The least disliked episode of ENT - Season Four

This is a game that we play every few years, and it's generally a lot of fun, providing a chance to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again?

So, here's the game. 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, please leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode just because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Hall of Champions
2011 - United
2013 - Azati Prime
2017 - Azati Prime
2019 -

Season Four

Storm Front I
Storm Front II
Home
Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Daedalus
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
Bound
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime
These Are the Voyages...

 

I'll remove These Are The Voyages. Just pretend it was never there.

Just a terrible ending.

Storm Front I
Storm Front II
Home
Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Daedalus
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
Bound
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

I am still finishing Enterprise season 4, so will mostly be sitting this one out -- after offing "Storm Front, Part II", which is truly one of my all-Trek lowpoints. The TCW was such an awful arc, dragged on so insistently through three years, during which it repeatedly compromised and degraded the quality of other, better stories they were trying to tell.

And that was all to build... to this. Just awful.

And I still find it beyond insane they never revealed the identity of Future Guy.

Storm Front I
Home
Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Daedalus
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
Bound
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

Bound - I believe the writers genuinely wanted to try and tackle/expand the Orion 'slave-girl' TOS heritage but ending up making a reductive episode that feels like male-gaze fan-bait

Storm Front I
Home
Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Daedalus
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

"STORM FRONT" goes. While I applaud Manny Coto for at least ending that damned Temporal Cold War (I truly do thank you, sir!), it still was used.

Home
Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Daedalus
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

I'll remove Daedelus. It's an interesting story, but the execution was lacking and it became quite a dull affair.

Home
Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

"Home" is just absurd. The guy just saved the Earth from total destruction and he's basically put on trial by the Vulcans who didn't help AT ALL!!! T'Pol had to resign to stay on board!! Another episode that could be subtitled "Vulcans are assholes". Granted they didn't dare to go in the Expanse but how about using a sizeable part of their fleet to defend the Earth?

Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Observer Effect
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

I love Daedalus for a myriad reasons. But yes, wrong episode in wrong season (possibly in wrong show?)

 

Observer Effect: It's not a bad episode at all. But Season 4 has some stand out episodes and this isn't one of them.

Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
The Aenar
Affliction
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

The Aenar was a disappointing end to the awesome stuff that was happening the two episodes previous to it.

Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
Affliction
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

We're getting to the good stuff but "Affliction" is the weakest among them.

Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
Divergence
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

Since part one is gone, I will kill "DIVERGENCE". Good episode, but something must go. Harder to kill episodes now.

Borderland
Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

May as well start to kill off rest of Augment arc. Personally found Vulcan arc far more interesting...

Cold Station 12
The Augments
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

Ironically "The Augments" is the weakest of the Augments arc.

Cold Station 12
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
In a Mirror, Darkly II
Demons
Terra Prime

 

You already exceeded my limits, I couldn't even imagine to touch the list, it is purely heresy guys. May the all gods of A quadrant protect us to become bloody heathens

 

Sorry I thought I posted this last night. I'm removing In a Mirror, Darkly II. I love that the cast are able to play on the constitution-class sets, and it had a great deal of nostalgia to it. I felt part two just felt like they were struggling to maintain what had been fun in part one, and maybe they tried too hard. A for effort though.

Cold Station 12
The Forge
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
Demons
Terra Prime

 

Getting rid of "THE FORGE" simply because Forrest was killed. Great episode, though.

Cold Station 12
Awakening
Kir'Shara
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
Demons
Terra Prime

 

Kir'Shara is gone. Certainly not bad but I felt that this conclusion didn't match the buildup in quality.

Cold Station 12
Awakening
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
Demons
Terra Prime

 

Cold Station 12 next. It has some great moments but ultimately I'm more interested in the Vulcan and Andorian stories this season.

Awakening
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
Demons
Terra Prime

 

I am exorcising Demons. Good, but the ones left are better.

Awakening
Babel One
United
In a Mirror, Darkly I
Terra Prime