The future is closer than you think.
Original title
Star Trek: Enterprise
Released
9/26/2001
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
CBS Studios, Paramount Television
Status
Cancelled
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
97
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
A recording made in 12/12/2012. They talk about creating "Enterprise" (leaving "Star Trek" out of title was a conscious decision and adding "Star Trek" came later when the network wanted it more closely identified with the franchise). They also talk about the other shows as well.
Brannon Braga leads a discussion with the cast of Enterprise: Scott Bakula, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Anthony Montgomery, Dominic Keating & Jeffery Combs.
Interviews with Brannon Braga from 2001 and 2012 about how he became involved with Star Trek. Also featured are Rick Berman, David Livingston, Phyllis Strong, André Bormanis, Herman Zimmerman, Doug Drexler, Denise and Mike Okuda on the background leading up to the creation of Enterprise.
Rick Berman discusses the production of "Broken Bow" for Enterprise. How the casting was done was discussed. Featured are Brannon Braga, Scott Bakula, Conner Trinneer, and others.
Brannon Braga speaks about the weakness of the first season scripts. Rick Berman talks about relying on Brannon to put the writing staff together. Brannon believes he was not ambitious enough to hiring writers. Scott Bakula speaks to how the writing staff was exhausted to work on Enterprise after just wrapping "Star Trek: Voyager." Mike Sussman speaks to how hard it was to find writers that can really write Star Trek shows. Brannon lamented that some of the episodes were generic enough to be done on any of the other franchises. Connor Trinneer spoke to those episodes where Trip had significant moments. Dominic Keating had determined that he would express some of himself in Malcolm. Mike Sussman, André Bormanis, and Phyllis Strong spoke about writing the scripts.
Barry Kibrick is interviewing cast, crew, writers and producers as the filming of the episode "Vox Sola" ( the 22nd episode in Season 1) is covered. Roxann Dawson is the director and provides many insights into how she prepares for the episodes. Brandon Braga provides insight into how the writing works. There are several other interviews from the other departments. Recorded in 2002.
Interviews with several fans at a recent Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas.
Several Interviews featuring Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, Herman Zimmerman, & Marvin Rush recount how the show was created.
A behind the scenes look at the workings of the beverage dispenser in the mess hall and the warp engine in the engineering room on the set of Enterprise.
Brannon Braga & Rick Berman talk about this important episode in Season 1. Conner Trinneer & Dominic Keating discuss working with each other (as the main characters featured most of the show). A "bottle show" to save money, but it also was a favorite show of the cast and the producers.
Brannon Braga talks about adding the "Temporal Cold War" plot device to the show at the request of the studio. Rick Berman talks about how it added flexibility to stories where it added factor that can useful. Mike Okuda talks about how it makes very hard to keep a consistent time line for cannon with all the possibilities that time travel makes possible. There is several screens showing memorable parts of Star Trek that make use of time travel from both the movies and TV.
Several members of the cast and crew discuss Scott Bakula as being a leader of company as well as performing as captain of the ship.
Vaughn Armstrong (who plays Admiral Maxwell Forrest) shows his singing talent (singing "Star Trek Woman Jones"). He also talks about his recurring roles in the various Star Trek episodes and how he landed this role on Enterprise. He also talks about playing a Klingon Captain in the episode "Sleeping Dogs" as an emergency substitution during filming.
Scott Bakula talks about becoming the first captain of the first starship named "Enterprise." Jolene Blalock talks about the initial relationship between T'Pol and Captain Archer. Connor Trinneer talks about the scene with Trip and T'Pol in the decontamination room from the pilot. John Billingsley talks about the back story of Dr. Phlox and how he took the small amount of back story he got from the producers to shape the character including a bird call that the pilot director did not like and was cut out never to be heard again. Linda Park talks about Hoshi Sato and much she and the character were alike and yet different. Dominic Keating talks about how he got cast for Enterprise. Anthony Montgomery talks about his excitement the first day at the helm on the bridge set. The cast talk about working on a Star Trek show and the influence of the "Roddenberry Vision" of humanity's future.
