The BEST episodes directed by Brannon Braga
#1 - Standing Up in the Milky Way
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Ship of the Imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies, can take us anywhere in space and time. It has been idling for more than three decades, and yet it has never been overtaken. Its global legacy remains vibrant. Now, it's time once again to set sail for the stars.
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#2 - A Sky Full of Ghosts
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 4
An exploration of how light, time and gravity combine to distort our perceptions of the universe. We eavesdrop on a series of walks along a beach on summer nights in the year 1809. William Herschel, whose many discoveries include the insight that telescopes are time machines, tells bedtime stories to his young son, John, who will grow up to make some rather profound discoveries of his own.
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#3 - The World Set Free
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 12
The Ship of the Imagination travels to our near neighbor Venus, where we begin our journey to discover the long history of global warming and the greenhouse effect. Later, explore the detrimental effects of climate change and trace the magnitude of our impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. However, with knowledge, technology and science within our grasp, imagine a hopeful future where we dedicate our efforts to taking care of our home, Planet Earth.
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#4 - When Knowledge Conquered Fear
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 3
There was a time, not so long ago, when natural events could only be understood as gestures of divine displeasure. We will witness the moment that all changed, but first--The Ship of the Imagination is in the brooding, frigid realm of the Oort Cloud, where a trillion comets wait. Our Ship takes us on a hair-raising ride, chasing a single comet through its million-year plunge towards the Sun.
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#5 - Sisters of the Sun
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 8
Discover the remarkable story of Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne, two incredible women who challenged conventional wisdom and uncovered the real-life story of the stars. Cannon led a group of astronomers in the early 20th century to catalogue the spectral characters of stars, and two decades later Payne joined forces with Cannon to analyze the data and uncover the chemical compositions of the stars. Later, travel on the Ship of the Imagination to explore the lives and deaths of stars and visit the planet of a star orbiting a globular cluster.
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#6 - The Immortals
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Ship of the Imagination travels across the cosmos to discover the possibility of beings that live forever and explain why other civilizations perish. Then, visit the Cosmic Calendar of the Future and contemplate what lies ahead with a hopeful vision.
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#7 - The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 9
The Ship of the Imagination embarks on a journey through space and time to grasp how the autobiography of the Earth is written in its atoms, its oceans, its continents and all living things. Later, American geologist Marie Tharp creates the first true map of Earth’s ocean floor, and discovers microscopic life that exists deep beneath the ocean
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#8 - The Clean Room
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 7
To determine the true age of the Earth, geochemist Clair Patterson developed the uranium-lead dating method to make an unprecedented discovery—calculating Earth's age of 4.5 billion years. But Patterson's groundbreaking discoveries were just beginning. Patterson made it his mission to draw public attention to the detrimental effects of lead in the environment and dedicated his career to fighting against the petroleum and chemical industry, eventually achieving public health's biggest victory of the 20th century.
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#9 - Magic Without Lies
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 9
Meet the man who stumbled on a hole in the reality of quantum mechanics and the still-unfolding technology that made it possible.
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#10 - Lost City of Life
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 3
A new vision of genesis at the bottom of the blood red sea of the infant Earth. And the story of the man who found the first clues to life's beginning in a green jewel. As he searched for life's origin, he risked his own, daring to toy with his Nazi tormentors.
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#12 - Ladder to the Stars
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 1
An adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. A visit to a 100,000-year-old laboratory. The story of the change in life-style that radically altered human existence and the life of the heretic who found god in the book of nature, opening our way to the stars.
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#13 - Unimatrix Zero (2)
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 7 - Episode 1
Stardate: 54014.4 - The away team must infiltrate the Borg Collective and execute their plan to undermine them, even though it may destroy Unimatirix Zero forever.
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#15 - The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 7
A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between humans and beings who communicate in a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for many tens of millions of years.
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#16 - A Tale of Two Atoms
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 10
How a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world, and a gripping cautionary tale of mass casualty and unlikely survival.
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#17 - Mad Idolatry
The Orville - Season 1 - Episode 12
Ed and Kelly seriously reconsider getting back together. However, while Kelly is on a mission with Isaac and Gordon to investigate the origins of an uncharted star, they suddenly crash-land on a planet from another universe. Kelly then makes a decision with unforeseen long-term consequences for the planet, putting Ed in a difficult position.
