The WORST episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise
Every episode of Star Trek: Enterprise ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise!
Taking place during the mid-22nd century, the crew of the first warp five starship (the Enterprise NX-01) begin to explore the galaxy under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. As their mission progresses, the crew encounter familiar races like the Klingons and Andorians as well as some new ones.
#1 - Extinction
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2003
On a mission to investigate an abandoned Xindi vessel on a jungle planet, Archer, Reed and Hoshi succumb to a virus that mutates them into a primal life form.
#2 - Daedalus
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2005
The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment.
#3 - Rogue Planet
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/2002
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.
#4 - Strange New World
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2001
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.
#5 - Horizon
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/2003
Mayweather discovers his father has died and that things on his old home, the E.C.S. Horizon, have greatly changed.
#6 - Vox Sola
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/1/2002
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.
#7 - Hatchery
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/2004
Archer goes to extreme lengths to save an abandoned nest of Xindi-Insectoid eggs ready to hatch.
#8 - Terra Nova
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2001
The Enterprise crew alters course to investigate the mystery of Terra Nova, a legendary Earth colony whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared decades ago. But when they arrive, they confront descendents of the colonists who have become more alien than Archer could ever have imagined.
#9 - Vanishing Point
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2002
Hoshi experiences her first transporter experience and strange aftereffects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly.
#10 - Canamar
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2003
Archer and Tucker are arrested and placed on a prisoner transport heading for a penal colony, Canamar. They won't have a chance to correct this error as one of the inmates plots a takeover of the ship.
#11 - Exile
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2003
A powerful telepath makes contact with Hoshi and offers to help Enterprise find the Xindi ... for a price.
#12 - Desert Crossing
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/2002
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.
#13 - A Night in Sickbay
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2002
Archer spends a night in sickbay with Dr. Phlox after Porthos contracts a deadly virus on the Kreetassan homeworld. Crew members suspect Archer's increased stress level is due to Porthos' illness, but Dr. Phlox suspects it has to do with Archer's repressed sexual tension.
#15 - North Star
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/2003
When a settlement of humans living a 19th-century Western lifestyle is discovered on a Delphic Expanse planet, Archer and crew set out to learn how they got there.
#16 - Fortunate Son
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/2001
The Enterprise crew is dispatched by Starfleet Command to assist Fortunate, a human freight vessel that has been attacked by Nausicaan pirates. On arriving, they are surprised to find that Fortunate's crew is resistant to Archer's efforts to help them and determined to seek revenge against their attackers, no matter what the repercussions.
#17 - Precious Cargo
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2002
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.
#18 - Chosen Realm
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2004
Religious zealots hijack Enterprise to use it as a weapon against the enemies of their faith.
#19 - Doctor's Orders
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/2004
The fate of Enterprise is in Dr. Phlox's hands as the rest of the crew must be induced into a coma in order to survive a trans-dimensional disturbance.
#20 - Fight or Flight
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2001
As they continue their deep space exploration, the Enterprise crew comes across an alien ship where they discover 15 humanoid corpses that seem to have been part of a scientific experiment. The horrific sight inspires Hoshi to panic and demand a return to Earth, but Archer insists on continuing the mission and finding out more about the abandoned dead. Trouble comes calling when the aliens that were conducting the gruesome experiments return and begin attacking Captain Archer and his team.
#21 - Judgment
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2003
In a Klingon tribunal, Archer stands accused of aiding fugitives of the Empire and faces death if found guilty.
#22 - Unexpected
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2001
When Trip is dispatched to assist an alien ship with its power source problems, he is delighted to have a friendly encounter with one of the ship's female engineers. But after discovering that their special moment has resulted in his becoming pregnant, he realizes he's had an unwitting experience with alien sex. Archer and his crew must then try and return the rapidly growing alien baby to its mother.
#23 - Demons (1)
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/2005
A xenophobic faction of humanity threatens to undermine talks to form a new coalition of planets.
#24 - Oasis
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/3/2002
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.
#25 - The Crossing
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/2003
Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.