Captain Archer, hurrying to engineering: "It's been a long road, getting from there to here." Tucker: "You should've just used the pole, it takes like two seconds."
Enterprise is a criminally underrated series (minus the odd episode... *cough* These Are The Voyages) and the NX-01 is the perfect design for showing humanity's first steps into deep space.
It also shows how the Vulcans did not trust the Humans with their best technologies because of their illogical hostilities with their Andoran neighbors and borderline explosive relationship with the Tellarites. I actually find it kinda' stupid that the Andorans and Tellarites did not form an alliance before the Humans discovered warp speed. The communication speed and time needed were already there. By that time, humans only needed to agree to start contact with them... but the Trekverse needed humans to become the dominant force in the Federation despite having 4 founding species members with Humans being the newest warp-capable species.
It relied too heavily on time travel, tried to sell too much sexuality. They also downgraded the tech they should have already had, like rubbing that stuff on them after every mission. They did a good job at making a scifi show with a star trek skin. I guess making a prequel will always have its problems, one reason they should stop making them, they all suck imo
yeah indeed! People complained and I always thought "well...of course lets not forget its fucking hard!" like seriously how do you in the early 00's look futuristic but stay BELOW the future of the show but a future that was an IDEA of the future back then...lol
@@bsgtrekfan88 I'm not particularly a fan of Discovery for a multitude of reasons but I think they did a piss poor job with that ship. However I did like Discovery's take on the constitution class. Like a modernised version of the 60's aesthetic. EDIT: For clarity, the interior of Discovery is visually great as is most of the show, just doesn't fit with the era its meant to take place in the way they managed with Enterprise. Discovery's Constitution class was a good middle ground if they HAD to put the show where they did in the timeline.
@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 Exactly! I really REALLY appreciate and respect what they did to the overall design of the Enterprise in Discovery - and there uniforms. Its really hard to pull off "Future look from the past that cant look too old but also too new" bull -
Yep I agree. The ship brought over the feeling of being a new thing, one of the first deep space vessels. Something we could build ourselves with current technology.
Being an 80's/90's child, I find the NX beautiful and rugged looking - like the more exotic and sportier of sports cars of the time. Everything today is round and bubbled-out. But the NX gives me that mid-80's Lambo vibe. And that will always be ~cool~!
It makes total sense; the idea was that the NX was just a step-and-a-half beyond being an engineering prototype ... so of course they'd be thinking "... but what if we need to make a substantial upgrade, and some significant parts just aren't compatible? We need to be able to have whole-sale swap-outs be feasible!" Tah-dah! There we have it!
I like how they really tried to put Enterprise in it's time period. Discovery just feels too advanced, like it was intended for the future after Voyager, but then the whole thing was haphazardly shoved into the past. Of course later...
I’m with you there. I love the uniform because it feels like the logical next step from the flight suits used by NASA. I also loved how they showed actual crew loading actual torpedoes. Like , we’re not just pushing buttons and going “pew pew” here, there’s an actual greasy grimy crew at work inside this ship. I loved that, wanted more of it.
The actual ship design of Discovery was based on a model for Star Trek Phase 2 from the 70s, but, yeah, the spore drive was a little much. As for season 3, I think the show has had a consistent issue with the first few episodes of each season being great and then they kinda lose the pace and do a lot of nothing for half the season. On average, I think season 3 may be better than 2, but they both had great starts and then just go on stretching a secondary plot line for half the season and get nowhere with the main story until the last episode (happened with the search for Spock in season 2 and more unnecessary mirror universe stuff in season 3)
@@fisk0 I don't have a problem with the ship design externally, more the technology it has. They start out using holographic communication. Then they back peddle explaining that Pike prefers screens. So everyone from Kirk to Janeway just prefered screens?
If the studio hadn't pushed so hard for Enterprise to be a TNG rehash and let the creators have a little bit of freedom, ENT probably could have revived the franchise.
This. I wish they had stayed with the early "working out the bugs" narrative instead of zooming ahead into the Xindi arc. It was great seeing the origins of the Red Alert, food replicator quirks, transporter distrust, etc. Lore building at its best. But, apparently that was "too slow and boring" for most folks.
I remember seeing the NX-01 design, and thinking that we’d see something a bit more Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon rough and tumble mixed with a modern sensibility, and we just got the same old stuff as TNG with a different veneer…it was a downer. I’d watch the occasional episode, but after the first couple of episodes I saw, I just didn’t care…
Enterprise is my favourite of the whole ST universe. The Andorians are by far the coolest race, a shame they don’t have a role in any of the other series. And T’pol on the pole... yes, definetly a thing we miss...
The ships getting cooler but the shows are plots where everyone is just starring at their belly buttons & pondering their navel buttons existence....BORING!
The ships getting cooler but the shows are plots where everyone is just starring at their belly buttons & pondering their navel buttons existence....BORING!
as a former propulsion worker in a Nimitz class aircraft carrier engine room, I can tell you without any hesitation, you do not ever, ever put the engine room right below the bridge. That is almost as stupid as putting ammunition below the bridge.
