The main characters include:
Captain Jonathan Archer – Scott Bakula
Sub-Commander T'Pol – Jolene Blalock
Dr. Phlox – John Billingsley
Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III – Connor Trinneer
Lt. Malcolm Reed – Dominic Keating
Ensign Travis Mayweather – Anthony Montgomery
Ensign Hoshi Sato – Linda Park
[Major Hayes – Steven Culp]

+++ Season 1 (2001/02) +++   Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4

101/102. Broken Bow
Enterprise the new Star Trek prequel, opens with a 2-hour pilot (which may be shown as 2 separate episodes). 90 years after the first warp flight and contact with the Vulcans, the Earthers decide to take a wounded Klingon home despite Vulcan opposition. Suddenly, the lights go out, there are aliens aboard Enterprise (Suliban), and they kidnap the Vulcan. The aliens are getting orders from the far future for a reason which never becomes clear.
   With some help from their resident Vulcan, Sub-Commander T'pol, the Earthers rescue the Klingon from an alien base inside the atmosphere of a gas giant but the Captain is left behind. He is beamed aboard in the nick of time using a transporter system which is still very new and untried technology. After delivering the Klingon to his home world, and helping him to pass on a secret message coded into his DNA, the Earthers set off to mess about in the universe at large. And T'Pol, the Vulcan lady, agrees to sign on as their science officer.

103. Fight or Flight
Enterprise has a brilliant theme tune called I Got Space Between My Ears (or something similar), which has been voted the worst TV series theme in the whole history of the universe! This episode lets the audience know that the crew consists of a bunch of not very space-capable people, that their torpedoes bounce off their targets and the alien doctor, Dr. Phlox, is totally weird. The Enterprise comes across a shot-up derelict and Captain Archer goes exploring – and he doesn't like what he finds. The aliens aboard the wreck are being used as bio-factories by yet another bunch of aliens. So Enterprise bugs out, only to come back in time to run into the bad guy aliens. But a sister ship of the derelict turns up to save their asses.

104. Strange New World
The crew of the first Enterprise dashes down to a new planet instead of looking at it from orbit (as their Vulcan science officer T'Pol advised them to do) and get caught in violent weather and bombarded with toxic, hallucinogenic pollen. The weather is too rough for a shuttle to land. One crew member is beamed back aboard but he ends up with bits of leaf and twig sticking out of him! But in the end, everyone is saved more or less with one bound.

105. Unexpected
Captain B. Acula of the Enterprise [possibly the son of Dr. Acula] is in the shower and oh, no! The gravity goes off. A cloaked alien ship is following them and causing all sorts of malfunctions. The aliens are scaly, their dodgy warp drive was built by Heath Robinson & Co. and they have a super rumpus room (holographic recreation suite). Chief engineer Tucker went over to fix their warp drive and he comes back pregnant! While looking for the aliens, the Enterprise runs in to some Klingons, who threaten to destroy the aliens and then stroll off with a rumpus room instead. And Tucker has his embryo transferred to a more suitable host.

106. Terran Nova
The Enterprise calls at Terra Nova, a stroppy colony which has been out of contact with Earth for 70 years. An away team faces lethal radiation at ground level and weird looking, hostile aliens – which turn out to be humans with muddy faces. Captain B. Acula cures one of them of lung cancer to prove that he's a good guy. The planet was hit by a meteor 70 years before, the strike spread radiation over the colony, driving the survivors underground, and the radiation is getting into their water. But the Captain saves their still-stroppy asses in the end.

107. The Andorian Incident
This episode begins innocently enough with Captain B. Acula deciding to visit a Vulcan monastery – and finding it infested with blue aliens with wavy tentacles on their heads. The volatile Andorians suspect the Vulcans of spying on them and they are prepared to beat anyone up, Earther and Vulcan alike, to get the proof. After a lot of pious guff from the Vulcan head monk, the Captain discovers a vast underground complex and he lets the Andorians leave with proof that the Vulcans have, indeed, been spying big time. So whatever happened to the myth that Vulcans never tell a lie?

108. Breaking The Ice
Enterprise comes across a comet of diameter 86 miles and the captain decides to take some core samples. Captain B. Acula also suspected that the Vulcans are spying on him. The away team sent to the comet builds a snow-Vulcan complete with pointy ears before they get down to business. Meanwhile, T'Pol is trying to decide whether to go through with an arranged marriage. The survey team manages to get itself trapped in a cavern on the comet and Enterprise makes a bog of a rescue attempt. But the Captain scores a few points by choosing to let the Vulcans use a tractor beam to save the shuttle. And T'Pol choses to stay aboard Enterprise.

109. Civilization
The Enterprise finds an Earth-like planet with a pre-industrial civilization, so Captain B. Acula goes down to harass the natives after T'Pol finds neutrino emissions from a reactor. The away team finds an alien running an antiques shop in an area where the natives are getting sick. The alien blames it on a virus. Dr. Phlox finds a toxic industrial lubricant in the ground-water and the alien turns out to be a lizard in a skin, who has a vast mining operation in his basement. So Captain Acula gives him and his mates the bum's rush.

110. Fortunate Son
The Enterprise meets the cargo freighter Fortunate, which has been attacked by Nosican pirates. The captain is injured and the first officer is strangely unco-operative – because, it turned out, he is holding one of the pirates prisoner. So Captain B. Acula plays the heavy and falls into a trap on the freighter, which later falls into a Nosican trap. And then Captain B. Acula offers the thieves a totally shabby compromise. If that's Starfleet policy, it sounds like one of Tony Blair's descendants is running things.

111. Cold Front
Captain B. Acula has so little to do that he can go around introducing himself to nearby aliens. And he takes a group of pilgrims aboard his ship; including Silik, one of the Suliban aliens from the future (Episode 101/2). Enterprise runs into a plasma storm and the alien does something which prevents the engines from exploding. Then the captain meets a time cop from 900 years in the future, who is fighting a Temporal Cold War, and who wants to take Silik, the alien who saved Enterprise, into custody. Silik tells the captain that the time cop is a bad guy. Then he kills the time cop and steals a gadget from him. But Captain Acula uses another alien gadget to stop Silik from getting away with the gadget.

112. Silent Enemy
Enterprise is plagued by aliens, who look and run, then come back shooting. Captain B. Acula decides to head back to Earth to get some phase cannons installed and a special birthday meal for Lt. Reid is the running gag of the episode. The aliens return, zap crew members and turn out to be invulnerable to hand phasers. Meanwhile, the crew are building do-it-yourself phase cannons. The aliens tell Enterprise to surrender but the new phase cannons zap them. So the captain decides not to go back to Earth and Lt. Reid gets a pineapple cake.
   Note: This episode was condemned by members of the audience as thin and boring.

113. Dear Doctor
Phlox, the Enterprise's Denobulan doctor, is the main focus of this episode. He is exchanging letters with an Earther colleague. The ship meets aliens from a plague planet which is inhabited by an evolving lesser species and a decaying master species. The master species wants warp technology to find a cure for their genetic decay but Captain B. Acula anticipates the Prime Directive by choosing to let Nature take its course.

114. Sleeping Dogs
The episode begins with Malcolm, weapons officer, who has a cold, training Hoshi, the linguist, in the use of a hand phaser and an encounter with a gas giant. There is a shipwreck in the gas giant's atmosphere – Klingon & #150; so T'Pol, Malcolm and Hoshi boarded it and one of the survivors nicks their shuttle! Enterprise tries but fails to reach the shipwreck, then the stranded crew members start firing off the photon torpedoes to create shock waves to drive the ship up into a higher orbit. And are the Klingons grateful for having their asses saved? Like hell!

115. Shadows of P'Jem
The Vulcans are bitching about the monastery full of spies, which Captain B. Acula of Enterprise exposed to the Andorians (Episode 107), who have just decided to blow it up. The grumpy Vulcans are cutting off co-operation with the Earthers and they also want T'Pol off Enterprise for good. The captain and T'Pol visit a planet and are shot down and captured by the rebels living in shanty towns around the posh cities. The Vulcans show up to take over and they launch a blitzkrieg – but it's the Andorians who save the day and T'Pol takes a shot aimed at the head Vulcan. So the captain shames him into speaking up for T'Pol.

