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Enterprise Episode Guide

Season 1

Episode	Title	Key points / milestones	Featured Characters	Essential?	Temporal Cold War/Time Travel
1 & 2	"Broken Bow"	Captain Archer assembles his crew on the Enterprise NX-01 to return an injured Klingon to Quo’Nos.	All	Engage!	Affirmative
3	"Fight or Flight"	First encounter with alien ship, Hoshi faces her fears.	Hoshi	Just for fun	Negative
4	"Strange New World"	First planetary away mission, M-class planet, paranoia agent	Trip, T'Pol	meh	Negative
5	"Unexpected"	Trip gets preggers		Just for fun	Negative
6	"Terra Nova"	70 year old Earth colony is investigated.	Archer, Phlox	Meh	Negative
7	"The Andorian Incident"	Archer, Trip and T'Pol visit a Vulcan monastery at an inopportune moment. Also, Shran!	Archer, T'Pol, Shran	Engage!	Negative
8	"Breaking the Ice"	During an exploratory mission, Archer learns how to appease a Vulcan Captain	Archer, T'Pol, Reed, Mayweather	Avoid	Negative
9	"Civilization"	First instance of attempting to prevent interference with pre-warp society.	Archer, T'Pol	Meh	Negative
10	"Fortunate Son"	First example of freight in Federation, and introduction of Nausicaans.	Mayweather, Archer	Avoid	Negative
11	"Cold Front"	Crewman/Operative Daniels arrives to warn of a Suliban saboteur.	Archer, Trip, Daniels	Just for fun	Affirmative
12	"Silent Enemy"	Phasers are brought online	Archer, Reed, Trip, Hoshi	Engage!	Negative
13	"Dear Doctor"	Prime Directive foundation laid by debate between Phlox and Archer	Archer, Phlox	Engage!	Negative
14	"Sleeping Dogs"	Second, more complete interaction with Klingons, rescue demonstrating honor.	T'Pol, Reed, Hoshi	Engage!	Negative
15	"Shadows of P'Jem"	Shran demonstrates how far he goes to repay a debt by rescuing Archer and T'Pol	Archer, T'Pol, Shran	Just for fun	Negative
16	"Shuttlepod One"	Reed and Trip are trapped, laying groundwork for friendship.	Reed, Trip, T'Pol's bum	Just for fun	Negative
17	"Fusion"	Emotionally volatile Vulcans, likely reference to Sybok.	Archer, T'Pol	Meh	Negative
18	"Rogue Planet"	First instance of hunter/predator species.	Archer	Avoid	Negative
19	"Acquisition"	Unofficial first contact with Ferengi.	Trip	Just for fun	Negative
20	"Oasis"	Rene Auberjonois guest stars, first instance of potential holographic sentience	Archer, T'Pol	Meh	Negative
21	"Detained"	Suliban outside of Cabal are established.	Archer, Mayweather	Meh	Negative
22	"Vox Sola"	First creature episode, Archer and Trip become closer via telepathic creature	Archer, Trip, Reed, Hoshi	Avoid	Negative
23	"Fallen Hero"	Second Vulcan Ambassador on the show after Soval, much more open with emotions.	Archer, T'Pol	Just for fun	Negative
24	"Desert Crossing"	Archer's reputation for fighting for the underdog is spreading, gratuitous shirtless scenes with Archer and Trip, guest star Clancy Brown.	Archer, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
25	"Two Days and Two Nights"	Risa episode! Archer gets some well-needed R&R, Hoshi meets a cunning linguist, and Trip and Reed are comic relief	Archer, Hoshi, Phlox, Trip, Reed	Just for fun	Negative
26	"Shockwave, Part 1"	First real entrance into the Temporal Cold War	Archer, T'Pol, Soval, Silik, Daniels	Just for fun	Affirmative