Honestly, Faith of the Heart doesn't bug me any more, but Archer's Theme will always be the proper opening to me (mostly because that's what it was, before the executives ruined it)
One of my favorite star trek enterprise quotes is between Malcom and Tucker in the season 4 Romulan ark: Tucker: "You did all this with one phase pistol?!!" Malcom: "Your good at building things, I'm good at blowing them up."
Maybe this is related and maybe it isn’t, but Richard Nixon had a bowling alley installed in the White House! I don’t know: there might be a relationship between bowling and villainy! Just sayin’! 😹
Okay. One, I was going to flip out if you talked to Doug Drexler about the NX-01 and the refit didn't come up. Guess I should have had more faith (of the heart) in you. Two... The pole. Mind blown.
I will always regret that we didn’t get to see all of the crew members having to slide down that pole at some point. Bonus thought: there should have been a moment where someone couldn’t get to the bridge any other way and have to climb the pole and end up scaring the crap out of the people on the bridge because no one has EVER come up that way. 😂
I do like the show's version of the NX-01. Doug says it's like the 'ironclads' of the Civil war and I always felt it was more like the first submarines of the 40's vs the new modern subs. The hallways had their support struts visible, where the original Enterprise 1701 looked sleeker, more civilized on the inside, with fewer structural interruptions in the walls and such. The NX didn't have space for all the nice touches, conveniences or aesthetics. And the design did look rushed, as if the engineers hurried that 'First Warp 5 capable' engine and stuffed it into a hull as quickly as they could. Hell, they were still experimenting with transporter technology. They didn't have shields or tractor beams... That would have to be a scarier version of Trek because that ship felt so vulnerable compared to the Constellation class.
@@dog3y3 I wish they had spent more time in that "working out the kinks" phase instead of rushing off to war and time travel. It felt more authentic and historically accurate (as much as fictional history can be).
A _recycled_ pop song, at that! Though, I gotta admit, the visual of the opening credits is my favorite of all of _Trek,_ but yeah, I’d rather have a kick-ass soaring orchestral piece to go along with those aspirational images!
Doug is a great guy, and a long time personal friend (back to 1978). He invited me to visit the sets (and art dept.) at Paramount long ago, which was a big thrill!! If you see the episode "Dead Stop", the NOMAD (2008 satellite) desk prop I made from scratch is seen in the opening shot of them looking for clues in Maywether's cabin.
I've always loved the NX-01 and sad they never got to go into later seasons with the Romulan War and Birth the of the Federation ramping up. Watching this though I found it neat that the modular portion in the back where engineering would just slide out is where the neck of the drive section gets installed allowing for the new warp core to be moved down.
I always assumed the song "Faith of the Heart" was written for Enterprise, until that is, rewatching the Robin Williams movie Patch Adams recently! How shocked I was! (And for the record I like it , and the ship design, crew/actors/characters and the series as a whole... all of which are miles ahead of Discovery in all categories) And as an aside, Adam, did you just say USS Thunderchild? Didn't know there was a ship of this name! Ulla!
“Enterprise” is still my favorite series… and it breaks my heart when I hear the “reasons” why it was cancelled. I grew up with TNG, DS9, and VGR, but ENT still took the cake. I saw the potential, and I loved the TOS vibes they put into it. I wanted to see T’pol be shown as being half Romulan, I wanted to see the Earth-Romulan wars… stuff I read about, happening. Instead, they cancelled it. I just don’t get why people disliked it, and though I agree on some negative points: I feel they were overly critical. Shran as an officer on the NX? That would’ve rocked, a first Andorian main character! But nope… cancelled because of blindness…
I imagine a storyline wherein the crew had to eject Engineering and the ship had to be towed back to the ship yard for a new one only to be surprised that they're not just getting a new Engineering section but a whole new half of the ship.
The first time I heard both the Enterprise and Firefly themes, I didn't like them. By the time I was done with the shows, I liked both. Although I liked the Firefly one much more.
I have just recently finished watching ENT for the first time so this was a very entertaining video. I thought the NX-01 kind of resembled a submarine on the inside with the low beams like in the ready room and the doors that have a locking hatch in case of emergency. Also, I really liked the signage around the ship stating 'Authorized Personnel Only' and the like. I can't believe it took me so long to actually getting around to watching it.
I Feel so salty about this whole series. It could have been more than 4 seasons and faith of the heart. We could have seen a Romance between Archer and T'Pol. Instead thanks to the Naysayers, we never got to see the Romulan War.
Running low on Federation ships? Why not branch out into some of the non-Star Fleet hero ships. The IKS Rotaran got more screen time than most Star Fleet ships and earned its hero ship credentials with multiple storylines focused on it and its crew. So some love to the B'Rel beast of the 9th fleet!
You know, I understand a lot of people didn't like that opening song for "Enterprise". I thought it was pretty good. I hated the 3rd/4th season versions where they made it more pop-like. That was horrible... Like the female voice they amplified for TOS remakes. That singing grates on my nerves.
