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Star Trek: Enterprise - Episode Guide - Season 1

Though noted elsewhere on Star Trek Guide, this bears mentioning again in order to properly understand just what in the name of Cochrane happened with this season- and this show in general: What ultimately saw production as the premiere episode “Broken Bow” was originally conceived to be played out over an entire season. This could also explain the ridiculous reticence on the studio’s part not to include “Star Trek” in the title of the series, as the crew wasn’t supposed to be, well, star trekking in season 1.

Instead, Enterprise season 1 ends up as a run of padded episodes bogged down with intensely slow pacing. Pressed for ideas in a hurry, Braga & Berman plus a handful of writers could not spontaneously produce the scripts of, likesay, season 4, but instead result in the derivative and (let’s face it) boring stuff cluttering this inaugural run of episodes.

1-2. Broken Bow – It starts so strong … The Enterprise series-opener ends up one of its very best. Amid a complex story (guess that’s what happens when a story arc meant to span 25 episodes or so is compressed into a 90 minutes of screen time. And underneath the hints of the Time War, a handful of Klingons and the Enterprise’s initial launch, “Broken Bow”, like DS9’s “Emissary”, sneaks in a wonderful story about a boy and his father. ****

3. Fight or Flight – Perhaps the most common Enterprise trope (seriously, half the first two seasons are about this one) gets introduced very early in the series: Sato and Reed are dispatched to an Empty Alien Ship. In this case, the entire crew has been wiped out and others ships soon arrive to hash things out. Toss on the other classic trope of the Improperly Outfitted Starship and you’ve got some standard Enterprise stuff. ***

4. Strange New World – Literal head trip for Tucker, T’Pol, Mayweather and two near-Red Shirts. This away team investigates a planet whereupon the dominant life form is a flowering plant which dispenses hallucinogens into the air. We learn that endless tripping sequences cannot substitute for plot. **

5. Unexpected – So … this is Enterprise’s version of Junior? The accent is on the humorous as Tucker’s seemingly innocuous visit to an alien ship has somehow left him pregnant. T’Pol’s “Three days” line is easily the best in all of Enterprise season one. ***

6. Terra Nova – The Enterprise is sent to investigate the site of Terra Nova, an Earth colony established some 79 years previously. While the colonists’ descendants have survived, they eke out an existence in caves underground. ***

7. The Andorian Incident – Remember the Andorians, rarely seen outside of cameos and crowd shots since TOS? They return in this episode, spearheaded by Tholos, who proved popular enough to become a recurring character on the show. ***

8. Breaking the Ice – Subplots of Reed and Mayweather investigating a comet and Vulcans who may or may be spying on the Enterprise are intertwined in this one. Minus points for Archer’s ridiculous staring contest with the Vulcans while his crewmembers’ lives are in peril. **

9. Civilization – An interesting pre-Prime Directive story in which Archer, Tucker, Sato and T’Pol disguise themselves to investigate a high-tech power source within a pre-industrial society, only to find a second alien culture also undercover and surveying the local inhabitants. ***

10. Fortunate Son – The Enterprise encounters a freighter which has been attacked by Nausicaan pirates … but their crew appears to be keeping secrets … **

11. Cold Front – The Suliban, mysterious aliens of “Broken Bow”, are back in an attempt to destroy the Enterprise. Luckily, Daniels, a Federation time agent from the 31st century (still the furthest that the ST franchise has reached into the future), is on hand to help – and enigmatically drop hints about the Time War, which won’t see final resolution until season 4. ****

12. Silent Enemy – While on a technical mission involving the deployment of communications equipment, the Enterprise is attacked a few times by an alien starship about which little is learned except for how to disable its warp drive. **

13. Dear Doctor – Phlox takes center stage in a well-written tale of two sentient races sharing a planet, but not the destructive genetic disease that is slowly exterminating one of them. ****

14. Sleeping Dogs – A Klingon ship whose crew has been nearly completely wiped out is trapped within the orbit of a gas giant. Archer decides that the Enterprise will assist, whether the Klingons want it or not. ***

15. Shadows of P'Jem – Archer and T’Pol are abducted by Andorians, who seemingly are just plain really into abductions. Tucker and Reed, together with a separate group of Andorians led by Tholos, go on a rescue mission to save the pair. ***

16. Shuttlepod One – Whilst on a shuttlecraft, Tucker and Reed rather spuriously deduce that the Enterprise has been destroyed. They’re left with 10 days of air, which Malcolm happily starts using up by recording messages to his so-called friends. *

17. Fusion – A classic “Vulcans Are Weird” episode of Enterprise; this one has the crew meeting a group known as “Vulcans without logic.” T’Pol is affected by her comrades psychologically, but shockingly little actually happens in this episode. **