116. Shuttlepod One
This episode is a totally tangled web. Trip, the chief engineer, and Malcolm, the weapons officer, are in a damaged shuttle. They find a wreck in an asteroid field and, assuming it has to be Enterprise, they set course for a base which is months away even though they have just 10 days' air left. Meanwhile, Enterprise is busy rescuing the crew of another shipwreck caused by micro-singularities. One of these mini-black holes zaps the shuttle and leaves it with two days' air. So Trip hopes for a miracle while Malcolm resigns himself to croaking. But they blow their engine up when they hear Enterprise hailing them and they are saved with two hours' air to spare.

117. Fusion
The Enterprise meets a bunch of Vulcan civilian explorers who need repairs to their ship. These Vulcans don't repress their emotions and T'Pol is not thrilled by them. Both ships start charting the Arachnid Nebula for no real reason. T'Pol stops mediating and starts having strange dreams. Then things get rough. The Vulcan captain pratically rapes T'Pol with a mind meld, he chucks Captain B. Acula about and he gets the bum's rush off Enterprise. But not before the crew persuade one of the unrepressed Vulcans to call his dying dad.

118. Rogue Planet
Captain B. Acula is being photographed for a portrait when Enterprise comes across a rogue planet, which has life around hot spots. The Captain takes a group of his officers on a camping trip in the equivalent of rain forest at night but they run into a bunch of alien hunters. Captain Acula starts chasing a phantom and one of the hunters is attacked by a creature, whose cells are mutating. The phantom alien, a wraith, is telepathic and indignant about being hunted. The captain doesn't approve of hunters chasing sentient life-forms and he gets Dr. Phlox to brew up a chemical shield to mask a fear-chemical emitted by the phantoms and detected by the hunters. He wants to level the playing field. He also wants to put an end to the hunting but he won't admit it.

119. Acquisition
Enterprise is ambushed by pirates (Ferengi), who gas the crew and start looting the ship. But Trip happens to be in the decontamination chamber and he avoids the gas. So he gets on with resisting the invaders and he wakes up T'Pol's to help. The pirates want Captain B. Acula to hand over his gold, so he pretends to go along with them. Trip is captured. T'Pol zaps one of the Ferengi. The captain and Trip play the other 3 off against one another while leading them into T'Pol's ambush. The captain makes the aliens return their loot before giving them the bum's rush with a warning that he will tell his government and the Vulcans about them, and the aliens will be blown to hell if they show themselves again

120. Oasis
Captain B. Acula is dealing with a dodgy trader who tells him a tale of a haunted shipwreck which has a damping field to mask the presence of gardens and a crew. The people on the wreck don't want a lift home and they are reluctant to have their ship repaired. They say they have been on their planet for three years but there were escape pods in orbit which are 22 years old. One contains the body of a 'survivor' who is still running around the ship, and the food production system is insufficient for the numbers aboard. It turns out that just the chief engineer and his daughter are real and the rest are holograms [cf Prospero & Miranda with no supporting cast]. Dad blames himself for failing to save the ship but in the end, he decides to take his daughter home.

121. Detained
Captain B. Acula and Travis wake up in an internment camp for enemy aliens after their shuttle is attacked. The regulation-bound Tandarans are at war with genetically enhanced aliens with yellow, concrete-like skins – only the internees are ordinary, unenhanced models. Enterprise locates the secret prison planet and Malcolm Reid transports down, disguised as a yellow alien, to assist with a gaol break. And the yellow aliens are allowed to recover their ships and flee the area.

122. Vox Sola
Enterprise invites a bunch of stroppy aliens aboard for the briefest first contact on record. The aliens leave behind an almost transparent creature, which proceeds to take over Cargo Bay 2 and tangle up half a dozen crew, including Capt. B. Acula, in a slimy white web. Attempts to zap the monster have to be abandoned when the rest of the crew find that the prisoners are linked to the web via their nervous systems. Travis apologizea to the stroppy aliens for eating in their presence and they give him the co-ordinates of the creature's home planet. Malcolm erects a protective force field and Hoshi is able to talk to the creature to find out exactly where on the planet it wants to be landed. So the monster is dumped and returned to its collective web, like one of the shape-shifters of Deep Space 9.

123. Fallen Hero
T'Pol decides that the crew of Enterprise need shore leave to 'relieve sexual tensions'. But Capt. B. Acula is asked to retrieve the Vulcan ambassador on Mazar. She is being expelled in disgrace for criminal activities and she is one of T'Pol's heroes. The Mazarians come after the ambassador and start shooting. So, in the absence of answers from the Vulcans, Captain B. Acula decides to take her back to Mazar. But he turns around when T'Pol asked him to. It turns out that Mazar's government has been infiltrated by criminals and the ambassador has the goods on them. Enterprise's engines go phut when the Mazarians attacked again and the captain hides the ambassador in sick bay. Then a huge Vulcan ship arrives to give the Mazarians the bum's rush.

124. Desert Crossing
Enterprise responds to an SOS and the captain and a reluctant Trip visit a desert world. Then the chancellor of the planet tells T'Pol that Zobral, the desert sheikh whom they helped, is a terrorist. Captain B. Acula and Trip play the local version of lacrosse and the sheikh tells them that the desert warriors are former Untouchables who want the great Liberator Captain B. Acula on their side in a war with the Touchables. When the shootin' starts, the captain and Trip go walkabout in the desert for no apparent reason and T'Pol and the desert sheikh have to save their asses. In the end, the captain decides that the cause is worth fighting for but he can't get involved.

125. Two Days and Two Nights
Enterprise finally reaches Risa for some shore leave, only things don't work out as planned. The doctor goes into hibernation but he has to be dragged back, totally groggy, when Travis breaks his leg rock-climbing. The Captain and his dog find themselves next door to a sinister female, also with dog, who wants to question him about the Suliban. Trip and Malcolm are mugged by shape-shifting aliens, who start off as female and became evil lizard-likes. And only Hoshi gets to shag an alien.

126. Shockwave Part I
Enterprise arrives at a colony – which blows up as soon as a shuttle enters its atmosphere. Warp plasma is suspected of setting off tetrazine, a by-product of the colony's mining operations, in the air. Even though the shuttle's plasma ducts were closed during the landing, Captain B. Acula goes off on a huge guilt trip and Enterprise's mission is cancelled. Then the Time Police start messing about with him in the form of the late Crewman Daniels. Captain B. Acula uncloaks a Suliban ship and steals its sensor logs to prove that it caused the explosion. The Suliban arrive in force to grab the captain but he ends up in the wreck of the 31st Century and there is no way for him to get back. To be continued . . .

+++ Season 2 (2002/03) +++   Season 1 | Season 3 | Season 4

201. Shockwave Part II
The Suliban search Enterprise to confirm that the Captain is no aboard. The Vulcans are getting stroppy. Daniels, the time cop, builds a crude but effective device to let Captain B. Acula communicate with T'Pol, who is 800 years in his past. Enterprise's officers sabotage the ship's drive and the Suliban split. The captain returns via a device hidden in Daniels' quarters on Enterprise [with one bound] and gets the head Suliban to call off his dogs. The Vulcans want Starfleet to call off Enterprise's mission, even though they didn't killed the 3,600 colonists in Part I, but T'Pol shames them into shutting up.

202. Minefield
This episode is mainly about the relationship between Captain B. Acula and Malcolm, his weapons officer. The ship loses a big chunk of itself and found itself in a field of cloaked mines – and there is a mine attached to the hull. Malcolm does a space walk to defuse it and gets himself spiked through the leg. While the captain is on an EVA, helping Malcolm, a bunch of Romulans de-cloaked and tell Enterprise to get lost. Malcolm tells the captain he's too touchy-feely and good old Malc is prepared to be blown up with the mine to save the ship. But Captain B. Acula comes up with a cunning plan to save him.

203. Dead Stop
The encounter with the Romulan minefield leaves Enterprise too badly damaged for the crew to repair the ship. The captain puts out a distress call, and Enterprise end up at a repair station, which has no living crew and is run by a computer system. The repairs are performed efficiently and quickly, but the price for all this is much higher than the crew could've guessed.

