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Travis Mayweather, Jonathan Archer and Hoshi Sato

The sixth series in the long-running "Star Trek" franchise," "Star Trek: Enterprise" ran from 2001 to 2005 on the UPN Network (now The CW). The series, created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, took place approximately a century before the events depicted in " Star Trek: The Original Series " (TOS) and followed the crew of the first starship named Enterprise (not the one depicted in "TOS") as they had their first encounters with the show's most iconic alien races, such as the Klingons and Vulcans. Scott Bakula was at the helm as Captain Jonathan Archer, leading his diverse crew through four seasons of science fiction adventure before the show's abrupt cancellation in 2005.

Like all "Star Trek" alumni, the cast of "Enterprise" has enjoyed a certain degree of acclaim long after their series left the air, thanks to the ardent "Trek" fanbase. Some have continued to act and gain even greater fame, while others have settled comfortably into careers split between doing new work and looking back nostalgically at their "Trek" experiences. Following is a list of the primary cast members of "Enterprise," as well as several actors who played recurring roles, and what they've been up to since the mighty starship was permanently parked in spacedock.

Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer

As Captain (and later Starfleet Admiral) Jonathan Archer, actor Scott Bakula led the crew of the Enterprise through four seasons of adventures on "Star Trek: Enterprise." Bakula was arguably the best-known cast member on the series, having earned a Golden Globe and multiple Emmy nominations as the time-traveling hero of the original "Quantum Leap." Bakula was also visible to film and TV audiences through appearances in high-profile projects like "American Beauty" and "Murphy Brown," as well as extensive work in Broadway theater productions.

After "Enterprise" completed its final mission in 2005, Bakula remained extremely active as both a leading man and guest or recurring player. He starred as Special Agent Dwayne "King" Pride in seven seasons of "NCIS: New Orleans," for which he netted a People's Choice Award nomination in 2015. Bakula also starred in the critically-acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning comedy-drama "Men of a Certain Age" with Ray Romano and Andre Braugher, and guested on series ranging from "The Simpsons" to a very funny episode of "What We Do in the Shadows," in which Nandor and Nadja confuse him for Count Dracula.

On the film front, Bakula has collaborated with Steven Soderbergh on several occasions, including the 2009 feature "The Informant!," the TV drama "Behind the Candelabra" — which earned him a fifth Emmy nomination in 2013 — and most recently, the 2023 science fiction thriller "Divinity," which Soderbergh produced.

Jolene Blalock as Science Officer T'Pol

Landing the role of Science Officer (and later First Officer) T'Pol on "Star Trek: Enterprise" proved to be the big break for Jolene Blalock's acting career. It also turned out to be her most notable screen role: the former model enjoyed guest appearances on series like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "JAG" prior to joining the cast of "Enterprise." While appearing on the series, she also turned up twice on another small-screen sci-fi drama, "Stargate SG-1," and co-starred with Ray Liotta in a thriller, "Slow Burn," which was filmed in 2003 but released in 2007.

Blalock gave only a handful of film and TV appearances after "Enterprise" ended in 2005. The majority of these were guest appearances on "CSI: Miami" and "House," and co-starring turns in the Jason Segel comedy "Sex Tape" and several direct-to-video features, such as "Starship Troopers 3: Marauder." She appears to have stepped away from acting after 2017, preferring instead to focus on her marriage to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino, with whom she has three sons. The couple also oversee the Rapino Foundation, a charitable organization that benefits developing nations.

Connor Trinneer as Chief Engineer Trip Tucker

Washington State native Connor Trinneer graduated from stage work and bit parts on television to romantic hero status when he was cast as chief engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker on "Star Trek: Enterprise." Trip's primary storyline was an on-and-off relationship with T'Pol throughout all four seasons of the series, though the pair eventually settled for friendship prior to his apparent death in the final episode of the series. For his work on "Enterprise," Trinneer earned Saturn Award nominations in 2002 and 2003.

Trinneer's post-"Enterprise" work has featured a recurring run as the villainous Wraith Michael on "Stargate: Atlantis" and guest roles on numerous series, including "9-1-1," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "and "24." Film projects included a lead in the SyFy original movie "Star Runners" in 2009 and "Unbelievable!!!" a broad comedy featuring 40 cast members from various "Trek" series, including his "Enterprise" co-stars Linda Park, Dominic Keating, and John Billingsley.

More recently, Trineer appeared in the Tom Cruise drama "American Made" (as President George W. Bush) and Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans." In 2023 he reprised the role of Trip Tucker in an episode of the animated short series "Star Trek: Very Short Treks." He's also co-hosted several popular "Star Trek" podcasts, including "The Shuttlepod Show" and "The D-Con Chamber," with "Enterprise" co-star Dominic Keating.