18. Rogue Planet – Archer, T’Pol, Sato and Reed end up smack in the middle of an interplanetary “hunt” involving one sporting race of aliens hunting difficult-to-track beings known as “wraiths.” ***

19. Acquisition – Ferengi in Enterprise? Apparently so, despite the fact that about 200 years later Captain Picard notes that the Ferengi had never established visual contact with the Federation. (Okay, so technically he’s correct because the Federation doesn’t yet exist in the time of Archer et al, but come on.) In a welcome retcon, here the Ferengi are portrayed as pirate types in similar fashion to their introduction in “The Last Outpost.” Essentially, they’re tougher to beat as mega-capitalists… ***

20. Oasis – An away team finds survivors still aboard a transport ship that crash-landed some 22 years previously. Naturally, the leader of the group and the situation itself is not as it seems – but is incredibly predictable. **

21. Detained – Head trip for Archer and Mayweather: The latter finally gets his chance to be abducted with the captain. The two wake up in prison. The plucky Enterprise crew then devises an escape plan, as by this point they’re all really quite good at them. **

22. Vox Sola – A rather straightforward episode about an alien creature slowly taking over the Enterprise is enlivened by the linguistic machinations and philosophy from the highly underrated and underemployed Hoshi Sato. ***

23. Fallen Hero – The Enterprise is tasked with transporting a Vulcan ambassador from her planet of assignment to a Vulcan cruiser ship. Along the way, they are attacked by aliens with a grudge against her. ***

24. Desert Crossing – The Enterprise answers a distress call and then before you can say “here comes the abduction”, Archer and Tucker are falling for the old “come visit my home planet” routine by a dude who seeks to recruit these two humans into his terrorist organization. ***

15. Two Days and Two Nights – Risa! Whoo hooo! While on shore leave, Sato enjoys a positive relationship, Archer not so much, and those wacky dudes Tucker and Reed are liberated from their major possessions. Meanwhile, Dr. Phlox is awakened from his necessary six-day hibernation to address an emergency, with effective if bizarre results. ***

26. Shockwave, Part I – After an accident apparently caused by an Enterprise shuttlecraft results in the deaths of 3,600 colonists, the ship is recalled to Earth. However, Daniels returns to war of a Suliban plot. Getting to work in clearing their names results in a direct confrontation with the Suliban. However, at a decisive moment, Archer is whisked away to the future – a future which has paradoxically advanced without time travel thanks to the very rescue of Archer in the first place… ***

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Captain Jonathan Archer, son of the warp engine pioneer Henry, assembles a crew and takes the new starship Enterprise out into the heavens.

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S1 e1 - broken bow, s1 e2 - fight or flight, s1 e3 - fight or flight, s1 e4 - strange new world, s1 e5 - unexpected, s1 e6 - terra nova, s1 e7 - the andorian incident, s1 e8 - breaking the ice, s1 e9 - civilization, s1 e10 - fortunate son, s1 e11 - cold front, s1 e12 - silent enemy, s1 e13 - dear doctor, s1 e14 - sleeping dogs, s1 e15 - shadows of p'jem, s1 e16 - shuttlepod one, s1 e17 - fusion, s1 e18 - rogue planet, s1 e19 - acquisition, s1 e20 - oasis, where does star trek: enterprise rank today the justwatch daily streaming charts are calculated by user activity within the last 24 hours. this includes clicking on a streaming offer, adding a title to a watchlist, and marking a title as 'seen'. this includes data from ~1.3 million movie & tv show fans per day..

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Star Trek's Infamous Spock's Brain Episode Was A Sneaky Dig At NBC Itself

O ften considered one of the worst episodes of "Star Trek," "Spock's Brain" (September 20, 1968) boasted a story wherein a species of low-intelligence aliens infiltrate the U.S.S. Enterprise, sedate everyone on board, and steal the grey matter belonging to Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for nefarious purposes. It will later be revealed that Spock's brain was required to power a super-computer on a nearby planet and that the computer could temporarily inject complex information and skills into people's heads. The crew of the Enterprise outfit Spock's brainless body with a temporary brain-like machine, and they can pilot him via remote control. 

Eventually, Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) will be injected -- via the supercomputer -- with knowledge of how to surgically return Spock's brain to his body. When McCoy runs out of knowledge partway through the operation, the now-conscious Spock talks him the rest of the way through. "Spock's Brain" is farfetched and silly, even by Trek standards. 