204. Carbon Creek
T'Pol tells the captain and Trip the story of how her great-great-grandmother's ship crashed on Earth in 1957, long before the official first contact. Out of food, the Vulcan survivors ventured into the small town of Carbon Creek. One of them turned pool shark to get some local currency and they all took jobs as they waited for rescue. Granny was the stiff-necked boss of the four survivors but one of the men defied her and used a Vulcan blaster to free some trapped miners. Granny sold the idea of velcro to raise enough money to send a bright local kid to college. And when the rescue ship arrived, the crewman who had saved the miners decided to stay behind on Earth. T'Pol lets the Earthers think that she was just spinning them a yarn, but she has Granny's handbag in her quarters to prove that it was all true.

205. A Night In Sickbay
Captain B. Acula grovells fruitlessly before stroppy aliens because he needs a plasma injector and his dog catches a bug on the aliens' planet. The aliens are upset because Porthos peed on one of their sacred trees. The captain is angry because they failed to warn him not to bring his dog, and he is rowing with T'Pol. The doctor suggests sexual tension is to blame because the captain hasn't had a shag recently. The captain finds sickbay to be a madhouse when he tries to sleep there, and he has weird dreams and suffers Freudian slips. So Captain B. Acula does a ritual apology for the aliens, which impresses them so much that they gave him three plasma injectors. And he apologizes to T'Pol. And Porthos, the dog, is okay in the end.

206. Marauders
The captain takes an away team (including T'Pol in a very fashion-model outfit) on a shuttle to a small colony to buy deuterium. The colonists are in a hell of a mess because they are being robbed blind regularly by a bunch of Kingons, so Captain B. Acula steps in. Like the Time Team, he has three days to turn the colonists into a fighting force. And when the Klingons turn up again for their tribute, they are duly given the bum's rush.

207. The Seventh Moon
The Vulcans have located Menos, a former secret agent and T'Pol is sent on a top secret mission to arrest him. Captain B. Acula is bent out of shape initially by being left out of the loop but T'Pol takes him along because 'she needs someone she can trust'. Menos has infiltrated a gang of alien criminals. Now rich, he is refusing to go home. He gets T'Pol doubting the validity of her mission but the captain keeps her on course and she discovers eventually that Menos is a bad guy and busts him.

208. The Communicator
The episode begins with Malcolm losing a communicator on a trip to a pre-atomic civilization and having to go back into a potential war zone to recover it. The local militia arrest Malcolm and the captain; and discover that they are aliens with red blood and surgical disguises among them. Captain B. Acuala tells them that he is genetically monstered, not an alien, so the militia decide to hang the prisoners and autopsy them. Meanwhile, Travis makes his arm invisible while messing with the cloaking system on a Suliban shuttle. He saves the captain and Malcolm, but the primitive culture is contaminated with the knowledge that aliens with phase-weapons exist.

209. Singularity
The episode begins with the crew flat out and T'Pol explaining that they became obsessed with minor tasks and then everyone pegged out due to the effects of radiation from a black hole and its two feeder stars. T'Pol shoves the captain in the shower to revive him and get his attention. Captain B. Acula wakes up enough to fly the ship through a debris field and out of range of the radiation. Then everyone is okay and the captain gets a command chair which he finds comfy.

210. Vanishing Point
Hoshi and Trip are looking at some ancient ruins on a planet when a storm blows up. They have to transport back to the ship as it is too dangerous to use a shuttle to collect them. Hoshi has a feeling that her molecules aren't okay afterwards and she begins to have weird experiences, including becoming invisible and immaterial, and finding aliens planting bombs all over Enterprise. But it turns out to be just a transporter hallucination – she was stuck in the pattern buffer for eight seconds, during which she had had her 'experience'.

211. Precious Cargo
Enterprise offers to repair a stasis pod on an alien ship and lands in a whole bunch of trouble. The aliens turn down an opportunity to be taken to their destination in five days instead of five months which their ship will need to cover the distance. And they zap off with Trip aboard their ship after the stasis pod thaws out, leaving one of the alien crew on Enterprise. The stasis pod contains a pushy, royal, female diplomat, who was being held for ransom. She and Trip cram into an escape pod and land on a swampy island on a planet with a breathable atmosphere. Much friction between Trip and the princess. The captain and T'Pol put their prisoner on trial and bluff him into co-operating. And with one bound in the last few minutes, everything is put right.

212. The Catwalk
A bunch of aliens want to come aboard Enterprise and leave that spot in space at Warp 7 to evade a neutronic space storm. One snag – Enterprise can do only Warp 5. The solution is to put everyone aboard (83 people) in the catwalk, which is radiation shielded, with the drive switched off for the 8 days the storm will take to pass. The aliens are not who they said they are, and when the ship's drive looks like starting up again, which would raise the catwalk to 300 deg.C, Captain B. Acula finds himself up against militia/pirates, who want his ship as well as the fugitives. So he puts Enterprise on course for a destructive eddy in the storm and the bad guys split at high speed to save their hides.

213. Dawn
Tucker is away from Enterprise when an alien attacks him and he has to land one of a gas giant's 62 moons. Luckily, the moon has a breatheable atmosphere and he can light a fire to warm up a cold night. Unluckily, the alien crashes on the moon too, the alien is hostile, neither has a working communicator and the temperature will rise to 170 deg. during the day! The captain of the alien's mothership is suspicious when he sees T'Pol, a Vulcan, aboard Enterprise but he agrees to share a search of the 62 moons. On their moon, Trip and the alien have a few punch-ups but Trip sticks with the alien until both can be rescued. And the pay-off of the episode is that Cap'n B. Acula makes more diplomatic progress with the stroppy aliens in one day than the Vulcans managed in a century.

214. Stigma
T'Pol needs medication and Enterprise is heading for a medical conference where there will be Vulcans. Dr. Phlox meets one of his wives there, and she takes a shine to Tucker. T'Pol's syndrome is caused by mind-melds. The Vulcans disapprove of such things, even if T'Pol's meld was done against her will, and they refuse to help, which is just not good enough for Cap'n Acula. One of the doctors is a melder and he helps T'Pol, and when he admitts what he is, the Vulcan Establishment gives him the sack. But T'Pol gets to stay with Enterprise.

215. Cease Fire
The Andorians and the Vulcans need a referee, so Cap'n Acula is nominated for the job. The diplomatic situation is stoppy versus stroppy. The Andorians want the Captain to bring the Vulcan negotiator down to a disputed planet; only the shuttle is fired on. Trip puts Enterprise between Vulcan and Andorian mini-fleets. An extra stroppy Andorian female is behind the attack on the Captain, and once he has neutralized her, everything is okay.

216. Future Tense
The Enterprise finds a derelict spacecraft the size of a shuttle and it contains a human corpse. The body is 100 light years from Earth, where no human has any right to be, and it contains Vulcan and other DNA. But T'Pol says inter-breeding between Vulcans and humans is unlikely to work. The ship is also like Dr. Who's Tardis; a whole lot bigger inside than out. The Suliban turn up and Captain B. Acula discoveres that the ship has a temporal displacement drive, which the Suliban want, and it is from 900 years in the future. Then Tholians turn up wanting the wreck. While they are kicking ass with the Suliban, Trip activates a beacon and everything associated with the wreck disappeares.

217. Canamar
The captain and Tucker are found to be missing from a battered shuttle. They have been taken prisoner and sent to the prison planet Canamar as suspected smugglers. They are about to be released when a prisoner takes over their ship. The bad guy plans to dive the ship into the atmosphere of a planet to let it burn up while he escapes in a second, rescue ship. He hopes to be written off as killed in the wreck. But half the crew of Enterprise are aboard when the rescue ship docks with the doomed ship. Captain B. Acula can't resist hanging on for a final punch-up with the bad guy and he is highly indignant about his false arrest afterwards.

218. The Crossing
A big ship doing warp six swallows up Enterprise. It turns out to be full of non-corporeal aliens, which want to swap bodies with the crew. Captain B. Acula tells them to release his ship after Trip is infested. Malcolm is next, and he gets inappropriate with T'Pol. Everyone acting strangely is locked in their quarters and the rest of the crew takes refuge on the catwalk. The aliens' ship is decaying and they need corporeal bodies. The doctor gasses everyone not on the catwalk with carbon dioxide to drive the aliens out, and Enterprise legs at high speed it after zapping the alien ship.