Season 2

Episode	Title	Keypoints / milestones	Featured Characters	Essential?	Temporal Cold War/Time Travel
1	"Shockwave, Part 2"	Huge win against the Suliban, the crew starts earning the respect of Sovol	Archer, Daniels, T'Pol, Trip, Hoshi, Silik	Engage!	Affirmative
2	"Carbon Creek"	T'Pol either reminisces or embellishes about the first first contact with Vulcans	T'Pol	Engage!	Negative
3	"Minefield"	First encounter with the Romulan Star Empire, space mines	Reed, Archer, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
4	"Dead Stop	Fully automated (kinda) repair station, first instance of replicator technology	Archer, T'Pol, Reed, Trip, Mayweather	Just for fun	Negative
5	"A Night in Sickbay	Considered one of the worst episodes of Enterprise, Porthos gets sick	Archer, Phlox, T'Pol, Porthos, Hoshi	Avoid like the plague	Negative
6	"Marauders"	Klingon jerks rob a mining colony until the NX-01 shows up	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
7	"The Seventh"	First real look at T'Pol's past, first mention of fullara memory treatment, guest star Bruce Davison	T'Pol, Archer, Trip	Meh	Negative
8	"The Communicator"	Reed leaves his communicator on a technologically primitive, paranoid world	Reed, Archer, Trip, T'Pol	Meh	Negative
9	"Singularity"	Radiation turns crew obsessive; "Reed Alert" is easily the best pun of the series	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Reed, Hoshi	Just for fun	Negative
10	"Vanishing Point"	Hoshi disappears and the audience barely notices	Hoshi	Avoid	Negative
11	"Precious Cargo"	Trip frees a beautiful and entitled alien princess; guest star Padma Lakshmi	Trip	Just for fun	Negative
12	"The Catwalk"	The only safe place to wait out a space storm is the access conduit inside of the nacelles, jerks try to take the NX-01	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Meh	Negative
13	"Dawn"	Enemy Mine episode with Trip and random alien	Trip	Avoid	Negative
14	"Stigma"	Vulcan hypocrisy on Pa'nar syndrome; Phlox's wife flirts with Trip	T'Pol, Archer, Trip, Phlox, Feezal	Just for fun	Negative
15	"Cease Fire"	Archer, T'Pol, and Soval attempt to make peace between Andoria and Vulcan on a contested planet	Archer, T'Pol, Soval, Shran!, Tarah	Engage!	Negative
16	"Future Tense"	First contact with the Tholians, a TARDIS analogue is found	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Engage!	Affirmative
17	"Canamar"	Archer and Trip are kidnapped and imprisoned	Archer, Trip	Meh	Negative
18	"The Crossing"	Ghosts try to steal the bodies of the crew, possible reference to TNG "Lonely Among Us"	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Reed, Hoshi	Meh	Negative
19	"Judgment"	Very similar to Kirk prosecution in Star Trek VI; guest J.G. Hertzler	Archer	Just for fun	Negative
20	"Horizon"	Episode about Mayweather's family goes about as expected	Mayweather	Meh	Negative
21	"The Breach"	Historical information on Denobula, cave rescue of scientists	Phlox, Reed, Trip, Mayweather, Archer	Meh	Negative
22	"Cogenitor"	Second-class citizenship due to gender identity issue explored; guest Andreas Katsulas	Trip, Archer	Just for fun	Negative
23	"Regeneration"	One of the more controversial episodes of Enterprise, because Borg	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
24	"First Flight"	Easily the best episode of the season; explores the NX program; guest Kieth Carradine	Archer, Trip, T'Pol	Engage!	Negative
25	"Bounty"	The T'Pol pon'farr episode	Archer, Phlox, T'Pol's skimpy clothing	Avoid	Negative
26	"The Expanse"	Xindi attack, 9/11 analogue, return of Duras, Enterprise weapons refit, MACOS, NX-01 entrance into Delphic Expanse	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Silik, Forrest, Soval	Engage!	Affirmative