"Spock's Brain" was directed by Marc Daniels, and he is not particularly proud. In the oral history book "Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages" edited by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, Daniels and longtime Trek writer David Gerrold talked about "Spock's Brain" and they concluded that the episode was meant to function as a wry satire, a goose to the serious-minded NBC execs -- or perhaps Gene Roddenberry himself -- who were all taking the show too seriously. William Shatner also noted the episode's symbolism in his 2009 autobiography "Up Till Now."  Surely, Shatner thought, something was being stated outright in a story about a machine searching for a brain. 

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The Silliness Of Spock's Brain Might Have Been The Point

Daniels noted that the first draft of the "Spock's Brain" teleplay left Spock on the Enterprise while the other characters located his missing brain. Daniels was the one who decided to turn Spock into a mechanical zombie who came along. "Then the concern was whether or not he would look like a zombie walking around. Thankfully Leonard was able to pull it off." And, yes, Nimoy wasn't a stiff-armed zombie, although he did still look a little silly. 

And, according to Gerrold, the silliness might have been the point. Gerrold suspected that the episode's writer, Gene L. Coon (credited as Lee Cronin) was trying to confront Gene Roddenberry's tendency to take "Star Trek" seriously to the point of it being no fun. Gerrold posited: 

"I suspect [...] that 'Spock's Brain' was Gene L. Coon's way of thumbing his nose at Roddenberry or something. If not Roddenberry, he was thumbing his nose at how seriously the show was taking itself. I suspect what had happened is that they were a little panic-stricken because there weren't a lot of scripts to shoot. The history of 'Star Trek' is management by crisis. I think somebody called up Gene L. Coon and said, 'We need a script in a hurry, can you do it?' And he did it under a pen name, and I don't think he deliberately set out to write that show seriously." 

As such, Gerrold laid out what he suspected was Coon's thought process: "I don't think there's any way you can take that episode seriously. You've got to take it as a joke. What's the stupidest science fiction idea to do? What if somebody stole Spock's brain?" This was a premise that could have been cribbed from a low-budget sci-fi horror thriller from 1953. 

Star Trek Was Suffering At The Time

Gerrold felt that Coon definitely would have tried something that playful, saying: "I think Gene L. Coon had that kind of sense of humor to do that kind of impish stuff. He had an irreverent sense of humor, and I think he wanted to poke 'Star Trek' because someone was taking it too seriously. " Possibly Roddenberry, but also possibly the NBC higher-ups. It's okay to have fun. "Maybe it was his way of not buying into it," Gerrold said. 

Shatner's memories of "Spock's Brain," meanwhile, were an indicator of the show's suffering. He recalled that "Star Trek" was moved to a Friday 10 p.m. timeslot, which is death for any series. Shatner was, at the very least, jocular about the plight, writing: 

"Our first show that third season might have been a tribute to the NBC executives who so mishandled this show: it was about a society in desperate need of a brain. It was entitled 'Spock's Brain' and took place on Stardate 5431.4. I don't know what day of the week that would have bee, but I can assure you it was not a Friday night at ten o'clock. Because even aliens are busy Friday nights at ten o'clock." 

Shatner also tells a cute (made-up) story of how Nimoy was lying on his operating gurney during the episode's final surgery scene, only to open his eyes in surprise, and, in a panic, yell "Friday night at 10 o'clock??" "Perhaps he didn't," Shatner impishly wrote, "But it was true, of course." 

Trek struggled through its third season with a slashed budget, forcing them to eliminate guest stars and location shoots. After its third season ended, "Star Trek" was no more. 

It's possible, however, that "Star Trek" lived on somewhere. 

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Discovery Season 5 Just Brought Back a Lost Piece of Star Trek Voyager Canon

The Breen have really taken over Star Trek: Discovery at this point, which is why it might be time to revisit Deep Space Nine.

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers.

Since its inception in 2017, Star Trek: Discovery has been compared to various aspects of the Star Trek franchise. But, perhaps the show it most closely resembles, at least tonally, is Deep Space Nine , the gritty ‘90s spin-off of The Next Generation . And, with its fifth and final season, it feels like Discovery knows it’s the Deep Space Nine of modern Trek , and has leaned into that feeling more than ever.

The series has also taken on the mantle of being the new DS9 by simply making a ton of references to that series, as well as continuing huge storylines from that series. In the 7th episode of season 5, “Erigah,” Discovery makes a ton of references to the breadth of the Trek canon, with a specific focus on DS9 . Here’s all the best easter eggs and shout-outs you might have missed.