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#18 - Carbon Creek
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 2
After Archer and Trip become curious about a visit she made to a Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek, T'Pol explains to them that Vulcans actually had their first contact with humans in 1957. That year, a Vulcan ship crashed on Earth and three crew members survived, including T'Pol's great grandmother. They pose as humans in Carbon Creek and take on jobs while waiting for rescue and soon find themselves becoming more involved with the town's residents.
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#19 - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 11
An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation.
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#20 - Azati Prime
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 3 - Episode 18
Archer sets out on a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon as Enterprise faces a brutal attack.
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#21 - Equinox (2)
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 6 - Episode 1
The crew of Voyager must find a way to save Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine.
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#22 - Firestorm
The Orville - Season 1 - Episode 10
When a fire breaks out on The Orville and a crew member dies, Alara begins to question if she is fit for her job, just as unusual and terrifying things start happening on the ship.
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#23 - Fallen Hero
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 23
The Enterprise is sent to the planet Mazar to pick up a Vulcan ambassador expelled for misconduct.
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#24 - Living Witness
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 4 - Episode 23
Stardate: Unknown - 700 years into the future the Doctor must defend the crew of Voyager and set history straight when an alien race claims that the Warship Voyager was responsible for war crimes commited against their race.
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#25 - The Andorian Incident
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 7
The Enterprise crew pays a friendly visit to an ancient Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T'Pol's concerns that her human colleagues will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the Vulcans. Archer soon discovers that the Enterprise crew has gotten in the middle of an interstellar Pandora's Box and now must find a way out.
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#26 - Harbinger
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 3 - Episode 15
As Archer tries to unravel the mystery of a rescued alien, long-simmering feelings explode among his senior officers.
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#27 - Think Tank
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 5 - Episode 20
Voyager is ambushed by a race known as the Hazari with no way of escape. Soon, an alien 'Think Tank' arrives with an answer to the ship's problem and all they ask in return is Seven of Nine.
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#28 - Into the Fold
The Orville - Season 1 - Episode 8
Ed and the crew set out to save Dr. Finn, her two sons and Isaac after their shuttle gets thrown into unchartered space and they crash-land on a moon that is light years from the Orville.
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#29 - Author, Author
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 7 - Episode 20
Stardate: 54732.3 - A means of direct communication is established with Voyager allowing each crew member to speak with family and friends. The Doctor sends a holo-novel for publication based on a lost starship with a doctor who is treated like a slave, which causes controversy among the members of the ship.
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#30 - About a Girl
The Orville - Season 1 - Episode 3
The Orville crew is divided between cultures when Bortus and Klyden debate if their newly born offspring should receive a controversial surgery.
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#31 - Shadows of P'Jem
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 15
Archer and the crew are disappointed to discover that T'Pol has been ordered by the Vulcan High Command to leave Enterprise -and equally frustrated at her seeming indifference to leaving their ranks. T'Pol's last mission as a Starfleet officer, however, proves eventful when she and Archer are kidnapped by a militant faction on an alien planet. However, aid comes to them in the form of the Andorians: their leader, Shran, still owes Archer a debt (from the events of "The Andorian Incident"). It turns out the Vulcans are covertly backing the ruling faction on the planet, while the Andorians are aiding the freedom fighters. With the help of the Andorians, Malcolm and Trip rescue Archer and T'Pol over the objections of the local Vulcan ship, and Shran considers his debt to Archer repaid.
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#32 - Detained
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 21
While exploring a planet, Archer and Mayweather enter a "military zone" and are detained in an internment prison by an alien race called Tandarans, who are at war with the Suliban. While the Enterprise crew's previous encounters with the Suliban have been disastrous, Archer and Mayweather find themselves sharing a cell with some Suliban detainees who they believe may be wrongly imprisoned.
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#33 - The Communicator
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 8
Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society, that is on the verge of war, to recover a lost communicator from an undercover survey mission.
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#34 - Fusion
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 17
The Enterprise encounters a group of Vulcan civilians who have split off from the normal way of Vulcan life in an effort to explore their emotions. T'Pol is disturbed by the new visitors and warns the Captain that all attempts in the past to integrate Vulcan emotions into their lives has proven disasterous. Meanwhile a message from Admiral Forrest leaves the Captain with the difficult task of trying to convince one of the visiting Vulcans to call home to speak with his dying father.
