8.4/1032 votes#1 - Identity (1)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/2019
Ed and the crew travel to Isaac's home planet, Kaylon.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: André Bormanis
8.2/1021 votes#2 - 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: André Bormanis
8.0/1020 votes#3 - Babel One (1)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/2005
Enterprise journeys to Babel with a Tellarite ambassador on board for peace talks with the Andorians, when a distress call from Shran is received.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: André Bormanis
7.8/104 votes#4 - Shock
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/2005
After a shipyard gang bust, a suspected fugitive Big Horn crewmember kills a police detective. Molly and Cavennaugh go undercover as Homeland Security agents. Unbeknownst to them, the real Homeland Security department is on the case.
Director: Tim Matheson
Writer: André Bormanis
7.8/109 votes#5 - The Man of a Trillion Worlds
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/23/2020
A child lies on the rug of a tenement dreaming of interstellar adventures. At the dawn of the space age, a young Carl Sagan's career is forged in the clash of his mentors, two scientific titans. Sagan goes on realize his childhood dreams, to carry their research forward and communicate its significance to the whole world.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: André Bormanis
7.7/1021 votes#6 - Domino
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 7/28/2022
The creation of a powerful new weapon puts the Orville crew — and the entire Union — in a political and ethical quandary.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: André Bormanis
7.6/1021 votes#7 - Awakening (2)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/2004
Archer and T'Pol encounter the Syrrannites, a radical group hiding in the Vulcan desert, while the NX-01 crew contends with Vulcan power ploys.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: André Bormanis
7.5/108 votes#8 - Imperfection
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2000
Stardate: 54129.4 - A key Borg component in Seven's brain begins shutting down, leading to the possibility that she may be facing the equivalent of a terminal illness.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: André Bormanis
7.4/1030 votes#9 - Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/2019
Ed finds himself behind enemy lines when he crash-lands on a mysterious planet. Meanwhile, Kelly questions why Gordon wants to take the Command Test.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: André Bormanis
7.3/107 votes#10 - Human Error
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 3/7/2001
Stardate: Unknown - Seven of Nine runs a series of holodeck simulations to explore her untapped emotions.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: André Bormanis
7.3/1020 votes#11 - Silent Enemy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/2002
When Enterprise is attacked by an unidentified enemy ship, the crew must work frantically to get their new phase canons to operate. Meanwhile, the captain charges Hoshi with finding out Malcolm's favorite food in time for a surprise birthday dinner.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: André Bormanis
7.1/1025 votes#12 - Waking Moments
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1998
Stardate: 51471.3. The crew is 'attacked' by a species of alien that live in the human dream state. It is up to Chakotay, with extensive knowledge about the dream state, to save the ship and its crew.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: André Bormanis
7.0/1020 votes#13 - 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: André Bormanis
6.9/1020 votes#14 - 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: André Bormanis
6.9/1022 votes#15 - Riddles
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1999
Stardate: Unknown. A mysterious alien attack leaves Tuvok's brain damaged and his personality altered, leading Neelix to try to rehabilitate him.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: André Bormanis
6.8/1015 votes#16 - Gently Falling Rain
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2022
The Orville crew leads a Union delegation to sign a peace treaty with the Krill.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: André Bormanis
6.7/1022 votes#17 - Shadow Realms
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/9/2022
The Orville explores a mysterious region of space.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: André Bormanis
6.6/1024 votes#18 - Fair Trade
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1997
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager encounters a region of space named the Nekrit Expanse. Since Neelix has no knowledge about the space after this point, he tries to make himself feel useful to the crew by trying to obtain a map from an old friend named Wixiban, who uses him as a courier for illegal substances.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: André Bormanis
6.6/1037 votes#19 - Into the Fold
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/2017
Ed and the crew set out to save Dr. Finn, her two sons and Isaac after their shuttle gets thrown into uncharted space and they crash-land on a moon that is light years from the Orville.
Director: Brannon Braga
Writer: André Bormanis
6.5/1024 votes#20 - Demon
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/6/1998
Stardate: Unknown. Kim and Paris beam down to a hellish, barren planet to search for deuterium, a crucial energy source required to keep the ship running.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: André Bormanis
6.5/108 votes#21 - Nightingale
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2000
Stardate: 54274.7 - Ensign Kim finds himself making the hard choices of mission commander when he agrees to help the crew of a ship in need.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: André Bormanis
6.4/1020 votes#22 - 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
6.2/1019 votes#23 - Midnight Blue
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 7/21/2022
The crew visit Haveena's sanctuary world and embark on a journey that may leave the Union more vulnerable.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: André Bormanis
6.0/1020 votes#24 - 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
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"Identity (1)" is the best rated episode written by André Bormanis. It scored 8.422/10 based on 32 votes. It was directed by Jon Cassar. It aired on 2/21/2019 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Countdown".