Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001. The pilot episode, "Broken Bow",
takes place in the year 2151 (exactly 150 years from the then current
year), halfway between the 21st-century events shown in the movie Star Trek: First Contact and the original Star Trek television series. Low ratings prompted UPN to cancel Star Trek: Enterprise
on February 2, 2005, but the network allowed the series to complete its
fourth season. The final episode aired on May 13, 2005. After a run of
four seasons and 98 episodes, it was the first Star Trek series since the original Star Trek
to have been cancelled by its network rather than finished by its
producers. It is also the last series in an 18-year run of back-to-back
new Star Trek shows beginning with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987.
In May 2000, Rick Berman, executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager, revealed that a new series would premiere following the final season of Voyager.[1] Little news was forthcoming for months as Berman and Brannon Braga developed the untitled series, known only as Series V, until February 2001, when Paramount signed Herman Zimmerman and John Eaves to production design Series V.[2] Within a month, scenic designer Michael Okuda, another long-time Trek veteran, was also signed.[3]Michael Westmore, make-up designer for Trek since Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), was announced as working on Series V by the end of April.[4] Returning as director of photography would be Marvin V. Rush,[5] who had been working on various Treks since the third season of TNG. For visual effects, Ronald B. Moore, who had previously worked on TNG and Voyager, was brought in.[5]
However, the biggest news would wait until May 11, 2001. The title of Series V was revealed to be Enterprise, with Scott Bakula, of Quantum Leap fame, playing Captain Jeffery Archer, a name that was quickly changed to Jonathan Archer due to fan feedback.[6] Four days later, the rest of the main cast was announced,[7] though the character names would not be announced until the next day.[8]
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Well, you know, if you think about it, since The Next Generation, we've had so many Star Trek entities that were called "Star Trek"-colon-something
[...] Our feeling was, in trying to make this show dramatically
different, which we are trying to do, that it might be fun not to have
a divided main title like that. And I think that if there's any one
word that says Star Trek without actually saying Star Trek, it's the word "Enterprise".
You all are witness to a show that guarantees instant attention, recognition, anticipation and most importantly, success [...] Star Trek is the most popular science fiction franchise in the world.
On May 14, 2001, shooting began for the pilot episode, Broken Bow,
on stages 8, 9, and 18 at Paramount Studios. Three days later, Tom
Nunan, entertainment producer at UPN, held a press conference formally
announcing Enterprise to the world at large.[10] Featuring a video on the history of the Star Trek franchise, Nunan held up previous installments of the franchise as proof-of-concept that Enterprise would succeed.[citation needed]
On September 26, 2001, the premiere episode of Enterprise, "Broken Bow", aired on UPN with an estimated 12.54 million viewers.[citation needed]
Mars Sojourner, seen in the opening to Star Trek: Enterprise
Through the life of the series, Star Trek: Enterprise would mark several milestones for Star Trek television production. Enterprise was the first Star Trek to be produced in widescreen, the first Star Trek series to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season,[11] the first Star Trek to be filmed on digital video (season 4),[12] and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet (the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits).[13]
A number of episodes of Enterprise were directed by Star Trek alumni:[citation needed]
Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), captain of Earth's first Warp 5 starship, Enterprise.
His father designed its engine, giving Archer a very personal
connection to his ship. Archer feels an immense amount of pressure
concerning his mission, especially when hunting the Xindi
to save Earth from destruction. Subsequently he is assigned Earth-local
or diplomatic missions. Instrumental in founding the Federation.
T'Pol (Jolene Blalock), science officer of the Enterprise, originally attached to the Enterprise by the Vulcan High Command
to keep the humans out of trouble. Becomes very loyal to Archer,
leaving her position in the High Command to accompany him, find the
Xindi, and later join Starfleet. A version of T'Pol who was flung into
the past gives birth to the first human/Vulcan
hybrid. In later seasons, forms a romantic relationship with Trip. DNA
stolen, along with Charles Tucker's, in order to make the first
Vulcan/Human hybrid in the "normal" timeline, who unfortunately died
from complications.
Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Connor Trinneer), chief engineer of the Enterprise,
and long-time friend of Captain Archer. Started off conservatively
modest, but becomes more seasoned as the series runs, losing a sister
in the Xindi attack. In later seasons, forms a romantic relationship
with T'Pol. DNA stolen, along with T'Pol's, in order to make the first
Vulcan/Human hybrid in the "normal" timeline, who unfortunately died
from complications. Trip was supposedly killed in the series finale
based 10 years in the future saving the ship while it was under attack
but the continuing novels revealed his death to be a fabrication.
Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating), tactical officer of the Enterprise, also in charge of ship security. Reed comes from a long line of Royal Navy
men, but joined Starfleet due to a fear of drowning. An extremely
taciturn man, his own family did not know his favorite food when asked
(it's pineapples).
Hoshi Sato (Linda Park),
communications officer and linguistic genius. Capable of learning alien
languages extremely quickly, Hoshi serves as the interpreter between
the Enterprise crew and new alien species, even after the
Universal Translator is on-line. Suffered anxiety about her place on
board originally, but exposure to frequent danger helped her realize
her value to the ship.
Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery), helmsman. A "Space Boomer," Travis is unique on Enterprise
being born in space. Son of a freighter captain, Travis knows many of
the alien species as well as locations that Earth traders frequent. As Enterprise
moves farther and farther from Earth, his value in this area lessens,
but his skill at the helm is constantly appreciated, making him the
pilot of choice for many missions.
Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley), chief medical officer. A Denobulan member of the Inter-Species Medical Exchange, Phlox is brought aboard the Enterprise to care for their Klingon
passenger. Afterward, he volunteers to stay on, delighting in the
experience of humanity taking its first steps into the larger galactic
stage. An exceedingly cheerful alien, Dr. Phlox uses many animals and
various naturalistic cures to practice his trade, instead of the usual
technological implements. Dr. Phlox also devised a method of
eradicating Borg nanoprobes, but because the method is fatal to humans
and nearly so to Denobulans, it has little use.
The first two seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise depict the
exploration of interstellar space by the crew of an Earth ship able to
go farther and faster than any humans had previously gone, due to the
breaking of the Warp 5 barrier, analogous to the Bell X-1 breaking the sound barrier, that made interstellar travel feasible. The crew faces situations that are familiar to Star Trek fans, but are unencumbered and unjaded by the experience and rules which have built up over hundreds of years of Trek history established in previous Star Trek series. Star Trek: Enterprise takes pains to show the origins of some concepts which have become taken for granted in Star Trekcanon, such as Lt. Reed's development of force fields and Captain Archer's questions about cultural interference eventually being answered by later series' Prime Directive.
A recurring plot device is the Temporal Cold War, in which a mysterious entity from the 27th century uses the Cabal, a group of genetically upgraded Suliban, to manipulate the timeline and change past events. Sometimes sabotaging Enterprise's mission and sometimes saving the ship from destruction, the entity's motives are unknown. Agent Daniels, a temporal agent from the 31st century, visits Captain Archer occasionally to assist him in fighting the Suliban and undoing damage to the timeline.
In the past ninety years since Star Trek: First Contact, the Vulcans
have been mentoring humanity to what they see as an appropriate level
of civilization, routinely holding back scientific knowledge in an
effort to keep humans stranded close to home, believing them to be too
irrational and emotionally-dominated to function properly in an
interstellar community. When Enterprise finally sets out, the
Vulcans are often conspicuously close by. This generates some conflict
as, in several early episodes, Archer and others complain bitterly of
the Vulcans' unsubtle methods of checking up on them.
The third season sees the change of the series' name to Star Trek: Enterprise as well as an updated main title theme. Season three introduces the Xindi, an enemy bent on annihilating humanity via a planet-destroying super weapon.
The third season follows a single story arc, beginning in the second season finale "The Expanse", in which a mysterious probe cuts a wide, deep trench from central Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people. Enterprise
is recalled and retrofitted as a warship, with more powerful weapons
and a group of elite Military Assault Command Operations (MACOs). Enterprise travels through an area known as the Delphic Expanse to find the Xindi homeworld and prevent another attack against Earth. The crew learns in "Azati Prime"
that the Sphere-Builders, a transdimensional species, have technology
that allows them to examine alternate timelines. The Sphere-Builders
know that in the 26th century, the "Federation" fleet, led by Enterprise's distant cousin, the Enterprise-J,
will lead an attack against them that will defeat them. They wanted the
Xindi, who revered them as "the Guardians," to destroy Earth in the
hope that this would deter the formation and existence of the
Federation. However, in the season finale, "Zero Hour",
they manage to defeat the Sphere-Builders and destroy the Xindi weapon.
