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* Rick Berman originally contacted James Conway about the prospect of directing this installment on Friday {{d|16|February|2001}}, when Conway received a phone call from Berman. "''He says, 'I'm gonna ruin your weekend. I want you to direct the ''Enterprise'' pilot. It's a $12 million production.' Biggest production they've ever done, biggest production I would've ever done,''" recollected Conway. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) Scott Bakula agreed, "''They spent a fortune on this pilot.''" (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 21) Conway continued, "''I had a wonderful weekend thinking about it.''" ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* Rick Berman originally contacted James Conway about the prospect of directing this installment on Friday {{d|16|February|2001}}, when Conway received a phone call from Berman. "''He says, 'I'm gonna ruin your weekend. I want you to direct the ''Enterprise'' pilot. It's a $12 million production.' Biggest production they've ever done, biggest production I would've ever done,''" recollected Conway. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) Scott Bakula agreed, "''They spent a fortune on this pilot.''" (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 21) Conway continued, "''I had a wonderful weekend thinking about it.''" ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* James Conway found that directing this episode easily fit into his schedule as an executive vice-president at Spelling Television. "''They've often called me and wanted me to come and do a ''Star Trek'' show and I was not able to, but this time, because the pilot episode fell between seasons, we were just finishing our own pilots and I was available,''" Conway remembered. "''When Rick [Berman] called, I was thrilled that he asked me, and thrilled that I was able to come in!''" ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 46)
* James Conway found that directing this episode easily fit into his schedule as an executive vice-president at Spelling Television. "''They've often called me and wanted me to come and do a ''Star Trek'' show and I was not able to, but this time, because the pilot episode fell between seasons, we were just finishing our own pilots and I was available,''" Conway remembered. "''When Rick [Berman] called, I was thrilled that he asked me, and thrilled that I was able to come in!''" ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 46)
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* As James Conway was available to direct this episode, official arrangements were made for him to do so, which took place over the next couple of weeks after the weekend of [[17 February|17]] and [[18 February]] 2001. "''We got [[Kerry McCluggage]], president of [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], to sign off and [[UPN]] to sign off,''" the director said. "''So, I started prepping ''Enterprise." ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
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* As James Conway was available to direct this episode, official arrangements were made for him to do so, which took place over the next couple of weeks after the weekend of [[17 February|17]] and [[18 February]] 2001. "''We got Kerry McCluggage, president of [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], to sign off and [[UPN]] to sign off,''" the director said. "''So, I started prepping ''Enterprise." ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* When James Conway arrived to helm the episode, its script was finalized. "''When I first read it, I said, 'This is a wonderful script, but I can't believe they're ever going to let us do it; it's so expensive!' There was a lot of action and a lot of visual effects – much more than you'd ever find on a television show. But they let us do it!''" ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 46)
* When James Conway arrived to helm the episode, its script was finalized. "''When I first read it, I said, 'This is a wonderful script, but I can't believe they're ever going to let us do it; it's so expensive!' There was a lot of action and a lot of visual effects – much more than you'd ever find on a television show. But they let us do it!''" ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 46)
* This episode's preproduction period included five weeks of casting the performers, a process which James Conway was highly involved in. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* This episode's preproduction period included five weeks of casting the performers, a process which James Conway was highly involved in. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
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* This episode's production was at first complicated by the fact that the type of film initially used for shooting the series had to be compatible with [[DVD]] formats, causing Director of Photography [[Marvin Rush]] to make some choices he might otherwise have made differently. Production Designer [[Herman Zimmerman]] later noted, "''We had some learning curves we had to assimilate the first few days of shooting, knowing that we were heading in that direction.''" ({{STC|135}}, p. 61)
* This episode's production was at first complicated by the fact that the type of film initially used for shooting the series had to be compatible with [[DVD]] formats, causing Director of Photography [[Marvin Rush]] to make some choices he might otherwise have made differently. Production Designer [[Herman Zimmerman]] later noted, "''We had some learning curves we had to assimilate the first few days of shooting, knowing that we were heading in that direction.''" ({{STC|135}}, p. 61)
* This episode's production schedule consisted of more than seventeen days, at which point, Rick Berman stated, "''We're half-way done with [it].''" ({{STC|134}}, pp. 12 & 76) James Conway once referred to his duration on the episode as having been "five months." ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part III: First Flight", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* This episode's production schedule consisted of more than seventeen days, at which point, Rick Berman stated, "''We're half-way done with [it].''" ({{STC|134}}, pp. 12 & 76) James Conway once referred to his duration on the episode as having been "five months." ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part III: First Flight", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
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* This episode's production incorporated an unusual amount of [[Filming locations|location filming]]. Noted James Conway, "''It was a very location-heavy show [....] We were on location more than we weren't. And we had very specific looks we had to do.''" ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) Conway elaborated, "''We did two days in [[Bakersfield]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[California]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> [...] and then we were three days at a water treatment plant and one day in an electrical power plant, and one day at [[Malibu]], so we were out quite a bit.''" ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 47) Bakersfield was used for the sequence depicting the [[Broken Bow incident]], standing in for [[Broken Bow]] itself, whereas Malibu stood in for Hoshi Sato's Brazilian, outdoors classroom as well as some of its surroundings and Malibu's [[Zuma Beach]] was used for the beach scenes that feature in Archer's flashbacks. ([[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 1 DVD]]) [[Rigel X]] scenes were filmed at the Redondo Power Plant and Hyperion Water Treatment Plant. ({{e|These Are the Voyages...