Warp Five: A Star Trek Enterprise Podcast

Enterprise References in Star Trek: Beyond .    In 2016, for the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek, fans were excited to hear that a new movie would be gracing the silver screen. Continuing the Kelvin Timeline adventures of Captain Kirk and his crew, the writers made an effort to tie this film into Star Trek continuity with numerous references to events and characters established in the previous f...

Season Three Retrospective Part 3.   Season three of Star Trek: Enterprise was an brave experiment of storytelling with the franchises first season long story arc. As a response to the events of September 11, 2001, the creators of the show wanted to take Star Trek in a new, darker direction. In this episode of Warp Five , hosts Floyd Dorsey and Brandon-Shea Mutala are joined by Heather Barker and...

Marauders and The Magnificent Seven.   Television shows have frequently taken inspiration from popular movies when it comes to story telling. Some influence is subtle, and some is obvious. In a follow up to Warp Five 101, where John Tenuto and Brandon-Shea Mutala compared "Dawn" to the film Enemy Mine , we take a look at another second season episode that has inspiration from a popular film. In th...

Mike Sussman Interview.   Mike Sussman began his writing career on Star Trek with a last minute pitch of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Meld." After several years of working for Voyager, and working closely with his friend Phyllis Strong, the two of them would take the reigns as Executive Story Editors for the new series, and later, Sussman would become a producer for that show. In this episode o...

Season Three Retrospective Part 2.   Season three of Star Trek: Enterprise was an brave experiment of storytelling with the franchises first season long story arc. As a response to the events of September 11, 2001, the creators of the show wanted to take Star Trek in a new, darker direction. In this episode of Warp Five , hosts Floyd Dorsey and Brandon-Shea Mutala are joined by Patrick Devlin for...

Jonathan Archer with Richard Marquez. We all have a favorite captain, and one of the things that Star Trek fans love to debate is which one they feel is the best. Each show has a very different leader, and each captain has their own command style, expertise, and hobbies. In this episode of Warp Five , hosts Floyd Dorsey and Brandon-Shea Mutala are joined by Richard Marquez, one of the hosts from t...

"Carbon Creek" Commentary with Dayton Ward.   *there are some intermittent audio issues with B-Shea's file that start at 48:11 and last for about 6 minutes. Many episodes of each of the Star Trek series have spawned sequels and story continuations in the form of books and comics. While some are direct sequels to the episodes, some simply take characters or ideas and extrapolate further adventures...

Gary Graham Interview. Born in Long Beach, California on June 6, 1950, Gary Graham is an actor and producer, most notably remembered for his starring role in the television show Alien Nation , based on the film of the same name.  Gary has starred in numerous feature films such as Robot Jox , The Last Warrior , Man Trouble , and Hollywood Knights . In this episode of Warp Five , hosts Floyd Dorsey...

Phyllis Strong Interview . Phyllis Strong began her work on Star Trek with the seventh season episode of Star Trek: Voyager called "Body and Soul," which she wrote with her writing partner Mike Sussman. After an additional three credits on that show, she was offered the position of Executive Story Editor for first season of the new Star Trek spinoff which would be called Enterprise . During the sh...

Changes to Alien Designs in Trek. Star Trek has always had cool alien races, both friends and foes to the Federation. After five different live-action series, and fifty years of technological advancement, the designs and looks of these aliens have changed. While some have changed more than others, none of them look exactly the same as they did when they first appeared. In this episode of Warp Five...

Tucker Smallwood Interview. Born in Washington, D.C. his childhood included two years in Salonica, Greece and two years as a college student in Munich, Germany. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1967 with a minor in German and a major in Speech/Television Production. Tucker began directing television for WBAL in Baltimore and in late spring of 1967, was drafted into the Army. In 1991...

Eight Episode Enterprise/TOS Marathon. Star Trek fans love to watch their favorite episodes in a format that has affectionately been dubbed "binge watching" since they have been able to watch the show on home video. However, most marathons tend to stick to one series at a time. What would happen if fans started to mix and match the episodes from different series in a long stretch of one sitting? I...

Retrospective: Season Three Part One. Season three of Star Trek: Enterprise was an brave experiment of storytelling with the franchise's first season long story arc. As a response to the events of September 11, 2001, the creators of the show wanted to take Star Trek in a new, darker direction. In this episode of Warp Five , hosts Floyd Dorsey and Brandon-Shea Mutala are joined by Patrick Devlin fo...