They also succeeded in returning the Expanse to normal space. The
season ends with the Enterprise being mysteriously transported into the
middle of World War II. This plot was resolved in "Storm Front", Parts I & II.
The show was renewed for a fourth season on May 20, 2004. The
renewal moved the show from Wednesday night to Friday night, a move
that seemed to replicate the third season renewal of the original Star Trek, when it was moved from Thursday night to the Friday night "death slot". Many cast and crew members supported it, saying that The X-Files
gained more viewership during its first three years on Friday nights.
As a sequel to "Zero Hour," "Storm Front" and "Storm Front, Part II,"
opened up the fourth season on October 8 and 15, 2004. The episodes
ended the ongoing Temporal Cold War arc, which proved very unpopular
among the show's viewers during the first three seasons. The Xindi arc,
started over a year ago in "The Expanse," ended with the third episode,
"Home," which mostly dealt with Captain Archer's ethically and morally
questionable actions during the yearlong mission in the Expanse. The
general theme of the season was a refocus on the prequel concept of the
series, with many episodes making reference to themes, concepts, and
characters from past series. The fourth season saw Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation) as the imprisoned scientist Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator (Dr. Noonien Soong, also played by Spiner in at least two episodes of in Star Trek: The Next Generation),
in a three-episode arc at the end of which Soong abandons the concept
of improving mankind in favor of creating artificial intelligence: an
allusion to what will eventually become Data.
The Soong episodes later gave rise to a story arc where the Klingons
were attempting to improve their species through the continuation of
Soong's work. This allowed for an explanation of why the Klingons on The Original Series lacked brow ridges and were much more human looking than Klingons in any of the other series.
Season 4 also addressed some discrepancies between the Vulcans of The Original Series and those depicted in Star Trek: Enterprise.
In the Vulcan Civil War arc, Romulan subversion of the Vulcan High
Command leads to a splinter group of Vulcans opposed to the High
Command's actions, believing those actions to be against the teachings
of Surak, the mythic leader who brought logic to Vulcan. After this
storyline, Vulcans began a cultural transformation that was presumably
a turn toward the more enlightened Vulcans of Trek series set
further in the future. For example, mind-melding before the ancient
teachings were recovered was considered immoral; after, it was embraced
as the legacy of all Vulcans. A two-part return to the Mirror Universe,
made popular by The Original Series and Deep Space Nine,
titled "In a Mirror, Darkly," was made late in the fourth season, which
took place in the parallel dimension. These episodes use the Enterprise
crew as the most barbaric members of the Terran Empire. As a sequel to
the original Star Trek's "Mirror,Mirror" proved popular while "Part II"
had an ending which was a cliffhanger. Had the series gone on for a
fifth season, the story would have continued. The story was "continued"
by means of the first "Mirror Universe" anthology published in 2007 by
Pocket Books. The story, "Age of the Empress" was crafted by Mike
Sussman, the writer of "In a Mirror, Darkly."
Romulans also stir up trouble midway through the season. While a
diplomatic conference is hosted by Earth on the planet Babel, Romulans,
using drone ships with holographic emitters (mimicking any ship) stir
up trouble with the Andorians and Tellarites. This places the two races
at each other's throats, and when they're revealed to be Romulan,
Archer devises an alliance, similar to the Federation, with the
Vulcans. This three-part arc, which presaged the inevitable
Romulan-Earth War of 2156, received the lowest Nielsen ratings of the
entire series, leading UPN to cancel it on February 2, 2005.
In the final story arc of the season a human terrorist group, called
Terra Prime, are bent on removing all non-humans from human planets and
genetically engineer a child from DNA samples of Commander Tucker and
Commander T'Pol. They use the baby as a means to anger humans who have
become afraid of aliens since the Xindi conflict and launch a campaign
from Mars to drive the alien outsiders from human space. This storyline
has been said by producers to represent how humanity must overcome its
own bigotry and hatred in order to become the human race seen in later Treks.