Dominic Keating as Tactical Officer Malcolm Reed

British-Irish actor Dominic Keating was already well-known in his native England for roles on series like "Desmond's" before crossing the pond to play Tactical Officer Malcolm Reed on "Star Trek: Enterprise." Keating came to the United States in the late 1990s and landed guest roles on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and other series before joining "Enterprise" for all four seasons on the UPN Network.

Keating remained busy as both a live-action and voice-over actor in the years after "Enterprise." A four-episode arc as an Irish mobster on "Heroes" and guest roles on series like "Prison Break" and "Sons of Anarchy" kept him on screen into the mid-2010s, while video games like "Diablo 3" and "World of Warcraft: Legion" made excellent use of his vocal talents. Keating also played an '80s-era British pop star in a series of TV spots for Sprint/Nextel in the 2010s. More recently, as noted earlier, Keating teamed with Connor Trinneer to co-host the "Star Trek" podcasts, "The Shuttlepod Show" and "The D-Con Chamber."

Linda Park as Communications Officer Hoshi Sato

Shortly after graduating from Boston University in 2001, Linda Park embarked on both her screen acting career and her tenure as a "Star Trek" hero by landing the role of communications officer Hoshi Sato on "Star Trek: Enterprise." Park, who made her feature film debut that same year with a small role in "Jurassic Park III," remained busy with other projects during the series' four-year run, including the 2004 feature "Spectres" starring fellow "Trek" vet Marina Sirtis. She also made her debut as a producer with the 2003 short film "My Prince, My Angel."

Park quickly segued to series regular work on the short-lived "Women's Murder Club" and a recurring role on Starz's "Crash," which was inspired by the 2004 film of the same name. Guest roles on "NCIS" and "Castle" kept her busy for much of the next decade, though she revisited the "Trek" universe in the short fan film "Star Trek: Captain Pike" in 2016. The following year, she joined the cast of "Bosch" for three seasons while also appearing on shows like "The Affair" and "Grey's Anatomy."

John Billingsley as Dr. Phlox

John Billingsley had been active on television and in films for over a decade prior to landing the role of Dr. Phlox on "Star Trek: Enterprise." His work included roles in features like "High Crimes" and on network series like "Northern Exposure" and "The West Wing," as well as a recurring turn as serial killer George Marks, the only criminal to escape capture on "Cold Case."

When "Enterprise" came to a close in 2005, Billingsley resumed his busy TV and film schedule , which included recurring roles as the creepy, vampirized coroner Mike Spencer on "True Blood," scientist Shenandoah Cassidy on the short-lived "Intelligence," and conspirator Terrence Steadman in Season 1 of "Prison Break."

By the mid-2010s, Billingsley was appearing in multiple series per year: between 2014 and 2019 alone, he was in episodes of "Bones," "Twin Peaks," "The Orville," and "Lucifer," while also enjoying recurring roles on "Turn: Washington's Spies" (as the father of Revolutionary War spy Robert Townsend) and the Freeform series "Stichers," in addition to his work on "Intelligence." His busy streak has continued well into the next decade, with guest turns on "Station 19," "Manhunt," and "Pam and Tommy."

Anthony Montgomery as Ensign Travis Mayweather

Anthony Montgomery and Travis Mayweather

Ensign Travis Mayweather served as the Enterprise's navigator and helmsman throughout the four-season run of "Star Trek: Enterprise." As played by actor Anthony Montgomery, Mayweather lent stalwart support to the Enterprise crew's adventures, and on occasion, became the focus of an episode. Among these was the Season 2 episode "Horizon," which introduced viewers to Mayweather's family and his complicated relationship with his father and brother.

Montgomery, whose grandfather was the legendary West Coast jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, was familiar to TV viewers prior to "Enterprise" through a recurring role on the WB series "Popular," a short-lived early TV credit for Ryan Murphy. When "Enterprise" completed its final mission in 2005, Montgomery moved on to guest roles on "Grey's Anatomy" and the rebooted "Magnum, P.I." and recurring roles on series like "Greenleaf." He also returned to series regular work with the BET limited series "The Family Business" in 2020.

In addition to his acting career, Montgomery also released a pair of albums of original music and created a graphic novel series, "Miles Away," with writer Brandon Easton.

