United Earth's Starfleet, and Captain Archer in particular, were hostile toward Vulcans, who they felt were restricting human ambition to explore the galaxy. In turn, the Vulcans were arrogant and condescending to humans.
In a deleted scene from the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "The Expanse", Becky was a Human female and a love interest of Captain Jonathan Archer. Archer met Becky in a restaurant in Chinatown in San Francisco in 2153, shortly after the Xindi probe attacked Earth.
Because Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry wanted to distance TNG from TOS, Vulcans did not make regular appearances on TNG. Having a Vulcan as one of the main crew members on Picard's Enterprise might have made the dynamic feel too similar to TOS.
While many of Enterprise's stories felt like retreads that were done better by the prior series, there were many bright spots, like its daring Mirror Universe episodes. Enterprise is more appreciated today than when aired, but other shows have simply done stronger Star Trek overall.
For many of those years, there was more than one Trek show airing, not to mention movies regularly hitting the silver screen. This overload of content created franchise fatigue; John Billingsley even cited this fatigue as a reason when asked why Enterprise failed.
Regarded as the worst Star Trek: The Next Generation film, it's not particularly surprising that Star Trek: Nemesis made the least amount of money at the box office. Nemesis grossed $43,254,409 in the United States, but its budget was about $60 million.
UPN canceled Star Trek: Enterprise due to low ratings and a lack of network support for the series. Enterprise season 4 involved a creative shift with Manny Coto taking over as showrunner, but it couldn't save the series from cancelation.
1. Star Trek: Enterprise (2151-2155) Star Trek: Enterprise is the earliest entry on our list as it takes place a hundred years before the adventures of Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of Star Trek: The Original Series.
One such series, Enterprise, used genetic modification to reconcile the appearance of the original Klingons with those seen in the films and second-wave shows.
The cancellation of Enterprise ended an eighteen-year continuous production run of Star Trek programming on television. The poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Nemesis cast an uncertain light upon the future of the franchise. Paramount relieved Berman, the franchise producer, of control of Star Trek.
The Romulans used to look just like their Vulcan cousins until they were given characteristic V-shaped forehead bones in TNG. Even all of the few 22nd century Romulans on Star Trek Enterprise had this feature.
Nimoy was approached to direct Star Trek Generations, as well as appear, but turned down both roles as he felt that Spock's part in the film was not significant enough. The intention had been to include Shatner as Kirk, Nimoy as Spock and Kelley as Leonard McCoy.
Unused production artwork would have shown that Archer dies peacefully in his sleep at his home in Upstate New York in 2245, exactly one day after he attends the commissioning ceremony of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701).
In the fictional world of Star Trek, there seems to be some confusion about Jonathan Archer's lifespan. Archer's fictional “biography” says that he was born in 2112 and died in 2245, which would make him 133 years old at the time of his death. However, Archer is referenced as an admiral in the first J...
After season 1 of TNG wrapped production, Worf's facial prosthetics were either lost or stolen. This presented Michael Westmore, TNG's primary makeup designer, with an opportunity to improve the look of the character.
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 9 reveals that Klingons have pink blood, a departure from their usual red blood. The choice to give Klingons pink blood was made in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country to create an alien look and to avoid a higher film rating.
The official explanation is that Klingons normally have hair but completely shave it off during a war. Pronounced. The DIS make-up includes cheek prosthetics.
NCC is the Starfleet abbreviation for "Naval Construction Contract", comparable to what the U.S. Navy would call a hull number. Jefferies rejected 3, 6, 8, and 9 as "too easily confused" on screen; he eventually reasoned the Enterprise was the first vessel of Starfleet's 17th starship design, hence 1701.
While on NBC, Star Trek's Nielsen ratings were low and the network canceled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. In the United Kingdom the series was not broadcast until July 12, 1969, coinciding with the Apollo 11 mission to land the first humans on the Moon.
The Making of Star Trek explains that USS means "United Space Ship" and that "Enterprise is a member of the Starship Class". Licensed texts, on-screen graphics, and dialogue later describe the ship as a Constitution-class vessel.
Enterprise killing off Trip in its finale was meant to give the character's story closure, but it completely backfired, as did "These Are The Voyages..." overall.
Enterprise was supposed to be a grand television series about exploration, about the spirit of adventure, about the triumph of the human spirit. Instead, it kept getting bogged down in gimmicks, gimmicks that it never needed, and gimmicks that its audience had long since grown weary of.