By the third season, ratings were continually declining, and the threat of cancellation loomed over Star Trek: Enterprise. This, along with the poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Star Trek Nemesis, cast an uncertain light upon the future of the Star Trek franchise in general.
Fans launched a letter writing campaign similar to the one that saved the third season of the Original Series.[15] On May 20, 2004, it was announced that Enterprise had been renewed for a fourth season, but that the show would move from Wednesday to Friday nights.[16] This move echoed the rescheduling of the original Star Trek to a Friday night time slot for its third season prior to its ultimate cancellation, as Friday nights have traditionally been considered "Death Row" for a major TV production.
Hired as a writer during the third season, Manny Coto was promoted to co-executive producer, becoming the series showrunner
for the fourth season. Coto decided to retain the "arc" concept of
season 3, but reduce it from one season-long arc to several "mini-arcs"
of two or three episodes, with few standalones. The producers attempted
to attract viewers by terminating a long-running story arc (the Temporal Cold War) and scheduling numerous episodes that served as prequels to storylines from The Original Series and The Next Generation.
Beginning in the summer of 2004, and continuing throughout the fourth season, there were reports that William Shatner would reprise the role of James T. Kirk or perhaps an ancestor in the series,[17] but an agreement could not be reached.[18]
The fourth season got off to a slow start in the ratings on October
8, 2004, due to the Friday time-slot, preemptions by local sports in
some markets, and by coverage of the second presidential debate between
George W. Bush and John Kerry in others. As well, Enterprise
fans continued to indicate they chose to watch the weekend showing
rather than the Friday broadcast, or chose to "time-shift" the program
using their VCR or DVR equipment. In October 2004, it was announced that Enterprise was the 25th most popular Season Pass on the TiVo television recording system in the United States.[19]
Speculation as to the future of the series came to an end on
February 2, 2005, when UPN announced the series had been cancelled and
its final episode would air on Friday, May 13, 2005.[20] Fan groups such as "Save Enterprise" joined forces[21] and announced a drive to raise money to finance a further season of Enterprise.
Approximately $30 million was the goal of the campaign, based upon
estimates of the cost for a full season cited by John Billingsley and
others.[21]
In addition, Washington, D.C. lobbyist Dan Jensen circulated a letter
on Capitol Hill in an effort to appeal to the sentiments of
legislators. As a result, then Florida Congressman Mark Foley
(R) agreed to sign the letter. The Washington "lobbying" effort
garnered considerable press, and had a feature article on the front
page of Roll Call.[22]
Production of the fourth season concluded on March 8, 2005, and by the end of the month, Startrek.com was reporting the Enterprise sets had been taken down, marking the first time that Stage 9 at Paramount Studios has been without Star Trek
sets since the late 1970s. The website did not indicate whether the
sets have been preserved in storage (the industry term being
'fold-and-hold') or if they have been destroyed.[23]
As of April 13, 2005, Paramount and UPN remained adamant that the
cancellation of the series was final and that the studio was not
interested in continuing the current incarnation of Star Trek.[24] TrekUnited officials, however, still claimed to be in talks with Paramount over the future of the series.[25]
The website IGN Filmforce, reporting on rumors Paramount had actually decided to cancel Enterprise after its fourth season as early as midway through the second year, quoted an unidentified "executive involved with Enterprise" as saying this scenario was "very likely".
Although widely reported as the death knell of the Star Trek franchise, the cancellation of Enterprise was followed within months by the announcement that Paramount was in pre-production on an 11th Star Trek feature film. After a false start involving Berman which would have set the film in a time period after the events of Enterprise but before TOS, Paramount recruited a new producing and writing team, which ultimately led to the release of a new Star Trek film in May 2009. Like Enterprise, the new film also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.
The series' theme song, written by Diane Warren and sung by Russell Watson, was a marked contrast to the sweeping instrumental themes used in all other Star Trek series. It was also the first such theme not to have been composed specially for Star Trek, having previously appeared (performed by Rod Stewart) in the film Patch Adams (1998).