Behind the scenes secrets with David Trotti
Jolene Blalock starts this mini-documentary off recounting the shooting of "Carbon Creek". Rick Berman continues the discussion. The discussion continues with the 2nd part of "Shockwave" with Brannon Braga and Rick Berman. Scott Bakula, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park & Michael Sussman continues the discussion and recounts how the 2nd season began some darker themes in "Minefield", "Dead Stop" & "Vanishing Point." Michael Sussman continues the discussion recounting "The Catwalk" & "Future Tense." John Billingsley and Jolene Blalock discuss T'Pol's Pon farr resulting from a foreign agent being introduced into her system in "Canamar." Mike Okuda & Scott Bakula discuss "First Flight." Rick Berman discusses "The Expanse" as a prelude for Season Three.
LeVar Burton talks about working after The Next Generation as a producer and director. He talks about working on the Enterprise episode "First Flight" and how he approached sever important aspects of directing that episode.
Scott Bakula talks about "ship shows" that save production money (because there are few guest starts and few extra sets). "A Night in Sickbay" was one of these. Rick Berman discussed the basic premise of the episode. Ronald B. Moore discusses the CGI bat used in the episode and the filming done to create that sequence. John Billingsley talks about the humor and comedic beats in the episode.
Jolene Blalock is a fan of the original series. She recounts her education, did modeling and then got a break into acting. Conner Trinneer notes that she is a sweetheart. She didn't know much about Enterprise. Once she knew more about it, she found it intriguing. She talks about the casting process and her preparation for it. Brannon Braga talks about exploring the Vulcan culture, especially since this is earlier that what was featured in the original series (Spock, Sarak, etc.) and how T'Pol provided a way to do that in the course of the series. Brannon Braga talks about the episode "Stigma" and the analog to the AIDS epidemic. Jolene closes out the mini-documentary with how T'Pol has changed over season two and is now poised for the events in Season Three.
There is a discussion of how the changes in the leadership of the studio and the network (UPN) at the time this season was filmed had some impact on the developments of season two. John Billingsley marveled about Rick Berman & Brannon Braga was able to get Enterprise started right after doing seven seasons of Voyager. Brannon Braga and André Bormanis talked about the changes in the writer's room that affected the development of the season. David A. Goodman talked about being new to the writer's room during this season and how be believed it affected the scripts used during that season. Brannon wanted to moved into serialized story-telling. Michael Sussman questioned this a bit thinking that it should be more of a sequel show that tied into the original series. Chris Black mused about Rick Berman's notion of "The Right Stuff" in outer space. Rick Berman thought that he should keep the show aligned with the "Roddenbery Vision" and may have been too conservative.
Brannon Braga speaks to the quality of the cast and how human the characters they portrayed were. Matt Winston echoed the sense of family on the set and especially Scott Bakula. Scott Bakula and Linda Park speak to acting in TV series roles and how the writers take what they see in future scripts. Dominic Keating, John Billingsley, Conner Trinneer, and Anthony Montgomery talk about what interactions they had with the producers and the cast and crew members. Jeffrey Combs and Chris Black praise Scott Bakula's setting the appropriate tone on set.
Brannon Braga and Rick Berman recounts the impacts of the new administration at Paramount during the second season. Chris Black noted that this impacted the number of scripts that were rejected. John Wentworth offers some insight into this as well. David A. Goodman offers some more generic insight into the relationship between Brannon and Paramount. Mike Sussman highlights the impact of feedback from the Internet at this time and Brannon Braga and Chris Black echo that. Scott Bakula notes that he ignores all of that. Dominic Keating notes that is was addictive.
Behind the scenes from the shooting of the episode "Future Tense". Marvin Rush talks about the camera remote control rig used for some of the shooting. Scott Bakula talks about a photo ops with a special fan (a boy in a wheelchair). Conner Trinneer talks about the technobabble.
Brannon Braga and Rick Berman explain the basis for the plot of "Stigma." Jolene Blalock and Scott Bakula talk about the impact of the stigma of getting the disease and how to live with it.
A brief discussion of some important episodes during the third season.
This recounts the many uses of the Paramount Backlot during Enterprise (and other shows from the Star Trek franchise.
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga discuss the motivation for the Xindi Saga. Manny Coto discusses his first writing for Enterprise during this Season. Scott Bakula talks about how Jonathan Archer evolves through this story arc.