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#35 - Marauders
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 6
In need of fuel, the Enterprise arrives at a Quonset mining colony for deuterium supplies. They discover that Klingons are forcing the colonists to give up all their deuterium. Archer and the rest of the crew work to train the colonists so they can fight back against the Klingons.
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#36 - Two Days and Two Nights
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 25
When the crew takes shore leave on the famous pleasure planet of Risa, Archer has a mysterious encounter with an alien woman; Hoshi has a surprising romantic rendezvous; Mayweather has a rock-climbing accident; and Trip and Reed go clubbing only to end the evening as unwitting victims of robbery. Meanwhile, Phlox stays on board the Enterprise with T'Pol to take his annual 48-hour hibernation and exhibits some uncharacteristic oddities when they have to wake him up after an injured crew member returns from shore leave.
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#37 - Acquisition
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Enterprise encounters Ferengi pirates who use gas to knock out the crew and look for treasures on the Enterprise. But they haven't counted on Tucker, who happens to be in the decon chamber and avoids the gas, and attempts to win back the ship from the pirates.
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#38 - The Crossing
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 18
Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.
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#39 - Oasis
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 20
While exploring a crashed vessel on a desolate planet, the Enterprise crew is haunted by some ghostly figures, and they encounter an alien race that has survived despite insurmountable odds. Trip helps repair their derelict vessel and is befriended by Liana, an attractive humanoid alien who develops feelings for him.
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#40 - The Game
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5 - Episode 6
Stardate: 45208.2 - An addictive game is distributed among the crew of the Enterprise, however, it appears that this game interferes with a person's logic and reason, which leaves the crew open to manipulation. Only a young Ensign and a vacationing Wesley Crusher are able to think for themselves, and must find a way to reverse the damage before the ship falls into the wrong hands.
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#41 - Precious Cargo
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 11
Trip boards an alien cargo vessel to help repair a stasis pod, which holds a beautiful woman in suspended animation. When the woman accidentally wakes up, she reveals she's not a passenger, but a prisoner.
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#42 - Bounty
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 25
Archer learns the Klingons have put a price on his head when he is captured by a Tellarite bounty hunter. As Enterprise pursues, a virus causes T'Pol to go into premature Pon Farr.
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#43 - Desert Crossing
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 24
When Archer and Trip are invited to a desert-like planet by an alien leader, after they help fix his ship, discover he is a terrorist who has lured them onto his planet under false pretenses. Meanwhile, T'Pol, while in command, faces a tough decision when she cannot locate Archer and Trip in the desert.
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#44 - Vox Sola
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 22
A strange, symbiotic alien creature boards the Enterprise capturing a few of the crew members, including Archer and Trip, and cocoons them in its web feeding off their bodies to survive. With the captured crewmembers' lives in jeopardy, Hoshi, under T'Pol's command, faces her biggest challenge by trying to find a way to communicate with the lifeform in order to return it to its home planet.
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#45 - Strange New World
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 4
When the Enterprise investigates an uninhabited planet that turns out to be far more dangerous than expected. The crew members that visit the planet are infected by an alien pollen that induces hallucinations and paranoia.
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#46 - Fury
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 6 - Episode 23
Kes returns to Voyager in a state of rage, blaming Captain Janeway for her past. Using her expanded Ocampan powers in a fit of revenge, she travels through time to deliver the crew to the Vidiians.
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#47 - Memorial
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 6 - Episode 14
The crew of Voyager experience vivid memories and dreams of a battle they don't remember having, with an enemy they have never encountered.
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#48 - Eye of the Beholder
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7 - Episode 18
While investigating the mysterious suicide of a crew member, Troi and Worf begin to show romantic feeling towards one another.
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#49 - Rogue Planet
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 18
While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members encounter a group of aliens who are hunting down indigenous creatures for recreation. During their exploration, Archer is mesmerized by visions of a woman desperately attempting to communicate with him. The woman's ethereal distress signal informs Archer that she and others like her are actually the prey of the alien hunters. Heeding her call, Archer levels the playing field against the alien hunters.
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#50 - Emergence
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7 - Episode 23
The Enterprise's computer systems starts having repeated malfunctions, leading the crew to believe that it may be evolving into a new life form.
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