The Return of Nhan 

At the top of the episode, we get the first appearance of Rachael Ancheril as Nhan since season 4 episode “Rubicon.” Nhan’s journey is unique within Star Trek , and Discovery specifically. Originally a part of the crew of the USS Enterprise under Pike, Nhan joined the Discovery in season 2 during the search for the Red Angel. She stayed with the crew when they jumped to the future in season 3, making her seemingly the only Enterprise crew member from the 23rd century who now lives in the 32nd century . Nhan is from Barzan II, a planet established in the TNG episode “The Price.”

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Dominion War Medical Research 

Culber says he’s doing a deep-dive into Dominion War medical research, in order to learn more about the Breen, noting, “We don’t know much about Breen physiology.” This is accurate since, although the Breen appeared for the first time in DS9 , they never took their helmets off in that series. Culber’s deep dive into Dominion War research is also interesting in light of Star Trek: Picard season 3. It was in that season that we learned Starfleet was secretly experimenting on Changelings. Did Culber stumble on any of that research?

“Never Turn Your Back on a Breen”

Reynar reminds President T’Rina of the Romulan saying, “Never turn your back on a Breen.” This comes from the DS9 episode “By Inferno’s Light,” and was uttered by an unnamed Romulan prisoner. Although T’Rina is seemingly Vulcan, the Vulcans and Romulans are essentially the same people in the time of Discovery . As revealed in season 3’s “Unification III,” all Vulcans and Romulans live together on the planet Ni’var, previously known as the planet Vulcan.

Breen Attack on the Federation 

In this episode, we’re reminded that “the last time the Breen paid a visit to the Federation, they destroyed an entire city.” This references the Deep Space Nine episode, “The Changing Face of Evil,” in which the Breen attack Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, directly, and nearly destroy all of San Francisco. Most of the city was rebuilt by the time of the Picard flashbacks in season 1 of that series, and certainly, is fully rebuilt by seasons 2 and 3 of Picard . But, it seems like the Federation has not had a direct battle with the Breen in Federation space since the DS9 era.

Tilly Is Worried About Her Cadets

In another reference to DS9 and “The Changing Face of Evil,” Tilly expresses concern about her cadets safety if the Breen attack Federation HQ. In the DS9 era, Starfleet Academy was still located in San Francisco, though now it’s at Fed HQ. That said, the upcoming show, Starfleet Academy , set in the Discovery timeline, will move the Academy back to Earth, and San Francisco.

We learn in this episode that the next piece of the Progenitor puzzle is a book called Labyrinths of the Mind , a Betazoid manuscript written by Dr. Marina Derex. “Marina” is almost certainly a reference to Marina Sirtis, the beloved actress who has played the half-Betazoid character Deanna Troi in all of The Next Generation and Picard , a few cameos on Voyager , and the Enterprise finale.

The book was also written in 2371, which is the same year that the USS Voyager left space station Deep Space 9 for the Badlands. It’s also the same year that Thomas Riker stole the USS Defiant from the same station. It’s also the year that the USS Enterprise-D crash-landed its saucer section on Veridian III in Star Trek Generations , which also means it’s the same year that a time-displaced Captain James T. Kirk was killed. Big year!

Seven of Limes 

Reno mentions a cocktail called “Seven of Limes.” This can only be a reference to Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), the former Borg drone turned Fenris Ranger and Starfleet Captain. Because Discovery is set several centuries beyond Picard Season 3, we can only assume that Reno and the crew now have knowledge of events well beyond the early 2400s.

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“A Holodeck Adventure for the Littles”

Reno jokes that the entire premise of the current clue—connected to a library card—makes everything sound like “something out of a holodeck adventure for the littles.” The most prominent holodeck adventure for children that we’re aware of in Trek canon is The Adventures of Flotter , which first appeared in the Voyager episode “Once Upon a Time.” In Picard season 1, Soji had a Flotter lunchbox.

The Badlands 

By the end of the episode, the Eternal Gallery’s location—and thus the location of the book  Labyrinths of the Mind —is revealed to be in the Badlands. This is an unstable area of space that was first mentioned in…you guessed it… Deep Space Nine ! Although the Badlands is most famous as the area where the USS Voyager went missing in its 1995 debut episode, “Caretaker,” the concept of the Badlands was introduced about a year earlier in 1994, during DS9’s second season, specifically in the episode “The Maquis Part 1.”

The Badlands is located near what used to be Cardassian space, so in its next episode, Discovery will literally be traveling directly to the neighborhood of Deep Space Nine . We have no idea if the wormhole is still there in this time period, or if that old station is still kicking. But, as Discovery continues to drop surprises in its final season, we can all keep our fingers crossed for a glimpse of a very special space station.

