What will Enterprise be about?

The new show takes place about a hundred years before Captain Kirk, about ninety years after the events that took place in the movie, First Contact.

It's really about the first crew aboard the first starship, which is called Enterprise. The premiss is really quite simple - no one's ever gone into Deep Space before.

The Star Fleet is fifteen years old, there's no Federation, the Vulcans have stuck around Earth and have been overseeing humanity since the events in the movie, First Contact. But they've also been kind of withholding information and holding us back, so we're very resentful towards the Vulcans, and they don't think we're ready to go out in space, they think we're rash and impulsive and illogical.

The Vulcans are kind of antagonistic. But, of course, a Vulcan ends up being put on to Enterprise to oversee our progress, much to Captain Archer's dismay. So, the story of this show is really a story of humanity's first steps into the stars, but also it's a story about a deeper understanding forging between humans and Vulcans. It's a little bit about prejudice on that level, we think, it may evolve that way, I don't know at this point.

Not only is this the first crew to go out there, and not only will their reactions be extremely fresh, they've never seen any of these things before, and they have no protocols to deal with and no prime directives, no nothing, these are also humans that have not quite reached the Roddenberry ideal, so they have ways to go just in terms of proving that they're ready and feeling their way, not only through space but through their own morality.