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The Worst Episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise

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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 Worst Episode
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    Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 Episode 22 - These Are the Voyages...
    5.3/10(3033 votes)

    S4:E22

    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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  2. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 3 - Extinction
    6.0/10(2042 votes)

    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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  3. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 Episode 10 - Daedalus
    6.2/10(1903 votes)

    S4:E10

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

    Director:David Straiton
    Writers:Ken LaZebnik, Alan Brennert

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  4. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 11 - Precious Cargo
    6.4/10(2149 votes)

    S2:E11

    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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  5. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 6 - Terra Nova
    6.5/10(2417 votes)

    S1:E6

    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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  6. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 10 - Fortunate Son
    6.5/10(2248 votes)

    S1:E10

    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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  7. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 18 - Rogue Planet
    6.5/10(2166 votes)

    S1:E18

    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. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 20 - Horizon
    6.5/10(1926 votes)

    S2:E20

    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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  9. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 25 - Two Days and Two Nights
    6.6/10(2145 votes)

    S1:E25

    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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  10. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 5 - A Night in Sickbay
    6.6/10(2278 votes)

    S2:E5

    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:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

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  11. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 6 - Marauders
    6.6/10(2103 votes)

    S2:E6

    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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  12. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 17 - Hatchery
    6.6/10(1889 votes)

    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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  13. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 22 - Vox Sola
    6.7/10(2123 votes)

    S1:E22

    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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  14. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 12 - Chosen Realm
    6.7/10(2002 votes)

    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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  15. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 7 - The Seventh
    6.8/10(2008 votes)

    S2:E7

    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:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

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  16. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 17 - Canamar
    6.8/10(1925 votes)

    S2:E17

    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:James Whitmore Jr., Allan Kroeker
    Writers:Allan Kroeker, John Shiban

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  17. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 6 - Exile
    6.8/10(1932 votes)

    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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  18. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 Episode 17 - Bound
    6.8/10(1935 votes)

    S4:E17

    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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  19. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 4 - Strange New World
    6.9/10(2507 votes)

    S1:E4

    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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  20. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 24 - Desert Crossing
    6.9/10(2054 votes)

    S1:E24

    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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  21. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 8 - The Communicator
    6.9/10(2005 votes)

    S2:E8

    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:Brannon Braga, André Bormanis, Rick Berman

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  22. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 10 - Vanishing Point
    6.9/10(2083 votes)

    S2:E10

    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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  23. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 18 - The Crossing
    6.9/10(1962 votes)

    S2:E18

    Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Rick Berman

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  24. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 Episode 25 - Bounty
    6.9/10(1892 votes)

    S2:E25

    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:Unknown

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  25. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3 Episode 4 - Rajiin
    6.9/10(1973 votes)

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"These Are the Voyages..." is the worst rated episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise". It scored 5.3/10 based on 3033 votes. Directed by Allan Kroeker and written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, it aired on 5/13/2005. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Extinction".