8.6/102,270 votesLoading...#1 - Twilight
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/2003
A spatial distortion leaves Archer unable to form any new long-term memories. Years in the future, he wakes up one morning and is stunned to learn the outcome of the human-Xindi conflict.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.5/102,511 votesLoading...#2 - Carbon Creek
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2002
After Archer and Trip become curious about a visit she made to a Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek, T'Pol explains to them that Vulcans actually had their first contact with humans in 1957. That year, a Vulcan ship crashed on Earth and three crew members survived, including T'Pol's great grandmother. They pose as humans in Carbon Creek and take on jobs while waiting for rescue and soon find themselves becoming more involved with the town's residents.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: N/A
8.5/102,688 votesLoading...#3 - Regeneration
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2003
The remnants of an alien ship and two frozen cybernetic bodies are uncovered in the arctic by a research team. These aliens soon thaw out and flee Earth, taking the research team with them. Starfleet orders Enterprise to find them, but the crew aren't prepared for just how dangerous these aliens really are.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Michael Sussman, Phyllis Strong
8.5/101,814 votesLoading...#4 - Azati Prime
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/2004
Archer sets out on a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon as Enterprise faces a brutal attack.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Manny Coto, Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
8.5/101,700 votesLoading...#5 - Countdown
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/2004
With help from Xindi allies, the Enterprise crew attempts to stop the arming of the Weapon aimed toward Earth.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Black, André Bormanis
8.5/101,772 votesLoading...#6 - Zero Hour
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/26/2004
Archer puts his life on the line in a risky gambit to intercept the Xindi superweapon and disarm it from within.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
8.4/101,949 votesLoading...#7 - Shockwave (1)
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/22/2002
Starfleet orders Enterprise to return home when the crew seemingly causes the destruction of an alien planet. However, a visit from Crewman Daniels leads Archer to believe that this disaster was the plot of one of the factions from the temporal cold war.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
8.4/102,221 votesLoading...#8 - Similitude
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/2003
When Trip suffers a catastrophic injury, his only hope for survival is a transplant from a "mimetic symbiont" which Phlox grows from one of his exotic creatures.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: Manny Coto
8.4/101,839 votesLoading...#9 - Proving Ground
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/2004
An Andorian ship led by Commander Shran arrives in the Delphic Expanse to help Enterprise hone in on the Xindi super-weapon.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Chris Black
8.4/101,691 votesLoading...#10 - The Council
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/2004
Archer and Hoshi stand before the Xindi Council as T'Pol and Reed lead a team into the heart of a Sphere.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Manny Coto
8.4/101,747 votesLoading...#11 - Kir'Shara (3)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2004
Archer, T'Pol and T'Pau attempt to bring the Kir'Shara — an artifact believed to contain Surak's original writings — to the Vulcan capital, as the NX-01 gets involved in a Vulcan-Andorian military clash.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.4/101,719 votesLoading...#12 - Babel One (1)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/2005
Enterprise journeys to Babel with a Tellarite ambassador on board for peace talks with the Andorians, when a distress call from Shran is received.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Michael Sussman, André Bormanis
8.4/101,705 votesLoading...#13 - United (2)
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2005
Archer tries to unify the Andorians, Tellarites and Vulcans in a plan to capture a marauder ship threatening to destabilize the region.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Manny Coto
8.2/102,452 votesLoading...#14 - Shockwave (2)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2002
Daniels and Archer must find a way back to the 22nd century in order to make sure history plays out as it should. Meanwhile, on board Enterprise, the Suliban have taken over the ship, but Reed, Trip, and T'Pol formulate a plan to eject the aliens.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
8.2/101,811 votesLoading...#15 - The Expanse
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/2003
An alien race known as the Xindi launch an attack on Earth, causing great casualties and massive damage. As Enterprise heads back home, an unlikely source informs Archer about the Xindi and that their next attack will destroy Earth.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
8.2/101,730 votesLoading...#16 - The Forge (1)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2004
Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed, and the ensuing investigation puts Archer and T'Pol on the trail of a Vulcan religious faction hiding in a treacherous desert.
Director: Michael Grossman
8.2/101,700 votesLoading...#17 - The Aenar (3)
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2005
Archer visits Shran's icy homeworld to find an Andorian subspecies called the Aenar, to determine their connection to the marauder destroying ships in the region.
Director: Michael Vejar, Manny Coto
Writer: Manny Coto
8.2/102,132 votesLoading...#18 - In a Mirror, Darkly (1)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/2005
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.2/102,008 votesLoading...#19 - In a Mirror, Darkly (2)
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/2005
In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.
Director: Marvin V. Rush
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.1/101,819 votesLoading...#20 - Future Tense
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2003
The Enterprise crew find a small craft drifting in space and are surprised to find it contains a human corpse. More questions arise when the Suliban and Tholians make claims to the craft.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Michael Sussman, Phyllis Strong
8.1/101,752 votesLoading...#21 - Stratagem
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/2004
Archer finds himself face-to-face with Degra, the designer of the Xindi superweapon, and tries to get him to reveal its location.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
8.1/101,728 votesLoading...#22 - Damage
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/2004
While dissension among Xindi ranks festers, Enterprise tries to recover from a devastating attack.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Phyllis Strong
8.1/101,723 votesLoading...#23 - Terra Prime (2)
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/2005
A human isolationist leader threatens to destroy Starfleet Command unless all aliens leave Earth immediately.
Director: Marvin V. Rush
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,273 votesLoading...#24 - The Andorian Incident
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/2001
Enterprise visits an ancient Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T'Pol's concerns that her human colleagues will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the Vulcans.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Fred Dekker, Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
8.0/102,248 votesLoading...#25 - Dear Doctor
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2002
The crew discovers a new planet with two races, one in desperate need of medical and scientific assistance. In the course of trying to help, Dr. Phlox recalls his own Denobulan past to address the ethical dilemmas that arise in the present.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise
Every episode of Star Trek: Enterprise ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise!
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet,...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Twilight" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise". It scored 8.6/10 based on 2270 votes. Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill and written by Michael Sussman, it aired on 11/5/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Carbon Creek".