Scott Bakula starts off with a discussion on the third season story arc, the Xindi Saga, and how that pushes the series and the development of the characters in it. Phyllis Strong, André Bormanis, Mike Sussman, David A. Goodman. Brannon Braga, Rick Berman. Chris Black & David Livingston talked about the influences of the 9/11 tragedy on this story arc. There was also pressure to make the show more "edgy" and the lack of a complete roadmap for the story arc when the season started. Manny Coto talks about how he influenced the arc through the season and satisfied Brannon Braga's desire for the right alchemy in the writer's room.
Jolene Blalock begins this discussion and says she was burnt out by the third season, but still found the work stimulating. John Billingsley, Anthony Montgomery & Dominic Keating continue the discussion of the change in direction during Season Three and the lack of support from UPN at the time. Conner Trinneer discusses how 9/11 affected him and Phyllis Strong believes it had an impact on his third season performance. John Billingsley laments about the changes in Archer's character during the season while finding many of episodes to be exceptional. Linda Park talks about the advantages of serialized storytelling and that allows characters to grow and change. David A. Goodman agrees and compares the season to the Dominion War during Deep Space Nine. John Billingsley also agrees but also notes that "standalone" episodes were done to allow alternatives to be possible. Manny Coto talks about his episode "Similtude" and how it stood alone, but supported the arc.
Brannon Braga starts the discussion thinking Season Three was going to be good. André Bormanis and Manny Coto speak to how the Xindi were realized in expensive digital effects of the time. Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore and John Billingsley discuss some of the shortcuts taken with the visual effects. Randy Oglesby remembers his performance as "Degra" as well as his time playing in other Star Trek episodes. Scott MacDonald (who played "Dolim") recalls how he interacted with Randy which came to be because they worked with each other for years. Manny Coto and Brannon Braga discuss the potential of killing Archer at the end of season three and the cliff-hanger they ultimately decided on.
Matt Winston recalls how he approached playing Daniels and the Temporal Cold War. Brannon Braga speaks to how the Temporal Core War became part of the Xindi Saga. David Livingston notes that the Suliban did not work out the villain for "Enterprise." John Fleck speaks to his role as "Silik." Brannon Braga laments that they did not have time to resolve the Temporal Cold War.
Roxann Dawson hosts this on-the-set behind-the-scenes view of a day shooting from the episode "Exile" which she directed. She praises Herman Zimmerman for the wonderful sets she gets to shoot on. Roxann also praises Dan Curry for reading her drawings and turning them to usable storyboards.
Marvin Rush introduces himself. He talks about the scene from "Harbinger" he is working on. Dominic Keating talks about how they call Marvin "Uncle" on set and how he appreciates his approach to photography. Marvin talks about a fight scene involving Dominic Keating and Steven Culp.
Connor Trinneer talks about the development of the character as the show continues. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga praises the quality work that Conner does. They talked about how that influenced the development of "Trip" especially the death of his sister at the beginning of the third season. This gave rise to the development of a relationship with T'Pol. The episode "Similitude" was an acting challenge. The biggest physical challenge was in the episode "Vox Sola."
Scott Bakula and Conner Trinneer start off with a discussion of the season three cliff hanger. Manny Coto continues noting that it was his job as the new season four show runner to resolve the problem left for him by Brannon Braga and Rick Berman. He continues discussing the Vulcan story arc, which he says is his favorite. Scott Bakula continues recalling the work with Brent Spiner. Manny Coto and Dominic Keating speak about the fun they had on the set. Manny Coto then recalls the final story arc involving Terra Prime. Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens talk about the analogy of these episodes current events. Manny Coto, Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis talk about the final episode of the season. John Billingsley notes that Manny Coto makes many connections between Enterprise and the rest of the Star Trek canon.
Manny Coto wanted to do the mirror universe in an episode or two. Mike Sussman had the original idea. Manny Coto talks about building a replica of the original series sets needed for the two episodes. Doug Drexler describes his process for reproducing these sets accurately. He recalls the bridge set created for "Relics" from the Next Generation as well as the work done for "Trials and Tribble-ations" from Deep Space Nine. Michael Westmore talks about how to portray the Gorn. Dan Curry continues with the Gorn's hands. John Teska was able to build a CG creature from a maquette of the Gorn that Michael Westmore got approval for.
