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The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3

Every episode of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3!

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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, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 1 - The Xindi
    7.7/10(1980 votes)

    #1 - The Xindi

    S3:E1

    Captain Archer and his crew set out to gain information about the mysterious and antagonistic Xindi race.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

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  2. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 2 - Anomaly
    7.7/10(1885 votes)

    #2 - Anomaly

    S3:E2

    Enterprise starts experiencing effects of the spatial distortions pervading the Delphic Expanse, and falls victim to predatory aliens.

    Director:David Straiton
    Writer:Michael Sussman

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  3. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 3 - Extinction
    6.0/10(1950 votes)

    #3 - Extinction

    S3:E3

    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

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  4. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 4 - Rajiin
    6.9/10(1890 votes)

    #4 - Rajiin

    S3:E4

    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
    Writers:Chris Black, Paul Brown, Brent V. Friedman

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  5. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 5 - Impulse
    7.4/10(1945 votes)

    #5 - Impulse

    S3:E5

    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

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  6. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 6 - Exile
    6.8/10(1855 votes)

    #6 - Exile

    S3:E6

    A powerful telepath makes contact with Hoshi and offers to help Enterprise find the Xindi ... for a price.

    Director:Roxann Dawson
    Writer:Phyllis Strong

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  7. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 7 - The Shipment
    7.5/10(1849 votes)

    #7 - The Shipment

    S3:E7

    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
    Writers:Chris Black, Brent V. Friedman

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  8. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 8 - Twilight
    8.6/10(2484 votes)

    #8 - Twilight

    S3:E8

    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

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  9. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 9 - North Star
    6.9/10(2035 votes)

    #9 - North Star

    S3:E9

    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

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  10. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 10 - Similitude
    8.4/10(2449 votes)

    #10 - Similitude

    S3:E10

    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

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  11. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 11 - Carpenter Street
    7.4/10(2018 votes)

    #11 - Carpenter Street

    S3:E11

    Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to 2004 Detroit to stop a Xindi plot.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

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  12. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 12 - Chosen Realm
    6.7/10(1918 votes)

    #12 - Chosen Realm

    S3:E12

    Religious zealots hijack Enterprise to use it as a weapon against the enemies of their faith.

    Director:Roxann Dawson
    Writer:Manny Coto

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  13. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 13 - Proving Ground
    8.4/10(2033 votes)

    #13 - Proving Ground

    S3:E13

    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

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  14. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 14 - Stratagem
    8.1/10(1924 votes)

    #14 - Stratagem

    S3:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 15 - Harbinger
    7.3/10(1907 votes)

    #15 - Harbinger

    S3:E15

    As Archer tries to unravel the mystery of a rescued alien, long-simmering feelings explode among his senior officers.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 16 - Doctor's Orders
    7.4/10(1921 votes)

    #16 - Doctor's Orders

    S3:E16

    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

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  17. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 17 - Hatchery
    6.6/10(1817 votes)

    #17 - Hatchery

    S3:E17

    Archer goes to extreme lengths to save an abandoned nest of Xindi-Insectoid eggs ready to hatch.

    Director:Michael Grossman
    Writers:Michael Sussman, André Bormanis

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  18. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 18 - Azati Prime
    8.5/10(1987 votes)

    #18 - Azati Prime

    S3:E18

    Archer sets out on a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon as Enterprise faces a brutal attack.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, Manny Coto

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  19. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 19 - Damage
    8.1/10(1893 votes)

    #19 - Damage

    S3:E19

    While dissension among Xindi ranks festers, Enterprise tries to recover from a devastating attack.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Phyllis Strong

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  20. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 20 - The Forgotten
    7.9/10(1839 votes)

    #20 - The Forgotten

    S3:E20

    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
    Writers:David A. Goodman, Chris Black

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  21. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 21 - E²
    7.9/10(1933 votes)

    #21 - E²

    S3:E21

    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

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  22. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 22 - The Council
    8.4/10(1845 votes)

    #22 - The Council

    S3:E22

    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

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  23. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 23 - Countdown
    8.5/10(1860 votes)

    #23 - Countdown

    S3:E23

    With help from Xindi allies, the Enterprise crew attempts to stop the arming of the Weapon aimed toward Earth.

    Director:Robert Duncan McNeill
    Writers:André Bormanis, Chris Black

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  24. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 24 - Zero Hour
    8.5/10(1941 votes)

    #24 - Zero Hour

    S3:E24

    Archer puts his life on the line in a risky gambit to intercept the Xindi superweapon and disarm it from within.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

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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 1980 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".