8.2/1021 votes#1 - Shockwave (1)
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/22/2002
Starfleet orders Enterprise to return home when the crew seemingly causes the destruction of an alien planet. However, a visit from Crewman Daniels leads Archer to believe that this disaster was the plot of one of the factions from the temporal cold war.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
8.1/1020 votes#2 - Zero Hour
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/26/2004
Archer puts his life on the line in a risky gambit to intercept the Xindi superweapon and disarm it from within.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
8.1/1029 votes#3 - Timeless
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1998
Stardate: Unknown. In the future, Harry Kim attempts to correct a mistake he made 15 years earlier, which had resulted in the loss of Voyager during use of experimental engine technology.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: Rick Berman
8.1/1020 votes#4 - Azati Prime
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/2004
Archer sets out on a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon as Enterprise faces a brutal attack.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
8.0/1016 votes#5 - Emissary (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1993
Stardate: 46379.1. A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Rick Berman
7.7/1022 votes#6 - The Andorian Incident
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/2001
Enterprise visits an ancient Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T'Pol's concerns that her human colleagues will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the Vulcans.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Rick Berman
7.6/1020 votes#7 - The Expanse
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/2003
An alien race known as the Xindi launch an attack on Earth, causing great casualties and massive damage. As Enterprise heads back home, an unlikely source informs Archer about the Xindi and that their next attack will destroy Earth.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
7.5/1025 votes#8 - Hope and Fear
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 5/20/1998
Stardate: 51978.2. When an alien helps the Voyager crew decode the mysterious encrypted message from Starfleet, the crew learns the whereabouts of a secret experimental starship that may be able to get them back to the Alpha Quadrant within a mere matter of months.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Rick Berman
7.5/1041 votes#9 - Unification (1)
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1991
Stardate: 45233.1. Ambassador Spock has disappeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the crew investigate the fragments of a Vulcan ship discovered in the wreck of a Ferengi vessel.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Rick Berman
7.5/1039 votes#10 - Unification (2)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1991
Stardate: 45245.8. Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Rick Berman
7.5/1024 votes#11 - Shockwave (2)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2002
Daniels and Archer must find a way back to the 22nd century in order to make sure history plays out as it should. Meanwhile, on board Enterprise, the Suliban have taken over the ship, but Reed, Trip, and T'Pol formulate a plan to eject the aliens.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
7.4/1037 votes#12 - Ensign Ro
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1991
Stardate: 45076.3. Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Rick Berman
7.4/1021 votes#13 - Stigma
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2003
Enterprise visits a planet where an Interspecies Medical Exchange conference is being held. Dr. Phlox tries to obtain research on a terminal disease from the Vulcan contingency, without revealing T'Pol has been infected by it.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Rick Berman
7.4/1022 votes#14 - Cogenitor
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/2003
The Enterprise crew makes first contact with the Vissians, a species with three genders. Trip meets one of the species' third gender, known as Cogenitor, and learns how badly Vissians treat all Cogenitors. Trip attempts to help the Cogenitor, even though it interferes with Vissian culture.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: Rick Berman
7.3/1026 votes#15 - Equinox (1)
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/26/1999
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager encounters another Federation starship, the USS Equinox, in the Delta Quadrant. But as an alien presence prepares an attack, Janeway begins to uncover the Equinox's sinister secret.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Rick Berman
7.2/1022 votes#16 - The Xindi
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2003
Captain Archer and his crew set out to gain information about the mysterious and antagonistic Xindi race.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
7.1/108 votes#17 - Fight or Flight
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2001
Captain Archer wants to convert curiosity into deeds and decides to enter a ship floating in space. Hoshi has trouble adjusting to life on Enterprise.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Rick Berman
7.1/1035 votes#18 - Broken Bow
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2001
The Enterprise, under Captain Jonathan Archer, sets off on its maiden voyage with a mission to return a wounded Klingon to his people.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Rick Berman
7.1/1031 votes#19 - Think Tank
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1999
Stardate: Unknown. A group of extremely intelligent aliens offers to help Voyager escape from a race of bounty hunters known as the Hazari, in exchange for Seven of Nine.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Rick Berman
7.0/1020 votes#20 - 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: Rick Berman
7.0/1020 votes#21 - Shuttlepod One
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/2002
Tucker and Reed set out on a mission in a shuttlepod, as Enterprise is busy investigating an asteroid field. Disaster strikes while the pair are away, leaving the shuttlepod damaged and the warp drive inoperable. They manage to make it back to the rendezvous coordinates only to discover Enterprise was apparently destroyed when it crashed into an asteroid. With the ship seemingly no more, the pair are left abandoned in the middle of nowhere with only a few days of air remaining.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Rick Berman
6.8/1021 votes#22 - Carpenter Street
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/2003
Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to 2004 Detroit to stop a Xindi plot.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Rick Berman
6.8/1038 votes#23 - Brothers
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1990
Stardate: 44085.7 While escorting a seriously ill boy to the closest Federation Starbase for treatment, Data mysteriously takes control of the Enterprise and takes it to a distant planet. He learns that his creator has summoned him for an important meeting that could change his life. However, Dr. Soong unknowingly summoned Data's twin brother Lore, into the bargain.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Rick Berman
6.8/1040 votes#24 - A Matter of Time
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1991
Stardate: 45349.1. While on a mission to help a planet recently struck by an asteroid, the Enterprise is payed a visit by a man who claims to be from the future.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Rick Berman
6.7/1022 votes#25 - Vanishing Point
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2002
Hoshi experiences her first transporter experience and strange aftereffects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Rick Berman
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"Shockwave (1)" is the best rated episode written by Rick Berman. It scored 8.19/10 based on 21 votes. It was directed by Allan Kroeker. It aired on 5/22/2002 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Zero Hour".