ORBzine - TV Review - Oct 01

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 1-2] Broken Bow
Shown 7th January 2002 [Monday]

This is the newest series in the Star Trek franchise, though notably the name lacks the Trek prefix. It is set 95 years after the events in the movie First Contact . This episode tells of the human race's first encounter with Klingons. A Klingon courier [with TNG face] lands on Earth, pursued by flat-boned humanoid aliens. The aliens are destroyed but the Klingon is seriously injured. Earth's Vulcan Ambassador [Gary Graham - Alien Nation ] advises that the Klingon be allowed an honorable death, and then the Vulcans will take the corpse to Kronos.

The heroic Captain Archer [Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ] uses humanity over logic and diplomacy. He decides that Earth's first starship [the Enterprise] can spend its maiden voyage taking the living Klingon home. Of note, Archer is the Enterprise's Captain and also the son of the ship's designer - a clear case of nepotism of ever there was one.

Archer gets his crew sorted out for the voyage. In a step away from Trek tradition, the humans actually have personality. For example, Captain Archer actually resents Vulcans for the way they treat his species. This makes for potential conflict when his crew is joined by the babelicious T'Paul [ Jolene Blalock ]. Her characterisation isn't stiff like Spock or Tuvok, perhaps owing more to Mark Lenard's portrayal of Spock's father. She is the Science Officer, a tad predictable when you consider how much this show is inspired to TOS.

The rest of the crew includes an alien doctor [a cross between Neelix and the HoloDoc]. Ethnicity-wise there is an oriental woman translator and a token black man.

Before the Enterprise sets off there is a dedication ceremony. We get a vidclip of James Cromwell, 32 years previously. Apparently in the sixty years after First Contact he didn't age a day! Also odd is the fact that the Enterprise is owned by Starfleet, operating out of San Francisco, even though this is set long before the Federation is established.

The Enterprise is ambushed by more of the aliens, and they have to take a detour on their trip to meet with a woman named Sarin [ Melinda Clarke ]. While searching for her they go to a non-human stripper bar, which is pretty inferior to the Cantina scene in Star Wars IV: A New Hope . In best Star Trek tradition, the Captain himself leads the away mission.

Back aboard the ship, the Vulcan babe and the square-jawed Yank hero type strip to their skivvies and smear each other with grease. This is a blatant T&A scene, but there is no sexual tension between them. A great opportunity for character development has gone to waste.

The climax has all the stuff we know to expect from Trek: phasers set to stun, transporter beams, reversing the polarity of something - this time it is actually a set of magnets!

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 3] Fight Or Flight
Shown 14th January 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise detects a distress beacon and discovers a wrecked ship. A bunch of redshirts board the wreck and wander around in space-suits. Yes, the new show has tried for a certain amount of gritty realism.

The boarding party discover mutilated corpses hung up by their feet. Also stolen from the film Predator is the unknown villains' motivation: they kill for trivial reasons, though this is closer to harvesting rhino-horn than it is to blood-sports.

The other surprising thing about this episode, compared to Trek, is the amount of emotional reaction the humans have. Bakula is a seething mass of emotions, especially compared with the previous Trek Captains. The translator woman falls apart, and the climax of the episode requires her to grow a spine in order to save the entire crew from being horribly killed.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 4] Strange New World
Shown 21st January 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise discovers an apparently uninhabited M-Class world. Much to T'Pol's objections [and all common sense] the Captain and a small band of buddies take a shuttle down for a brief holiday. The thing about this show is, because of the uniforms [and the fact we can't recognise all the regular cast yet] we don't know who the redshirts are ...

The holiday soon turns into the camping trip from hell. Surprise, surprise.

The Away Team take shelter in a cave, but there seems to be some creatures lurking deep inside it. The crew follow standard procedure for this kind of TV show: they split up in order to let the creatures pick them off one by one.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 5] Unexpected
Shown 28th January 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise has problems with some electronic systems. It turns out that the source of the problems is a nearby alien vessel, with a damaged engine. The Enterprise Chief Engineer travels to the alien ship to repair it. The aliens may be oxygen-breathing humanoids who live in Earth gravity, but they have fully-scaled skin as opposed to just some putty on their noses!

