Zero Hour:
Though not as good as "Countdown", "Zero Hour" is still a pretty good end of the Xindi Arc. Shran showing up to help was very cool, but I do have a big question about the scene: doesn't Earth have any other starships? Where did the three ships who fought Duras off in "The Expanse" go? Did they decide that, since Enterprise wasn't doing any more exploring, they would just send all their Warp 2 and 3 ships to explore? And what about the Vulcans? I know that they don't want to enter the Expanse, but couldn't they have stationed a few ships at Earth? (Though this one probably has more to do with the Vulcans being treacherous assholes (Present company exluded) then oversight by the writers.) When Enterprise attacks Sphere 41 (Who else was surprised it wasn't Sphere 47?), the anomaly seems to have little effect on Enterprise, it just causes the same thing to happen to the crew as when the Sphere Builder guinea pig came into our space.
It's a shame they chose to end the episode with the ship ending up in WWII. It's a rather crappy ending, and I've heard they did it because they still didn't know whether they would get a fourth season when they did "Zero Hour", so they decided to make a really weird cliffhanger end, so that the fans would be outraged if Enterprise was canceled.
Score: 7
P.S.: The mouse-eating scene was really goofy.
Enterprise Season 3 overall review:
I'm not gonna do the awesome graphics GodBen does in his review thread after each season, but I'll give my opinion of the season and the season average score.
I love Enterprise Season 3. It's the season that first got me into Star Trek. The two major arcs on DS9 were awesome, but this one is a whole season long (actually a season and 4 episodes). It's got a lot of good episodes, including Enterprise's best episode ("Proving Ground"), and only a few bad episodes, including Enterprise's worst episode (I simply could nopt bear watching more then 15 minutes of "Extinction", even though I've sat through "Unexpected", "A Night in Sickbay", "Two Days and Two Nights", and other crappy episodes. It gets a little slow between "The Shipment" and "Proving Ground", but that part of the season also includes jewels like "Twilight" and "Similitude".
In the beginning of the season, I didn't like the MACOs coming on the ship, but after their awesome work in "The Xindi", I was convinced they were a good addition to the crew. They also gave Reed some good character development.
Archer goes through a massive character development in this season. Before, he was a very naive kind of guy, but during the mission, he tortured two people, murdered three others (though that was sort of self defence), and pirated Casey's Warp Coils.
I like the ensuing relationship between T'pol and Trip too.
Season Score: 8
(Season 1's score is 6,5, and Season 2's score 5,5)
Average Score (starting with "Proving Ground"): 7,46
Best Episode: Proving Ground
Worst Episode: Extinction
Number of bad episodes (0-3,5): 1
Number of average episodes (4-6): 6
Number of good episodes (6,5-10):17