Terra Prime
- Episode aired May 13, 2005
- TV-PG
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
1.6K
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Paxton threatens to destroy Starfleet Headquarters if all aliens don't leave Earth. Enterprise must shut down the verteron array on Mars, but it is extremely well defended.Paxton threatens to destroy Starfleet Headquarters if all aliens don't leave Earth. Enterprise must shut down the verteron array on Mars, but it is extremely well defended.Paxton threatens to destroy Starfleet Headquarters if all aliens don't leave Earth. Enterprise must shut down the verteron array on Mars, but it is extremely well defended.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the only episode where Hoshi Sato is seen in command of Enterprise NX-01 during a mission.
- Quotes
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: [referring to their daughter] I guess we shouldn't keep calling her 'she'.
Commander T'Pol: Elizabeth.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: My sister would have liked that.
- ConnectionsEdited from Star Trek: Enterprise: Civilization (2001)
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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Featured review
Enterprise hits a home run on it's way out.
In the beginning...
In 2001, I started to watch the series Enterprise because something about the concept intrigued me. I had not gotten into The Next Generation, and I was too busy for DS9. I watched the re-runs of the Original Series when I was a kid, and that was the appeal that led me to Enterprise.
Enterprise debuted around the same time the 9/11 terrorists attacks came. Although the show had been planned months ahead of time, and was hyped throughout the summer of 2001, the show had the misfortune of bad bad timing. Anyone who watches Enterprise now, and wasn't alive or old enough back then probably can't imagine how big of a change that was for even someone such as myself - who at the time taught students how to file forms for government services. But the whole world stopped, and there was little time for the distractions of fictionalized TV. Some of these episodes were canceled, and broadcast during the wee hours of the night. Some came during very important war announcements.
Sometime in late November 2001, a friend who had started watching Enterprise in the beginning as I had, asked if I was able to keep up. When I said that I wasn't, he informed me that UPN - the now defunct network that broadcast the show - was going to air a marathon to get viewers up to speed. I then told my friend that I would forgo the show for its original run, and watch it during its re-run period, because there was no way to get back into it, and judge it fairly.
"And," I said, "this show is going to have a hard time showcasing Science for Peace when most of America is suffering from a blood-lust."
What I didn't know is that those re-runs would never come...
Earlier this year, though, I had a chance to go through the whole series on Amazon Prime. I wasn't impressed. The first two years of the series were a mess. The characters were ill-defined, and sloppily utilized. The situations were banal. And, from the stories that were presented, the writers' interest in science was small.
The third season was at least coherent. The writers gained an interest in some science - the science of war. The Enterprise characters gained characterizations. And - finally! - there was a reason for Trip.
But it was the fatal fourth season that turned in the best episodes. And none better than Terra Prime.
The science dilemma of the show is how science advancements leave people behind. Don't just assume that the victims of advancements are the villains, such as the xenophobe John Frederick Paxton. No, everyone gets victimized for the furtherment of science: from Capt. Archer in DEMONS, the first part of this two episode story; to the very sad exploitation of T'Pol and Trip.
Yes, science is a tool that can be used for good or bad. This was the tale of those got stomped by it.
It's a pity that it took Enterprise four years to come up with a great Sci-Fi story.
(And can you believe they came up with one of the worst televised shows ever in the next installment?)
In 2001, I started to watch the series Enterprise because something about the concept intrigued me. I had not gotten into The Next Generation, and I was too busy for DS9. I watched the re-runs of the Original Series when I was a kid, and that was the appeal that led me to Enterprise.
Enterprise debuted around the same time the 9/11 terrorists attacks came. Although the show had been planned months ahead of time, and was hyped throughout the summer of 2001, the show had the misfortune of bad bad timing. Anyone who watches Enterprise now, and wasn't alive or old enough back then probably can't imagine how big of a change that was for even someone such as myself - who at the time taught students how to file forms for government services. But the whole world stopped, and there was little time for the distractions of fictionalized TV. Some of these episodes were canceled, and broadcast during the wee hours of the night. Some came during very important war announcements.
Sometime in late November 2001, a friend who had started watching Enterprise in the beginning as I had, asked if I was able to keep up. When I said that I wasn't, he informed me that UPN - the now defunct network that broadcast the show - was going to air a marathon to get viewers up to speed. I then told my friend that I would forgo the show for its original run, and watch it during its re-run period, because there was no way to get back into it, and judge it fairly.
"And," I said, "this show is going to have a hard time showcasing Science for Peace when most of America is suffering from a blood-lust."
What I didn't know is that those re-runs would never come...
Earlier this year, though, I had a chance to go through the whole series on Amazon Prime. I wasn't impressed. The first two years of the series were a mess. The characters were ill-defined, and sloppily utilized. The situations were banal. And, from the stories that were presented, the writers' interest in science was small.
The third season was at least coherent. The writers gained an interest in some science - the science of war. The Enterprise characters gained characterizations. And - finally! - there was a reason for Trip.
But it was the fatal fourth season that turned in the best episodes. And none better than Terra Prime.
The science dilemma of the show is how science advancements leave people behind. Don't just assume that the victims of advancements are the villains, such as the xenophobe John Frederick Paxton. No, everyone gets victimized for the furtherment of science: from Capt. Archer in DEMONS, the first part of this two episode story; to the very sad exploitation of T'Pol and Trip.
Yes, science is a tool that can be used for good or bad. This was the tale of those got stomped by it.
It's a pity that it took Enterprise four years to come up with a great Sci-Fi story.
(And can you believe they came up with one of the worst televised shows ever in the next installment?)
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- Runtime43 minutes
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