The best episode of ENT - Part Two

BlueStuff · August 12 2011, 10:45 PM

Okay Trek fans, this game has been successful on the boards for the other shows, and I hope it prospers here as well. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you play again. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
Season One - The Andorian Incident
Season Two -

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
A Night in Sickbay
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
Precious Cargo
The Catwalk
Dawn
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
The Crossing
Judgement
Horizon
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
Bounty
The Expanse

JiNX-01 · August 12 2011, 11:00 PM

BlueStuff wrote:

Okay Trek fans, this game has been successful on the boards for the other shows, and I hope it prospers here as well. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you play again. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
Season One - The Andorian Incident
Season Two -

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
Precious Cargo
The Catwalk
Dawn
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
The Crossing
Judgement
Horizon
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
Bounty
The Expanse

A Night in Sickbay: Archer goes into a snit when Porthos gets sick after peeing on a treasured tree on the Kretassan homeworld. The captain decides to punish the Kretassans by refusing to buy desperately needed plasma injectors Trip begged him to get.
T'Pol's lips and boobs become a distraction. There's a funeral that morphs into a nude T'Pol scene. And later, T'Pol rips Archer a new one for not putting a diaper on his dog.

Seven of Five · August 12 2011, 11:02 PM

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
Precious Cargo
The Catwalk
Dawn
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
The Crossing
Judgement
Horizon
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Oh dear, too slow off the bat!

Good choice anyway.

Okay, if I can't have ANiS then I'll go for Bounty instead. Another silly episode. The producers were trying anything for ratings at this point I think!

DevilEyes · August 12 2011, 11:11 PM

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Dawn
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
The Crossing
Judgement
Horizon
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Precious Cargo - utterly pointless and predictable A plot, forced "sexual tension" between Trip and the princess, terrible "acting" by what's-her-name.

But OMG, season 2 is full of crappy episodes.

Skywalker · August 12 2011, 11:11 PM

I'm actually watching Season Two through Netflix right now, and it's actually not that bad. Most of the weak episodes in this season are more because they're painfully dull and/or unoriginal than they are actually bad. Except for ANIS, of course.

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
The Crossing
Judgement
Horizon
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Dawn: Another unoriginal episode. A very dull "Enemy Mine" ripoff.

Seven of Five · August 12 2011, 11:16 PM

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
The Crossing
Judgement
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Horizon - finally they give poor Travis something to do, and it's dull, predictable and badly acted.

Season Two was distinctly average throughout - I can only remember a few episodes I really enjoyed. It wasn't full of stinkers or anything but the show was crying out for a shakeup by the end of the year.

ChristopherPike · August 12 2011, 11:32 PM

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Marauders
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

The Crossing: Getting possessed by non-corporeal aliens has never been so painful to watch. Their ship is impressive and being inside the belly of that beast, in EV suits, has a Motion Picture vibe to it. While Trip is taken over, he gets to live out an unseen fantasy. He comes back telling us he'd been with some old Western movie star, nobody watching will have even heard of. Naturally Reed's occupant is horny for T'Pol simply because this is on UPN.

Watch Observer Effect instead and you'll see how this one should've been done. That at least, is genuinely creepy.

bluedana · August 13 2011, 12:08 AM

Marauders. It was done so much better as The Seven Samarai. Or The Magnificent Seven. Or A Bug's Life.

We all know that the Klingons came back and nuked that colony from space the minute Enterprise left.

It is one of the few episodes I hate, and the only one I can't watch any part of, ever.

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
The Seventh
The Communicator
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Skywalker · August 13 2011, 12:26 AM

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
The Seventh
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Stigma
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

The Communicator: We can't do anything to risk damaging this culture. So when they figure out we're not who we say we are, instead of telling them the truth, let's tell the already-paranoid military that we're enemy super-soldiers armed with highly advanced weaponry! Because that won't backfire!

Admiral Shran · August 13 2011, 02:36 AM

Shockwave (II)
Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
The Seventh
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Cogenitor
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Stigma - in an episode that's an allegory about a woman getting AIDS from being raped, let's have a comedy B-plot about how a woman forces herself on a man who is clearly made uncomfortable by her advances.

