8.7/107 votes#1 - Prologue
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/5/2014
After a missing FBI agent turns up dead, Pierce is forced to face the one case he was never able to solve. When they discover that the killer is still out there, Pierce agrees to help Moretti, against the wishes of his therapist, Dr. Rosenthal, who believes it will only exacerbate Pierce’s condition.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.3/1023 votes#2 - Twilight
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/2003
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.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.0/1024 votes#3 - Regeneration
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2003
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.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.0/1020 votes#4 - 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: Michael Sussman
8.0/105 votes#5 - Shadow
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/2012
A student tips off Pierce about a potential conspiracy to cover up the murder of a U.S. Senator.
Director: Kenneth Biller
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.0/103 votes#6 - Alienation
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/2/2013
Pierce and Moretti take on an extraterrestrial case when a woman reports that aliens have abducted her husband. When Pierce and Moretti arrive to investigate, however, they make a startling discovery. Meanwhile, things heat up between Pierce and his real-life girlfriend, Caroline, but his relationship could be jeopardized if he can't get his imaginary girlfriend, Natalie, out of his mind.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.8/105 votes#7 - Vigilante
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2006
When a number of infectees and seemingly innocent people are killed, it becomes apparent that someone is going after people affected by the alien signal, and is locating them via their heightened brain waves. How is the killer linked to Bighorn crewman Manning, and does his method of finding his victims mean that Molly, Cavennaugh or Lucas could be next on his list?
Director: John F. Showalter
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.8/108 votes#8 - Allegiance
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/10/2017
Nathan James is diverted from their mission when they receive a suspicious distress call from a fishing trawler.
Director: Steven Kane
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.8/1017 votes#9 - One Hundred Years
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/2/2016
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.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.7/1022 votes#10 - Future Tense
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2003
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.7/107 votes#11 - Shattered
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2001
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.
Director: Terry Windell
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.7/107 votes#12 - Author, Author
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 4/18/2001
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.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.7/1022 votes#13 - Kir'Shara (3)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2004
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.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.7/1021 votes#14 - Home
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2004
Once the NX-01 finally returns to Earth, the weary crewmen face repercussions of their journeys, both positive and negative.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.6/108 votes#15 - Body and Soul
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2000
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.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.6/1023 votes#16 - Dead Stop
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2002
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.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.6/1021 votes#17 - Anomaly
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2003
Enterprise starts experiencing effects of the spatial distortions pervading the Delphic Expanse, and falls victim to predatory aliens.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.6/1020 votes#18 - Affliction (1)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2005
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.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.6/1020 votes#19 - In a Mirror, Darkly (2)
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/2005
In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.
Director: Marvin V. Rush
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.5/1020 votes#20 - E²
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/2004
An attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor leads the Enterprise crew to a bizarre encounter with their own descendants.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.5/1020 votes#21 - In a Mirror, Darkly (1)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/2005
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.5/1023 votes#22 - Unimatrix Zero (1)
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 5/24/2000
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.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.5/1019 votes#23 - The Augments (3)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2004
In defiance of their "father," Arik Soong's Augments devise a heinous plot against the Klingons which will surely lead to interstellar war.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.3/108 votes#24 - Prophecy
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2001
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.
Director: Terry Windell
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.2/1025 votes#25 - Meld
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1996
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.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Sussman
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"Prologue" is the best rated episode written by Michael Sussman. It scored 8.7/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Alrick Riley. It aired on 8/5/2014 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Twilight".