Ryan Britt is a longtime contributor to Den of Geek! He is also the author of three non-fiction books: the Star Trek pop history book PHASERS…

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• Goofs During T'Pol's conversation with Captain Archer in his office, when Archer says, "You've been busy avoiding them," T'Pol is shown from the front holding a pad at chest level. When the shot changes a second later, showing her from her side, she's holding the pad down below her waistline.

Sub-Commander T'Pol : Just because they smile and eat chicken doesn't mean they've learned to master their emotions.

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• Deep Space Nine's season 2 finale showcased the Jem'Hadar as a formidable threat by destroying a Galaxy-class starship.
• The decision to blow up a model of the USS Enterprise-D symbolized DS9's break from The Next Generation.
• Executive story editor Robert Hewitt Wolfe doubted whether Captain Picard and the Enterprise could have survived the Jem'Hadar.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine blew up a USS Enterprise-style starship to prove a point in its season 2 finale. DS9 had struggled to break away from the shadow of its parent show, Star Trek: The Next Generation , but the season 2 finale, "The Jem'Hadar" afforded Deep Space NIne a perfect chance to establish its unique identity. DS9 's season 2 finale aired three weeks after TNG came to an end with "All Good Things", meaning that when it returned for season 3 after the summer break, Deep Space Nine would be the only Star Trek TV show being broadcast for the rest of 1994.

With no Star Trek: The Next Generation to compare with, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was free to embrace its more serialized approach to storytelling. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, episode 26, "The Jem'Hadar" was the first important step on the road to DS9 's Dominion War , which would define the show for the next five years. It introduced the Jem'Hadar and the Vorta, and established the Dominion as the greatest threat to the Federation since the Borg Collective. To prove just how dangerous the Dominion were, DS9 took a bold step with a leftover model of TNG 's USS Enterprise-D .

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had the biggest cast of characters of any Trek show, meaning that Captain Sisko had numerous allies in the Dominion War.

Star Trek: DS9 Blew Up An Enterprise Starship To Make A Point About The Dominion

In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, episode 26, "The Jem'Hadar", a camping trip for Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and his son Jake (Cirroc Lofton) becomes a major diplomatic incident when he and Quark (Armin Shimerman) are captured by the Jem'Hadar. In response, Starfleet dispatches the Galaxy-class starship, the USS Odyssey, to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate the situation. Unfortunately, the Odyssey was unprepared for a battle with the Jem'Hadar, who destroyed the Galaxy-class starship by flying their ships directly into the secondary hull. This caused a devastating explosion from which there were no survivors.

The USS Odyssey was the name of the starship in Gene Roddenberry and Greg Strangis' first Star Trek: The Next Generation pitch to Paramount.

The Galaxy-class vessel was deliberately chosen by the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine production team . It was felt that, depicting the destruction of a starship which was the same class as the Star Trek: The Next Generation version of the starship Enterprise would establish the Jem'Hadar, and by extension the Dominion, as a credible threat to the Federation. In fact, one of the USS Odysseys used for DS9 was a repurposed model of the USS Enterprise-D from the TNG episode "Cause and Effect" , in which the Enterprise repeatedly exploded while caught in a time loop.

Other models involved in depicting the destruction of the USS Odyssey in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine included the damaged USS Enterprise from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock .

Could Captain Picard’s Enterprise Have Defeated DS9’s Jem’Hadar?

The shocking destruction of the USS Odyssey in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, episode 26, "The Jem'Hadar" raises the question of how Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) would handle the Jem'Hadar. Discussing DS9 's season 2 finale in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion , executive story editor Robert Hewitt Wolfe cast doubt on Picard's ability to beat the Jem'Hadar . Hewitt Wolfe said:

We wanted to show the long-term fans how dangerous these guys were. And it's my belief that if that had been the Enterprise and not the Odyssey , and Picard rather than Keogh in command, it still wouldn't have survived.

Thankfully, fans didn't have to watch the USS Enterprise-D being destroyed in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , though it would later crash on Veridian III in Star Trek Generations . Reportedly, some viewers believed that the Enterprise would be destroyed in DS9 's season 2 finale when they saw footage of the USS Odyssey exploding in the trailer . It's up to fans to speculate how the Enterprise would have fared against the Jem'Hadar. However, with such a strong crew of tacticians, engineers, and pilots, the USS Enterprise-D may have been battered by the Jem'Hadar, but it would have lived to fight another day.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is the third installment in the sci-fi franchise and follows the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew members of the USS Enterprise. Set around one hundred years after the original series, Picard and his crew travel through the galaxy in largely self-contained episodes exploring the crew dynamics and their own political discourse. The series also had several overarching plots that would develop over the course of the isolated episodes, with four films released in tandem with the series to further some of these story elements.