The Best Episodes Written By Michael Sussman

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(26 votes)

   #1 - Twilight

   S3:E811/5/2003

   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.

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   8.1/10(29 votes)

   #2 - Regeneration

   S2:E235/7/2003

   The remnants of an alien ship and two frozen cybernetic bodies are uncovered in the arctic by a research team. These aliens soon thaw out and flee Earth, taking the research team with them. Starfleet orders Enterprise to find them, but the crew aren't prepared for just how dangerous these aliens really are.

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   8.0/10(14 votes)

   #3 - Shattered

   S7:E111/17/2001

   Stardate: Unknown - A spatial anomaly divides Voyager into various time frames of the past and future, leaving Chakotay as the only person who may be able to put the pieces back together.

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   8.0/10(14 votes)

   #4 - Unimatrix Zero (2)

   S7:E110/4/2000

   Stardate: 54014.4 - Partially transformed into Borg drones, Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres run a covert operation on board a Borg ship to infect the collective with a virus that will free subdued individuals from the hive's control.

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   8.0/10(25 votes)

   #5 - Babel One (1)

   S4:E121/28/2005

   Enterprise journeys to Babel with a Tellarite ambassador on board for peace talks with the Andorians, when a distress call from Shran is received.

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   8.0/10(22 votes)

   #6 - Stratagem

   S3:E142/4/2004

   Archer finds himself face-to-face with Degra, the designer of the Xindi superweapon, and tries to get him to reveal its location.

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   7.9/10(26 votes)

   #7 - Future Tense

   S2:E162/19/2003

   The Enterprise crew find a small craft drifting in space and are surprised to find it contains a human corpse. More questions arise when the Suliban and Tholians make claims to the craft.

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   7.8/10(8 votes)

   #8 - Allegiance

   S4:E59/10/2017

   Nathan James is diverted from their mission when they receive a suspicious distress call from a fishing trawler.

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   7.8/10(25 votes)

   #9 - Home

   S4:E310/22/2004

   Once the NX-01 finally returns to Earth, the weary crewmen face repercussions of their journeys, both positive and negative.

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    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #10 - One Hundred Years

    S2:E35/2/2016

    Despite the growing tension between them, Cole and Cassie time travel to New York during World War II to track down a dangerous member of the Twelve.

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    7.7/10(24 votes)

    #11 - E²

    S3:E215/5/2004

    An attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor leads the Enterprise crew to a bizarre encounter with their own descendants.

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    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Unimatrix Zero (1)

    S6:E265/24/2000

    Stardate: Unknown. Seven of Nine is contacted by Borg drones who have the ability to exist in a virtual realm that gives them freedom as individuals.

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    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Repentance

    S7:E131/31/2001

    Stardate: 54474.6 - When Voyager provides emergency transportation for alien prisoners sentenced to die, a medical procedure unexpectedly and radically changes the values and temperament of one of the prisoners.

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    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #14 - Dead Stop

    S2:E410/9/2002

    Suffering from damage inflicted in the Romulan minefield and unable to complete repairs on their own, Archer orders a distress call to be put out. A response leads Enterprise to a repair station, which surprisingly has no crew aboard it and is run by computer. Repairs on Enterprise are carried out quite efficiently and quickly, though the price for all this is much higher than the crew could've guessed.

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    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #15 - Kir'Shara (3)

    S4:E912/3/2004

    Archer, T'Pol and T'Pau attempt to bring the Kir'Shara — an artifact believed to contain Surak's original writings — to the Vulcan capital, as the NX-01 gets involved in a Vulcan-Andorian military clash.

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    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #16 - The Augments (3)

    S4:E611/12/2004

    In defiance of their "father," Arik Soong's Augments devise a heinous plot against the Klingons which will surely lead to interstellar war.

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    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #17 - Affliction (1)

    S4:E152/18/2005

    While Enterprise visits Earth for the launch of Columbia, Phlox is kidnapped and forced to help the Klingons deal with a grave threat toward their species.

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    7.5/10(23 votes)

    #18 - Anomaly

    S3:E29/17/2003

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

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    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Body and Soul

    S7:E711/15/2000

    Stardate: 54283.3 - In a region of space where holograms are prohibited, the Doctor is forced to hide by transferring his program into Seven's mind, upon which he takes over control of her body.

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    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Author, Author

    S7:E204/18/2001

    Stardate: 54732.3 - When the Doctor arranges to have his recently completed holodeck novel published in the Alpha Quadrant, certain aspects of the story hit too close to home among his shipmates.

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    7.4/10(24 votes)

    #21 - In a Mirror, Darkly (2)

    S4:E194/29/2005

    In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.

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    7.4/10(24 votes)

    #22 - In a Mirror, Darkly (1)

    S4:E184/22/2005

    In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.

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    7.3/10(32 votes)

    #23 - Meld

    S2:E162/5/1996

    Stardate: Unknown. In order to help out Lon Suder, a psychopath who killed a crewmember, Tuvok performs a mind meld. Soon after, he begins showing violent tendencies, which develop until he loses control.

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    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #24 - Prophecy

    S7:E142/7/2001

    Stardate: 54518.2 - The captain of a Klingon ship on a generational holy mission believes Torres' unborn child may lead them to a new era of enlightenment.

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    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #25 - Shadows of P'Jem

    S1:E152/6/2002

    Archer and the crew are disappointed to discover that T'Pol has been ordered by the Vulcan High Command to leave Enterprise--and equally frustrated at her seeming indifference to leaving their ranks. T'Pol's last mission as a Starfleet officer, however, proves eventful when she and Archer are kidnapped by a militant faction on an alien planet.

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