Toys with Tenuto. Science Fiction and toys have gone hand in hand since studios realized that they could make money off of their intellectual properties, and both Star Trek and Star Wars were no exception to the flood of creative ideas to grace the toy shelves. Beginning with toys that were re-labelled as "Astro" toys that weren't originally created for Star Trek, all the way through the current l...

"Acquisition" and the Ferengi in Enterprise . When developing a premise for a new Star Trek series, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga decided that the successor to Star Trek: Voyager would have its sights set on the past. As a prequel to Star Trek , Enterprise was designed to explain how we got from present day, through World War III, and into the 23rd century. Many aliens that we would see in the sho...

Comparing "Dawn" and Enemy Mine with John Tenuto. Throughout the 1980s, the science fiction genre dominated mainstream cinema; as a result, many new types of plots and characters appeared on the silver screen that would influence filmmakers and television creators for years to come.  One example of these ground-breaking and hugely influential sci-fi films is Wolfgang Peterson's 1985 classic, Enemy...

Manny Coto Interview. If you had Manny Coto sitting across from you, what would you ask him?  What would you want to talk about with the show runner for Star Trek: Enterprise 's Season Four? Would you have questions about Season Five? Would you ask him about his plans for the Romulans? Would you like to know what he thought about "These Are the Voyages?" In this episode of Warp Five , host Floyd D...

The Little Things. What is that little thing that makes you love Star Trek: Enterprise ? That little detail that makes the series speak to you in a way that others may not.  It could be something that makes it stand out compared to the other series, or it could be a nice homage to one of them. It could be subtle, or it could be very obvious.  What are those little things that makes you want to joi...

Top Five Enterprise Moments. If you had to name your top five favorite moments from one season of Enterprise , how difficult of a mission would that be for you? What if we expanded the task to the entire series?  What would be your top five moments from all of Enterprise ?  In this episode of Warp Five , host Floyd Dorsey is joined by Brandon-Shea Mutala to attempt this almost impossible mission. ...

If you had a chance to speak to a stealthy, Section 31 agent, what questions would you ask? What would you say if he informed you that he'd also worked undercover in all Star Trek series beginning with _The Next Generation_? Would you be surprised if he also told you he was an author of middle grade and young adult novels? In this episode of _Warp Five_, host Floyd Dorsey is joined by _Melodic Tre...

Enterprise Season Two, Part Three. Was Trip right to try to help the Cogenitor?  Why didn't Picard know about the Borg if Archer had already ran into them? Is it strange to see Tellarites with fingers, or is it strange that a couple of them had hooves around one hundred years later? In this episode of Warp Five , host Floyd Dorsey is joined by Melodic Treks host Brandon-Shea Mutala and Meta Treks...

Enterprise Season Two, Part Two Did wisps of smoke make Malcolm lurk in the corridor, or was that just Malcolm being Malcolm? What do you call a third co-husband? Are Andorian women larger than their male counterparts, or is Shran just short? In this episode of Warp Five , host Floyd Dorsey is joined by Melodic Treks host Brandon-Shea Mutala and Meta Treks co-host Mike Morrison to analyze the topi...

Broken Bow Commentary. What is a Kling-ot? Who is Future Guy? What is the temporal cold war? In this episode of Warp Five , host Floyd Dorsey is joined by Melodic Treks host Brandon-Shea Mutala to bring you a commentary for the very first episode of Enterprise, "Broken Bow," in celebration of the show's fifteenth anniversary. Join us as we discuss steak, the color of Klingon blood, and the topogra...

Debriefing Jeffrey. Travis Mayweather was born aboard the ECS Horizon on the Draylax–Vega Colony run, and he grew up on the ship. Would he be considered an Earther? This is just one of the questions we ask as in this episode oF Warp Five as co-host Jeffrey Harlan bids farewell to the NX-01. In addition to Travis's origins, we also discuss how a book from Travis's childhood affected an entire civil...

Future Tense Commentary. How can a ship be bigger on the inside than on the outside? Why are the Suliban and Tholians so interested in it? In this episode of Warp Five, hosts Floyd Dorsey and Jeffrey Harlan are joined by Melodic Treks host Brandon-Shea Mutala as we bring you a commentary for the season-two Enterprise episode "Future Tense." Join us as we discuss a lack of safety protocols on the N...