219. Judgement
The Klingons put Cap'n B. Acula of the Enterprise on trial. He shames his advocate into doing a proper job at the kangaroo court and they are both convicted and sent to the dilithium mines. The captain is sent there as an alternative to the death penalty and his advocate for being cheeky to the court. But the sneaky Earthers bribe the prison's administrators to get their captain out of gaol.

220. Horizon
Ensign Travis Mayweather discovers that his father has died and that things on his old home, the ECS Horizon, have changed greatly. Malcolm and Travis have conversation about putting families and councellors on starships and Malcolm thinks having a psychologist aboard will be a necessity if families are there (a reference to the likes of Counselor Troi in Star Trek The Next Generation).

221. The Breach
The doctor shows off a tribble to Hoshi then Enterprise has to rescue three Denobulans from a planet in revolt, which is expelling all aliens. The Denobulan Dr. Phlox ends up with an Antaran in his sickbay, someone who would rather die than be treated by him because of a war 300 years in the past. Three of the crew get to go caving in a vast tunnel system and they have a hell of a job persuading the Denobulan scientists to leave. But in the end, the patient accepts the treatment and the rescue party gets the job done.

222. Cogenitor
This episode is unusually silly. Captain B. Acula makes First Contact with the Vissians, an allegedly advanced race, which has three sexes; male, female and cogenitor. The cogenitors are needed only for breeding and they are just parked in between times. Trip finds that they are as intelligent as the other sexes and capable of being educated. So he helps one to learn to read and shows it movies. But when the cogenitor claims asylum on the grounds that it is being enslaved and repressed, Cap'n Acula gets all bent out of shape and says no. So the cogenitor commits suicide, which makes the captain even more mad at Trip.

223. Regeneration
A 100-year-old wreck turns up in the Arctic on Earth, and it has Borg aboard! The bodies are regenerated by their nanoprobes and they steal a ship and take over the members of the research team which finds them. Cap'n B. Acula chases them down but stops en route to rescue two Tarkelians, who have been Borg-ized. The doctor is infected with nanoprobes and the captain spaces the Tarkelians; but only after they have messed with the warp drive. But in the end, Enterprise zaps the Borg; but not until after they have sent Earth's co-ordinates to the Delta Quadrant, bringing trouble in the 24th Century; and the doctor zaps himself with radiation to destroy the nanoprobes.

224. First Flight
This episode is a history lesson. The captain is told of the death of his old colleague, A.G. Robinson, while planning to light up a dark-matter nebula. A.G. disobeyed orders on a test flight and wrecked a prototype with the Vulcans looking on. Starfleet decided to abandon the warp engine built by Captain B. Acula's dad, so he and A.G. strolled off in the other prototype and proved that they could make the engine work. And that put the captain in line for commanding Enterprise and lighting up the dark matter.

225. Bounty
Captain B. Acula is thinking about on shore leave on a handy planet when he is grabbed by a Tellurite bounty hunter, who wants to sell him to the Klingons. T'Pol and the doctor are stuck in quarantine as they have brought a bug back from the planet. T'Pol gets randy, telling Dr. Phlox doc that she has to mate or die! Another bounty hunter tries to grab the captain, but he doesn't manage to escape in the confusion. T'Pol does manage to escape from quarantine for a time but she is zapped. The captain escapes from a Klingon ship in an escape pod, which Enterprise retrieves. Excitement over.

226. The Expanse
Earth is attacked at the start of the episode. The reports say one million then three million then seven million people are dead. The Klingons are after Captain B. Acula again and the Suliban tell him that the attack comes from the future; from a civilization which will be destroyed by the Earthers in 400 years' time. The Vulcans don't believe in time travel and they don't want T'Pol to go on a jaunt to the Delphic Expanse to head off the threat to Earth from an even worse weapon. So T'Pol quits her Vulcan job and goes anyway. And the Klingons keep chasing Cap'n Acuala.
   This was an end of season episode with a fairly unconvincing hangover theme in case the show is brought back for a third season.

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301. The Xindi
Cap'n Acula does a deal with a mine owner for an introduction to a Xindi. Only the mine owner wants Enterprise's crew as slave labour and the Xindi is a slippery character. Malcolm and Enterprise's contingent of marines rescue the captain and Trip, and the Xindi gives them the co-ordinates of his home world. He adds that there are five different species of Xindi before croaking. But there is just 120-year-old rubble at the co-ordinates of the alleged Xindi home world.

302. Anomaly
The Enterprise is running into distortion fields and everything stops working. Cue an attack by pirates after Enterprize finds a wrecked ship full of bodies. Enterprise takes a prisoner and finds a 19 kilometre diameter metal sphere with a vast cloaking field – the pirates' base. Cap'n B. Acula puts the prisoner in an airlock after he finds that the pirates have a Xindi database and Hoshi is able to download 90% of it. So the hunt for the Xindi continues.

303. Extinction
Still searching for Xindi, Enterprise finds a shuttle and bodies on a planet where, according to the database, a Xindi ship has landed. Then the landing party start mutating into apemen! With T'Pol doing it more slowly than the humans. Some stroppy aliens turn up to zap the mutoids. The former occupants, who were been dying out, seeded the planet with a virus which turns all visitors into their species as a means of replacing themselves. Captain B. Acula starts a punch-up in a ruined city and the Doctor saves the day.

304. Rajiin
The Xindi are struggling to make their planet-buster and the Captain Archer of the Enterprise is plagued by itching after being turned into an alien in the last episode. He gets into a punch up with a slave trader and takes a Xindi spy aboard. The crew are struggling to make Trellium D, which is needed to shield them from distortion waves. The female spy half-kills T'Pol. She gets away with information to help the Xindi build a bio-weapon while Cap'n Acula gets a dead reptillian Xindi for study and a weapon.

305. Impulse
Enterprise picks up an automated distress call from a Vulcan ship on which T'Pol used to serve. The Vulcans shielded their ship with Trellium D but it has poisoned them and turned all of them into violent psychopaths. And T'Pol starts getting paranoid as Cap'n B. Acula and his team fight their way back to their shuttle. The Vulcan ship is blown up and the captain decides that Enterprise cannot be shielded from distortion waves at the moment due to the consequences for T'Pol.

306. Exile
A telepath contacts Hoshi on Enterprise and he offers help with finding the Xindi. Only he wants a companion to share his solitary exile. Meanwhile, T'Pol has worked out that the distortion waves in the Expanse are being caused by interaction of the shielded sphere used as a base by the pirates (Episode 302, Anomaly) and another one. So Cap'n B. Acula has some fun here, and T'Pol works out that there are, in fact, over 50 spheres interacting. Meanwhile, Hoshi escapes from the telepath and he gives Enterprise some information on a planet where the Xindi are building part of their weapon.

307. The Shipment
The Enterprise finds the colony where an isotope for the Xindi weapon is being made. Cap'n B. Acula learns that there is a 6th, avian, Xindi species, which was wiped out in their 100 Years War. The colonists don't know the end use of their isotope. Reptilian Xindi arrive as Cap'n Acula is preparing to blow up the production plant and the captain is able to bug the shipment to follow it to its next destination. And a test of a Xindi weapon is a bit of a disaster.

308. Twilight
This episode wanders off into the future. A distortion field plants bugs in the Captain's brain, he is unable to store memories, cut forward 12 years to after the Xindi have destroyed Earth and its colonies, and there is a Battlestar Galactica style migration goint on to take some humans to a new planet, which is now under threat. Dr. Phlox finds out how to zap the bugs, and he comes up with the theory that doing so will prevent the bugs from taking over the Captain in the past. But Cap'n B. Acula has to blow up the Enterprise to achieve this result.

309. North Star
Enterprise follows the tradition set by the original Star Trek and this episode has a Western plot. Scagarans took humans to a hot planet as a workforce 300 years before, the humans revolted and enslaved their former slave masters and Cap'n B. Acula drops in on the Wild West society to sort the lot of them out. He gets himself arrested and the school ma'am shot, and he gets into a grand shoot-out with the stroppy deputy and his pals.