After the Enterprise and the aliens part company, it seems that one of the Enterprise crew is pregnant by an alien. T'Pol the Vulcan babe seems almost jealous!

The Enterprise hunts down the alien vessel, but the Klingons are there.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 6] Terra Nova
Shown 4th February 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise arrives at a remote planet where a human colony was established seventy years previously. However, there is no sign of any colony now. It seems that some terrible planetary disaster befell the planet.

The Away Team discovers a race of humanoids who hate humans. Typical Trek aliens, the humanoids are just actors with face-paint. Are they the descendants of the original colonists?

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 7] The Andorian Incident
Shown 11th February 2002 [Monday]

This is the best episode so far, and certainly the closest to Star Trek: The Original Series . The ending is surprisingly cynical for a Trek show. Of note, the director was Roxanne Biggs-Dawson , of all people.

The Enterprise stops by a remote planet to visit a Vulcan monastery. However, Archer and T'Pol get captured by aliens with blue skin and antennae. Yes, the Andorians - often touted as the silliest aliens in Trek - are back. Jeffrey Combs plays their leader; he's played every other species, and he's still instantly recognisable.

The Vulcans themselves appear to be acting very illogically. T'Pol displays her superhuman strength, by hogging the blanket when she bunks up with Captain Archer.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 8] Breaking the Ice
Shown 18th February 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise detects a comet - the largest that humans have ever seen. They fly closer in order to investigate. The comet contains an important mineral, too deep to get a transporter lock on it, so they land a shuttle on it to drill.

A Vulcan ship appears, and keeps an eye on Enterprise's activities.

Meanwhile, the square-jawed yank is trying to thaw T'Pol's frosty exterior. He discovers that she has recieved a secret letter from the Vulcan ship. He confronts her, and she later confides in him on a personal matter.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 9] Civilization
Shown 25th February 2002 [Monday]

Voyager detects an inhabited M-Class world, so they fly closer to take a look. The planet has a medieval-level society. Archer decides to break the Vulcan non-interference protocol and send an Away Team down. Luckily the Enterprise's scanners can focus on an individual face from orbit!

An anti-matter reactor is detected in one of the cities. Archer beams down to investigate, along with T'Pol, the translator and the redneck engineer dude. The aliens differ from humans only insofar as having two cranial ridges. In her new garb, T'Pol is breathtakingly attractive.

Archer and company discover that the reactor is inside a trader's building. The local apothecary, a babe who Archer takes a liking to, has deduced that an inexplicable local epidemic is linked to the place. Archer must defeat the alien interlopers and kiss the girl, just like in the good old-fashioned Kirk stories!

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 10] Fortunate Son
Shown 4th March 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise is contacted by Admiral Forrest [ Vaughn Armstrong ], who orders them to assist an Earth freighter that has been attacked by Nausican pirates.

The freighter crew are used to doing things by themselves, and are thus somewhat prone to vigilante justice. Archer finds himself between the spacers and the pirates ...

The director is Levar Burton [ Star Trek: TNG ].

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 11] Cold Front
Shown 11th March 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise meets an alien transport ship, taking pilgrims to see an astronomical phenomenon. Archer decides to invite the pilgrims to visit his ship, and they accept. One of them is secretly the villainous pseulopod leader from the pilot episode!

Yes, this episode returns us to the story arc about the temporal cold war. The phony pilgrim actually saves the ship for some strange reason. This makes Archer's position a lot more confusing, because a time-traveller working for the other side is aboard the Enterprise, hunting the pseulopod.

The director is Robert Duncan MacNeil [ Star Trek: DS9 ].

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 12] Silent Enemy
Shown 18th March 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise encounters an unknown alien vessel, which stalks and repeatedly attacks them. The Engineer and Malcolm the Weapons guy decide to build and install three phaser cannons.

Meanwhile, since Malcolm's birthday is coming up Captain Archer plans a surprise celebration. However, Malcolm is something of a reclusive workaholic and therefore nobody knows what his favourite food is. The translator girl is assigned this difficult task.