Manny Coto talks about the construction of the fourth season as a series of mini story arcs that would tie more directly into the Star Trek canon. Brannon Braga was burned out on Star Trek and was ready to move on. Mike Sussman recollects the brainstorming with Manny Coto in between the third and fourth season. André Bormanis recalls that Manny Coto really wanted to do more about the creation of the Federation. Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens spoke to their time as writers brought in by Manny Coto.
Larry Nemecek notes that Enterprise had to get good ratings. He notes that the episodes where good, but the ratings were not that good. Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens mused about the signs that the show was ending. Mike Sussman noted that the budget for season four had been reduced. He notes that was mitigated by amortizing the cost across multipart episodes. This gave rise to three episodes on Vulcan, three about the Augments, three about the Andorians & the Romulans, two about the mirror universe and the final arc about the xenophobic movement on Earth at the time the precursor to the Federation was being negotiated. Manny Coto talks about a potential of William Shatner being on Enterprise via something involving the Mirror Universe. Mike and Denise Okuda noted how wonderful the original series sets (reproduced for the Mirror Universe two-parter) are. Manny Coto notes that he wanted to do more Gorns and Tholians. Several cast members comment on season four.
The effect of UPN on the end of Enterprise. Several cast members and crew comment on the "let down" that comes with the end of the show. Jolene Blalock comments on the last episode and her disappointment with it. Conner Trinneer was happy with it. Manny Coto muses about what he would have liked to explored.
Rick Berman talks about the job of orchestrating Star Trek from The Next Generation through Enterprise. The production crew and the Enterprise cast comment on the end of the era.
Brannon Braga (who shows up late), David A. Goodman, Mike Sussman, André Bormanis, Phyllis Strong, Chris Black, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens talk about their time writing for Enterprise.
Porthos (a female beagle named Breezy portrayed this role) is featured in this retrospective.
Dan Curry recalls work to create the firefight and the news reel footage in the two episode starter ("Stormfront") that started season four. Fred Pienkos of Eden FX talks about recreating the Manhattan skyline that would have been seen at the time when this was to have took place. John Teska discusses the CG work for the Xindi Insectoids and Aquatics. Ronald B. Moore speaks to the significance of the groundbreaking work on Lord of the Rings and that impact on the CG work for Enterprise. He continues on discussing the Tholians and their appearance in season two and finally in season four. Robert Bonchune talks about the launch of NX-02 Columbia. Robert B. Moore and Dan Curry discussed the CG creation of the Xindi weapon. Pierre Drolet describes the approach he used to build the weapon in the computer.
Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens note that season four had many episodes tied into the lore of Star Trek.
David Trotti notes that there were may of the crew on screen during the final episode of the fourth season.
Michael Westmore talks about evolving Jolene Blalock's look towards a more standard Vulcan look by season four. Of the main characters, he created the look of Dr. Phlox last using some broad strokes from work done for aliens on past shows. This process turned out to be protracted because the producers would not make a decision.
The wrap party for Enterprise at the Roosevelt Hotel on April 13, 2005. Featuring comments by Linda Park, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, John Billingsley, Mike & Denise Okuda, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Peter Weller, Jeffery Coombs, LeVar Burton, & Scott Bakula.
Jolene Blalock comments on the difference in the Vulcans in Enterprise versus those seen in other Star Trek franchises.
Geoffrey Mandel speaks about his work on graphics inside the alien ships that might be featured in an episode of Enterprise. He also talks about panels inside the shuttlepod and a look for the Ferengi met during the run of Enterprise. He notes his enjoyment in creating more detail for the Andorians and their ships. He was also responsible for the graphics used in the monastery set for P'Jem and Vulcan star map from "Fusion."
Scott Bakula talks about the various visitors to the Enterprise sets.
Linda Park talks about the relationship between T'Pol and Hoshi.
Anthony Montgomery recalls a visit from Whoopi Goldberg.
John Billingsley talks about the Anatomy of Dr. Phlox.
Robert Blackman talks about the development process for the Enterprise uniforms.
Mike Sussman talks about the episode "E-squared" and how those characters were reflected in the characters from the other Enterprise.
The fan protest to save Enterprise from cancellation.
Cast Introductions with intro by Rick Berman
Captain Jonathan Archer, son of the warp engine pioneer Henry, assembles a crew and takes the new starship Enterprise out into the heavens.
The Enterprise, under Captain Jonathan Archer, sets off on its maiden voyage with a mission to return a wounded Klingon to his people.