SFRabid · August 13 2011, 02:41 AM

Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
The Seventh
Singularity
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

Cogenitor - Trip was out of character and Archer was wrong in the way he handled him at the end.

Tiberius · August 13 2011, 03:35 AM

Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
The Seventh
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

And Singularity is gone. I absolutely hate those episodes where everyone acts completely differently. You don't get to see what the characters are really like, it's just an excuse to have everyone act crazy for forty minutes and then there's a big "Oh, it's all right now" at the end. I hate Dramatis Personae for the same reason.

JiNX-01 · August 13 2011, 05:59 AM

Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Vanishing Point
The Catwalk
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgement
The Breach
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

The Seventh: Deadly boring. Bruce Davison is a great actor and he was dull as a plastic spoon, probably because the script sucked. And T'Pol needs Archer to give her permission to SHOOT the bio-weapons dealer using a STUN setting? Really?

BTW: Why is Vanishing Point still alive?

JiNX-01 · August 13 2011, 06:07 AM

bluedana wrote:

Marauders. It was done so much better as The Seven Samarai. Or The Magnificent Seven. Or A Bug's Life.

We all know that the Klingons came back and nuked that colony from space the minute Enterprise left.

It is one of the few episodes I hate, and the only one I can't watch any part of, ever.

You left out the part where the KLINGON got his butt kicked by a 95 pound Vulcan.

Skywalker · August 13 2011, 06:10 AM

Vulcans are about as strong as Klingons are, and a disciplined fighter will beat an enraged brute just about every time.

Carbon Creek
Minefield
Dead Stop
Vanishing Point
Cease Fire
Future Tense
Canamar
Judgment
The Breach
Regeneration
First Flight
The Expanse

The Catwalk: Another 'meh' episode with a yawn-worthy Space Anomaly of the Week. Also because I know "Vanishing Point" won't last much longer and I must defend my beloved Hoshi!

August 12 2011, 10:45 PM	#1
BlueStuff Rear Admiral Location: Lafayette, IN	The best episode of ENT - Part Two Okay Trek fans, this game has been successful on the boards for the other shows, and I hope it prospers here as well. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you play again. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy! Winners Season One - The Andorian Incident Season Two - Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop A Night in Sickbay Marauders The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point Precious Cargo The Catwalk Dawn Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar The Crossing Judgement Horizon The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight Bounty The Expanse

August 12 2011, 11:02 PM	#3
Seven of Five Commodore Location: Staffordshire, United Kingdom	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Marauders The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point Precious Cargo The Catwalk Dawn Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar The Crossing Judgement Horizon The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse Oh dear, too slow off the bat! Good choice anyway. Okay, if I can't have ANiS then I'll go for Bounty instead. Another silly episode. The producers were trying anything for ratings at this point I think! __________________ I love how coffee makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!

August 12 2011, 11:11 PM	#4
DevilEyes Rear Admiral Location: basking in the warmth of the Fire Caves	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Marauders The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Dawn Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar The Crossing Judgement Horizon The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse Precious Cargo - utterly pointless and predictable A plot, forced "sexual tension" between Trip and the princess, terrible "acting" by what's-her-name. But OMG, season 2 is full of crappy episodes. __________________ Treason, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. my Buffy/Angel rewatch

August 12 2011, 11:11 PM	#5
Skywalker Admiral	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two I'm actually watching Season Two through Netflix right now, and it's actually not that bad. Most of the weak episodes in this season are more because they're painfully dull and/or unoriginal than they are actually bad. Except for ANIS, of course. Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Marauders The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar The Crossing Judgement Horizon The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse Dawn: Another unoriginal episode. A very dull "Enemy Mine" ripoff.

August 12 2011, 11:16 PM	#6
Seven of Five Commodore Location: Staffordshire, United Kingdom	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Marauders The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar The Crossing Judgement The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse Horizon - finally they give poor Travis something to do, and it's dull, predictable and badly acted. Season Two was distinctly average throughout - I can only remember a few episodes I really enjoyed. It wasn't full of stinkers or anything but the show was crying out for a shakeup by the end of the year. __________________ I love how coffee makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!

