7.7/101,819 votes#1 - The Xindi
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2003
Captain Archer and his crew set out to gain information about the mysterious and antagonistic Xindi race.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
7.7/101,730 votes#2 - Anomaly
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2003
Enterprise starts experiencing effects of the spatial distortions pervading the Delphic Expanse, and falls victim to predatory aliens.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Michael Sussman
6.0/101,786 votes#3 - Extinction
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2003
On a mission to investigate an abandoned Xindi vessel on a jungle planet, Archer, Reed and Hoshi succumb to a virus that mutates them into a primal life form.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: André Bormanis
6.9/101,733 votes#4 - Rajiin
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/2003
The NX-01 gets closer to a showdown with the Xindi when Captain Archer takes on an enigmatic passenger: a beautiful slave named Rajiin.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Chris Black, Paul Brown, Brent V. Friedman
7.4/101,776 votes#5 - Impulse
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/2003
When Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Vulcan ship stranded in the Delphic Expanse, Archer and his boarding team are attacked by insane zombie-like Vulcans.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Jonathan Fernandez
6.8/101,697 votes#6 - Exile
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2003
A powerful telepath makes contact with Hoshi and offers to help Enterprise find the Xindi ... for a price.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Phyllis Strong
7.5/101,687 votes#7 - The Shipment
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/2003
Archer, Reed and Major Hayes infiltrate a Xindi-Sloth industrial colony to learn more about the weapon of mass destruction that will be used against Earth.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Chris Black, Brent V. Friedman
8.6/102,279 votes#8 - 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
6.9/101,865 votes#9 - North Star
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/2003
When a settlement of humans living a 19th-century Western lifestyle is discovered on a Delphic Expanse planet, Archer and crew set out to learn how they got there.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: David A. Goodman
8.4/102,230 votes#10 - 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
7.4/101,848 votes#11 - Carpenter Street
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/2003
Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to 2004 Detroit to stop a Xindi plot.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman
6.7/101,747 votes#12 - Chosen Realm
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2004
Religious zealots hijack Enterprise to use it as a weapon against the enemies of their faith.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Manny Coto
8.4/101,843 votes#13 - 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
8.1/101,754 votes#14 - 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
7.4/101,739 votes#15 - Harbinger
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/2004
As Archer tries to unravel the mystery of a rescued alien, long-simmering feelings explode among his senior officers.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,745 votes#16 - Doctor's Orders
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/2004
The fate of Enterprise is in Dr. Phlox's hands as the rest of the crew must be induced into a coma in order to survive a trans-dimensional disturbance.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Chris Black
6.6/101,661 votes#17 - Hatchery
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/2004
Archer goes to extreme lengths to save an abandoned nest of Xindi-Insectoid eggs ready to hatch.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: Michael Sussman, André Bormanis
8.5/101,818 votes#18 - 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
8.1/101,729 votes#19 - 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
7.9/101,685 votes#20 - The Forgotten
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/2004
Two high-ranking Xindi offer to stop the launch of their superweapon if Archer can prove they've been manipulated. Meanwhile, the crew mourns their lost mates.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: Chris Black, David A. Goodman
7.9/101,771 votes#21 - E²
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/2004
An attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor leads the Enterprise crew to a bizarre encounter with their own descendants.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.4/101,693 votes#22 - 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
8.5/101,702 votes#23 - 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
8.5/101,773 votes#24 - 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
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"The Xindi" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 1819 votes. Directed by Allan Kroeker and written by Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, it aired on 9/10/2003. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Anomaly".