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.
Archer sends an away team to a habitable, luscious planet for observation. But when a storm occurs, the team begins to experience paranoid delusions.
When Trip is dispatched to assist a Xyrillian ship with its power source problems, he is delighted to have a friendly encounter with one of the ship's female engineers. However, shortly after returning to Enterprise, he discovers that their seemingly innocuous interaction has led to a surprising result.
The Enterprise crew alters course to investigate the mystery of Terra Nova, a legendary Earth colony whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared decades ago. But when they arrive, they confront descendents of the colonists who have become more alien than Archer could ever have imagined.
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.
A Vulcan starship interferes with Archer's probe of an oversized comet.
Captain Archer and the crew discover a fully inhabited, civilized though less advanced Earth-like planet. Disguised to look like its inhabitants, they pay the planet an exploratory visit where they learn that a pernicious illness is afflicting the local population. As Archer seeks to help them find the malady's source, he finds himself in a close encounter with a comely female alien.
The Enterprise crew is dispatched by Starfleet Command to assist Fortunate, a human freight vessel that has been attacked by Nausicaan pirates. On arriving, they are surprised to find that Fortunate's crew is resistant to Archer's efforts to help them and determined to seek revenge against their attackers, no matter the repercussions.
When the Enterprise comes in contact with an alien vessel transporting stargazers to observe a spectacular stellar event, Archer invites them aboard the ship not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them. Archer quickly realizes that Silik is engaged in a nefarious time-travelling mission and must stop him before he can tamper with the course of history.
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.
The crew discovers a new planet with two races, one in desperate need of medical and scientific assistance. In the course of trying to help, Dr. Phlox recalls his own Denobulan past to address the ethical dilemmas that arise in the present.
While investigating a gas giant, Enterprise comes across a damaged vessel hovering in the atmosphere, and T'Pol, Hoshi and Malcolm board the vessel to investigate. However, once aboard, they are ambushed by a hostile female Klingon who hijacks their shuttlepod and strands them on the Klingon ship, which threatens to implode under the pressure of the planet's atmosphere.
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.
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.
Enterprise encounters a group of Vulcan civilians who have split off from the normal way of Vulcan life in an effort to explore their emotions. T'Pol is disturbed by the new visitors and warns the Captain that all attempts in the past to integrate Vulcan emotions into their lives has proven disastrous. Meanwhile, a message from Admiral Forrest leaves the Captain with the difficult task of trying to convince one of the visiting Vulcans to call home to speak with his dying father.
While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members encounter a group of aliens who are hunting down indigenous creatures for recreation. During their exploration, Archer is mesmerized by visions of an elusive, yet familiar woman who needs his help.
Enterprise encounters Ferengi pirates who use a booby-trapped artifact to gas the crew into unconsciousness, then pillage the ship for treasures. But they haven't counted on Tucker, who happens to be in the decon chamber and avoids the gas, and attempts to win back the ship from the pirates.
While exploring a crashed vessel on a desolate planet, the Enterprise crew is haunted by some ghostly figures, and they encounter an alien race that has survived despite insurmountable odds. Trip helps repair their derelict vessel and is befriended by Liana, an attractive humanoid alien who develops feelings for him.
While exploring a planet, Archer and Mayweather enter a “military zone” and are detained in an internment prison by an alien race called Tandarans, who are at war with the Suliban. While the Enterprise crew's previous encounters with the Suliban have been disastrous, Archer and Mayweather find themselves sharing a cell with some Suliban detainees who they believe may be wrongly imprisoned.
A strange, alien creature comes aboard Enterprise, and captures several crew members in its cocoon-like web. With her crewmates' lives in jeopardy, Hoshi faces her biggest challenge yet, in trying to communicate with the lifeform, in order to return it to its home planet.
Enterprise is sent to the planet Mazar to pick up a Vulcan ambassador who has been expelled for misconduct.
When Archer and Trip are invited to a desert-like planet by an alien leader, they discover he is a terrorist who has lured them there under false pretences. Meanwhile, T'Pol, while in command, faces a tough decision when she cannot locate Archer and Trip in the desert.
Archer, Hoshi, Travis, Malcolm and Trip have decidedly different experiences during shore leave on Risa. Meanwhile, on Enterprise, Phlox enters his annual hibernation cycle.
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.
