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Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Third Season | 
| Directors: Allan Kroeker, David Livingston, David Straiton, James L. Conway, Levar Burton
Actors: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 10424
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 7
Running Time: 1026
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 1.9
MPN: PARD026774D
UPC: 097360267747
EAN: 0097360267747
ASIN: B000A6CLL0
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 2001
Release Date: September 27, 2005
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/05/2008
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Described by series cocreator Brannon Braga as "a single episode that lasts 24 hours," the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise is arguably the best in the show's four-season run. With the epic "Xindi saga" as the season's primary story arc, the series found its tonal focus in the unpredictable space of the Delphic Expanse, where alien encounters and matter-warping spatial anomalies forced Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) to make extreme decisions that tested his ethical boundaries. Realizing the need for a fresh viewpoint, Braga and cocreator Rick Berman hired Manny Coto, a TV veteran who conceived or wrote several of the season's finest episodes (not forgetting Mike Sussman and other members of the series' first-rate writing staff). Coto's involvement was instrumental in shaping the Xindi saga, which began (with season 2's cliffhanger) when Earth was attacked by a Xindi probe--a massive weapon which Archer must now destroy. This vital mission dominates season 3, deriving its potent drama from an impressive variety of characters and subplots focused on the five-species Xindi council, which finds its voice of reason in Primate member Degra (season regular Randy Oglesby) and rancor in the Reptilian Commander (Scott MacDonald), pivotal characters whose fates will be tragically intertwined. Despite lower ratings and budgetary cutbacks (as evident in several ship-bound episodes with minimal casting), season 3 was equally strong as a showcase for the Enterprise regulars, with plenty of fan speculation rising from the sexy and soothing Vulcan "neuro-pressure" sessions between the insomniac Tucker (Connor Trinneer, better than ever) and T'Pol, whose hidden addiction to a toxic compound allows Jolene Blalock to mine the volatile depths of her character (who now sports a more appealing hairstyle and wardrobe). Meanwhile, security chief Reed (Dominick Keating) engages in heated competition with Major Hayes (reliable guest Steven Culp, from the first season of Desperate Housewives), the leader of NX-01's Military Assault Command Operation (or MACO), which Reed views with territorial suspicion. And while Enterprise still fumbled to develop the characters of Hoshi (Linda Park) and Travis (Anthony Montgomery), John Billingsley continued to bring clutch-player excellence to his role as Dr. Phlox in several highlight episodes including "Doctor's Orders" and "Similitude," the latter featuring equally strong work by Trinneer in an ethically complex (and fan-favorite) examination of the cloning--a typical example of Star Trek at its best. The alternate timeline of "Twilight" also honors the classic Trek tradition, while "Harbinger" reveals the existence of the trans-dimensional Sphere Builders, whose moon-sized creations affect Enterprise throughout its season-long mission. Finally, the crucial appearances of blue-skinned Andorian Shran (Jeffrey Combs) bring both suspense and comic relief to the season's grim proceedings, adding depth and tentative alliance to Enterprise's pre-Federation politics--a crucial element that assumes greater importance with the jaw-dropping cliffhanger of "Zero Hour" and the surprises in store for season 4, which will bring Enterprise ever closer to the original Star Trek timeline. DVD features
Gathered on disc 7, the season 3 bonus features for Enterprise are consistent with features on seasons 1 and 2: Identical in presentation but different in content. The "Xindi Saga" featurette summarizes the creative and practical decisions that resulted in the season-long story arc; "Enterprise Profile" acknowledges the popularity of "Trip" Tucker and Connor Trinneer's successful effort to transcend the character's "hayseed" image; and "A Day in the Life of a Director" finds Roxann Dawson (aka B'Elanna Torres from Voyager) well in control as she helms the episode "Exile." As with previous DVD sets, three more "NX-01" files are hidden as "Easter eggs" on the Special Features menus, and they include further appreciations of the Enterprise writers, the work of costume designer Robert Blackman, and John Billingsley's hilarious anecdote about Phlox's prodigious sexual endowment(s). The outtakes are amusing but all too brief, perhaps owing to the higher stakes (and lower ratings) of a dramatically serious season. --Jeff Shannon
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 Season 3, Enterprise - The year of the Xindi - brilliant December 3, 2008
Long time Trek fan. I've seen all of the movies and every episode of every show (even every Enterprise - how many Trek fans can say that?), and the Xindi season probably stands as the most solid overall season of a Trek show (though a few DS9 seasons come *really* close). I have to hand it to them for pretty much ignoring Trek lore and trying something outright new after 2 shaky seasons under their belt and, other than a few references to existing canon and Andorian appearances, this season can stand well on its own as a good science fiction story arc even if you aren't familiar with Enterprise or even Trek itself. Some Trek fans didn't like that, I thought it was brilliant.
