MY favourite episodes..

[Gingerbread Demon]

OK my favourite episodes of Enterprise.

Dead Stop
I absolutely hands down love this episode. Definite air of mystery over who built the station and why. The use of alien crew as CPU add ons was cool. Didn't they do this in another Trek series? Could that have been a tie in?

I loved the design of the station being based on a hoberman sphere. I keep wondering though why no one in the future ever came in contact with that station since it wasn't dead. You see it rebuilding itself at the end of the episode..

The TCW
I'm one of those people. I loved the Temporal Cold War and what they were trying to do. I even liked that they threw in the sphere builders in season 3 and 4 as a faction. I wonder if Future Guy knew about that faction. I did read on a forum that he was a Romulan and had the series been continued they would have revealed this..

Civilization
I loved this episode. It was a small episode and self contained but I liked the look and feel of it, and the story. Riann was one of my favourite aliens and I kind of crushed on her a bit..

Regeneration
I'm a borg fan. I loved this episode. They tied it into the movie First Contact by having the sphere Picard shot down crash in Antarctica. That actually makes perfect sense and fit in well. There had to have been debris that they never bothered to clean up when they left to go back home to their future. I was surprised that the writers left that detail at the end of that movie, but am glad other writers picked up on it.

The modified ship at the end did transmit something towards the Delta Quadrant too. So that made it a complete circle for me and tied up why they came in First Contact.. I think what they transmitted might have made the Borg aware of Earth and of the Borg that sent the signal. Also pointing them toward 2063...

 

[eyeresist]

Dead Stop is generally agreed to be one of the best, but I like idea of listing a few of our favourites which might include some more obscure ones...
Here are some of my favourites from season 1-2:

Breaking the Ice
After early episodes that included a couple of duds and had an emphasis on conflict, this really broke the mold. Malcolm and Travis's adventures on the comet is the highlight for me.

Shuttlepod One
Okay, maybe this choice is a bit predictable - I don't care! Two of my favourite characters having to get along in an apparently fatal situation, and a lot of nice details (the wreckage in the asteroid field impressed me). The writing and the acting were great.

Singularity
Originally I didn't like this much because I found the Hoshi part irritating. But setting that aside, I love seeing all the characters go a bit nuts, each in their own special way.

Cease Fire
I can't find anyone to agree how awesome this one is! The diplomatic tension, with Enterprise caught in the middle, is great, and everyone's favourite guest characters, Shran and Soval, are featured.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I also love the TCW. I especially love that it is not resolved. The players just withdraw and we are never sure who they are and what they wanted, even our "own" man Daniels. It seems like this is the way most dealings with time traveling shadow groups would end up for those of us bound to one to this single time.

My favorite ep is E2. Old T'Pol, Lorian, the heartstrings! and how that reverberates into our own timeline of ENT. Generational ship ftw. Most interesting story never told.

 

[Melakon]

Civilization
I loved this episode. It was a small episode and self contained but I liked the look and feel of it, and the story. Riann was one of my favourite aliens and I kind of crushed on her a bit..

It was the first episode I liked during first run, because it felt like a TOS story to me.

I didn't see most of the series until two years ago, after ordering through Amazon. I'm not that crazy about the Xindi arc in Season 3, but "Carpenter Street" is a favorite largely due to Leland Orser, who really carries the episode with another quirky character. And I like Season 2's "Future Tense", because I'm a sucker for time loop moments...sucker for time loop moments...time loop moments...

 

[eyeresist]

I also love the TCW. I especially love that it is not resolved. The players just withdraw and we are never sure who they are and what they wanted, even our "own" man Daniels. It seems like this is the way most dealings with time traveling shadow groups would end up for those of us bound to one to this single time.

I agree that the TCW had some cool concepts and gets a bit of a bad rap. The only time it really fell flat was Cold Front, when it seemed the writers wanted mysterious factional business without bothering to have it make the slightest sense. Now the Suliban are trying to save Enterprise and Daniels is trying to stop them? WTF?

And I like Season 2's "Future Tense", because I'm a sucker for time loop moments...sucker for time loop moments...time loop moments...

Isn't this where we came in?
Isn't this where we came in?

I like that kind of thing too. Plus "It's bigger on the inside..."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I also love the TCW. I especially love that it is not resolved. The players just withdraw and we are never sure who they are and what they wanted, even our "own" man Daniels. It seems like this is the way most dealings with time traveling shadow groups would end up for those of us bound to one to this single time.

My favorite ep is E2. Old T'Pol, Lorian, the heartstrings! and how that reverberates into our own timeline of ENT. Generational ship ftw. Most interesting story never told.

Yes!!!

I love that it is left unresolved. Could the sphere builders return and cause mayhem?

I also like the possibility that Future Guy was a romulan and possibly someone from the TNG era, and that's what I keep thinking when he's on screen. Who was that one Picard kept bumping into?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Q?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Q?

What about Q?

 

[Melakon]

I also like the possibility that Future Guy was a romulan and possibly someone from the TNG era, and that's what I keep thinking when he's on screen. Who was that one Picard kept bumping into?

You mean Tomalak?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Oh Romulan, right. Carry on.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I also like the possibility that Future Guy was a romulan and possibly someone from the TNG era, and that's what I keep thinking when he's on screen. Who was that one Picard kept bumping into?

You mean Tomalak?