310. Similitude
Trip had been written off before the start of this episode. So we go back 2 weeks for an explanation. He was fettling the engines when the ship ran into a polaric field and metallic stuff started being depositing on the hull. Trip was injured and the doctor cloned him to obtain neural tissue to repair him. The clone has a life span of 15 days. Enterprise has to get out of the polaric field or all its systems will stop working. The clone isn't happy about undergoing the operation to harvest neural tissue on his Day Eight because he won't survive it. But an unshaven and terribly scruffy Captain B. Acula browbeats him into doing the decent thing.

311. Carpenter Street
A guy is collecting people with different blood groups for the Xindi. Meanwhile, Daniels, the time cop from the 30th Century, tells Cap'n B. Acula that he knows nothing about an Earth-Xindi war and there are Xindi messing about in Detroit 150 years before the captain's present; in 2004. So the captain and T'Pol go back in time to sort them out. Their first job is to steal a car. The aliens are brewing up a bio-weapon and the captain ends up with their virus and the bodies of 3 reptilian Xindi for the doctor to disect.

312. Chosen Realm
Enterprise answers a bogus distress call and is hijacked by worshipers of the spheres. The religious nutters want to use Enterprise to kill their enemies back home and one of the crew has to die for insulting the spheres by investigating them. So Cap'n B. Acula volunteers and bamboozled the nutters using the transporter. The doctor neutralizes a chemical explosive in the bodies of the aliens' corps of suicide bombers and the Captain dumps them back on their own world, which was devastated 8 months earlier by the climax of a centuries old war.

313. Proving Ground
Enterprise meets up with the Andorians in the Expanse while Enterprise is tracking a Chemosite delivery to the Xindi, who are about to test a prototype of their new weapon. The Andorians drag Enterprise out of a huge anomaly and their captain says they are there to help the humans. They are really after the weapon but Cap'n B. Acula blows it up. And one of the Andorians sends the Earthers some useful scans.

314. Stratagem
Captain B. Acula is not aboard Enterprise at the start of this episode. He is supposed to have escaped from a prison after three years with a primate Xindi, who is the designer of the weapon for which he's been searching. But it all turns out to be a scam. Enterprise has captured the Xindi designer, wiped his memories and put him in a simulator. The first attempt at extracting information flops but the second one works. And the captain is able to dump the designer, after more memory wiping, and head for the planet where the weapon is located.

315. Harbinger
Trip upsets T'Pol by doing bad Vulcan neuropressure on a female Mako (marine). Malcolm is training with the Makos and not getting on with their leader, Major Hughes. Captain B. Acula orders the retrieval of an escape pod from a blob of anomalies and finds a stroppy, dying alien in it. T'Pol gets naked with Trip. The alien zaps the doctor and starts walking through walls, which makes shooting him a problem. But Malcolm and Major Hughes combine forces to zap him before he can wreck Enterprise.

316. Doctor's Orders
Enterprise has to cross some modified space and everyone has to be knocked out for 4 days, except the doctor, to protect them from brain damage. The doc starts hearing noises and T'Pol is awake, too. While chasing an insectoid Xindi, the doc nearly shoots Porthos, the captain'd dog, and he realizes that he is hallucinating. T'Pol isn't much help when the doctor has to use the warp engines to get the ship out of the modified space, which has grown unexpectedly in extent. And the big surprise ending is that Dr. Phlox was hallucinating when he saw T'Pol.

317. Hatchery
Enterprise finds an abandoned insectoid Xindi ship with bodies and live eggs aboard. Cap'n B. Acula is squirted with something and he becomes obsessed with hatching the eggs. T'Pol end up locked up when she tries to argue and Malcolm is next. The crew has to retake the ship from the Marines before the doctor is able to establish that the captain has been contaminated and made to think he's a bug's mommy.

318. Azati Prime
Cap'n B. Acula swans off on a solo suicide mission to zap the Xindi weapon, only to be captured. The reptilian Xindi blast hell out of Enterprise but the captain has managed to convince some of the others that the trans-dimensional beings, which helped the Insectoids to build a bio-weapon facility in Detroit 100 years in the past, are up to no good. Cap'n Acula's theory is that the spheres will eventually transform the Expanse into space suitable for the trans-dimensionals and that is what will destroy the Xindi homeworld, not something which the Earthers will do.

319. Damage
The reptilians call off their attack and Cap'n B. Acula is released. T'Pol has become a trellium junkie and she is having hallucinations after being cut off from her supply. The captain decides to steal a warp coil from an exploration vessel which has been damaged by anomalies. He knows that the crew will have no hope of escaping and he is well aware that he has 'crossed the line', morality-wise, in his mission to save Earth.

320. The Forgotten
Enterprise lost 18 crew last week. T'Pol is having trouble suppressing emotions. The ship makes a rendezvous with Degra, the Xindi weapon builder, to show off evidence of the Reptilians' bio-weapon. Trip gives Degra a hard time and he has to write a letter to the family of a dead member of his team. Malcolm gets cooked a bit during an EVA to put out a fire in a plasma conduit. Cap'n B. Acula gives Degra information on the interior of the spheres to prove they are modifying the Expanse. The reptilians crash the party and Degra's ship wipes them out. And the next stop for Enterprise is the Xindi Council to argue that the extra-dimensional beings are everyone's enemy.

321. E²
A mysterious Earth ship contacts Enterprise. It seems Enterprise 1 was thrown back in time 170 years while going through a transwarp corridor and the descendants of the original crew want to stop it happening again. T'Pol is still alive aboard Enterprise 2 and the mother of the captain, who steals Enterprise 1's plasma injectors as he doesn't think Enterprise 1 can complete the mission to save Earth. So Captain B.Acula nicks stuff from Enterprise 2 during a shooting match. Then Enterprise 2 covers Enterprise 1's tail against hostile aliens when Enterprise 1 heads off to the rendezvous with the Xindi weapon builder.

322. The Council
T'Pol is trellium-free, but still emotional, and Enterprise sends her to get information on the spheres for the meeting with the Xindi Council. Degra, the weapon builder, is being harassed by the extra-dimensional aliens. The Reptilians and the Insectoids still want to use the weapon after Captain B. Acula has presented his evidence. The group in the sphere get a spare memory core but one of the Makos (marines) is crunched by a grabber. Degra is killed by a Reptilian and they launch the weapon. And finally, Hoshi is kidnapped by transporter as Enterprise is battling the bad guys with friendly Xindi help.

323. Countdown
The bad Xindi kidnap Hoshi from Enterprise to get her to decrypt the Aquatics' launch code for the weapon. T'Pol analyzes the data from the spheres and identified four control spheres. Hoshi has her brain reconfigured and the Aquatics join the attempt to zap the weapon. Malcolm and Major Heyes decide they are cool with each other just before Heyes is killed rescuing Hoshi. There is another space battle at the weapon and the 'Guardians', who built the spheres, surround it with distortion zones. Finally, the weapon heads for Earth on a 10 hour journey.

324. Zero Hour
The season finale of Enterprise begins with Captain B. Acula heading off to destroy the Xindi weapon in Degra's ship while T'Pol takes Enterprise to zap the spheres. The Guardians surround Sphere 41 with anomalies but Enterprise fights through them. A guy from the future tries to deflect the captain and Andorians arrive out of the blue when the strike force arrives off Earth. The spheres in the network implode, the aliens from another dimension can't stay and the weapon explodes with Captain B. Acula aboard!
   T'Pol tells an astonished Trip that she will be 66 on her next birthday. There are no signals from Earth when Enterprise arrives on February 14th, 2152, and World War II is going on there! And aliens in German uniforms are holding a singed Captain B. Acula prisoner!!!

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401. Storm Front, Part I
P51 Mustangs shoot up Trip's shuttle over San Francisco and Captain B. Acula is a prisoner of the Germans; until the convoy is ambushed by bandits. There is a Suliban aboard Enterprise, Malcolm finds that there are battles going on all over the United States, Porthos is off his food, pining for the captain and the Time Cop Daniels arrives at sick bay sadly battered. Like the captain, who is being patched up by a black lady in Brooklyn! The Germans are in the White House and aliens are promising them plasma rifles and a plague which will kill all non-Aryans.
   Daniels has less than 24 hours to live. He says the Temporal Cold War has become all-out, then aliens sent Enterprise back in time and T'Pol has to stop them. "Them who?" is the big question. The Suliban tries to kidnap Trip then escapes in a shuttle. Trip and Travis beam down to Earth to destroy the shuttle and are captured.
   The captain captures an alien, who turns out to be the Suliban Silik (Episodes 102/111), who tells him the aliens are trapped in time and the Germans are helping them to build a conduit to get home. The captain takes a communicator from Silik before the locals shoot him and he and his new friend are beamed aboard Enterprise as the Germans close in. Before he croaks, Daniels says the head bad guy, Vosk, has stealth time travel but he can be stopped at this point in time. The machine for the conduit is enormous and it has to be destroyed. Shot of the HBG in a vast machine hall. To be continued . . .

