Call me a geek, but after watching season one of "Star Trek: Enterprise," all I wanted to do was watch season two, unfortunately I have to wait a little while, but for now let me tell you about the surprise of my month, and let you in on my opinion of the "Star Trek" world on a whole.

First, the second part of that list of tasks, I thoroughly enjoy the original "Star Trek" series and watch it a lot now that I have all three seasons, but anything beyond that has been a disappointment; by this I am referring to "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager." I did not enjoy the new crews of the starships, the loss of humanism the show suffered in its second, third and fourth incarnations and I found the characters to be wooden, the humor unfunny and the journey to dazzle the eye began to take over the desire to tell good stories.

All that said, "Enterprise" is nothing like the three shows I mentioned above, it is action-packed, smart, witty, human and, if you can believe it, at times funny. The new crew of the Enterprise is a look back at what made the original series so popular, a diverse crew, a couple of aliens working for it and the ultimate goal of exploration and first contact, what could be better?

"Enterprise" is set 100 years before Captain Kirk and his crew navigated the Enterprise around the galaxy exploring new life and new civilizations, this is the story that follows up what was begun in Star Trek: First Contact in which the crew of the starship Enterprise go back in time and let us in on the 21st Century event in which Zefram Cochrane made the first speed of light travel to the stars.

Here we have the first crew of humans to enter the final frontier, pioneers in a way, exploring the galaxy in an effort to learn more and introduce themselves to the wide array of alien species the universe has to offer, while at the same time getting into intergalactic tussles, making the show well worth watching.

For me, the "Star Trek" television shows had turned into a joke, such characters as Data on "The Next Generation" simply take away from the show as he either tried to be funny or emotional when he was neither. Instead, "Enterprise" shows human emotions, as well it brings in some of the cool characters from the original series, especially the blue Andorians with their little antenna things on their heads. On top of all that, the effects are spectacular for a television show and really add a lot to the production.

As for this DVD set, Paramount has continued the cool packaging they always offer with their "Star Trek" TV series sets. As you can see from the box art above the set comes in a plastic capsule-like casing, and inside is a purple plastic digipak flipbook holding the seven DVDs. The features offered on the set are as to be expected... plentiful and interesting.

Over the past few months I have had the chance to get further immersed into the "Star Trek" world, and while I am far from a Trekkie and still pretty much know nothing these features are trying to teach the audience more about the "Star Trek" world and how it is created. There are a couple of featurettes focusing on the cast of this new show, profiles on Scott Bakula and the rest of the cast, a look at how the Enterprise was created as we venture into the past, a look at the Star Trek universe and the use of time travel (once you see the season you will know why this is here), a couple of interesting peeks at just how low-tech the Enterprise actually is, outtakes and deleted scenes and then some Easter Eggs for you to find on the seventh and final disc.

Overall, I was extremely impressed with everything about this show. I was a little frustrated at the MASSIVE cliff-hanger at the end of the season, but what can I do about that? With the recent announcement that the show is being taken off the air I am wondering if the storyline begins to slowly decline, but as for this first season it is running on all thrusters.