How science and technology will advance in Enterprise

What we're going to be seeing, science-wise, is all the things that the fans are aware of being part of Star Trek, but we're going to be seeing them at a very early formative stage. We're going to see transporters developed. When we begin the series, transporters are things that people use to transport equipment, but they'd be damned if they were going to stand up and get on one of these things. We don't have tractor beams, we don't have sub-space radio, we don't have phaser banks that are very valuable. We have torpedoes but not photon torpedoes. We don't have food replicators. All these things we are going to see in their infant stages being developed.

The fans are going to have a lot of fun because they're going to see all the things that they take for granted on all of the other Star Trek shows, going through birthing pains. Science is obviously going to come into play in almost every one of these things, because we're going to be watching them, being developed.

We have a science officer on board the ship who's a Vulcan - it's a long story of how she gets on board, but she's in a position to help us. She has more knowledge than we do, having the whole background of Vulcan science, and it's going to come into play a great deal during the first season and in the subsequent seasons, as well.