Season One 2001-2002

(pilot) Broken Bow *****
Well, as one Star Trek ends, another is created and just as Star Trek's credibility had been eroded by years of dullness on Voyager (apart from it's last season), this breaks the mold with so much new stuff in there even though it retains a lot of Voyager's qualities. There's the flashbacks to Archer's youth (filmed on the same beach featured in the DS9 pilot by the look of it), every supporting actor had appeared in multiple episodes of Star Trek from James Cromwell, the Suliban Actors, Gary Graham (Alien Nation) and Vaugn Armstrong (who appeared in every second Voyager as a different alien).
 It is hard to gauge the crew after one one episode but I like them. they don't seem as a blandly innoffensive as the voyager crew and one of them has (gasp) a southren accent (even more pronounced than Ben Browder.
Archer: Scott Bacula does what he does best, a projection of himself. He made even the many dull Quantum Leaps at least watchable. Bacula's main strength is vulnerability, something that's going to remain in check.
Sub Commander T'Pol: Fresh from her stint in Fiddler on the Roof, T'Pol is Seven of Nine. She will be the voice of logic and prood positive that Vulcan is a hot planet. The Leotard look isn't as distracting as Seven of Nine but the gel sequence has some over the top Zalmon King touches.
Trip: Scotty made the engineer a source of comic relief without having to be a buffoon (why Neelix didn't work as he could have). Trip Tucker is going to add alot of colour. He still looks too much like the tactical officer!
Dr Phlox: He's meant to be the odd character and he is, but isn't yet irritating in a way that all of the modern medicos have been.
Hoshi. Wow, someone who is actually scared to be on a starship.
Travis