This unit has been assigned to recover valuable content submitted by organic units to the reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute wiki. This unit does not claim authorship over the contents of this post.
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 |
Season 3: The Expanse
Season 4
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)