Vaughn Armstrong as Admiral Maxwell Forrest

Though Vaughn Armstrong's name may not seem immediately familiar to you, he holds something of a celebrated place in the "Star Trek" universe. Armstrong played 12 different characters on four separate "Trek" series, including nearly every alien race in the show's vast array of extraterrestrials, including multiple Klingons, a Borg, and a Romulan. However, he's probably best known as Starfleet commander Admiral Maxwell Forrest, who initiated the Enterprise's missions, on 14 episodes of "Enterprise." True to form, Armstrong also played Klingon and Kreetassan commanders on the series as well.

The LA theater veteran, who appeared in episodes of "Wonder Woman," "Days of Our Lives," and "Melrose Place" prior to his run on "Enterprise," remained very busy after the show's conclusion. Guest and recurring TV credits include "Mad Men," "Modern Family," and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," while Armstrong also turned up in several independent features (including "Unbelievable!!!") and lent his voice to several "Star Trek" video games. In addition to his acting work, Armstrong also led the Enterprise Blues Band, a folk and blues group that featured several other "Trek" performers in its lineup, like Richard Herd and Casey Biggs.

Gary Graham as Ambassador Soval

Though science fiction fans may often associate actor Gary Graham with the mostly forgotten "Alien Nation" spinoff series and its many made-for-TV features, the Long Beach, California native also made several appearances in another long-running sci-fi franchise. Shortly after guest-starring on an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," Graham played the Vulcan ambassador Soval on 12 episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise," and reprised the role in the short "Star Trek" fan film "Prelude to Axanar." He also turned up in two other "Trek" fan films, "Of Gods and Men" and "Renegades," as well as the slightly more professional "Unbelievable!!!"

Graham's pre-"Trek" and "Alien Nation" credits included the films "All the Right Moves" and Stuart Gordon's "Robot Jox," and after "Enterprise," he appeared in episodes of "Nip/Tuck" and "Crossing Jordan." He kept busy with roles in low-budget independent films throughout the 2000s, including the critically panned "Jeepers Creepers: Reborn" in 2022, and also played in various amateur bands. The 73-year-old Graham died of cardiac arrest on January 22, 2024.

Randy Oglesby as Degra

Randy Oglesby was another character actor who found regular employment on various series within the "Star Trek" universe. He made his first appearance on a Trek series in an episode of "The Next Generation" and later played multiple characters on "Deep Space Nine," while also enjoying a guest shot as a Brenari refugee on "Voyager." He is perhaps best known for playing Degra, the architect of the world-destroying Xindi weapon, on 10 episodes of "Enterprise." He also played a Xyrillian on "Unexpected," the fifth episode of Season 1, before taking on Degra in Season 3.

Oglesby began acting in the early 1980s, appearing in films like "Pale Rider" and on series like "Dallas" under the names Thomas or Tom Oglesby. After adopting his middle name (Randall) for screen work, Oglesby appeared steadily through the 1990s and 2000s in projects like "Independence Day" and "Pearl Harbor" before making his "Enterprise" debut. He continued to appear on other series during this time period, most notably on "The Practice" and "JAG"; post-"Enterprise" roles included guest shots on "Mad Men," "True Blood," and most recently, "WandaVision" (as Wanda's doctor). Oglesby also enjoyed a recurring role on " For All Mankind " as the conservative governor and later vice-president Jim Bragg.

Jeffrey Combs as Commander Shran

Actor Jeffrey Combs is perhaps best-known for his horror film roles, including mad scientist Herbert West in the "Re-Animator" trilogy, along with "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Would You Rather." But Combs also has a long history of film and television roles outside of the horror genre; like Gary Graham, these included guest and recurring appearances on numerous titles in the extended "Star Trek" universe. One of his best-known "Trek" turns came as the flinty Andorian commander Shran on 11 episodes of "Enterprise" between Seasons 1 and 4.

Combs' "Trek" work also included multiple characters on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," as well as appearances on "Star Trek: Voyager" and voice-acting on "Star Trek: Lower Decks" and several "Trek" video games. Combs' post-"Enterprise" roles have been firmly divided between live-action and animated projects: the former included episodes of "The 4400," "Cold Case," "Gotham" and "Creepshow," while Combs could also be heard voicing characters on "Transformers: Prime" (as Ratchet), "Ben 10: Omniverse," "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" (as The Leader) and "SpongeBob SquarePants."

Rick Worthy as Jannar

Like Jeffrey Combs, Gary Graham, and other versatile character actors on this list, Rick Worthy turned up in several different film and television projects within the "Star Trek" franchise. The most substantial of these was a recurring appearance as the sloth-like Arboreal named Jannar on 10 episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise," but eagle-eyed viewers can also catch Worthy as a Klingon on "Deep Space Nine," two different androids and a Starfleet crew member on "Voyager," and as an Elloran officer in the 1998 feature "Star Trek: Insurrection." Two years prior to that appearance, Worthy also lent his voice to the 1996 video game "Star Trek: Klingon."