}} [[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 4 DVD]]) James Conway and Herman Zimmerman had "a lot of fun" capturing footage at the power planets and in Bakersfield respectively, though Conway later described the location work at the power plants as "the most difficult thing we shot," due to the fact that arranging these locations turned out to be "very time-consuming." There were several additions to the locations by the production staff; a futuristic-looking grain silo and newly grown corn were added to the site selected in Bakersfield and atmospheric elements such as steam, dripping water and lights were taken to the power plants, with soap flakes used as snow in the seemingly outdoors footage set on Rigel X. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) The filming in Malibu likewise involved the addition of a yawning and the classroom itself. ([[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 1 DVD]]) The footage taken in Bakersfield was shot on 12 and 13 June 2001, whereas the scenes captured in Malibu were filmed on 19 June 2001. {{incite}} The late June filming of the Malibu scenes was near the end of the episode's shooting schedule. ([[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 1 DVD]])
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* This episode's production incorporated an unusual amount of [[Filming locations|location filming]]. Noted James Conway, "''It was a very location-heavy show [....] We were on location more than we weren't. And we had very specific looks we had to do.''" ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) Conway elaborated, "''We did two days in [[Bakersfield]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[California]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> [...] and then we were three days at a water treatment plant and one day in an electrical power plant, and one day at [[Malibu]], so we were out quite a bit.''" ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 47) Bakersfield was used for the sequence depicting the [[Broken Bow incident]], standing in for [[Broken Bow]] itself, whereas Malibu stood in for Hoshi Sato's Brazilian, outdoors classroom as well as some of its surroundings and Malibu's [[Zuma Beach]] was used for the beach scenes that feature in Archer's flashbacks. ([[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 1 DVD]]) [[Rigel X]] scenes were filmed at the Redondo Power Plant and Hyperion Water Treatment Plant. ({{e|These Are the Voyages...}} [[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 4 DVD]]) James Conway and Herman Zimmerman had "a lot of fun" capturing footage at the power plants and in Bakersfield respectively, though Conway later described the location work at the power plants as "the most difficult thing we shot," due to the fact that arranging these locations turned out to be "very time-consuming." There were several additions to the locations by the production staff; a futuristic-looking grain silo and newly grown corn were added to the site selected in Bakersfield and atmospheric elements such as steam, dripping water and lights were taken to the power plants, with soap flakes used as snow in the seemingly outdoors footage set on Rigel X. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) The filming in Malibu likewise involved the addition of a yawning and the classroom itself. ([[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 1 DVD]]) The footage taken in Bakersfield was shot on 12 and 13 June 2001, whereas the scenes captured in Malibu were filmed on 19 June 2001. {{incite}} The late June filming of the Malibu scenes was near the end of the episode's shooting schedule. ([[text commentary]], [[ENT Season 1 DVD]])
* On a night before one of the days which was scheduled for filming at the water treatment plant, a party for foreign advertising was held on the Paramount lot, at which free alcohol was served. After a considerably drunk Connor Trinneer took four bottles of alcohol from behind the bar without authorization and went home, he participated in the film shoot the next day then proceeded to return home, where he received a phone call from Rick Berman. Trinneer, regretting his actions during the previous night, worried that Berman was calling to fire him for stealing the bottles but Berman's motive for making the call, much to the actor's relief, was actually because the producers of ''Enterprise'' had decided to change the first name of Trinneer's role from Spike to Trip. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* On a night before one of the days which was scheduled for filming at the water treatment plant, a party for foreign advertising was held on the Paramount lot, at which free alcohol was served. After a considerably drunk Connor Trinneer took four bottles of alcohol from behind the bar without authorization and went home, he participated in the film shoot the next day then proceeded to return home, where he received a phone call from Rick Berman. Trinneer, regretting his actions during the previous night, worried that Berman was calling to fire him for stealing the bottles but Berman's motive for making the call, much to the actor's relief, was actually because the producers of ''Enterprise'' had decided to change the first name of Trinneer's role from Spike to Trip. ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features)
* While directing this outing, James Conway endeavored to embellish it with "as many dynamic angles as I could find a way to put in." ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 47) He filmed "every possible, cool angle I could find on the [''Enterprise'' ship] sets." Conway went on to recall, "''I also wanted the style of the show, as I directed the pilot, to not look like the other shows. And so, if you look at the show, you'll see one shot becomes another. There's often times that the camera's on somebody and it racks to this, or it's on somebody and it pans to that. So, the camera is helping discover us along the way, instead of the classic big wide shot, medium shot, close-up. I tried to use the camera in a very interesting way, to make it feel different and stand out.''" ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) Despite thinking that the eventual version of the episode includes "a lot of dynamic shots" as well as "a lot of pace and energy," he also believes it contains no filming techniques that set it too far apart from the earlier-made ''Star Trek'' productions. ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 47)
* While directing this outing, James Conway endeavored to embellish it with "as many dynamic angles as I could find a way to put in." ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 47) He filmed "every possible, cool angle I could find on the [''Enterprise'' ship] sets." Conway went on to recall, "''I also wanted the style of the show, as I directed the pilot, to not look like the other shows. And so, if you look at the show, you'll see one shot becomes another. There's often times that the camera's on somebody and it racks to this, or it's on somebody and it pans to that. So, the camera is helping discover us along the way, instead of the classic big wide shot, medium shot, close-up. I tried to use the camera in a very interesting way, to make it feel different and stand out.''" ("To Boldly Go: Launching ''Enterprise'', Part II: Boarding the NX-01", [[ENT Season 1 Blu-ray]] special features) Despite thinking that the eventual version of the episode includes "a lot of dynamic shots" as well as "a lot of pace and energy," he also believes it contains no filming techniques that set it too far apart from the earlier-made ''Star Trek'' productions. ({{STTM|2|7}}, p. 47)