@@dog3y3 Like a lot of trek fans, just wish they had gone with traditional brassy and string orchestral theme in the style of TOS Giachinno could have done a nice homage
Looks like you're gonna have to do some Pole Episodes... Dolphin Episodes... Polphin...? Anyway, you're gonna have to start doing some non-Starfleet ships. Like the Romulan Warbird. Seriously, just do the goddamned Warbird already.
I've been watching SG-1 and she plays a minor character in a semi-recurring roll. She brings her fierceness to that character as well. Her hair is much more out of control too. What's funny is that I believe there are several actors/actresses that were also Star Trek extras who share screen time with her on SG-1 and I believe there are a few little side jokes that no one would catch if they' weren't avid Enterprise fans.
Love Doug's full size "Lost In Space Robot". Why don't you guys do a show about him? I love the NX class! It was a tough little ship! Durable, reliable and could be constantly upgraded. Love the fan stories about it's involvement in the Earth-Romulan war. Cudos to Doug Drexler! It was the perfect design for that era of Star Trek. I think the addition of a secondary hull is interesting, but that secondary hull, for me, ruined the ship's entire esthetic beauty and balance.
I spit something out when he said no one would notice using the model. :-) It was in 1 of 2 of the only huge space battles in trek, maybe 3. By now I would have noticed. Thanks for self owning though. Because I didn't know you were an nx-01 hater. Shame.. I always thought the nx was the closest to the real design by Bussard. Where the nacelles are not warp drives. They would be collectors of mostly hydrogen in space. And the nacelle is a factory that processes this material into fusion material. This both powers the impulse drive by fusion, but also provides the reactant plasma used in impulse drives. There's no way no know if this is an efficient design. But it's fun to know we have all the technology to build a ship like this today. Maybe not visually the same but in a smaller scale one that works in exactly the same way. I dig my fantasy. But it's got to have some sci in the fi. So NX represent...ya H8R. :-)
Ive gotta say, Star Trek fans could not kill off Enterprise fast enough. I loved it, but every other Star Trek fan hated it, because it wasnt in the TNG setting. Thats the only kind of Star Trek they wanted to watch, so they not only didnt support it, they bad-mouthed it whenever they could. Im glad there are others that appreciate the show now because there sure werent many of us when it was on.
Enterprise (especially the 4 season) was soooo much better then every new Trek nowadays. Recently watched it and noticed Seth MacFarlane having a small role there.
I loved the show by always skipping the theme song, and being warned the ending would also infuriate me. I liked that it was about showing how SF became SF, and the modular design aspect being integral would have made it that much better. Also, yes, it's a crime they didn't use the pole.
My problem was the story arcs; I preferred individual shows that may or may not be connected to some other episodes or 2-4 episodes that are a small arc would be fine. I don't want to miss one episode and be lost. I was happy with everything else.
omg when I watched enterprise back then, i was like "that ship looks almost kinda like one of the other ships in the star trek federation. I look at this page and was like "omg i was right back then" :)
I really like ENTERPRISE series...I wish they had the 7 season mark...oh well, it was nice change and all so I KNEW IT WAS AN AKIRA CLASS back in the day....woohoo..
The whole of engineering being modular makes a lot of sense. In the Ent era, warp cores weren't really standardized yet (let alone experimental new warp 5+ cores). So you couldn't just pop out a core and slide a new one in. The entirety of the engineering surrounding it would need to be refitted as well. And without a plethora of massive shipyards, it would be a pain to have to build a new ship around them.
I think that had they included the pole into the show, I feel like that it would had been used in an way that exploited T’Pol and criticized her as nothing more than eye candy for the negative Nancy’s that were already ripping on the show as it was. But that is just me.
One one hand you have that T'pol was a well written character. On the other you have that decontamination scene with trip in like ep 1 or 2. You can see where people were coming from.
Their first decon scene with her and Trip kinda proves she was blatant eye candy, not to mention her "uniform". Her acting and the writing showed she was much more. But oh, what eye candy! Best looking Trek babe ever.
It's funny they mentioned the pole. I remember Valeris sliding down one in the Enterprise-A torpedo bay in the Director's Cut of "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". Also, I seem to recall they made that pod at the back of the NX-01 into an aft Photon Torpedo launcher after the ship got it's refit at the end of Season 2.
@@quoniam426 I know, which was why it always confused me when they fired them out the back of that pod sometimes. They definitely did that at least once, whether the VFX people meant to or not.
7:16-I strongly disagree with the notion that forward-thinking engineering would remove the drama from the show-that just means that the writers need to work harder, and be more inventive! And I’ve read science fiction-Arthur C. Clarke and Andy Weir come to mind here-where often the that kind of inventiveness can be compelling in and of itself, and can further complicate a story’s overall plot-sorry, but in this case, I think it’s a case of writing to an audience accustomed to easy tropes!
Captain Archer, hurrying to engineering: "It's been a long road, getting from there to here."
Tucker: "You should've just used the pole, it takes like two seconds."
There's a bad T'pol joke in there
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan T'pol on T'pole ? 😜
Anyone else read that in Tucker's accent?