In one short year, Jonathan Archer, captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01, has made a name for himself and his crew, both with his Starfleet superiors and perhaps less favorably with mankind's alien neighbors.
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.
After Archer and Trip become curious about a visit she made to a Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek, T'Pol explains to them that Vulcans actually had their first contact with humans in 1957. That year, a Vulcan ship crashed on Earth and three crew members survived, including T'Pol's great grandmother. They pose as humans in Carbon Creek and take on jobs while waiting for rescue and soon find themselves becoming more involved with the town's residents.
When attempting to explore a new planet, Enterprise triggers a cloaked mine. While the crew deal with the resulting damage, it's discovered another mine is stuck to the hull. During Reed's attempt to disarm it, a spike is driven into his leg, trapping him out there. While Archer goes out on the hull to help him, the rest of the crew learn they are in a minefield belonging to the Romulan Star Empire, who demand Enterprise leave or face destruction.
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.
Archer spends a night in sickbay with Dr. Phlox after Porthos contracts a deadly virus on the Kreetassan homeworld. Crew members suspect Archer's increased stress level is due to Porthos' illness, but Dr. Phlox suspects it has to do with Archer's repressed sexual tension.
In need of fuel, the Enterprise arrives at a Quonset mining colony for deuterium supplies. They discover that Klingons are forcing the colonists to give up all their deuterium. Archer and the rest of the crew work to train the colonists so they can fight back against the Klingons.
Archer, Mayweather and T'Pol travel to an arctic world to apprehend a fugitive, when T'Pol is contacted by Vulcan High Command. The mission takes a dangerous turn when T'Pol begins having flashbacks that suggest the events she remembers about a former mission may not accurately relate to what happened.
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.
While Enterprise is surveying a black hole in a trinary star system, the stellar phenomenon causes strange effects on the crew.
Hoshi experiences her first transporter experience and strange aftereffects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly.
Trip boards an alien cargo vessel to help repair a stasis pod, which holds a beautiful woman in suspended animation. When the woman accidentally wakes up, she reveals she's not a passenger, but a prisoner.
When a lethal neutronic storm approaches faster than Enterprise can escape, the crew take shelter in the maintenance shafts inside the warp nacelles. They also provide refuge to a group of aliens, who aren't exactly honest about themselves.
During a solo test mission on Shuttlepod One, Trip is attacked by a territorial alien and forced to land on the night side of a moon. As he tries contacting Enterprise, he discovers his alien foe has made an emergency landing nearby. The two contend with each other as an extremely hot sun rises and threatens both their lives.
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.
Both the Vulcans and the Andorians make a claim to a small planet and military conflict soon erupts. As the fighting goes on, the Vulcans announce they are willing to discuss cease fire terms. However, Imperial Guard officer Shran believes only Captain Archer can be trusted to mediate the situation, which drags the Enterprise crew into the tense situation.
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.
Archer and Tucker are arrested and placed on a prisoner transport heading for a penal colony, Canamar. They won't have a chance to correct this error, as one of the inmates plots a takeover of the ship.
Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.
In a Klingon tribunal, Archer stands accused of aiding fugitives of the Empire and faces death if found guilty.
Mayweather discovers his father has died and that things on his old home, the E.C.S. Horizon, have greatly changed.
When militants take over a world, the Enterprise crew move to evacuate Denobulan geologists that are deep underground. Meanwhile, Phlox has to save a dying Antaran that refuses treatment due to the history of their races.
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.
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.
Archer tells T'Pol the story of when he and a rival named A.G. Robinson were in competition for breaking the Warp 2 barrier.
Archer learns the Klingons have put a price on his head when he is captured by a Tellarite bounty hunter. As Enterprise pursues, a virus causes T'Pol to go into premature Pon Farr.
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.
After a devastating attack on Earth kills seven million people, Captain Archer and the crew of the NX-01 venture into the Delphic Expanse to seek out those responsible.
Captain Archer and his crew set out to gain information about the mysterious and antagonistic Xindi race.
Enterprise starts experiencing effects of the spatial distortions pervading the Delphic Expanse, and falls victim to predatory aliens.
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.
The NX-01 gets closer to a showdown with the Xindi when Captain Archer takes on an enigmatic passenger: a beautiful slave named Rajiin.
When Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Vulcan ship stranded in the Delphic Expanse, Archer and his boarding team are attacked by insane zombie-like Vulcans.
A powerful telepath makes contact with Hoshi and offers to help Enterprise find the Xindi ... for a price.
Archer, Reed and Major Hayes infiltrate a Xindi-Sloth industrial colony to learn more about the weapon of mass destruction that will be used against Earth.
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.
When a settlement of humans living a 19th-century Western lifestyle is discovered on a Delphic Expanse planet, Archer and crew set out to learn how they got there.
When Trip suffers a catastrophic injury, his only hope for survival is a transplant from a "mimetic symbiont" which Phlox grows from one of his exotic creatures.
Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to 2004 Detroit to stop a Xindi plot.
Religious zealots hijack Enterprise to use it as a weapon against the enemies of their faith.
An Andorian ship led by Commander Shran arrives in the Delphic Expanse to help Enterprise hone in on the Xindi super-weapon.
Archer finds himself face-to-face with Degra, the designer of the Xindi superweapon, and tries to get him to reveal its location.
As Archer tries to unravel the mystery of a rescued alien, long-simmering feelings explode among his senior officers.
The fate of Enterprise is in Dr. Phlox's hands as the rest of the crew must be induced into a coma in order to survive a trans-dimensional disturbance.
Archer goes to extreme lengths to save an abandoned nest of Xindi-Insectoid eggs ready to hatch.
Archer sets out on a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon as Enterprise faces a brutal attack.
While dissension among Xindi ranks festers, Enterprise tries to recover from a devastating attack.
Two high-ranking Xindi offer to stop the launch of their superweapon if Archer can prove they've been manipulated. Meanwhile, the crew mourns their lost mates.
An attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor leads the Enterprise crew to a bizarre encounter with their own descendants.
Archer and Hoshi stand before the Xindi Council as T'Pol and Reed lead a team into the heart of a Sphere.
With help from Xindi allies, the Enterprise crew attempts to stop the arming of the Weapon aimed toward Earth.
Archer puts his life on the line in a risky gambit to intercept the Xindi superweapon and disarm it from within.
Upon returning home after preventing a second Xindi attack, Enterprise explores cultural shifts on Vulcan; forges alliances with Earth's neighbors in the face of Romulan aggression; deals with a plague inside the Klingon Empire; explores the Mirror Universe; and overcomes xenophobic elements to lead an interstellar community.
Archer and the NX-01 find themselves in Earth's past, with events of World War II altered by the Temporal Cold War.
With Silik's help, Archer hones in on the temporal operative who altered Earth's past and threatens to destroy all of time.
Once the NX-01 finally returns to Earth, the weary crewmen face repercussions of their journeys, both positive and negative.
When genetic supermen left over from the Eugenics Wars hijack a Klingon ship, Archer must rely on their creator, the criminal Dr. Arik Soong, to help hunt them down.
Arik Soong leads his band of Augments to a medical facility where hundreds of genetically enhanced embryos are still stored, intending to retrieve them and bring them to life.
In defiance of their "father," Arik Soong's Augments devise a heinous plot against the Klingons which will surely lead to interstellar war.
Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed, and the ensuing investigation puts Archer and T'Pol on the trail of a Vulcan religious faction hiding in a treacherous desert.
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.
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.
The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment.
Non corporeal aliens study the Enterprise crew as they respond to a fatal viral infection brought on board from an away mission.
Enterprise journeys to Babel with a Tellarite ambassador on board for peace talks with the Andorians, when a distress call from Shran is received.
Archer tries to unify the Andorians, Tellarites and Vulcans in a plan to capture a marauder ship threatening to destabilize the region.
Archer visits Shran's icy homeworld to find an Andorian subspecies called the Aenar, to determine their connection to the marauder destroying ships in the region.
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.
With Columbia's help, the Enterprise crew grapples with sabotage to their ship as they pursue the truth behind the kidnapping of Phlox.
As a gift for negotiating with the Orion Syndicate, Captain Archer receives three Orion Slave Girls.
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.
A xenophobic faction of humanity threatens to undermine talks to form a new coalition of planets.
A human isolationist leader threatens to destroy Starfleet Command unless all aliens leave Earth immediately.
Six years in the future, an emotional Captain Archer and the crew return to Earth to face the decommission of Enterprise and signing of the Federation charter.
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