Guy Siner [ Babylon 5, Season 5 ] guest-stars as Malcolm's father.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 13] Dear Doctor
Shown 25th March 2002 [Monday]

This episode centres around the Doctor, and shows the crew from his point of view. It explores his friendships with the translator girl and the xeno-biologist girl. We see the differences between his society and theirs. His people do not have films because they found Real Life more interesting, so when he goes to the cinema he watches the audience! The Doctor himself narrates the episode as a voice-mail to a friend.

The Enterprise encounters a sub-light ship from a species that is dying of an unknown epidemic. They live alongside a different species which is untouched by the illness.

The aliens request that Archer share warp technology with them. He is put in the same position that the Vulcans were in when they first reached Earth. The Doctor has to make a choice as well.

Archer mentions that there is not yet a Doctrine to tell him when he cannot intervene or interfere.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 14] Sleeping Dogs
Shown 1st April 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise detects a crippled alien ship slowly being sucked into the heart of a gas giant. T'Pol takes a shuttle down to investigate. Hoshi the translator volunteers, and Malcolm tags along despite having a cold.

The ship turns out to be Klingon. The crew have been poisoned, but still pose a potential threat to the away team. Archer must retrieve the away team and get the Klingons to trust him.

Vaughn Armstrong is listed as a guest-star. Since the Starfleet Admiral does not appear, Vaughn must play the Klingon Captain. This must be the episode he filmed in December 2001, just before he attended the Enterprise event.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 15] Shadows of P'Jem
Shown 8th April 2002 [Monday]

This is a sequel to the episode The Andorian Incident, written by long-time Trek Producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Admiral Forrest [ Vaughn Armstrong ] contacts Archer and tells him that because of the Andorians' actions, the Vulcans have decided to recall T'Pol from her assignment on the Enterprise. A Vulcan ship will arrive to collect her within 48 hours.

Archer and T'Pol take a shuttle down to a friendly alien planet. They are kidnapped and help to ransom by alien rebels. This is apparently a new species, but the set is so dark that their face-putty is not visible. How cheap!

Archer and T'Pol end up in a compromising situation, but there is no sexual tension between them. Meanwhile, Trip and Malcolm attempt a rescue. They bump into some old acquaintances, including Jeffrey Combs!

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 16] Shuttlepod One
Shown 15th April 2002 [Monday]

This is a nice example of a bottle show, self-contained with no guest-stars. It was written by Berman and Braga, but is surprisingly good.

Trip and Malcolm return to the rendezvous point in a shuttle. However, Enterprise is gone and all they find is wreckage. Yes, it looks like Archer and the other gimps are all dead. That's the good news. The bad news is, the two survivors don't have enough power or oxygen to get to safety.

This is a good character-based episode. The two start to get on each others' nerves once the seriousness of their situation. There is a debate on the merits of Science Fiction over classics such as Ulysses - though the Odyssey is a Speculative Fiction tale. Malcolm records his logs, and a letter to his parents.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 17] Fusion
Shown 22nd April 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise is contacted by Admiral Forrest [ Vaughn Armstrong ], who tells them to make contact with a Vulcan ship.

The Vulcans are a breakaway sect who are trying to master their emotions, rather than repressing them. They have been exploring space for eight years, and have been trying to make the Ponn Farr happen more often than every seven years ... but there is no sign of any female Vulcans aboard their ship!

Also on the mating front, T'Pol befriends a male Vulcan. He persuades her to go a night without meditating, and she has a dream. The story allows hints of the dark passions that Vulcans harbour, but unfortunately it also casts T'Pol as a frigid damsel-in-distress!

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 18] Rogue Planet
Shown 29th April 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise discovers a planet that is drifting through deep space. The landing party discovers a trio of hunters - Keith Szarabajka [ Angel ], Conor O'Farrell [ Dark Skies ] and Eric Pierpoint [ Alien Nation ]. They are after an unmentioned species of Big Game.