Llll
@@JosephDickson Obviously yes.
Enterprise is a criminally underrated series (minus the odd episode... *cough* These Are The Voyages) and the NX-01 is the perfect design for showing humanity's first steps into deep space.
We don't count These Are The Voyages as an Enterprise episode. It's a TNG episode.
@@Doctors_TARDIS exactly!!
It also shows how the Vulcans did not trust the Humans with their best technologies because of their illogical hostilities with their Andoran neighbors and borderline explosive relationship with the Tellarites. I actually find it kinda' stupid that the Andorans and Tellarites did not form an alliance before the Humans discovered warp speed. The communication speed and time needed were already there. By that time, humans only needed to agree to start contact with them... but the Trekverse needed humans to become the dominant force in the Federation despite having 4 founding species members with Humans being the newest warp-capable species.
It relied too heavily on time travel, tried to sell too much sexuality. They also downgraded the tech they should have already had, like rubbing that stuff on them after every mission. They did a good job at making a scifi show with a star trek skin.
I guess making a prequel will always have its problems, one reason they should stop making them, they all suck imo
@@jamesmeppler6375 All remakes suck? James Bond?
I always loved the NX 01. Thought they did a great job of looking low tech while not slaved to the 60's aesthetic.
yeah indeed! People complained and I always thought "well...of course lets not forget its fucking hard!" like seriously how do you in the early 00's look futuristic but stay BELOW the future of the show but a future that was an IDEA of the future back then...lol
@@bsgtrekfan88 I'm not particularly a fan of Discovery for a multitude of reasons but I think they did a piss poor job with that ship. However I did like Discovery's take on the constitution class. Like a modernised version of the 60's aesthetic.
EDIT: For clarity, the interior of Discovery is visually great as is most of the show, just doesn't fit with the era its meant to take place in the way they managed with Enterprise. Discovery's Constitution class was a good middle ground if they HAD to put the show where they did in the timeline.
@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 Exactly! I really REALLY appreciate and respect what they did to the overall design of the Enterprise in Discovery - and there uniforms. Its really hard to pull off "Future look from the past that cant look too old but also too new" bull -
@@bsgtrekfan88 Personally, I think Axanar did it brilliantly.
Yep I agree. The ship brought over the feeling of being a new thing, one of the first deep space vessels. Something we could build ourselves with current technology.
If they'd used the pole, Enterprise would still be airing today.
T'Pol on the pole, there's a show I would watch
@@derianvandalsen Indeed!
A fireman's pole? Fuck yeah!
@@joeywall4657 I envision an Orion slave girl episode in which T'Pol teaches the syndicate a trick or two during her Pon farr
Especially if they had T'pol and Hoshi on the pole.
Warp core ejection system is offline.
~ Geordi La Forge, any given emergency
Why have an ejection system at all? Just shove it out the back door!
@@joshmayne2853 They probably just had a big button marked "Eject Warp Core" that actually was another GNDN. That's why it was always off line.
That was actually not a thing until Insurection and Voyager.
No. Someone bypassed the authorization code, and locked him out. And transporters are down.
@@telecleez I hope they at least had the sense to put that button in one of those “in case of emergency, break glass” boxes!
The Enterprise is my favorite Star Trek series, so thank you for this episode.
mine too
Same
I really want to like it I really do
@@patoren3gou653 it's ok, just a show don't pull your leg if you dont really like it
I love Enterprise. Close second to Ds9 for me. I love series long story arcs.
Being an 80's/90's child, I find the NX beautiful and rugged looking - like the more exotic and sportier of sports cars of the time. Everything today is round and bubbled-out. But the NX gives me that mid-80's Lambo vibe. And that will always be ~cool~!
Yes, I always liked Hoshi. She was a criminally underused character and for me the most attractive woman in Trek!
I had a huge crush on her
Massive crush on Hoshi.
And Travis too, actually.
But mostly Hoshi.
Yeah Hoshi just seemed more exotic than T'Pol for me. Since Linda Park is Japanese and I've always had a soft spot for Japanese ladies 💖
@@seajaye9540 Hoshi is Japanese, but Linda Park is Korean-American.
She was a pretty fair communications officer, but a truly monumental Empress of Humanity.
All hail Her Supreme Magnificence!
The engineering section bit sounds less like an eject than a ‘swap in the next iteration of the prototype hardware’.
It makes total sense; the idea was that the NX was just a step-and-a-half beyond being an engineering prototype ... so of course they'd be thinking "... but what if we need to make a substantial upgrade, and some significant parts just aren't compatible? We need to be able to have whole-sale swap-outs be feasible!" Tah-dah! There we have it!
what, are you telling me with that thumbnail that dan aykroyd is on the enterprise telling people to try out that pole???
Hehehehe ride the pole, ride her.
@@sid2112 damn right it is! *slides down pole* **snap**
it don't work...
I'm surprised he never got a cameo appearance
I think you mean "Ray Stanz"
You mean T'Pole?
Compared to Discovery, NX-01 is masterpiece.
@@biff322 I meant the ship itself and all it’s well thought features.