402. Storm Front, Part II
The aliens are holding out on the Nazis and feeling fireproof, and the captain's insurgent friend goes back home instead of somewhere safe. Trip and Travis have been interrogated and Trip sees a Suliban in their cell. The captain learns that Lenin was killed in 1916 and there was no Russian revolution, which kept Germany strong in this timeline. Vosk arrived recently so he didn't do in Lenin.
   Vosk asks for a meeting with the captain and returns Trip and Travis. He says the Time Cops have their own agenda and they change things for their own benefit. In exchange for help from Enterprise, Vosk promises to send the ship back to its own century and repair the timeline. 'Trip' turns out to be the Suliban Silik in disguise and he had a mass of data on Vosk's facility. Enterprise is shot up a bit by Vosk's base and the captain tells his people to get details of Vosk's shields out of Silik's data.
   With the Americans closing in, the Germans demand the weapons the aliens promised. Vosk is planning to leave Earth that very day. Captain B. Acula hooks up with the local insurgents, he takes out the shields on Vosk's facility, and Silik is shot and croaks. The Germans fail to take over the facility. Trip just happens to run into the captain.
   Stukas with alien weapons attack Enterprise so the captain gives Vosk's facility some photon torpedoes. Vosk is blown to hell and the timeline resets (with one bound). The captain tells the Time Cop Daniels to leave him the hell alone in future. And finally, Enterprise finds itself approaching Earth in the right timeline.

403 Home
A big celebration; almost a Nuremberg rally; for the heroes of the Enterprise crew then everyone goes on leave. Trip manoeuvres T'Pol into inviting him to Vulcan. The head Vulcan gets up Captain B. Acula's nose at the debriefing on the mission then the captain goes climbing with an old ladyfriend, who is now the captain of another starship, which is under construction in a spacedock.
   T'Pol's mother, who disapproved of Trip until he fixed all her gadgets, wants her to get back together with her ex-fiancé. Earth is full of rampant xenophobia and Dr. Phlox stops a riot in a bar by inflating his head! T'Pol's mother has been sacked and T'Pol is being blackmailed into marriage as a way of getting her reinstated. The Vulcan ambassador apologizes to Captain B. Acula for opposing his appointment, and at the end, Trip has to go to T'Pol's wedding.

404 Borderland
There is a new threat for Captain B. Acula of Enterprise to tackle – 'augments' or superhumans created by illegal genetic engineering by Dr. Sung (Mr. Data of Startrek TNG). The augments steal a Klingon warship and kill the crew, the captain has to recover it to prevent a war. Having to rescue T'Pol and some of the crew from an Orion slave market keeps him busy for most of the episode then the augments return to zap Orion interceptors, which are attacking Enterprise and stroll off with their creator. So pursuing them gives the Captain something to do next week. And Dr. Sung plans to create thousands more augments if he is not stopped.

405 Cold Station 12
This episode begins with some history. 11 years before, the Eugenics War between humans and augments claimed 30-35 million lives. Dr. Sung took a group embryos from a cold storage facility; the present trouble-makers; and he's going back for more. Captain B. Acula finds a young man with augment DNA but no enhancements, who was abandoned by the others. He is killed when the captain and a party beam on to the research station after Sung has started killing prisoners to get the code for the embryo store. The self-destruct system doesn't work, T'Pol on Enterprise finds, Malik, the augments' leader, takes some pathogens when they leave and he releases the rest of them. So the captain has 4 minutes to climb a huge shaft and stop the release as the episode runs out.

406 The Augments
Captain B. Acula manages his climb and isolates the Med Lab from the pathogens, but not himself. So he gets T'Pol to shoot a hatch off so that he is blown out into space, where he can be collected with the transporter. On the Klingon Bird of Prey, Dr. Sung clashes with Malik, who reckons running away is a mistake. Enterprise enters Klingon space with a false warp signature and catches up with the augments, but they ditch a Denobulan and she has to be rescued. Malik wants to use the pathogens to kill everyone on a Klingon colony and start a war with the Earthers.
   Sung is locked up when he tries to start a mutiny but Malik's girlfriend helps him to decamp in an escape pod (for which she is killed). Captain B. Acula picks up Sung and the Klingon ship is destroyed. Malik beams aboard Enterprise only to be shot by the captain. So Dr. Sung ends up in clink again thinking that cybernetics might be a good thing to try as making humans perfect looks impossible.

407 The Forge (1/3)
This 3-part sequence begins 17 years before on Vulcan with an archaeologist finding a dusty statue of Surak, the father of Vulcan logic, in a cave. In the present at Earth's embassy on Vulcan: Admiral Maxwell Forest is told by Soval, the Vulcan ambassador to Earth, that Earthers remind Vulcans too much of themselves and the High Command is worried about what they will do next. Then a bomb goes off and 43 Earthers and Vulcans are killed.
   On Enterprise, Captain B. Acula is told the suspects are the Andorians and a Vulcan sect called Syrrannites. Malcolm and Travis find a bomb in the wreck of the embassy and Dr. Phlox finds Vulcan DNA belonging to a Syrrannite called T'Pal on it. T'Pol's husband, the head of the Vulcan team investigating the explosion, takes over. Soval doesn't believe the Syrrannites planted the bomb and he tells the captain to check everything.
   T'Pol's mother is a Syrrannite and she's in hiding. T'Pol receives a gadget to help her find Mom, so she and the captain head into the desert, where they are chased by wild animals. Phlox proves the evidence against T'Pal is false and Soval does a mind-meld with a comatose human to find that T'Pol's husband planted the bomb – which puts him in deep trouble with the Vulcan High Command.
   A Syrrannite drives off the wild animals then he, the captain and T'Pol are trapped in a cave by a sand-fire storm, which kills the Syrrannite; but only after he has mind-melded with Cap'n B. Acula to tell him where to find the Syrrannites. Which they do, only to be threatened with knives to the throat! To be continued . . .

408 Awakening (2/3)
The Vulcan High Command sacks Ambassador Soval and it has framed T'Pol's husband, Koss, as a Syrranite. T'Pau tells Captain B. Acula she hasn't left the desert for 2 years so she couldn't have bombed the Terran embassy and the Vulcan they met in the desert was the Syrranite leader. On Enterprise, Soval tells Trip that the High Command intends to wipe out the Syrranites, which makes retrieving the captain a priority.
   The captain has a chat with Surak, who's 1,800 years dead, showing that he really is the host for Surak's Katra. He wants it removed and T'Pau is willing to try, even if the captain croaks in the process. But the process fails because Surak is happy where he is and he wants to save the Vulcans from themselves. The High Command tells Enterprise to get lost, an attempt to reach the planet by shuttle fails and Enterprise retreats after being shot up.
   Cap'n Acula finds the artifact for which the Syrranites have been searching. The High Command starts bombing the camp at that point and T'Pol's mother is killed. Soval tells Trip that the Vulcan High Command wants to wipe out the pacifist Syrranites because it plans to attack the Andorians. So Trip heads for Andoria. To be continued . . .

409 Kir'Shara (3/3)
The Vulcans have bluffed the Andorian fleet away from their homeworld, the High Command is pretending the Andorians have Xindi Weapons of Mass Destruction and an attack on Andoria is imminent. Malcolm isn't happy with Trip's plan to tell all to the Andorians. T'Pol isn't happy with Captain B. Acula's decision to take the Kir'Shara containing Surak's writings (which Administrator V'Las says doesn't exist) to the High Command. V'Las orders the elimination of the captain and his companions.
   Enterprise contacts the Andorian fleet and Commander Shran kidnaps Ambassador Soval to question him with a machine which lowers a Vulcan's emotional threshold. So Trip chases the Andorians and starts shooting. T'Pau does a mind meld on T'Pol to cure the imbalance caused by an earlier forced meld. Captain Acula & Co. are ambushed and T'Pol is captured and taken to the High Command.
   Trip puts Enterprise in the middle of a shooting war between the Andorians and Vulcans, and gets his ship clobbered. The captain and T'Pau transport to the High Command to confront V'Las with the Kir'Shara. V'Las is shot and the Vulcan fleet is recalled. T'Pol's husband, who provided the transporter code, gives T'Pol her freedom. Surak's Katra is removed from the captain. The Vulcans drop their supervision of Earth. And at the end, V'Las is shown up to no good with a Romulan.