In many ways the story is similar to the Farscape S1 ep Bone To Be Wild . However, Farscape did it much better. The sets are very dimly-lit, and the Guest-Stars (an excellent trio of veteran actors) are concealed in darkness and make-up. What a Waste!

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 19] Acquisition
Shown 6th May 2002 [Monday]

The episode starts with Enterprise dead in space. She is boarded by a group of familiar-looking big-eared aliens led by Ethan Philips. Yes, this is the Ferengi episode!

The first part of the episode is reasonable enough. The Ferengi, including Jeffrey Combs and Clint Howard, explore the ship. The dialogue is in Ferengi, without subtitles, which works quite well. For some reason the Ferengi become physically attracted to T'Pol.

This is more or less the standard Die Hard episode. The story is, predictably, by Berman and Braga. Trip the redneck engineer has to outsmart the invaders.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 20] Oasis
Shown 13th May 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise encounters a crash-landed ship which hosts a colony ruled by Rene Auberjonais [ DS9 ]. As in the episode of Stargate SG-1 where he had a similar role, the Earthlings become suspicious of his secret ...

This episode has certain similarities with Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 5] Unexpected.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 21] Detained
Shown 20th May 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 22] Vox Sola
Shown 27th May 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise makes contact with an alien species, but they unintentionally offend the aliens. Vaughn Armstrong guest-stars as the alien Captain.

When the aliens leave they unintentionally infect Enterprise with a strange alien lifeform. The alien invader, like the Borg, tries to assimilate several crew members. It's nice to see crew who aren't series regulars, though they could easily be regarded as Redshirts ...

This episode allows the supporting characters - specifically Hoshi, but also Malcolm and the black guy - to better define themselves.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 23] Fallen Hero
Shown 3rd June 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise is hailed by Admiral Forrest [ Vaughn Armstrong ], who has them take a detour to collect a Vulcan Ambassador [ Fionulla O'Flanagan ].

The Ambassador is the one who inspired T'Pol to become a space explorer. It is nice to see a Vulcan who is not the cliched stereotype. She gives good arguments for the Vulcan refusal to help Earth technologically.

The plot itself concerns, surprise surprise, the Vulcans' interfering in another society.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 24] Desert Crossing
Shown 10th June 2002 [Monday]

Still en route to Risa, Enterprise answers a distress beacon. Clancy Brown [ Highlander ] invites Archer and Trip to enjoy a few hours of hospitality with his tribe of desert nomads.

As per usual, the friendly aliens have something to hide. Things turn bad for our heroes.

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 25] Two Days And Two Nights
Shown 17th June 2002 [Monday]

The Enterprise finally gets to the pleasure-planet Risa. The senior crew all take a holiday, except for T'Pol who stays aboard. Captain Archer wants some peace and quiet, Trip and Malcolm want to meet some alien babes, and Hoshi the translator wants to learn an alien language. The black guy goes rock-climbing, and the Doctor hibernates. Is this a recipe for disaster?

As you can probably predict, nothing goes as planned. Archer gets an unwelcome reminder about the temporal Cold War, while Trip and Malcolm discover that the humanoid females so prevalent in the other Trek series are mysteriously missing!

Enterprise [Season 1, Episode 26] Shockwave (1)
Shown 24th June 2002 [Monday]

Enterprise visits an alien colony. However, the Enterprise shuttlecraft accidentally creates a natural disaster. The political ramifications, according to Admiral Forrest [ Vaughn Armstrong ] are that Enterprise is recalled to base and Starfleet will be put back twenty years.

Of course, there is more to this than it seems. The series' tiny effort at a plot arc, the Temporal Cold War, gets another mention.

The end is a cliff-hanger. We will have to wait until next Season to see what happens ...

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 35.   2- 9                20 Nov 02   Singularity
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 37.   2-11                11 Dec 02   Precious Cargo
 38.   2-12                18 Dec 02   The Catwalk
 39.   2-13                 8 Jan 03   Dawn
 40.   2-14                 5 Feb 03   Stigma
 41.   2-15                12 Feb 03   Cease Fire
 42.   2-16                19 Feb 03   Future Tense
 43.   2-17                26 Feb 03   Canamar

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 18] The Crossing
Shown 2 Apr 03

Noncorporeal entities possess some crew members, allowing the actors to do some interesting work [and well, too].