I'm not partial to ships with open areas in them.
I like how they really tried to put Enterprise in it's time period. Discovery just feels too advanced, like it was intended for the future after Voyager, but then the whole thing was haphazardly shoved into the past. Of course later...
i stopped watching discovery after season 2... how it’s been doing after? anything good?
I’m with you there. I love the uniform because it feels like the logical next step from the flight suits used by NASA. I also loved how they showed actual crew loading actual torpedoes. Like , we’re not just pushing buttons and going “pew pew” here, there’s an actual greasy grimy crew at work inside this ship. I loved that, wanted more of it.
Big agree. This is one of the main reasons why I enjoy the series so much. It feels just close enough to what we do today
The actual ship design of Discovery was based on a model for Star Trek Phase 2 from the 70s, but, yeah, the spore drive was a little much. As for season 3, I think the show has had a consistent issue with the first few episodes of each season being great and then they kinda lose the pace and do a lot of nothing for half the season. On average, I think season 3 may be better than 2, but they both had great starts and then just go on stretching a secondary plot line for half the season and get nowhere with the main story until the last episode (happened with the search for Spock in season 2 and more unnecessary mirror universe stuff in season 3)
@@fisk0 I don't have a problem with the ship design externally, more the technology it has. They start out using holographic communication. Then they back peddle explaining that Pike prefers screens. So everyone from Kirk to Janeway just prefered screens?
If the studio hadn't pushed so hard for Enterprise to be a TNG rehash and let the creators have a little bit of freedom, ENT probably could have revived the franchise.
This. I wish they had stayed with the early "working out the bugs" narrative instead of zooming ahead into the Xindi arc. It was great seeing the origins of the Red Alert, food replicator quirks, transporter distrust, etc. Lore building at its best. But, apparently that was "too slow and boring" for most folks.
I remember seeing the NX-01 design, and thinking that we’d see something a bit more Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon rough and tumble mixed with a modern sensibility, and we just got the same old stuff as TNG with a different veneer…it was a downer. I’d watch the occasional episode, but after the first couple of episodes I saw, I just didn’t care…
I think the idea of a first season set on Earth, putting together the crew and working out the bugs would have been great.
Enterprise is my favourite of the whole ST universe. The Andorians are by far the coolest race, a shame they don’t have a role in any of the other series. And T’pol on the pole... yes, definetly a thing we miss...
Mee to!
The ships getting cooler but the shows are plots where everyone is just starring at their belly buttons & pondering their navel buttons existence....BORING!
The ships getting cooler but the shows are plots where everyone is just starring at their belly buttons & pondering their navel buttons existence....BORING!
They really did the Andorians justice. :)
I totally agree: The the pole was always necessary and "T'pol in a Pole" should have been obligatory.
Imagine the camera shot from the base of the pole looking upwards. It would have never been allowed on TOS with all those miniskirts...shame.
I'm fairly sure T'Pol slid down AN 'Engneers pole' ... ...
@@berthulf Yea, but she Tripp'd when she got to the base of it.
as a former propulsion worker in a Nimitz class aircraft carrier engine room, I can tell you without any hesitation, you do not ever, ever put the engine room right below the bridge. That is almost as stupid as putting ammunition below the bridge.
They really could have used the pole in the decontamination room; you know, just to kill time. They could have given it a spin.
The NX-01 was a perfect predecessor to NX-01 Retrofit. Pity Retrofit never appeared on screen.
Honestly, Faith of the Heart doesn't bug me any more, but Archer's Theme will always be the proper opening to me (mostly because that's what it was, before the executives ruined it)
When you announced the video, you had my curiosity, but with a thumbnail like that, now you have my attention.
all will be revealed!
Same.
D'jango is coming to kick your ass!
Good timing, I'm rewatchting "Enterprise" for the first time via Netflix.
Clearly they made this video just for you, Mr. K
I rewatched it and still not a fan. Like the ship though...
I’m watching ds9 for the first time after avoiding in for 20 years
Me too, having avoided it for a while but new year and all
@@sinicalypse And I appreciate it very much. :)
One of my favorite star trek enterprise quotes is between Malcom and Tucker in the season 4 Romulan ark:
Tucker: "You did all this with one phase pistol?!!"
Malcom: "Your good at building things, I'm good at blowing them up."
The NX didn't have bowling alleys like the 1701.
True, but it was smaller, and I mean 01 has The Pole 🤷♀️
The NX didn't have a lot t of luxury or open space. That definitely felt correct given the era
@@sageoz9886 So, Skeeball?
Maybe this is related and maybe it isn’t, but Richard Nixon had a bowling alley installed in the White House! I don’t know: there might be a relationship between bowling and villainy! Just sayin’!
😹
Okay.
One, I was going to flip out if you talked to Doug Drexler about the NX-01 and the refit didn't come up. Guess I should have had more faith (of the heart) in you.
Two... The pole. Mind blown.
Well, I guess the Cerritos is pretty much all you have left.
And La Sirena from the Picard series.
Ah, yes... The USS Doritos...
