Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4

Right now you can watch Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 957 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Watch it for Scott Bakula — the performance elevates material that could easily tip into self-seriousness. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

There is a reason Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 keeps coming up in conversation. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 through its more ambitious moments. Upon returning home after preventing a second Xindi attack, Enterprise explores cultural shifts on Vulcan; forges alliances with Earth's neighbors in the face of Romulan aggression; deals with a plague inside the Klingon Empire; explores the Mirror Universe; and overcomes xenophobic elements to lead an interstellar community. Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2004. The rules of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4's world are consistent enough that the big swings never feel like cheating. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Scott Bakula anchors it with a performance that makes the more abstract moments feel personal. If you have been burned by ambitious sci-fi before, this is the exception.