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 19] Judgment
Shown 9 Apr 03

Archer is on trial by the Klingons. This mirrors Kirk's trial in ST VI: Undiscovered Country . But at least there's a non-cliche Klingon.

JG Hertzler [Chancellor Gowron in Star Trek: DS9 ] is the Prosecutor.

 46.   2-20                16 Apr 03   Horizon
 47.   2-21                23 Apr 03   The Breach

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 22] Cogenitor
Shown 30 Apr 03

The Enterprise encounters a 3-gender species.

Archer befriends the alien captain [Andreas Katsulas - Babylon 5 ].

Trip becomes obsessed with the third species, the Cogenitor. It looks not unlike a human female, so he tries to elevate it from its servile position.

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 23] Regeneration
Shown 7 May 03

Scientists at the South Pole uncover remnants of a crashed UFO, like in The Thing ... The only difference is, this time the alien invaders are the Borg from Star Trek: First Contact !

The Borg flee aboard a hijacked ship, and Enterprise gives chase. Can the flagship defeat these Picard-era cyborgs?

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 24] First Flight
Shown 14 May 03

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 25] Bounty
Shown 14 May 03

Archer is kidnapped by a Bounty Hunter, who wants to sell him to the Klingons.

The Hunter's not a greedy guy, he needs the cash. But Archer talks him round. After all, the Klingons will try a double-crosss ...

Phlox and T'Pol are quartantined. T'Pol becomes the first female Vulcan in Trek to undergo Pon Farr. Although the director is Roxann Dawson , this is handled very poorly compared to her performance in Blood Fever.

Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 26] The Expanse
Shown 21 May 03
Shown 5/1/2004

An Alien probe attacks Earth. It leaves a 4kkm long scar from Florida to Venezuela. This is mostly ocean, but still causes 7 mil casualties - including Trip's sister.

The pseudopods call a truce, and introduce Archer to their time-travelling mystery boss. The Aliens want a pre-emptive strike on the Feds, so they're building a WMD in the Delphic Expanse (a warzone).

The Enterprise detects an Event Horizon style distress signal.

There is a Klingon subplot - the Duros clan are after Archer.

T'Pol is reassigned by Gary Graham.

Season 3

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 1] The Xindi
Shown 10 Sep 03

This season the show has new theme music [jazzed up], and Star Trek in the title. There is a blue breast-enhancing costume for T'Pol - light red, figure tight, nice hair ...

War is the theme of the Season Arc. They have new sets [a command centre] and a cargo of military assault commandoes, including Daniel Dae Kim [ Crusade, Angel, Lost ]. The english guy, Malcolm, is rival with the commandoes.

Tpol and Trip's UST is unconvincing.

This ep, Enterprise goes to a slave-mine and tries to buy a Xindi slave. Stephen McHattie [ X-Files ] is the evil mine foreman.

Tucker Smallwood [ Space: AAB ] is the Xindi Leader.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 2] Anomaly
Shown 17 Sep 03

The Enterprise runs into space pirates!

The crew are building a database on the Xindi.

The consulting producer is Brent V. Friedman [ Dark Skies ].

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 3] Extinction
Shown 24 Sep 03

Archer, Hoshi and Malcolm are converted by a DNA virus. Luckily T'pol is immune.

Daniel Dae Kim guest-stars again.

The director is Levar Burton [ Star Trek: TNG ].

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 4] Raijin
Shown 1 Oct 03

The title girl is a slave girl rescued by Archer. She gets hot with T'Pol, and there's a John Woo -style shootout [not Farscape level, though].

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 5] Impulse
Shown 8 Oct 03

Tpol is berserk. The flashback reveals they received a distress call from a vulcan ship, the crew of which had gone mad.

There's a redshirt - one of the Starfleet Marine Corps. Will he make it? That's the only tension in the show.