That's the one. Either him or someone he knows. I always got that feeling.

Here's a link from this very forum...

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=101226

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Cease Fire
I can't find anyone to agree how awesome this one is! The diplomatic tension, with Enterprise caught in the middle, is great, and everyone's favourite guest characters, Shran and Soval, are featured.

Having very recently seen this one for the first time since its original airing, I was reminded that my 15-year-old self loved it, and for good reason. I can't say I was blown away by every aspect this time around, but I came pretty close. The only thing I didn't care for was the obviousness of the culprit; otherwise it was ace. Shran and Soval, yes please! T'Pol's conversation with Soval was terrific. The action sequences were very well-handled, the lighting situated the proper mood... remarkably solid episode, and (alongside "Stigma" and "Future Tense") a welcome return to stuff that can be at all regarded as "arc" material after an impressively long super-episodic stretch.

As for Future Guy, there have been some more recent Braga-supplied statements on his identity that should be brought to the attention of those present:

In November 2012, Brannon Braga stated on his Twitter account that the show's fifth season would have revealed Future Guy to be Jonathan Archer "trying to correct history" and repair a corrupt future by influencing his younger self. Braga added that Archer being Future Guy was the plan from the beginning, and previous statements claiming Future Guy was intended to be a Romulan were meant as a red herring. [2][3]

In December 2012, Braga expanded on his previous statements by indicating that Archer may have been kept alive by Suliban genetics. [4] It was also indicated that Archer may have had a motive to even kill his past self to benefit the future.

 

[eyeresist]

I think Archer being Future Guy wouldn't make much sense, unless he had actually gone crazy.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I don't know. I like it. Archer's psyche played with fire during the third season, and perhaps events in unproduced latter seasons might have forced him to do so some more. Sprinkle in a liberal helping of "Things Are The Way They Are Because Plot Shenanigans", and have our Archer spar with this possible-futures deranged obsessive version who's trying to right all his perceived temporal wrongs, or... something.

It's a tough sell, but on paper I think the idea had potential.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Braga disappoints me. The Romulan idea was much better. Not happy that Future Guy could have been Archer..

Enterprise made space feel dangerous, something Star Trek hasn't really done. In Damage we see the ship shot up to hell and you see bodies flying out of holes in the hull. That's terror.. It's also what I think likely to happen if we do meet aliens and misunderstandings ensue..

 

[Willow]

Braga disappoints me. The Romulan idea was much better. Not happy that Future Guy could have been Archer..

Enterprise made space feel dangerous, something Star Trek hasn't really done. In Damage we see the ship shot up to hell and you see bodies flying out of holes in the hull. That's terror.. It's also what I think likely to happen if we do meet aliens and misunderstandings ensue..

And for that reason Azati Prime and Damage are two of my favorite episodes.

I also liked Dead Stop.

And the episode prior to that - Minefield. Because. Malcolm .
Plus we get ROMULANS - well sorta......

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Words can't express how much I'm looking forward to "Azati Prime" and "Damage" on my current rewatch. I know I'm a broken record on this since it applies to every episode, but I haven't seen 'em since they originally aired. And yeah, they floored me like crazy back then.

Now I'm older, and I've seen things like nuBSG and GoT, and other little "wow, they went there" tidbits in 2000s-2010s television. But I have very vivid memories of loving those two episodes, and indeed pretty much the entire final third or so of the third season.

 

[MacLeod]

Dead Stop is generally agreed to be one of the best, but I like idea of listing a few of our favourites which might include some more obscure ones...
Here are some of my favourites from season 1-2:

Breaking the Ice
After early episodes that included a couple of duds and had an emphasis on conflict, this really broke the mold. Malcolm and Travis's adventures on the comet is the highlight for me.

Shuttlepod One
Okay, maybe this choice is a bit predictable - I don't care! Two of my favourite characters having to get along in an apparently fatal situation, and a lot of nice details (the wreckage in the asteroid field impressed me). The writing and the acting were great.

Singularity
Originally I didn't like this much because I found the Hoshi part irritating. But setting that aside, I love seeing all the characters go a bit nuts, each in their own special way.

Cease Fire
I can't find anyone to agree how awesome this one is! The diplomatic tension, with Enterprise caught in the middle, is great, and everyone's favourite guest characters, Shran and Soval, are featured.

I would tend to agree with this list, but I would say one thing that drives most of those episodes is they are character driven rather than action driven.

Breaking the Ice for example did try and inject a sense of adventure that these were new experiences for humans.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

"Breaking the Ice" also has the most exceptional collection of goofy grinning ear-to-ear Travis Mayweather shots. Seriously, the guy is a walking smirkfest in that episode.

 

[jespah]

Damage really scared the crap outta me when I saw it. Bodies flying into space - eek! It felt like a big-time line had been crossed.

E2, yes! Hell, I've written 4 fanfiction novels based on E2. An achingly untold story.

Love Harbinger (although it's got more plot than some other shows' seasons do) as conflicts arise on several fronts, and are only sometimes, sort of, resolved.

Shuttlepod One - the Odd Couple in space but they might die. Malcolm is pathetic, and that makes sense to me. I feel he was always the kind of person who fell for women who were either inappropriate (Ruby of the 602 Club) or unattainable. That, to me, makes E2 work out as well, that he hesitates as his chances slip away.

Too many other faves to mention.

Okay, back to schoolwork.