Departure into the unknown
| Episode of the series Enterprise | |
|---|---|
| title | Departure into the unknown |
| Original title | Broken Bow |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | 90 minutes or 2 times 45 minutes |
| classification | Season 1 , episodes 1 and 2 1st and 2nd episode in total ( list ) |
| First broadcast | 26 Sep 2001 on UPN |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 15, 2003 on Sat.1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | James L. Conway |
| script |
Rick Berman , Brannon Braga |
| production | Rick Berman, Brannon Braga |
| music | Dennis McCarthy |
| camera | Marvin V. Rush |
| cut | JP Farrell |
| chronology | |
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Broken Bow is the pilot of the US, and later in Star Trek: Enterprise renamed science fiction television series Enterprise , the fifth, in the fictional Star Trek settled universe live-action television series. The action takes place in the year 2151 and thus over 100 years before that of Starship Enterprise . Created in 2001 and first broadcast in the United States in September of the same year, the German television station Sat.1 first broadcast it in March 2003 and more than a year after its German VHS release as a prelude to the series. At the same time, the prelude to the first season , the 90-minute film is counted as the first and second episode of the series.
action
The Klingon Klaang, who fled the Suliban and crashed on earth with his spaceship , is captured unconscious by the people. Captain Jonathan Archer takes on the task of taking him back to his homeworld Kronos in the Enterprise NX-01 , which is about to be completed, in order to promote relations with the Klingons. Before that, he takes other crew members on board with Hoshi and Phlox . During the flight, some genetically engineered Suliban who suddenly emerged from a space-time distortion kidnap Klaang from the Enterprise. Archer then lets the ship set course for the planet Rigel 10, Klaang's last whereabouts before his crash. Meanwhile, the Suliban, when interrogating Klaang, determine that he was about to meet a person on the planet named Sarin. Once on the planet, Archer first makes contact with Sarin. She used to belong to the Cabal , which is a genetically modified part of the Suliban and at the same time soldiers in a "temporal cold war" in which they receive their orders from the future. She explains to Archer that the Suliban started fighting within the Klingon Empire. Sarin had given the Klingon information that proves that the Suliban are responsible for the unrest in the Klingon Empire. With this information, chaos among the Klingons should be avoided. During Archer's conversation with Sarin, they are attacked by Suliban, and Sarin dies. After a gun battle with the Suliban, the away team made it back to the Enterprise, which then followed the trail of the Suliban ship into the atmosphere of a gas planet . There they discover a space station to which hundreds of Suliban spaceships are magnetically attached and in which they suspect Klaang. Using such a hijacked spaceship and together with Tucker , Archer kidnaps Klaang from the power of the Suliban. They get rid of the stuck spaceships and their associated mortal danger with the help of a technology provided by Reed . While Tucker flies back with Klaang to the Enterprise, which is coming under increasing fire, Archer engages in a duel with a Suliban. At the last second, Archer can be beamed on board and the Enterprise can leave the planet. Much to their delight, but with no thanks to Archer and colleagues, the Klingon government welcomes Klaang into their midst and thereby receives secret information about the Suliban's troublemaking. Since Starfleet Command judges the mission to have been carried out successfully, it extends the Enterprise's mission indefinitely. Flashbacks across the plot show Archer's memories of his childhood, when he lived out his dream of space travel in a model spaceship.
production
The production cost was approximately $ 15 million.
Publications
When it first aired in the US, the film saw approximately 12.5 million viewers.
In Germany the film was released on May 2, 2002 on VHS . At the German premiere on 15 March 2003 at 20.15 which amounted to reach 3.21 million in the age group from three years and in the 14 to 49 year olds 2.39 million viewers; the market share was ten and 19.1 percent respectively. The film was released on DVD for the first time on May 6, 2005, along with the other episodes of the first season . There was a German DVD re-release on April 9, 2009 on a box with the title Star Trek - Enterprise: Season 1, Vol. 1 . In a German box of the entire first season, the film was released on March 28, 2013 on Blu-ray Disc .
criticism
“Elaborately and effectively staged pilot film, whose dramaturgy and arsenal of types are familiar, whereby character drawings and dialogues are pleasantly restrained. Otherwise no more than a solid routine. "
Awards and nominations
The film was nominated 3 times at the Primetime Emmy Awards 2002 . In the categories of best make-up for a series (prosthetic) and best sound editing for a series , it remained, in the category of best visual special effects for a series there was an award.
Novel adaptation
A novel adaptation of the film, written by Diane Carey and translated into German by Andreas Brandhorst , was published by Heyne Verlag in November 2002 .
Web links
- Part 1 and Part 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Part 1 and Part 2 at Fernsehserien.de
- Part 1 and Part 2 in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregor Wildermann: "Star Trek - Enterprise": Spaceship in reverse gear , in: Spiegel online from 27 Sep. 2001, accessed Dec. 26, 2013
- ^ BJ Robb: A Brief Guide to Star Trek . Constable & Robinson, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84901-514-1 , p. 210
- ↑ "Enterprise" starts well , in : quotemeter.de from March 16, 2003, accessed on December 26, 2013
- ↑ Enterprise: Departure into the unknown. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 26, 2013 .