Hello and welcome to Episode 1, the redo. Our first recording did not make for good radio, so we never posted it. Having learned a bit over recording the first season of Enterprise, we decided to go back and give the two part pilot another shot. After these two episodes, audio quality (and host quality?) will drop a bit, but we get our act together more and more as the season gets moving. Stick with us!
We’re introduced to all of our new favorite characters for the first time this episode, even if they’ve still got a few of the annoying traits that get weened out by the later episodes. We hope you enjoy listening in!
Throughout the course of this episode we mention a few videos you can find on YouTube, we’ve linked to them below for accessibility.
Part two can be found here: http://www.therearefourmics.com/episode-002-episode-1×02-broken-bow-pt-2/
Enterprise U2 – Beautiful Day Alternate Opening
Coors Light Twins Commercial (Starring the Butterfly-Eating Dancers from Rigel X)
Just for kicks, we’ve also included a a few of the original promos for Enterprise that were broadcast on UPN leading to the shows launch. They’re–Interesting.
If you noticed, there was a particular song played during some of these promos–Wherever You Will Go by The Calling. This lead some fans to believe it would be featured as a theme in the show itself. That didn’t happen, and there’s no indication that was ever the intent of the studio or producers, but one Star Trek fan went ahead and stuck the two together to see how it’d work out.
Sorry for all the YouTube videos!
Memory Alpha: Link
Star Trek Enterprise 1×01 – Broken Bow
Directed by James Conway
Written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Guest Stars: Vaughn Armstrong, James Cromwell, Jim Beaver, Mark Moses, Gary Graham, Thomas Kopache, Jim Fitzpatrick, James Horan, Joseph Ruskin
There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Anna Heiser, Chris Keeley, Jason Allen, Joe Heiser, and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 1st episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Broken Bow.
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Music credits:
Faith of the Heart/Where My Heart Will Take Me – Written by Diane Warren, performed by Russell Watson, Jerry Lubbock, and the New York Trek Orchestra
Archer’s Theme – Dennis McCarthy and New York Trek Orchestra
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Show Notes
Cold Open
A young Jonathan Archer paints a model starship while he asks his old man for the deets on when the Warp 5 ship will be ready for launch and slams down some anti-Vulcan racial slurs to really drive home who he blames for it taking so long. Flash forward 30 years and we see a Klingon being pursued through a cornfield in Oklahoma. After luring them into a silo, the Klingon blows it up with them inside. His victory is cut short when the silo owner runs over, and after not understanding the language, gives the Klingon a warning shot to the chest at point blank range.
Act I
Archer and Trip are scoping out the outside of the NX-01 when their inspection is interrupted by Admiral Forrest calling the captain to Starfleet Medical. Once there, Archer is thrust into a bureaucratic turf war as Starfleet and the Vulcans jockey over how best to return the Klingon to Kronos without setting off a war. The Vulcans want to once again delay the Enterprise launch while they take the Klingon body home, but the Captain convinces the admiral to allow the Enterprise to return a living Klaang to his homeworld in 3 days. Travis and Reed have a productive afternoon contemplating the ridiculousness of living things using the transporter, debating the merits of different gravities, and making fun of their colleague’s accent. Archer pops down to Brazil real quick and convinces Hoshi to abandon her students by playing some Klingon language tapes, and back aboard the Enterprise he welcomes T’Pol on board for this mission and tell her that loose lips sink ships so everything she hears about the Enterprise stays aboard the Enterprise. Admiral Forrest gives a speech celebrating the launch of the Enterprise, and then plays a much more rousing recorded message from Zefram Cochrane. The Enterprise crew cut out mid-speech and goes to warp. One of the aliens is in a room with distortions as he is instructed by a shadowy man to recover the evidence of the Klaang encounter.
Act II
Archer investigates all the creatures the new ship’s doctor Phlox brought aboard, and tells him that he needs that unconscious Klingon to walk off the ship under his own power in just over three days. Trip finds Travis sitting upside down in what he calls the “Sweet Spot,” and together, the crewmates talk about the promises of the alien women they are likely to meet on their journey. Archer, Trip and T’Pol sit down for a dinner in the Captain’s quarters where they trade mostly friendly barbs about the problems they have with one another’s species. Hoshi is on the bridge being uneasy about ship vibrations when the Klingon wakes up, and the Captain asks her to go be uneasy in the medbay trying to speak to Klaang. At the height of her unhappiness, the Enterprise drops out of warp and all the lights shut off as the aliens who were previously trying to kill Klaang board the ship. After a scuffle with the invaders, the lights come back on to reveal that the Klingon has been taken.
Act III
After the chaos in the medbay, Reed thinks that sensor glitch he noticed before the power drain may have been more than a glitch after all. T’Pol argues in front of the bridge crew that the Captain’s efforts to recapture the Klingon are foolish, and Archer does her the courtesy of taking her to his ready room before dressing her down for her bad attitude. In the medbay, Phlox’s rummaging around on the inside of the Suliban corpse has revealed that this fella had been the beneficiary of a wide-range of genetic enhancements. Hoshi’s translations reveal that one of the words the Klingon said was “Rigel,” when T’Pol reluctantly decides to pipe up and say the Vulcan’s analysis of Klaang’s logs showed that he stopped in that sector before visiting Earth. Archer orders the Enterprise to alter course. The Suliban are interrogating a drugged Klingon, who shares that he met a Suliban on Rigel X. After being advised by T’Pol to do their best to act not-human, which Trip decides to immediately ignore by hollering at a mother helping her child adjust to the atmosphere. T’Pol gets a lead on where Klingons sometimes hang out, so Hoshi and Archer head that way and are jumped by a gang of hooded Suliban.