[GAME] Special Enterprise Moments | Episode-by-Episode

I'm one...

I love the part in Fight or Flight where Tucker get's a little upset with how things are going and says "We've been out here for two weeks now and the only first contact we've made is with a dying worm." I think that really establishes Trip's character very early on. For me, this was the episode I really started to get interested in him, especially, as for me he really stood out among all of the cast. This episode also really starts to develop all of the characters in much more depth... as Broken Bow really focused on Archer, his past, and the new mission, and everyone else sort of took a backseat. Finally, the last scene with Hoshi and Phlox is really touching... I wish they had developed their interactions a little bit more over Enterprise's short run.

On to Strange New World :-)

 

I love the scene in Strange new world where the crew land on the planet wearing those silly caps, and Archer goes all happy and stuff and even makes a group foto, while you can hear T'pol thinking "Stupid humans... Why did I take this assignment?"

Next is "Unexpected".

 

I loved that Terra Nova ended.

Next up is The Andorian Incident.









Just kidding, but seriously this is one of my least favorite episodes (I don't consider TATV an official episode of Enterprise, so that's saying a lot). The only redeeming factor to me was the idea that something as simple as a probe can have far reaching affects on an entire civilization. This has real-life implications with hundreds of deep space probes with pseudo-nuclear cores flying about through space... for all we know, there could be warheads on their way to Earth as we speak. Cool concept.

So on to The Andorian Incident, one of my favorite ENT episodes.

 

I love any part of The Andorian Incident with Shran. A great introduction for the character, and for the Andorians in general.

Breaking the Ice is next.

 

Breaking the Ice? One of my favs!

Malcolm and Travis making a Vulcan snowman. Priceless!

 

Fantastic! I got "Civilization"

I got a real Original Series vibe from this one. Genuine exploration. A hidden enemy amid a medieval looking world with hooded garments and crossbows.

Not entirely forgetting a decent line from Archer:
"[insert amount here] light-years and our first act getting here is breaking and entering."

First mention of Tellarites by the bad guy, whose shop has an anti-matter reactor in the basement.

 

"Cold Front" I found to be a pretty decent entry in the Temporal Cold War arc. We meet Daniels for the first time, find out he's an undercover agent from 900 years' time and then he's killed. Not entirely sure how he comes back from that, but anyhew... Future Guy's silhouette looks slightly different from that in the Pilot. Just the angles shot or different make up for Enterprise's answer to Dr. Claw I guess, not that we ever see him properly. Grrrrr....

The decompression scene with Archer hanging on for dear life, while Silik dives out into space to catch his ride... that whole confrontation is very impressive stuff and an early example of how badass the Captain could be, if the writers tried hard enough.

Locking away all of Daniels hidden futuristic devices and Archer saying "God knows, what else is in there." Loved all that and nicely chilling music as we fade to black. You have to wonder what happened to all that tech. Did the Suliban steal it during their capture of Enterprise next year, did it vanish when the timeline reset at the beginning of Season 4 or did it find its way into the hands of Section 31?

 

Silent Enemy is one of my favourite Seson 1 eps. The aliens are very scary and chilling, and the fact that we never learned what they were up to, or even saw more then a glimpse of them was great. The best scene IMO is when they meat the alien ship for the second time, and it just sits there and there's this very dark scary music on the background that makes it much more threathening then their first encounter (which just gave a Lol, what did they want? reaction).

 

Okay, I'll bite for Dear Doctor, one of my favorite episodes because of the ethical dilemma proposed. One of the reasons I like it is because I don't totally agree with the captain's ultimate decision. My favorite scene occurs in the Mess Hall in the middle of the night. Archer can't sleep, and Phlox comes in and they argue/discuss Phlox's evolutionary theory about the Menk. Phlox argues for letting "nature" take its course on the planet, by withholding the genetic cure. Archer leans over and snaps, "Hell with nature!" in exactly the same tone you'd use to say "F*ck that noise," if this were HBO. Just something about Bakula's body language and delivery of that line just makes that scene for me.

Sorry, forgot to add that Sleeping Dogs was next.

 

Sleeping Dogs: I got a kick out of Hoshi being the one who suggests blowing the entire Klingon ship's arsenal to push them higher out of the atmosphere. And Malcolm says he likes to blow things up!

Shadows of P'Jem is next.

 

A few memorable moments from "Shadows of P'Jem" such as the dinner scene between Archer and Trip, as he winds him up with the promise of Coridan's Warp 7 shipyard and then saying he'll only need bring Hoshi along.

Great to see Shran back, hidden in the shadows at first... only his antennae showing. Coridan is apparently in the same system being debated over a century later in TOS "Journey to Babel".

Good to see some consequences from the earlier Andorian show, with the Vulcans threatening to suspend joint fleet operations plus wanting T'Pol back. I like how this sets up a trend of returning favours between Archer and Shran. Some dumb stuff like "the ship's steward" and his Vulcan Captain being tied up together.

Funny how the look of the Coridans changes by fourth season show "Demons". Either an error or the planets in this system are home to very different looking races... like the Rigel one.

"Shuttlepod One" up next...

 

Shuttlepod One - my fave episode of all Enterprise.

So many moments to choose from.

I think though it has to be Trip blowing out the candle after Malcolm tells him how he was just starting to feel at home on Enterprise

"Suddenly five more minutes sounds kinda nice"

Fusion is next

 

Rogue Planet. One of those episodes that stalls the list.

I like this exchange:

TUCKER: So, she was wearing a nightgown? You think she's real.
ARCHER: I wasn't hallucinating.
TUCKER: Captain, it doesn't make any sense.
ARCHER: I know. Trip, have you ever known me to do anything foolish? I mean, really foolish?
TUCKER: I remember a poker game at Jupiter Station once. Other than that.
ARCHER: Last night I walked into an alien jungle, alone, chasing a woman who couldn't possibly have been there.
TUCKER: That might qualify.

Next up: Acquisition.