Star Trek: Enterprise (simply titled
Enterprise prior to season three) was a
science fiction television program created by
Brannon Braga and
Rick Berman set in the
Star Trek universe created by
Gene Roddenberry. The series followed the adventures of humanity's first Warp 5 starship,
Enterprise, ten years before the
United Federation of Planets shown in previous
Star Trek episodes was formed.
Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001. The pilot episode, "
Broken Bow", takes place in the year 2151, 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 canceled 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.