I will always regret that we didn’t get to see all of the crew members having to slide down that pole at some point.
Bonus thought: there should have been a moment where someone couldn’t get to the bridge any other way and have to climb the pole and end up scaring the crap out of the people on the bridge because no one has EVER come up that way. 😂
Get Doug to give breakdowns of all his Trek Ships! That was so awesome, bring back Doug ASAP!
0:34 ...not as long as the road to get to that punchline...
Looking at Doug's background and thinking
"Danger, Will Robinson, danger!"
I'll ask him about his B9.
The NX-01 is honestly my favorite Enterprise ship.
I do like the show's version of the NX-01. Doug says it's like the 'ironclads' of the Civil war and I always felt it was more like the first submarines of the 40's vs the new modern subs. The hallways had their support struts visible, where the original Enterprise 1701 looked sleeker, more civilized on the inside, with fewer structural interruptions in the walls and such. The NX didn't have space for all the nice touches, conveniences or aesthetics. And the design did look rushed, as if the engineers hurried that 'First Warp 5 capable' engine and stuffed it into a hull as quickly as they could. Hell, they were still experimenting with transporter technology. They didn't have shields or tractor beams... That would have to be a scarier version of Trek because that ship felt so vulnerable compared to the Constellation class.
@@dog3y3 I wish they had spent more time in that "working out the kinks" phase instead of rushing off to war and time travel. It felt more authentic and historically accurate (as much as fictional history can be).
"HMS Thunderchild" was the name of a ship in the H.G. Wells story "War of the Worlds." The RN didn't have a ship actually named that.
I grew up with War of the Worlds, the audio version in the 70s, so I remember Thunderchild.
Guess we found Out Dan Aykroyd was Chef and the food tasted so good because it included the souls of man and beast...
Yes, this was how it was intended to be revealed since episode one.
Don't forget the twinkie
I love this show pity it was cut short though in my mind it could have lasted longer than 7 seasons let alone 4.
I agree with this! It's so frustrating that they only had 4 seasons..I personally like ST Enterprise more than DS9
@@LostSoulOfMars I do as well in fact I prefer it to Voyager and TNG as well.
There was a mention of the warp field governor in an episode where Merriweather was sitting in zero G inside of a service junction.
Achievement unlocked: "It's a secret to everyone."
Wow taking the sets apart as they were filming, the cast must have thought it was like the year of hell all over again
Kinda like how it had to feel those last 3 episodes of Enterprise, Two Mirror Universe episodes and one we don't talk about if we like the show...
NX-01 is the most beautiful ship in Trek. It is perfect.
The nx-01 is my favorite star trek vessel..
Why, dear god WHY did this series get a pop song when EVERY OTHER SERIES in the franchise had an orchestral theme?!?!
A _recycled_ pop song, at that!
Though, I gotta admit, the visual of the opening credits is my favorite of all of _Trek,_ but yeah, I’d rather have a kick-ass soaring orchestral piece to go along with those aspirational images!
I love the NX-refit. I know there was plans to use it for series 5, so I'm sad that they didn't use it for the s4 finale.
Doug is a great guy, and a long time personal friend (back to 1978). He invited me to visit the sets (and art dept.) at Paramount long ago, which was a big thrill!! If you see the episode "Dead Stop", the NOMAD (2008 satellite) desk prop I made from scratch is seen in the opening shot of them looking for clues in Maywether's cabin.
Amazing video, please please ask him about DS9 and everything he knows! Do it all again I will watch it.xxxx
Doug is one of my favorites in the Star Trek community. Also, I absolutely love the evolution of the NX to NX refit
Cringe inducing accent, I'm gone.
Not only is Enterprise my favorite star trek series but the NX-01 is my favorite star trek ship. And hoshi sato is best girl
I've always loved the NX-01 and sad they never got to go into later seasons with the Romulan War and Birth the of the Federation ramping up. Watching this though I found it neat that the modular portion in the back where engineering would just slide out is where the neck of the drive section gets installed allowing for the new warp core to be moved down.
I always assumed the song "Faith of the Heart" was written for Enterprise, until that is, rewatching the Robin Williams movie Patch Adams recently! How shocked I was! (And for the record I like it , and the ship design, crew/actors/characters and the series as a whole... all of which are miles ahead of Discovery in all categories)
And as an aside, Adam, did you just say USS Thunderchild? Didn't know there was a ship of this name! Ulla!
Im totally imagining firemans poles like the 60s batman had on the enterprise now :)
“Enterprise” is still my favorite series… and it breaks my heart when I hear the “reasons” why it was cancelled. I grew up with TNG, DS9, and VGR, but ENT still took the cake. I saw the potential, and I loved the TOS vibes they put into it. I wanted to see T’pol be shown as being half Romulan, I wanted to see the Earth-Romulan wars… stuff I read about, happening. Instead, they cancelled it. I just don’t get why people disliked it, and though I agree on some negative points: I feel they were overly critical. Shran as an officer on the NX? That would’ve rocked, a first Andorian main character! But nope… cancelled because of blindness…
Apparently the NX refit with the added secondary hull is called the Columbia class
Pretty much like the idea that the Enterprise refit was referred to in the FASA RPG as the Enterprise Class.