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Season 3: The Expanse

Episode	Title	Keypoints / milestones	Featured Characters	Essential?	Temporal Cold War/Time Travel
1	"The Xindi"	In the Expanse, Archer attempts to track down a Xindi, the Xindi council teaser is introduced	Archer, Trip, T'Pol	Meh	Negative
2	"Anomaly"	First encounter with Delphic Expanse spatial anomolies, discovery of a Sphere	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Reed	Just for fun	Negative
3	"Extinction"	Idea of reproduction via infecting and transforming another life form	Archer, Reed, Hoshi	Avoid	Negative
4	"Rajin"	Xindi spy who kinda uses sex; crew learns of Trellium-D	Archer, T'Pol	Avoid	Negative
5	"Impulse"	Zombie Vulcan episode!	Archer, T'Pol, Reed	Just for fun	Negative
6	"Exile"	Hoshi is contacted and manipulated by a highly telepathic loner	Hoshi	Avoid	Negative
7	"The Shipment"	First real meeting with Xindi, an arborial Xindi processing outpost, first real progress against Xindi made	Archer, Trip, T'Pol	Just for fun	Negative
8	"Twilight"	Alternate future episode!	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Engage!	Negative
9	"North Star"	Obligatory Old West on another planet episode	Archer	Avoid	Negative
10	"Simlitude"	Trip clone episode, issues of sentience and individuality explored	Archer, Trip, Phlox, T'Pol	Engage	Negative
11	"Carpenter Street"	Archer and T'Pol go back to early 21st century Earth to stop a Xindi bio-weapon from being developed	Archer, T'Pol, Daniels	Just for fun	Affirmative
12	"Chosen Realm"	Zealots take the NX-01 hostage using themselves as human bombs, worship the Spheres	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Meh	Negative
13	"Proving Ground"	Shran! Andorians show up ostensibly to help the NX-01, but then try to steal the Xindi weapon	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Shran!	Engage!	Negative
14	"Strategem"	Degra is tricked by Archer into thinking it's the future to extract information about the present	Archer, Degra, Phlox	Just for fun	Negative
15	"Harbringer"	The Sphere-Builders are introduced; T'Pol and Trip get together	Archer, T'Pol, Reed, Hayes	Just for fun	Negative
16	"Doctor's Orders"	Phlox watches the ship as the rest of the crew sleeps, paranoia sets in	Phlox, T'Pol, Archer	Just for fun	Negative
17	"Hatchery"	Turns out Xindi young really leave an impression	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Phlox	Meh	Negative
18	"Azati Prime"	Archer goes off to destroy the weapon, the NX-01 under T'Pol suffers a significant attack	Archer, Degra, T'Pol, Trip	Engage!	Affirmative
19	"Damage"	Archer crosses a significant ethical line for the sake of the mission	Archer, T'Pol	Meh	Negative
20	"The Forgotten"	Archer tries to build a stronger alliance with the Xindi humanoids	Archer, Degra, T'Pol	Just for fun	Negative
21	"E^(2)"	The NX-01 encounters a future version of the NX-01 in the present	Archer, T'Pol	Meh	Affirmative
22	"The Council"	Archer gets to make his case before the Xindi Council	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
23	"Countdown"	The Xindi fracture and the aquatics, arborials and humanoids, with Archer, try to stop the Reptilians and Insectoids	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Engage!	Negative
24	"Zero Hour"	The end of the Xindi Arc, the final battle, and the disappearance of Archer	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Shran!	Engage!	Affirmative

