of the show illustrates how stupid people are in the 23rd century--both on Earth and on Vulcan. After some partying to celebrate their return, Phlox is treated like crap by some xenophobic jerks. And, on Vulcan, Tripp accompanies T'Pol and T'Pol's mommy makes him feel about as welcome as herpes--at least initially. Again, xenophobia has reared its ugly head in these pre-Federation days. As for the Captain, he's got a lot of self-doubts. The only really important occurrence is at the end...and it happens to T'Pol. Overall, an interesting and mostly uneventful show.

Yanthyr

If you've ever done something that was emotionally and physically involving and suffered greatly to achieve an end and succeeded, only to return to your previous life, you can appreciate this episode. There is no way the earth people and the Vulcans can begin to appreciate the gravity of such accomplishments. There are two things at work. First of all, there is the adulation and hero worship from the fickle public. Secondly, there is xenophobia and bigotry, directed at anyone who does not fit the status quo. Archer is reeling from having to be a person he never imagined in order to fulfill his mission. He had to sell out his morality at times. He had to kill. T'Pol loves Trip but Vulcans have their own rules and traditions and he is out of place on their planet. It is here that the realities become so overwhelming. I thought this was a good, necessary episode, even if there was no combat or special effects to dominate the screen.

Akelevar

In the tradition of TNG's "Family" this episode is one about characters. Following the end to the Xindi arc that dominated season three and the previous two episodes that put an end to the temporal cold war arc, our crew returns home for a warm happy reception, but after everything that has happened in the last year it is a little bittersweet for the heroes Enterprise.

Archer's storyline is what is really enjoyable about "Home", and we get to see a different captain than the ones that came before (after?). Here we get to see what the last year and Archer's entire time as captain has done to him. He is suffering from a state of disillusionment. He went forward to explore strange new worlds with a wild eyed optimism and excitement and now after discovering all the villainous species out there the spirit of adventure he once possessed has now been replaced with a hardened military man who sees enemies everywhere he turns. The other main storyline is satisfactory and concerns the budding romance between Trip and T'Pol. This one also has a storyline I wish would have been an entire episode unto itself and that concerns the growing xenophobia of the people on Earth following the attack by the Xindi. Fortunately, that story arc comes to fruition a little later on in the season. "Home" is not an amazing episode by any means. There are not any amazing battles or rich moral drama. It is all about the characters and this one does what it sets out to do and offers us a unique glimpse into our crew.

Hasirri

In "Home", the Enterprise finally arrives back to Earth (during their own time period) and the crew attempt to reacclimate themselves. Archer grows frustrated during a debriefing when the Vulcan ambassador questions his methods involving destroying the Vulcan ship Seleya in the Expanse. He goes mountain climbing with an old flame. T'Pol takes Trip to Vulcan with her. When T'Pol's ex-fiancée promises to reinstate T'Les (T'Pol's mother) to her old position if T'Pol marries him, T'Pol must decide between Trip and family. Reed and Travis take Dr. Phlox out to a bar but a new wave of Xindi-caused xenophobia creates issues for Phlox on Earth. We end the episode with T'Pol on the altar.

This was a nice change of pace from all the war and fighting we got in Season 3. Besides the bar brawl and a nightmare that Archer has, this episode is entirely focused on character development and interactions. Trip & T'Pol's relationship is at a crossroads and the "will they/won't they" dynamic appears to be something that will continue onward into Season 4. The xenophobia on Earth is an interesting subplot that could lead to further development in Season 4. Even though the Xindi have been defeated, many still dislike Star Fleet's mission of exploring the universe and stirring up trouble.

Archer seems like a more cynical, changed man since when he first began his mission. When he gets back to exploring will his demeanor change or will he turn into a gruff, pessimistic Captain?

Adrierdin

This is another relatively "businesslike" episode of "Enterprise" following hard on the heels of the very dynamic if slightly questionable kickoff and follow-through from Season 3 with "Storm Front". In a sense, then, "Home" provides the genuine start of the 4th (and regrettably final) season. And here the makers again show how much good work they can do with relatively straightforward, if very worthwhile storylines. Earth has been holding its breath for a long while, and naturally treats the returning "Enterprise" crew as heroes, but the latter don't fully know how to react to a time of peace and opportunity that cannot erase their memories of fight, struggle, destruction and the odd morally-dubious decision. And there are also more dark clouds, as Xindi-promoted xenophobia reappears on Earth and issues thought resolved long ago have to be re-addressed afresh. Vulcan-Earth matters also gain further exploration, and make progress - on both planets, since T'Pol takes Trip with her as she also goes "home". In these contexts, there is a great deal of thoughtful and well thought-out content here, the only pity of it being lack of time to explore the issues quite as well as might have been the case, as well as an emotionally dramatic (and far too abrupt) episode ending that leads into an apparently entirely-unconnected 4th episode, and thus leaves true closure far away! Odd, in a way, and a little bit of sublime-to-ridiculous presentation work that builds much and then leaves feelings dissipated.

But the "core" of the episode as such offers plenty.

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