Like other aspects of the series, the theme song polarized fans.
Online petitions were signed demanding its removal from the titles.[26]
A new, more upbeat arrangement of the theme song was introduced for the
third season, but this did not assuage the song's critics, and elicited
criticism from some who liked the original version.[27]
The theme song, as well as the opening credits, were altered for two back-to-back episodes in season 4 entitled "In a Mirror, Darkly", which take place in an alternate mirror universe.
Throughout the show's run, there was extensive Internet speculation
as to whether the theme song and opening credits would be changed.[28] This speculation was fueled in October 2004 when the official website startrek.com posted[29]
an opening credits sequence in which Scott Bakula recites a modified
version of the famous speech, ending instead of with the
gender-specific 'man' or the gender- and species-neutral 'one' but
rather the species-specific 'human', accompanied by "Archer's Theme",
the instrumental used as the closing credits music for the series. The
never-before-seen introduction was:
Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
Her continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new
life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no human has gone before.
Like the Trek series that preceded it, a series of original novels based on Enterprise was launched by Pocket Books
soon after the program debuted. During the run of the series, however,
only five books were published (not counting episode novelizations), a
low number compared to the other series. No Enterprise-specific novels appeared at all in 2005 and the first post-cancellation novel, Rosetta by Dave Stern, did not appear until February 2006.
As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided
to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or
lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the
televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or
beat the book series to the punch entirely. The novel Surak's Soul by J.M. Dillard,
includes as a major plot point the aftermath of T'Pol killing a person
during a mission. Before it was published, however, the TV series aired
"The Seventh", an episode with a similar core plot point, which forced
last-minute revisions to Dillard's book. Later, the novel Daedalus,
by Dave Stern, included flashbacks to the early days of the NX Program
which needed to be revised to avoid conflicting with the
already-broadcast episode "First Flight",
which also featured a look at the early days of the NX Program.
Apparently, things weren't expected to change during the fourth season;
in a May 2005 posting at the TrekBBS, Clark explained that the lack of Enterprise
novels was intended to avoid any further potential storytelling "land
mines" since "Season Four kept doing stuff we wanted/planned to do".[30]
With the series concluded, novelists are free to compose
continuation novels without fear of being preempted or contradicted by
the show, save for any restrictions put in place by the finale episode.
In May 2005, Clark announced plans for a new series of Enterprise novels that will constitute a "relaunch" similar to that of the literary continuation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Clark indicated that the books will cover events in the six years between "Terra Prime" and "These Are the Voyages...".[30]
An original novel, Last Full Measure, was released in April
2006. It takes place during the third season Xindi Arc and therefore
isn't considered part of the relaunch (Rosetta takes place during the fourth season and likewise is not considered a relaunch volume, either). However, Last Full Measure
does contain a "framing sequence" that serves as a preview for the
Relaunch. This framing sequence, which has proven controversial,
suggests Trip Tucker did not die in the events of "These Are the
Voyages..." and is alive in the early 23rd century, though the reason
for this is not explained. According to Clark, again posting on the
TrekBBS, dissatisfaction over the finale episode is the driving factor
behind the continuation novels/relaunch including a story arc that
suggests that Trip's death in the finale was not as it seemed.
The first official relaunch novel, The Good That Men Do by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin
was published by Pocket Books on February 28, 2007, and gives a
different perspective on the events shown in the final episode. This
book also provides a lead-in to a series of books that will document
the Earth-Romulan War that has been referenced in the other Star Trek materials, but was never developed during the television production of Enterprise.
The relaunch novels' concept, of Trip not actually dying in the
final episode, is based on an enigmatic moment in which Trip is
supposedly near death and is being loaded into a medical chamber. He
looks up at Archer, smiles and winks; Archer smiles back and also
winks. The novels take this to mean the death of Trip was actually an
elaborate ruse and not his actual death. The book reveals that the
events of the holo-program from "These Are the Voyages" are a
deliberate lie. Noting the inconsistencies in the episode as proof that
it is a fabrication, an aged Jake Sisko and Nog discuss the lack of promotions among the crew, the pirates' warp 2 ship that is some how able catch up with Enterprise,
and the complete lack of MACOs and security teams when the pirates
stalk the ship. It should be noted that the established criteria of Star Trek canon
disqualifies novels as being official continuity; the decision to undo
Trip's death in "These Are the Voyages" in the novels marks one of the
only occasions in which a licensed, expanded universe spin-off has
openly contradicted a major part of Trek continuity – an earlier
example involved the launch of a series of novels featuring Kirk that
suggested the character did not die at the end of the film, Star Trek Generations.
