The Most Disliked Episode of ENT, Season 1 - 2025 Edition...

[Frightscape One]

Welcome to our bi-yearly 'Most Disliked Episode' games! Now that the 'Least Disliked Episode' games hosted by BlueStuff (who inspired me to create these games, so thank you very much for paving the way) have concluded, we can begin the opposite side of that coin.

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 most favorite or the one you deem the 'best.' 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 eliminate another episode.

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

Hall of Champions (or Failures?)
2011 - "TERRA NOVA"
2018 - "PRECIOUS CARGO"
2019 - "THESE ARE THE VOYAGES..."
2021 - "THESE ARE THE VOYAGES..."
2023 - "SHOCKWAVE, PART II"
2025 -


Season One -

"BROKEN BOW"
"FIGHT OR FLIGHT"
"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"THE ANDORIAN INCIDENT"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"SILENT ENEMY"
"DEAR DOCTOR"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[Frightscape One]

This series was actually much better than many gave it credit for... many things were done fantastic right off the bat. The sets looked really real, the uniforms were the best of any in the franchise, and it brought a sense of wonder and exploration that we haven't seen in a long time.

My first save is the pilot, "BROKEN BOW". Truly, had the Temporal Cold War not been part of this, I might call this the best pilot in the franchise, alongside DS9 and VOY. That's really my only complaint, so it obviously gets my pick as first save.



"FIGHT OR FLIGHT"
"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"THE ANDORIAN INCIDENT"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"SILENT ENEMY"
"DEAR DOCTOR"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[HauntRod]

I’ll choose to save Silent Enemy. Why? Because it perfectly captures what the show was meant to be: humanity’s fragile first steps into a vast, dangerous galaxy. The faceless, silent aliens make space feel terrifying again, while the crew’s struggle to fight back with incomplete weapons and limited experience grounds the story in realism. Even the subplot about Hoshi trying to find out Malcolm’s favorite food humanizes the crew amid the tension. It’s Enterprise at its purest, raw, vulnerable, and utterly human in the face of the unknown.

"FIGHT OR FLIGHT"
"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"THE ANDORIAN INCIDENT"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"DEAR DOCTOR"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[Detached Nacelle]

The Andorian Incident introduced us to the glorious Shran and the very interesting political landscape of the pre-Federation age.

"FIGHT OR FLIGHT"
"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"DEAR DOCTOR"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[Frightscape One]

My next save is "FIGHT OR FLIGHT". I applaud Berman and Braga for making the very next episode after the pilot center on probably the most important job on that ship after chief engineer... communications officer.

It was a great reminder of not only why she's there, but how important that position is on a ship, particularly in the era before TNG.

I also thought Linda Park did a great job with all the material she was given in the show, this episode included. She had one of the largest character growths of the series. Watch this and the next to last episode, "TERRA PRIME", and there is a clear difference in her demeanor, tone, posture... everything. She went from so scared she seriously thought about going back to Earth to standing up to the Earth President when the time required it. Bravo, Hoshi!



"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"DEAR DOCTOR"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[Severed Heads]

I l0ve Dear Doctor so is an easy first save.

I just loved the ethical Conundrum for Phlox, and I love Cutler and still miss Kelly Waymire.

STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"TWO DAYS AND TWO

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I think I will save Two Days and Two Nights, a nice feel good fun episode serving as an interlude between some heavier plot points.

"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"UNEXPECTED"
"TERRA NOVA"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[Sakonna]

I know everyone hates it, but I always have fun with "Unexpected." Enterprise was so overloaded with the swaggering, cocky, cowboy guy thing, and it's such a relief whenever they puncture it for a minute.

"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"TERRA NOVA"
"BREAKING THE ICE"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"SHOCKWAVE"

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I know everyone hates it, but I always have fun with "Unexpected."

I also enjoy it.

 

[Frightscape One]

Saving "BREAKING THE ICE" next.

It's always great to see our crew truly enjoy exploring, and give us that sense of wonder at what they are seeing. That's what was missing from the franchise for so long (at this point).

Loved the scene of them answering school questions.

Plus, it was fun to watch Reed and Mayweather make a snowman on the comet.


"STRANGE NEW WORLD"
"TERRA NOVA"
"CIVILIZATION"
"FORTUNATE SON"
"COLD FRONT"
"SLEEPING DOGS"
"SHADOWS OF P'JEM"
"SHUTTLEPOD ONE"
"FUSION"
"ROGUE PLANET"
"ACQUISITION"
"OASIS"
"DETAINED"
"VOX SOLA"
"FALLEN HERO"
"DESERT CROSSING"
"SHOCKWAVE"