The Worst Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise

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   #1 - These Are the Voyages...

   S4:E225/13/2005

   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

   Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga

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   Director:Allan Kroeker

   Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga
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   #2 - Extinction

   S3:E39/24/2003

   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

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   Director:LeVar Burton

   Writer:André Bormanis
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   6.2/10(1908 votes)

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   #3 - Daedalus

   S4:E101/14/2005

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

   Director:David Straiton

   Writers:Alan Brennert, Ken LaZebnik

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   Director:David Straiton

   Writers:Alan Brennert, Ken LaZebnik
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   #4 - Precious Cargo

   S2:E1112/11/2002

   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:Unknown

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   Director:David Livingston

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   #5 - Terra Nova

   S1:E610/24/2001

   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:Unknown

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   Director:LeVar Burton

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   #6 - Fortunate Son

   S1:E1011/21/2001

   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

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   Director:LeVar Burton

   Writer:James Duff
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   #7 - Rogue Planet

   S1:E183/20/2002

   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:Unknown

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   #8 - Horizon

   S2:E204/16/2003

   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

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   Director:James A. Contner

   Writer:André Bormanis
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   6.6/10(2280 votes)

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   #9 - A Night in Sickbay

   S2:E510/16/2002

   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

   Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga

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   Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga
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    #10 - Two Days and Two Nights

    S1:E255/15/2002

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Michael Dorn

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    6.6/10(2106 votes)

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    #11 - Marauders

    S2:E610/30/2002

    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

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, David Wilcox

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    Director:Michael Vejar

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, David Wilcox
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    6.6/10(1894 votes)

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    #12 - Hatchery

    S3:E172/25/2004

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

    Director:Michael Grossman

    Writers:André Bormanis, Michael Sussman

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    Director:Michael Grossman

    Writers:André Bormanis, Michael Sussman
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    6.7/10(2126 votes)

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    #13 - Vox Sola

    S1:E225/1/2002

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Roxann Dawson

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    6.7/10(2005 votes)

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    #14 - Chosen Realm

    S3:E121/14/2004

    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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    Director:Roxann Dawson

    Writer:Manny Coto
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    6.8/10(2010 votes)

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    #15 - The Seventh

    S2:E711/6/2002

    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

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga

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    Director:David Livingston

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga
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    #16 - Bound

    S4:E174/15/2005

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

    Director:Allan Kroeker

    Writer:Manny Coto

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    Director:Allan Kroeker

    Writer:Manny Coto
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    #17 - Exile

    S3:E610/15/2003

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

    Director:Roxann Dawson

    Writer:Phyllis Strong

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    Director:Roxann Dawson

    Writer:Phyllis Strong
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    6.8/10(1929 votes)

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    #18 - Canamar

    S2:E172/26/2003

    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.

    Directors:Allan Kroeker, James Whitmore Jr.

    Writers:Allan Kroeker, John Shiban

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    Directors:Allan Kroeker, James Whitmore Jr.

    Writers:Allan Kroeker, John Shiban
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    6.9/10(2515 votes)

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    #19 - Strange New World

    S1:E410/10/2001

    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:Unknown

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    Director:David Livingston

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    6.9/10(2126 votes)

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    #20 - North Star

    S3:E911/12/2003

    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

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    Director:David Straiton

    Writer:David A. Goodman
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    #21 - Vanishing Point

    S2:E1011/27/2002

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

    Director:David Straiton

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga

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    Director:David Straiton

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga
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    #22 - Desert Crossing

    S1:E245/8/2002

    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:Unknown

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    6.9/10(2006 votes)

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    #23 - The Communicator

    S2:E811/13/2002

    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

    Writers:Rick Berman, André Bormanis, Brannon Braga

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    Director:James A. Contner

    Writers:Rick Berman, André Bormanis, Brannon Braga
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    #24 - Rajiin

    S3:E410/1/2003

    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

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

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    Director:Michael Vejar

    Writers:Chris Black, Paul Brown, Brent V. Friedman
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    #25 - The Crossing

    S2:E184/2/2003

    Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.

    Director:David Livingston

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga

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    Director:David Livingston

    Writers:Rick Berman, Brannon Braga