410 Daedalus
Dr. Ericson, inventor of the transporter and friend of Captain B. Acula's dad, takes over Enterprise to test a sub-quantum teleportation system. He's in a wheelchair and pushed around by his daughter, Danica, who used to play with the captain when they were kids. His new system offers instant transportation across galaxies, so no starships will be needed if it works. When a crewman is killed by an 'anomaly', it becomes increasingly clear that Ericson has a hidden agenda. He's trying to recover his son, Quinn, who was lost 15 years earlier in a transporter test.
   The first test sends a probe 40,000 kilometres. Trip realizes that Ericson is up to something. The 'anomaly' is identified as Quinn. Ericson admits what he's up to and tells the captain that the new transporter system will never work. The captain orders his officers to help Ericson, Trip does a lot of arguing, the doctor warns that Quinn can't be retrieved alive and when he is recovered, he croaks.
   At the end, Dr. Phlox finds that T'Pol is now free of Benar's Syndrome. The doctor thinks she's benefiting from studying the Kir'Shara, and she has no time for messing about with Trip.

411 Observer Effect
Enterprise visits a junk heap of a planet and Trip and Hoshi fall ill during their shuttle flight back to Enterprise. The planet is infected with a silicon-based virus and 2 Organians, noncorporeal aliens, inhabit the bodies of various crew members as they study the humans' reaction to the problem of finding a cure for the virus. They edit memories so that their presence remains unsuspected.. "Someone always dies," one of them remarks. Klingons dealt with the problem by destroying the shuttle containing infected crew. Other ships which brought the infected people aboard were usually wiped out by the plague.
   The Organians want to know if humans are intelligent enough for first contact. Hoshi croaks of the virus. Dr. Phlox tries a radiation treatment on Trip, but he dies, too. Captain B. Acula, of course, exposes himself to the virus in the MedLab while helping out. He gets to have a chat with the aliens and he tells them they're not worth knowing if all they do is watch and refuse to help people infected on the planet.
   One of the aliens is persuaded by his rhetoric to defy protocol and kills off the virus. Hoshi and Trip are miraculously restored to life, the captain posts a warning beacon at the planet and the aliens consider recommending contact with the humans; maybe in 5,000 years or so. During the episode, Trip asks Hoshi if she ever saw the 1960s film The Andromeda Strain, in which people are killed off by a mutating virus. The film ends with the virus mutating into a harmless form – a 'with one bound everyone was okay' just like the pay-off to this episode.

412 Babel One (1/3)
Andorian Captain Shran's ship is destroyed by Tellarites. Meanwhile Captain B. Acula has to rehearse for slanging matches with a Tellurite ambassador (they thrive on pointless arguments and insults) as Earth is trying to broker a trade dispute between the Andorians and the Tellarites. Enterprise picks up the survivors from Shran's ship, only to be attacked by an Andorian ship, which has the same power signature as the one which attacked Shran.
   As Enterprise follows the mystery ship, T'Pol hears that her marriage has been dissolved. The rogue ship is under Romulan control and it has external holo-emitters so that it can be camouflaged to look like an Andorian or Tellarite ship; but it can't mask its distinctive power signature.
   Malcolm and Trip beam across to the rogue ship, only to be trapped there when Enterprise is shot up and has to run away to make repairs. T'Pol concludes that the rogue is Romulan and they are worried about an end to hostilities between Andorians and Tellarites. Shran interrogates the Tellarites and Trip and Malcolm reach the rogue's bridge. Then we are shown that it is, in fact, controlled remotely from a planet. (Yeah, like that could happen!)

413 United (2/3)
The Romulan drone attacks a Rigelian ship next; disguised as Enterprise. Captain B. Acula thinks they're trying to destabilize the entire region. The Romulan Senate is worried about the drone being captured but the admiral in charge of the remote control centre is confident he can pull off his mission. The Captain tries to assemble a fleet to hunt down the drone as Trip & Malcolm start exploring and interfering with its systems. Trip gets himself trapped and the Romulan admiral threatens to kill him with radiation of Malcolm doesn't co-operate.
   Captain B. Acula forces the Andorians and Tellarites to co-operate as only they can provide enough ships in time to form a network around the drone's likely position. Malcolm breaks the link to the Romulan control centre by setting a phaser to overload but the auto-repair systems kick in. Captain Shran's girlfriend dies so he challenges her Tellarite killer to a duel, which threatens to screw up the alliance.
   The Captain puts himself into the duel as a substitute, he chops off half of one of Shran's antennae and that settles things. The fleet finds the drone and blasts off its camouflage emitters, Malcolm and Trip bail out, the drone zooms off into hyperspace and everyone gets on with forming an interstellar alliance. Finally; shock-horror! The drone pilot at the Romulan control centre is an Andorian.

414 The Aenar (3/3)
The Romulan admiral reckons he can hunt down and destroy Enterprise using 2 remote-piloted drone ships. T'Pol deduces that the rogue ship is being controlled by a telepresence unit; so she and Trip build one; and the operator is a telepath and Andorian. Captain Shran says the pilot has to be an Aenar, a sub-species of the Andorians. Captain B. Acula and Shran beam down to an ice field, Shran gets himself spiked on a stalagmite and the Aenar help out. One of the Aenar, Gareb, is missing. His sister, Jhamel, volunteers to help find him when her people refuse to get involved.
   T'Pol tests the TP unit and Dr. Phlox rules it's too dangerous for her to use. Another freighter is destroyed and Enterprise takes a pounding at the scene of the attack. Jhamel tries out the TP unit and contacts her brother, who was told that the Aenar had been wiped out and he was the last survivor. So he destroys one of the drones using the other drone and Enterprise takes out the surviving drone with photon torpedoes. Gareb is killed by the Romulans, the other Andorians return to their icy homeworld and Trip announces he wants a transfer at the end.

415 Affliction (1/2)
Trip moves to Columbia, Enterprise's sister ship, under Captain Hernandez; and not because of the T'Pol situation. The crew of Enterprise gets leave in San Francisco and Dr. Phlox is kidnapped. Starfleet Ops suspended satellite surveillance of the SF area during the kidnapping, Malcolm discovers, and they control him. Captain B. Acula helps T'Pol to do a mind-meld with Hoshi to dig out what one of the kidnappers said: it was in Rigelian.
   The Klingons ended up with Phlox. There's a virus running through their empire. SF Ops gives Malcolm a job. Trip and T'Pol, on their separate ships, share a daydream. A Rigelian ship is found with everyone aboard dead. Then Enterprise is attacked and boarded. Most of the intruders escape but a prisoner looks human; only he tests Klingon.
   Phlox learns that the virus contains Augment DNA; the Klingons were trying to create their own Augments. The captain finds that Malcolm is trying to mislead him and he ends up in the brig. Phlox refuses to create stable Klingon Augments as a bargaining strategy. Columbia leaves space-dock after Trip has upset most of his staff by making them work. Enterprise finds that the Klingon intruders put a virus in their warp program and the ship has to go at top speed to avoid exploding! To be continued . . .

416 Divergence (2/2)
Enterprise's reactor will blow in 47 minutes but Malcolm hauled Trip across from Columbia at warp speed on a cable! The plan was to wipe the corrupted engineering programs and reboot the warp drive in 2 minutes. Phlox and the Klingon doctor conspire to cure the plague without creating Augments. The Klingon Augments are unhappy because they've become somewhat human.
   Captain B. Acula has a confrontation with Malcolm's controller at Starfleet Ops, who is in league with the Klingons. Malcolm says his orders were just to slow down Enterprise but he tells the Captain where to find Dr. Phlox. Phlox created 4 tubes of stuff, only one of which will work against the plague.
   Both Earth ships get into a shooting match with the Klingons while Phlox is finishing the antivirus, and he has to use Captain B. Acula as a guinea pig. Phlox infects the Klingon admiral's ship with the virus to blackmail him into a ceasefire. The cured Klingons find that they'll lose their brow ridges, which doesn't go down well. And Malcolm resigns from Starfleet Operations.

