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The Worst Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise

Every episode of Star Trek: Enterprise ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"These Are the Voyages..." is the worst rated episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise". It scored 5.3/10 based on 2701 votes. Directed by Allan Kroeker and written by Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, it aired on 5/13/2005. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Extinction".

  • These Are the Voyages...
    5.3/102,701 votes
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    #1 - These Are the Voyages...

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2005

    Six years in the future, an emotional Captain Archer and the crew return to Earth to face the decommission of Enterprise and signing of the Federation charter.

    Director: Allan Kroeker

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

  • Extinction
    6.0/101,786 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Daedalus
    6.2/101,675 votes
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    #3 - Daedalus

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2005

    The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Ken LaZebnik, Alan Brennert

  • Precious Cargo
    6.4/101,872 votes
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    #4 - Precious Cargo

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2002

    Trip boards an alien cargo vessel to help repair a stasis pod, which holds a beautiful woman in suspended animation. When the woman accidentally wakes up, she reveals she's not a passenger, but a prisoner.

    Director: David Livingston

    Writer: N/A

  • Terra Nova
    6.5/102,113 votes
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    #5 - Terra Nova

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2001

    The Enterprise crew alters course to investigate the mystery of Terra Nova, a legendary Earth colony whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared decades ago. But when they arrive, they confront descendents of the colonists who have become more alien than Archer could ever have imagined.

    Director: LeVar Burton

    Writer: N/A

  • Fortunate Son
    6.5/101,955 votes
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    #6 - Fortunate Son

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/2001

    The Enterprise crew is dispatched by Starfleet Command to assist Fortunate, a human freight vessel that has been attacked by Nausicaan pirates. On arriving, they are surprised to find that Fortunate's crew is resistant to Archer's efforts to help them and determined to seek revenge against their attackers, no matter the repercussions.

    Director: LeVar Burton

    Writer: James Duff

  • Rogue Planet
    6.5/101,882 votes
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    #7 - Rogue Planet

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/2002

    While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members encounter a group of aliens who are hunting down indigenous creatures for recreation. During their exploration, Archer is mesmerized by visions of an elusive, yet familiar woman who needs his help.

    Director: Allan Kroeker

    Writer: N/A

  • Horizon
    6.5/101,665 votes
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    #8 - Horizon

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/2003

    Mayweather discovers his father has died and that things on his old home, the E.C.S. Horizon, have greatly changed.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: André Bormanis

  • Two Days and Two Nights
    6.6/101,877 votes
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    #9 - Two Days and Two Nights

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/15/2002

    Archer, Hoshi, Travis, Malcolm and Trip have decidedly different experiences during shore leave on Risa. Meanwhile, on Enterprise, Phlox enters his annual hibernation cycle.

    Director: Michael Dorn

    Writer: N/A

  • A Night in Sickbay
    6.6/101,991 votes
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    #10 - A Night in Sickbay

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2002

    Archer spends a night in sickbay with Dr. Phlox after Porthos contracts a deadly virus on the Kreetassan homeworld. Crew members suspect Archer's increased stress level is due to Porthos' illness, but Dr. Phlox suspects it has to do with Archer's repressed sexual tension.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

  • Marauders
    6.6/101,833 votes
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    #11 - Marauders

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2002

    In need of fuel, the Enterprise arrives at a Quonset mining colony for deuterium supplies. They discover that Klingons are forcing the colonists to give up all their deuterium. Archer and the rest of the crew work to train the colonists so they can fight back against the Klingons.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, David Wilcox

  • Hatchery
    6.6/101,661 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Vox Sola
    6.7/101,850 votes
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    #13 - Vox Sola

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/1/2002

    A strange, alien creature comes aboard Enterprise, and captures several crew members in its cocoon-like web. With her crewmates' lives in jeopardy, Hoshi faces her biggest challenge yet, in trying to communicate with the lifeform, in order to return it to its home planet.

    Director: Roxann Dawson

    Writer: N/A

  • Chosen Realm
    6.7/101,747 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • The Seventh
    6.8/101,747 votes
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    #15 - The Seventh

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2002

    Archer, Mayweather and T'Pol travel to an arctic world to apprehend a fugitive, when T'Pol is contacted by Vulcan High Command. The mission takes a dangerous turn when T'Pol begins having flashbacks that suggest the events she remembers about a former mission may not accurately relate to what happened.

    Director: David Livingston

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

  • Canamar
    6.8/101,674 votes
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    #16 - Canamar

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2003

    Archer and Tucker are arrested and placed on a prisoner transport heading for a penal colony, Canamar. They won't have a chance to correct this error, as one of the inmates plots a takeover of the ship.

    Director: Allan Kroeker, James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer: John Shiban, Allan Kroeker

  • Exile
    6.8/101,697 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Bound
    6.8/101,682 votes
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    #18 - Bound

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/15/2005

    As a gift for negotiating with the Orion Syndicate, Captain Archer receives three Orion Slave Girls.

    Director: Allan Kroeker

    Writer: Manny Coto

  • Strange New World
    6.9/102,185 votes
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    #19 - Strange New World

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2001

    Archer sends an away team to a habitable, luscious planet for observation. But when a storm occurs, the team begins to experience paranoid delusions.

    Director: David Livingston

    Writer: N/A

  • Desert Crossing
    6.9/101,795 votes
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    #20 - Desert Crossing

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/2002

    When Archer and Trip are invited to a desert-like planet by an alien leader, they discover he is a terrorist who has lured them there under false pretences. Meanwhile, T'Pol, while in command, faces a tough decision when she cannot locate Archer and Trip in the desert.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: N/A

  • The Communicator
    6.9/101,743 votes
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    #21 - The Communicator

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2002

    Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society, that is on the verge of war, to recover a lost communicator from an undercover survey mission.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, André Bormanis

  • Vanishing Point
    6.9/101,816 votes
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    #22 - Vanishing Point

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2002

    Hoshi experiences her first transporter experience and strange aftereffects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

  • The Crossing
    6.9/101,704 votes
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    #23 - The Crossing

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/2003

    Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.

    Director: David Livingston

    Writer: Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

  • Bounty
    6.9/101,652 votes
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    #24 - Bounty

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/2003

    Archer learns the Klingons have put a price on his head when he is captured by a Tellarite bounty hunter. As Enterprise pursues, a virus causes T'Pol to go into premature Pon Farr.

    Director: Roxann Dawson

    Writer: N/A

  • Rajiin
    6.9/101,733 votes
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    #25 - 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