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August 12 2011, 11:32 PM	#7
ChristopherPike Rear Admiral	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Marauders The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse The Crossing: Getting possessed by non-corporeal aliens has never been so painful to watch. Their ship is impressive and being inside the belly of that beast, in EV suits, has a Motion Picture vibe to it. While Trip is taken over, he gets to live out an unseen fantasy. He comes back telling us he'd been with some old Western movie star, nobody watching will have even heard of. Naturally Reed's occupant is horny for T'Pol simply because this is on UPN. Watch Observer Effect instead and you'll see how this one should've been done. That at least, is genuinely creepy. __________________ STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE Tribute ►http://youtu.be/myS87yTTDes Last edited by ChristopherPike; August 12 2011 at 11:55 PM.

August 13 2011, 12:08 AM	#8
bluedana Moderator Location: on the raggedy edge with bluedana	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Marauders. It was done so much better as The Seven Samarai. Or The Magnificent Seven. Or A Bug's Life. We all know that the Klingons came back and nuked that colony from space the minute Enterprise left. It is one of the few episodes I hate, and the only one I can't watch any part of, ever. Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop The Seventh The Communicator Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse __________________ Fall seven times. Stand up eight. -- Japanese proverb.

August 13 2011, 12:26 AM	#9
Skywalker Admiral	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop The Seventh Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Stigma Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse The Communicator: We can't do anything to risk damaging this culture. So when they figure out we're not who we say we are, instead of telling them the truth, let's tell the already-paranoid military that we're enemy super-soldiers armed with highly advanced weaponry! Because that won't backfire!

August 13 2011, 02:36 AM	#10
Admiral Shran Admiral Location: In the Before Time - the Long, Long Ago	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Shockwave (II) Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop The Seventh Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Cogenitor Regeneration First Flight The Expanse Stigma - in an episode that's an allegory about a woman getting AIDS from being raped, let's have a comedy B-plot about how a woman forces herself on a man who is clearly made uncomfortable by her advances. __________________ Vote Obomney 2012! "All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It's not that power corrupts but that it's magnetic to the corruptible." - Frank Herbert, Dune

August 13 2011, 02:41 AM	#11
SFRabid Klingon Food	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop The Seventh Singularity Vanishing Point The Catwalk Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Regeneration First Flight The Expanse *Cogenitor* - Trip was out of character and Archer was wrong in the way he handled him at the end. __________________ No longer here.

August 13 2011, 03:35 AM	#12
Tiberius Commodore	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop The Seventh Vanishing Point The Catwalk Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Regeneration First Flight The Expanse And Singularity is gone. I absolutely hate those episodes where everyone acts completely differently. You don't get to see what the characters are really like, it's just an excuse to have everyone act crazy for forty minutes and then there's a big "Oh, it's all right now" at the end. I hate Dramatis Personae for the same reason. __________________ The Best of Both Worlds eBook \| Every episode of Trek in viewing order Tiberius

August 13 2011, 05:59 AM	#13
JiNX-01 Asst. Chief Engineer NX01 Location: Under Cmdr. Tucker	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Vanishing Point The Catwalk Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgement The Breach Regeneration First Flight The Expanse The Seventh: Deadly boring. Bruce Davison is a great actor and he was dull as a plastic spoon, probably because the script sucked. And T'Pol needs Archer to give her permission to SHOOT the bio-weapons dealer using a STUN setting? Really? BTW: Why is Vanishing Point still alive? __________________ I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. -- Neil Armstrong 1930-2012 --

August 13 2011, 06:10 AM	#15
Skywalker Admiral	Re: The best episode of ENT - Part Two Vulcans are about as strong as Klingons are, and a disciplined fighter will beat an enraged brute just about every time. Carbon Creek Minefield Dead Stop Vanishing Point Cease Fire Future Tense Canamar Judgment The Breach Regeneration First Flight The Expanse The Catwalk: Another 'meh' episode with a yawn-worthy Space Anomaly of the Week. Also because I know "Vanishing Point" won't last much longer and I must defend my beloved Hoshi!