Kobayashi Maru continues the story, with the Romulans
continuing their attacks against the newly formed Coalition of Planets.
Archer and crew appear to be the only ones who believe the Romulans are
truly behind the attacks. The book culminates in Archer facing the
infamous Kobayashi Maru no-win scenario, and the beginning of the Earth-Romulan War.
The third installment of this series, The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing,
was released in October 2009. The novel explains the beginning of the
Earth-Romulan war and the desperation of the Coalition of Planets.
The fourth installment of the novel series is titled "The Romulan
War: In Shariel's Jaws", it is a Pocket ENT novel by Michael A. Martin.
Scheduled for release in trade paperback format in November 2011, it
will be the second novel in The Romulan War series. The novel was
announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 154. Details of the book have not
yet been announced. If the series does well, a total of three to four
Romulan War novels will be made.
In October 2004, coinciding with the start of the show's fourth
season and months before the cancellation announcement, Paramount
revealed plans to release the four seasons of Enterprise to DVD
in North America during 2005. It has yet to be revealed whether this
had any bearing on the decision to cancel the program since Voyager was offered to syndication midway through its run with no impact on its network status, and TNG, DS9, and Voyager all saw episodes released to home video
during their runs, long before those series ended. It had also become
commonplace for current series to have past seasons released to DVD.
The first season DVD was released on May 3, 2005, ten days prior to
the broadcast of the final episode. This release marked a couple of
firsts for Star Trek TV series DVD releases. It was the first to include extensive deleted scenes (although footage cut from the premiere of Voyager had been included in a featurette previously), and it was the first to include an outtakes or blooper
reel. The remaining seasons were released on July 26, September 27, and
November 1. All the remaining sets also included deleted scenes and
outtakes of varying length.
Although the show was produced with HDTV in mind, CBS Home Entertainment currently has no plans to release the show on Blu-ray.
UPN continued to air reruns of Enterprise for only a month
after the series finale, with the last network-broadcast episode, "In a
Mirror, Darkly" (Part II), airing on June 11, 2005 – this despite
initial announcements that reruns would continue throughout the summer.
With disruptions from local sports programming, many areas never had
the opportunity to see all the episodes, which had been aired elsewhere.
Syndicated rebroadcasts of the series began in North American markets on September 17, 2005.[35] Broadcasts in high definition began on HDNet
in late 2006 and continue into 2010. Three episodes are broadcast
daily. On Friday Aug. 27, 2010, HDNet will stop carrying Star Trek
Enterprise every day from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Mon - Fri.
NBC Universal's Syfy ran the series from January 8, 2007,[36]
until July, 2008 in four-episode blocks every Monday night. Since Sci
Fi does not own HD airing rights to the series, it was shown in a 4:3
letterbox 16:9 format on both the SD & HD feeds. Syfy played reruns
on weekdays at 5pm, though not in their original broadcast order.
Enterprise was replaced by Stargate Atlantis in June 2009. Syfy still
airs Enterprise at 4pm on a couple of weekdays.
In Canada it is aired on Space.
It is aired on Star World on weekdays at 4:30 p.m. in India.
It is aired on MTV3 Scifi on weekdays starting from April 1, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Finland and repeats on Saturdays.
In October 2007, Virgin 1 in the UK announced it is "The new home of Star Trek"[37] and aired Seasons 1 through 3. Season 4 was broadcast beginning April 30, 2010 at 9 pm BST.[citation needed] It aired on Channel One (formerly Virgin 1) until the channel's demise.
In Belgium and the Netherlands it is aired on the SciFi Channel (Benelux).
In Australia it is aired on the local SciFi Channel in 16:9 on weekends.
In Portugal it is aired on MOV every weekday at 19:10 and on Wednesdays at 21:40.