I imagine a storyline wherein the crew had to eject Engineering and the ship had to be towed back to the ship yard for a new one only to be surprised that they're not just getting a new Engineering section but a whole new half of the ship.
The first time I heard both the Enterprise and Firefly themes, I didn't like them. By the time I was done with the shows, I liked both. Although I liked the Firefly one much more.
The part about the ship parts looking like male and female body parts is causing me to regret being a Trekkie.
what parts?
That was a great interview. Doug really seemed to love what he was doing when he was working on those shows. That just made my day.
You could sing "Faith of the Heart" Adam, but you will have to take up smoking 60 cigs a day for a few years, then you'll be ready for it.
UGLY? The NX-01 is a goddamn gorgeous starship, even without a secondary hull. People are morons.
There is no ugly Enterprise. They're all beautiful ladies in their own right.
@@Saint_nobody enterprise C
Next do Secrets of USS Enterprise NCC 1701-B or C please
I have just recently finished watching ENT for the first time so this was a very entertaining video. I thought the NX-01 kind of resembled a submarine on the inside with the low beams like in the ready room and the doors that have a locking hatch in case of emergency. Also, I really liked the signage around the ship stating 'Authorized Personnel Only' and the like. I can't believe it took me so long to actually getting around to watching it.
I Feel so salty about this whole series. It could have been more than 4 seasons and faith of the heart. We could have seen a Romance between Archer and T'Pol. Instead thanks to the Naysayers, we never got to see the Romulan War.
Running low on Federation ships? Why not branch out into some of the non-Star Fleet hero ships. The IKS Rotaran got more screen time than most Star Fleet ships and earned its hero ship credentials with multiple storylines focused on it and its crew. So some love to the B'Rel beast of the 9th fleet!
Good point! I'd watch that!
I like it. The Rotaran may be the only non starfleet hero ship we see on screen outside La Sirena in Picard.
@@JaredLS10 The IGS Kumari also would count somewhat, despite not having as much story as the Rotaran.
@@lovehawks2814 agreed
I've lost my faith in commercial trek, no heart in it
You know, I understand a lot of people didn't like that opening song for "Enterprise". I thought it was pretty good. I hated the 3rd/4th season versions where they made it more pop-like. That was horrible... Like the female voice they amplified for TOS remakes. That singing grates on my nerves.
@@dog3y3 Like a lot of trek fans, just wish they had gone with traditional brassy and string orchestral theme in the style of TOS
Giachinno could have done a nice homage
Looks like you're gonna have to do some Pole Episodes... Dolphin Episodes... Polphin...? Anyway, you're gonna have to start doing some non-Starfleet ships.
Like the Romulan Warbird.
Seriously, just do the goddamned Warbird already.
I was so happy for my buddy Jolene when she got the part of T'pol.
Sexiest woman in trek, and thats saying a lot. Also the least important thing she brought to Enterprise.
@@JB-ym4up agreed. She and Scott got me in as a reoccurring background
Character for all 4 seasons.
You know Jolene Blalock, personally ?!?!
I've been watching SG-1 and she plays a minor character in a semi-recurring roll. She brings her fierceness to that character as well. Her hair is much more out of control too. What's funny is that I believe there are several actors/actresses that were also Star Trek extras who share screen time with her on SG-1 and I believe there are a few little side jokes that no one would catch if they' weren't avid Enterprise fans.
@@dog3y3 She plays the leader of the Amazonian like Hafta group, and another Teal'c groupie.
Great episodes. I'm a loooooong time Trek fan and learned quite a bit. Also, Doug is awesome.
@ 13:19; I'd like to get my hands on those ample nacelles, if you'll forgive the engineering parlance. 😜
Love Doug's full size "Lost In Space Robot". Why don't you guys do a show about him? I love the NX class! It was a tough little ship! Durable, reliable and could be constantly upgraded. Love the fan stories about it's involvement in the Earth-Romulan war. Cudos to Doug Drexler! It was the perfect design for that era of Star Trek. I think the addition of a secondary hull is interesting, but that secondary hull, for me, ruined the ship's entire esthetic beauty and balance.
I spit something out when he said no one would notice using the model. :-) It was in 1 of 2 of the only huge space battles in trek, maybe 3. By now I would have noticed. Thanks for self owning though. Because I didn't know you were an nx-01 hater. Shame..
I always thought the nx was the closest to the real design by Bussard. Where the nacelles are not warp drives. They would be collectors of mostly hydrogen in space. And the nacelle is a factory that processes this material into fusion material. This both powers the impulse drive by fusion, but also provides the reactant plasma used in impulse drives.
There's no way no know if this is an efficient design. But it's fun to know we have all the technology to build a ship like this today. Maybe not visually the same but in a smaller scale one that works in exactly the same way. I dig my fantasy. But it's got to have some sci in the fi. So NX represent...ya H8R. :-)
Doug Drexler......didn't he play Satan in the movie "Constintine"??? He looked so familiar to me from somewhere...........