Once you get past the inane premise of Starfleet being made aware of the Xindi threat by their making a direct attack on Earth as a preliminary test for their doomsday weapon (actually happened as the finale of season 2), the rest of this season unfolds in a well paced and laid out storyline, with even the diversion stories meaning something in the end. The concept of the Xindi themselves, 5 different species (humanoid, arboreals, insectoid, reptilian, and aquatic) all originating from the same planet and evolving together (and a 6th technically, avian, though extinct and didn't make it to the present time of the story arc). Very diverse and conflicted, yet all unified in a common bond - the destruction of Earth and the (future) Federation which they have been led to believe will destroy them. The effects are top notch, especially considering all of the Xindi races have their own technology and look as well. The aquatics alone, as a non humanoid species living in water, would have been impossible to do on a tv budget even a few short years earlier. The Enterprise itself even takes progressive damage throughout the year - none of that "all fixed, everything is better" at the beginning of the next episode - they are forced to deal with their damage and limitations while cut off from most all of their allies while in the Xindi Expanse.
Go for season 4 of Enterprise if you're looking for more true canon prequel Trek (esp. the Mirror Universe eps featuring the Tholians) - if the first two seasons had been anything like the last season (4), or the third season of Enterprise had been the first, the show might have gone to 5-7 seasons.
As it stands though, if you just want to give Enterprise itself a try, go with season 3. It'll stand on it's own.
The Star Trekkie in the Expanse October 21, 2008
The Star Trekkie, whose continuing mission is to seek out every Star Trek Episode, to boldy go where no one has gone before: to watch every single episode, in chronoligical order, from Enterprise to TOS to TNG to... well, you get the idea. Seasons 1 and 2 went fairly well, whereas, halfway through season 3, I discovered my own breaking point and had to take a 6 week sabatical from battling the Xindi...
In short, I found the cliche that ultimatly cost Enterprise its 5th season. Oh, I loved the T'Pol-Trip romance, which is one of the more interestuing ones in the series(es) being wrought out of almost complete emnity. And, frankly, loved even more the twist Archer took as he started to do "what is nessicary" for the survival of Enterprise and Earth in a story arc remincesant of "In The Pale Moonlight" from DS9's 6th Season. But there were problems. I never did much get exactly where the Xindi came from, even if it does have soemthing to do with the Temproal Cold War, no more than I ever got the Suliban plotlines.
In essence, a vaild addition to the Enterprise story, perhaps better than the first two seasons in that it has a darker and grittier feel then even the first - ie, a more resonant, modern feel than the idealic episodes of TOS or the 1-story-resolutions of TNG - that deeply asks the questions of "What is right?" "What is nessicary?" and "What is good?" for all charectors, most especially T'Pol and Archer, ending in a clasic cliffhanger... Though the story gives, these very reasons also detract the classic fan in much the way the Dominon War cost DS9. Still, a worthy watch. 1 at a time.
Star Trek Enterprise: Third Season October 15, 2008
Great old-fashioned cliffhanger episodes of the Enterprise's battle to save Earth. If you are a "trekkie" this is a great season to have. I found it to to be the equivalent of a real page-turning novel that you couldn't put down, I had to keep watching episode after episode.
Adelente! July 31, 2008
That year in the series was an endless string of add-ons so we never watched it during the season.
Now to buy it latter and watch the entire year in one rainy afternoon without commercials...... priceless!
Star Trek Enterprise, 3rd Season July 4, 2008
The CD's are perfect, the show is incredible. I shop at Amazon a lot.
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