417 Bound
Enterprise is supposed to check out the proposed site of the first ever starbase, which the Vulcans say has giant flying reptiles, but green Orions intercept the ship and their captain proposes a deal to smooth relations between Earth and the Orion Syndicate. Lt. Kelby, Trip's replacement, is upset by his lingering on Enterprise.
   The Orion Captain offers Captain B. Acula a planet loaded with magnesite; enough to build 1,000 warp reactors; and Enterprise ends up with 3 highly disruptive, green dancing girls aboard. Lt. Kelby sabotages the drive and Dr. Phlox concludes that the Orion females release a pheromone, which is affecting everyone but T'Pol and Trip; T'Pol reckons this is because she and Trip are bonded.
   The Orion captain returns to attack Enterprise and he says his government wants Captain B. Acula's head; not necessarily attached to his body! The green women get out of the brig and cause havoc. The Orion captain takes Enterprise in tow after admitting that the Orion women are not slaves, they're in charge! T'Pol and Trip save the day. Then T'Pol gets inappropriate with Trip, who admits he has already told his new captain he wants to return to Enterprise.

418 In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I
This episode begins in Bozeman, Montana, in an alternate universe in which Zephraim Cochrane and his yokels kill the Vulcans who land in response to his first warp drive flight and steal their ship, and Earthers make the Vulcans into slaves. Starfleet is run by sadists and The Empire is at war with rebels. Commander B. Acula and Malcolm stage a mutiny to gain control of Enterprise from Captain Forrest so that they can go into Tholian space to retrieve a piece of technology which will end the rebellion.
   Malcolm accuses Trip of sabotaging a Suliban cloaking device and gets to torture him. Trip says he's innocent but T'Pol planted an order during a mind-meld. Hoshi is the captain's bike. T'Pol stages a counter-mutiny and Cmdr. B. Acula and Malcolm are tortured; as is a Tholian prisoner. The Tholians have opened a doorway to an alternate universe and lured an Earth ship through using a distress signal.
   USS Defiant is from 100 years in the future. Cmdr. B. Acula leads a boarding party and T'Pol is told to make sure he doesn't come back alive. But the Tholians surround Enterprise and destroy it after Captain Forrest has told his crew to abandon ship.

419 In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II
Cmdr. B. Acula takes control of Defiant, zaps the Tholian ships and their space dock, and recovers some life pods from Enterprise to give himself about 10% of a starship's normal crew. Trip has to rebuild the warp drive. The database on Defiant says there's no Terran Empire in the alternative universe, just a United Federation of Planets, which the captain thinks is an abombination. Everyone dresses up in TOS (The Original Series) uniforms from the Jim Kirk era.
   The next problem is a slave-master, who's hiding aboard Defiant. It's a huge reptile which has to be hunted down and killed before Trip can find some necessary bits for the warp drive. Malcolm is badly injured in the hunt. Defiant kicks ass in a battle with rebels and Commander B. Acula promotes himself to captain and zaps Admiral Black with a phaser.
   T'Pol starts planning a mutiny. The captain thinks it would be a good idea to get rid of all non-Terrans on the ship; except Dr. Phlox. When he tells Starfleet to surrender, Phlox gets the job of sabotaging Defiant to prevent the captain from killing the emperor. The sabotage doesn't work out and the Starfleet ship escorting Defiant is destroyed. Then Hoshi betrays the captain and declares herself empress when she reaches Earth!
   This is supposed to be a 2-part episode but it doesn't really get anywhere at the end; possibly because the news that there would be no 5th series was announced while this episode was being made and the writers couldn't be bothered tying up the loose ends.

420 Demons
Two blokes are hovering around a baby in an incubator at the start of the episode. The crew of Enterprise are on Earth to see a coalition of planets formed and the politicians are grabbing their glory. A woman gives T'Pol a sample of hair before croaking of a phaser blast. The hair contains human and Vulcan DNA; from Trip and T'Pol, even though T'Pol has never been pregnant. The politician thinks news of a Vulcan-human hybrid could start riots. Malcolm puts his controller at Starfleet Operations on the job of gathering information for him.
   The dead woman was a member of Terra Prime, an isolationist group to which the human politician used to belong. Meanwhile, Travis is being pursued by a journalist. Dr. Phlox works out that the woman was at a mining colony on the Moon so Trip and T'Pol head there. A doctor is found dead and he worked in the same clinic as the dead woman.
   Trip and T'Pol are captured by Terra Prime agents and Captain B. Acula find out that the journalist haunting Travis is a Terra Prime spy. The mining colony building, under the command of Terra Prime leader John Paxton, takes off and flies to Mars, where it takes over the gadget used to deflect comets. Then Paxton issues his ultimatum after taking a warning shot at the Moon. He wants all aliens out of the Solar System; or else!

421 Terra Prime
Mr. Paxton thinks his race's genetic heritage is at risk; the Vulcan-human hybrid child proves it. Starfleet command will be wiped out with the comet deflector if all aliens don't push off. The aliens start saying Earth isn't ready for an alliance. 15 comets are on their way to Mars as part of a terraforming plan and if the deflector array doesn't send them to the poles, they could hit a colony! Trip is told to turn the deflector into a better weapon.
   The kid is a clone built from genetic material stolen from Enterprise by an infiltrator. Malcolm goes to Starfleet Ops for help. The journalist tells Travis she's an undercover agent but he doesn't believe her. Enterprise approaches Mars in the tail of a comet and a shuttle rides the comet down to the ground. T'Pol realizes Paxton is getting Rigelian gene therapy for Taggart's disease. So much for genetic purity!
   Hoshi has to tell Earth's Fed. Rep. to stop horning in and let Captain B. Acula get on with things. The array is fired; but it hits the sea instead of San Franciso. The hybrid kid is dying due to incompatible DNA. The traitor on Enterprise kills himself. The Captain gets to make a big speech at the Federation conference. And finally, Dr. Phlox reckons Paxo's doctors used a defective cloning technique and that humans and Vulcans do have compatible DNA.

422 These Are The Voyages . . .
The last ever episode of Enterprise is a peculiar affair in which Mr. Riker of Star Trek TNG watches Captain B. Acula's last adventure as an interactive participant of a holo-program in the rumpus room. He plays the ship's cook, who was supposed to have acted as a counsellor, and Counsellor Troi joins him from time to time. Back in ancient history aboard the first Enterprise:
   Hoshi is going to Brazil, the captain is writing a speech and the ship is about to be put in mothballs. Then Captain Shran, the Andorian, turns up. He's supposed to have been killed 3 years earlier. He reckons Captain B. Acula owes him and he wants some help in recovering his daughter from kidnappers, who think he stole this monster jewel from them (but Shran says he never had it).
   T'Pol doesn't trust Shran but Enterprise heads for Rigel 10, which has an unsavoury reputation. The captain thinks the mission has a certain symmetry as his first one was to Rigel. Trip is still working like mad on the engines, even though the ship will become a museum piece when it gets to Earth, and 6 years after their affair, T'Pol is obsessed with knowing if Trip misses her.
   Troi mentions that Trip has no idea he won't make it back just before Captain B. Acula & Co. exchange the kid for a fake jewel and do a lot of shooting. Meanwhile, Riker is also thinking about the loss of Pegasus, a Federation starship with illegal cloaking technology. Earth wants to recover it before the Romulans find it as the cloaking technology breaches a treaty with the Romulans. Riker and the rest of a handful of survivors were sworn to secrecy about what their ship was up to.
   Meanwhile, aboard Enterprise, Shran's former pals appear out of nowhere and Trip writes them off with plasma, cooking himself in the process. So he croaks in sickbay. Finally, Captain B. Acula is all ready to make his speech to delegates from 18 worlds at a meeting of the Alliance (which will become the Federation one day), but Riker decides to end the holodeck program and go and tell Captain Piccard all about the Pegasus.

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