Season 4

Episode	Title	Keypoints / milestones	Featured Characters	Essential?	Temporal Cold War/Time Travel
1	"Storm Front, Part 1"	A faction of the Temporal Cold War has traded technology with the Nazis for the opportunity to build a time machine, the Nazis have invaded the United States, Archer fights with the resistance	Archer, Daniels, T'Pol, Silik	Meh	Affirmative
2	"Storm Front, Part 2"	The end of the Temporal Cold War, the restoration of the timeline	Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Silik, Daniels	Just for fun	Affirmative
3	"Home"	Trip and T'Pol visit Vulcan, Archer deals with what he's gone through	Archer, Hernandez, T'pol, Trip, T'Les	Meh	Negative
4	"Borderland"	Dr. Arik Soong's Augments take a Klingon ship, necessitating Soong's release from prison; special guests Brent Spiner, Alec Newman, and Big Show	Archer, T'Pol, Soong, Malik	Just for fun	Negative
5	"Cold Station 12"	Soong and the Augments attempt to liberate augment embryos	Archer, T'Pol, Soong, Malik	Engage!	Negative
6	"The Augments"	Malik goes Khan and tries to murder an entire planet, Soong turns to robotics	Archer, Soong, Malik	Engage!	Negative
7	"The Forge"	Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed, Forest dies saving Soval, leading Archer and T'Pol to investigate	Archer, T'Pol, T'Les, V'Las	Engage!	Negative
8	"Awakening"	While investigating, Archer is given the katra of Surak, the Vulcan High Command comes under suspicion	Archer, T'Pol, T'Les, V'Las	Engage!	Negative
9	"Kir'Shara"	Surak's pure teachings, the Kir'Shara, are restored, V'Las is removed from power, and Vulcan begins a philosophical reformation	Archer, T'Pol, V'Las	Engage!	Negative
10	"Daedalus"	The inventor of the transporter's son is a transporter ghost	Archer, Trip	Meh	Negative
11	"Observer Effect"	The Observers from TOS: "Errand of Mercy" infect Trip and Hoshi to test the NX-01 crew	Reed, Mayweather, Trip, Hoshi	Just for fun	Negative
12	"Babel One"	Andoria and Tellar are brought to the brink of war	Archer, Shran!	Engage!	Negative
13	"United"	Archer brings together the Tellarites and Andorians to take on the Romulans	Archer, Shran!, Trip, Reed	Engage!	Negative
14	"The Aenar"	The NX-01 use their own Aenar to battle the telepathic Romulan drone	Archer, Shran!	Engage	Negative
15	"Affliction"	Phlox is taken by Klingons to cure a disease created by trying to make Klingon augments, Section 31 is fist revealed	Archer, Phlox, Reed	Just for fun	Negative
16	"Divergence"	Klingon forehead retcon!	Archer, Phlox	Just for fun	Negative
17	"Bound"	Orion slave girl episode	Archer, Trip, T'Pol	Avoid	Negative
18	"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part 1"	Mirror universe Enterprise!	Archer, Hoshi, Forest	Engage!	Negative
19	"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part 2"	Defiant from prime universe changes the balance of power in the mirror universe	Archer, Trip, Hoshi, T'Pol	Engage!	Negative
20	"Demons"	An isolationist xenophobic human faction strikes while negotiations are laying the groundwork for a great alliance; guest Peter Weller	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
21	"Terra Prime"	Trip and T'Pol's baby	Archer, T'Pol, Trip	Just for fun	Negative
22	"These are the Voyages..."	Easily the worst episode of the series, Trip dies for no reason, Riker kisses T'Pol, everyone watching gets really pissed	Riker, Troi, Archer, Trip, T'Pol, Shran!	Avoid	Negative

Season 5 Plans

The origins of the United Federation of Planets and the establishing of the Romulan War were to be the main focus of season 5.
The episode-arc style of show that was established in season 4 would have continued into season 5.
Shran was to join the cast as a series regular.
Revisiting the Mirror Universe; Manny Coto mentioned that he planned to have four or five episodes in season 5, spread throughout the season, to feature a continuing Mirror Universe story, having established what was happening in "In a Mirror, Darkly".
Manny Coto 2009 Q&A
Stratos, the city from TOS "The Cloud Minders", was the be introduced
Manny Coto 2005 "Connect Four", Star Trek Magazine
T'Pol's father is revealed to be a Romulan spy, and still alive, lending significant complexity to the upcoming Romulan War (according to Mike Sussman)
During the audio commentary for 4th season episode "Terra Prime", show runner Many Coto discussed the possibility of Martian colonial independence as an allegory for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A campaign for a new Star Trek: Enterprise season 5 on Netflix is underway, which has tacit support from both Johnathan Archer actor Scott Bakula and Star Trek writer, co-creator, and executive producer Brannon Braga. Facebook link

^(by Willravel)