Trip and Travis are in the other shuttle, trapped.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 6] Exile
Shown 15 Oct 03

Hoshi visits an alien telepath who offers to help the ship. He's been exiled by his own people, and wants Hoshi for companionship. There's an implied relationship between her and Travis?

Tpol maps the stars.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 7] The Shipment
Shown 29 Oct 03

The Enterprise locates a Xindi colony. Archer and Malcolm and the Commando Major do recon. The site is manufacturing high explosives for the Xindi weapon. Will this help them locate the WMD?

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 8] Twilight
Shown 5 Nov 03

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 9] North Star
Shown 12 Nov 03

The Enterprise discovers a cowboy world [200 years after an Amistad-style revolt]. Is it a metaphor for the apparent AF-AM obsession with slavery?

It's shocking that in 200 years the survivors have made no technological progress! The Alien skegs have pimples beside their ears.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 10] Similitude
Shown 19 Nov 03

This is a bottle show. Trip is dying, so they make a clone with his memories and a 15-day lifespan.

This was Written by Manny Coto , and the director is Levar Burton [ Star Trek: TNG ].

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 11] Carpenter Street
Shown 26 Nov 03

There are time-travelling Xindi in Detroit, 2004.

Archer and T'pol go back in time. They have trouble stealing a car! Luckily there's a very trusting hooker.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 12] Chosen Realm
Shown 14 Jan 04

The Enterprise must rescue some religious fanatics.

This was Written by Manny Coto , the director is Roxann Dawson .

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 13] Proving Ground
Shown 21 Jan 04

Enterprise is joined by the Andorians. Together, they're strong enough to attack the Xindi.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 14] "Stratagem"
Shown 4 Feb 04

Archer and Degra [the Xindi scientist who built the WMD] are in a shuttle, being chased by Xindi insectoids. It's 3 years since the last episode!

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 15] Harbinger
Shown 11 Feb 04

Trip has a GF [a female commando], and T'Pol is jealous.

Malcolm and the Commando C.O. work on their rivalry.

They discover a trans-dimensional alien [somehow related to the spheres].

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 16] Doctor's Orders
Shown 18 Feb 04

This ep resembles the plot from an ep of Star Trek: Voyager . Phlox sedates the crew and runs ship single-handed through weird-space area. Is he halucinating?

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 17] Hatchery
Shown 25 Feb 04

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 18] Azati Prime
Shown 3 Mar 04

Enterprise discovers the Xindi base of completed superweapon. Should they do a suicide mission to destroy it?

Archer gets a message from the future.

Tpol becoming emotionally unstable. To be continued ...

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 19] Damage
Shown 21 Apr 04

The Xindi Council has an internal dispute.

The T'Pol and Trip subplot is developed.

Enterprise is crippled. They meet an unhelpful alien ship, and face a moral decision.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 20] The Forgotten
Shown 28 Apr 04

Degra meets Archer, and is shown the evidence [dead reptilians].

Trip resents the Xindi, and is obsessed with his dead sister and crewmates.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 21] Ent X2
Shown 5 May 04

En route to the rendezvous, the Enterprise meets a future version of the Enterprise. It's the same ship, but the crew are their offspring [including the son of Trip and Tpol - he looks like Alex McArthur!].

This ep resembles the plot from an ep of Star Trek: DS9 .

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 22] The Council
Shown 12 May 04

Degra introduces Archer to the Xindi council. The reptiles are rebellious, and side with the sphere-builders.

Meanwhile, a shuttle [Malcolm, Token Black Guy, T'Pol and 1 redshirt Mako] infiltrate a sphere.

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 23] Countdown
Shown 19 May 04

The Reptiles use the sphere-builders' help and torture Hoshi.

Archer and the Makos chase them to ...

Enterprise [Season 3, Episode 24] Zero Hour
Shown 26 May 04

Malcolm, Archer, Hoshi and Xindi are after the super-weapon.

Enterprise [T'Pol, Trip, the Doc and the Token Black Guy] is against the sphere.

Shran, the Andorian, helps Earth.

This is the ending of the Arc ... And the start of a new one!