Doug does look similar to Peter Stormare.
Ive gotta say, Star Trek fans could not kill off Enterprise fast enough. I loved it, but every other Star Trek fan hated it, because it wasnt in the TNG setting. Thats the only kind of Star Trek they wanted to watch, so they not only didnt support it, they bad-mouthed it whenever they could. Im glad there are others that appreciate the show now because there sure werent many of us when it was on.
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf…now, get ready for T'pol on a Pole!
The NX Enterprise is my favorite. It’s more grounded but still hopefully futuristic.
Enterprise (especially the 4 season) was soooo much better then every new Trek nowadays. Recently watched it and noticed Seth MacFarlane having a small role there.
I loved the show by always skipping the theme song, and being warned the ending would also infuriate me. I liked that it was about showing how SF became SF, and the modular design aspect being integral would have made it that much better. Also, yes, it's a crime they didn't use the pole.
If they used the pole more often maybe the show wouldn't have been cancelled.
Oh, and seeing T'Pol wrapped around a Pole would be great.
They should have ended the series with the hull being refit to look a little more like the NCC 1701. It would have added some nice continuety
My problem was the story arcs; I preferred individual shows that may or may not be connected to some other episodes or 2-4 episodes that are a small arc would be fine. I don't want to miss one episode and be lost. I was happy with everything else.
omg when I watched enterprise back then, i was like "that ship looks almost kinda like one of the other ships in the star trek federation. I look at this page and was like "omg i was right back then" :)
Doug Drexler is awesome. Doubly so because he's so willing to go on various RUclips channels and talk at length about his Trek work.
I knew about the pole! Only because I watched this video when it first came out and then forgot Id already seen it.
I really like ENTERPRISE series...I wish they had the 7 season mark...oh well, it was nice change and all so I KNEW IT WAS AN AKIRA CLASS back in the day....woohoo..
Starfleet ships: eject the core
NX ships: eject the engeneering room
Wow that was an incredibly confusing and annoying intro - for someone who has never watched you before.
I don't get why this ship on the outside looks sleeker than the TNG and TOS ships even though its supposed to be a prequel.
The NX-01 is a really beautiful looking Starship
The whole of engineering being modular makes a lot of sense. In the Ent era, warp cores weren't really standardized yet (let alone experimental new warp 5+ cores). So you couldn't just pop out a core and slide a new one in. The entirety of the engineering surrounding it would need to be refitted as well. And without a plethora of massive shipyards, it would be a pain to have to build a new ship around them.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think Enterprise was the best star trek series, there I said it.
The theme song to Enterprise is beyond awful and was a reason I refused to watch the show for so long.
oh common sing faith of the heart baby you got a great voice for singing it
You can tell Doug Drexler loves talking about these things
Loved the pole secret. Makes sense, power is out, and you need to get to engineering.
I think that had they included the pole into the show, I feel like that it would had been used in an way that exploited T’Pol and criticized her as nothing more than eye candy for the negative Nancy’s that were already ripping on the show as it was.
But that is just me.
One one hand you have that T'pol was a well written character. On the other you have that decontamination scene with trip in like ep 1 or 2. You can see where people were coming from.
Their first decon scene with her and Trip kinda proves she was blatant eye candy, not to mention her "uniform". Her acting and the writing showed she was much more.
But oh, what eye candy! Best looking Trek babe ever.
@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 you beat me to it!
I've always liked the design of the nx-01 and the Akira class. Top 5 probably, maybe top 3.
They look more practical, for lack of a better term.
NX Class is my absolute favorite! Top fan! :)
Man Doug rocking some guns there
He stays fit, I'll give him that!
The last great Star trek series! Love Enterprise!
I liked Enterprise, dreadful theme song aside.
The NX will always be my favourite Star Fleet ship.
Oh, please, please, please sing "Faith of the Heart".
I had to watch the “Cover girl” segment a couple of times to realize you weren’t talking about Jolene Blaylock’s “nacelles”. 😆
It's funny they mentioned the pole. I remember Valeris sliding down one in the Enterprise-A torpedo bay in the Director's Cut of "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". Also, I seem to recall they made that pod at the back of the NX-01 into an aft Photon Torpedo launcher after the ship got it's refit at the end of Season 2.
No photons were launched via a new magnetic slipway from the Armory room.
@@quoniam426 I know, which was why it always confused me when they fired them out the back of that pod sometimes. They definitely did that at least once, whether the VFX people meant to or not.
The NX-01 always reminded me of a horseshoe crab
Downvote just for mentioning Discovery.
7:16-I strongly disagree with the notion that forward-thinking engineering would remove the drama from the show-that just means that the writers need to work harder, and be more inventive! And I’ve read science fiction-Arthur C. Clarke and Andy Weir come to mind here-where often the that kind of inventiveness can be compelling in and of itself, and can further complicate a story’s overall plot-sorry, but in this case, I think it’s a case of writing to an audience accustomed to easy tropes!
Yeah, I thought of the "pods" from _2001_ and the drama *added* by having HAL use them against the crew.