Worthy's credits prior to "Enterprise" included appearances on "NYPD Blue" and "Stargate SG-1," and he remained exceptionally busy on TV after the "Trek" series came to a close in 2005. He played the humanoid Cylon Simon in eight episodes of the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot and later turned up in multiple episodes of "Heroes," "Supernatural" (as the Alpha Vampire), and "The Vampire Diaries" (as the father of Kat Graham's character, Bonnie Bennett). More recently, Worthy enjoyed lengthy runs as Resistance member Lem Washington on "The Man in the High Castle," and as Henry Fogg, dean of the magic university Brakebills, on "The Magicians."

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It's been a long road, getting from there to here...

Star Trek: Enterprise is the fourth Spin-Off of the long-running Star Trek franchise. It ran from 2001 to 2005.

ENT is a prequel series set in the 22nd century, around 100 years before Star Trek: The Original Series —though in practice, it worked better as a semi-sequel to Star Trek: First Contact , as hinted by the early appearances of James Cromwell and Next Generation aliens like the Nausicaans, Borg and Ferengi. Nearly one hundred years after Dr. Cochrane's historic warp flight, Captain Jonathan Archer is put in command of the Enterprise (NX-01), a cutting-edge warp 5 starship. The key selling point of this series was that space travel was not as casual as it became later in the chronology; most ships hadn't even left Earth's solar system. Unlike the previous Trek series, these crewmembers were also prone to swear and walk around in their underwear . The series only lasted four seasons, making it the shortest-lived Star Trek since The Animated Series , and is one of only three cancellations across the franchose.

The Enterprise is the first ship designed for exploration, and thus the first to visit many worlds in Seasons 1 and 2. The Temporal Cold War arc was also introduced during this time, tying back into the " Department of Temporal Investigations " introduced in previous Star Treks : Factions in the future were using time travel to rig history in their favor. This plot was forced on the writers by the network —presumably so as to avoid the lack of suspense expected from a prequel series. Still, even the showrunners didn't care for it, so it unfortunately just pops up from time to time before being terminated the moment the executives lost interest.

During season two, there was a sharp decline in viewership which led to a retool in season three: An alien race called the Xindi attacked Earth under the guidance of a rogue element from the Temporal Cold War arc. Enterprise was refitted into a heavy-duty battleship and sent into a chaotic region of space called the Expanse to enter negotiations or, failing that, to stop further attacks against Earth. This season dealt with the moral compromises the crew had to make, as well as coming to terms with the post-September 11th realities of network television.

At the start of Season 4, most of the writing staff was replaced and a new head writer, Manny Coto, was put in charge. This resulted in significant changes. Instead of a season-long arc, most stories were spread over 2 or 3 episodes at a time. Standalone stories were dropped, more or less entirely . This season dealt with the fallout of the Xindi attack, with many humans becoming violently xenophobic, and a brewing war with the as-yet-unseen Romulan Star Empire (which is a well-established part of Trek canon). But the most popular arc dealt with social reform on Vulcan—a piercing look into their culture, the likes of which hadn't been done since The Original Series.

Sadly, Paramount had no serious intention of renewing the series after Season Four. The cancellation ended 18 straight years of Star Trek production, and the series lay fallow before returning with an Alternate Timeline on film ( Star Trek in 2009) and the Prime Timeline on television ( Star Trek: Discovery in 2017). What's interesting is that Enterprise is the only series that is canon to both branches of the franchise, and thus is the subject of a number of Continuity Nods . The writers had been batting around ideas for where things would have gone in Season Five, some of which are realized in the novel continuation : Star Trek: Enterprise Relaunch .

Star Trek: Enterprise provides examples of the following tropes:

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2-D Space : Averted for once in "Acquisition". The Ferengi ship approaches the Enterprise from an angle unusual for the series.
There seemed to be the seeds of a plotline with the Tandarans, a race that had rounded up the Suliban and placed them in internment camps. Archer exposed a Tandaran agent and was drugged while the agent escaped. They were never seen again after Season 1.
Phlox was meant to develop a romance with Ensign Cutler, which sadly had to be abandoned after the death of Cutler's actress.
Above the Influence : In, "Bounty", Phlox refuses T'Pol's advances because these advances are induced by pon farr.
Action Girl : T'Pol uses Vulcan martial arts to beat down some Klingons in "Marauders."

Actor Allusion : Not Captain Archer's first experience with time travel .
The Alliance : Enterprise helps form one in the fourth season, in what is clearly a precursor to the The Federation ("Babel One", "United", "The Aenar").
All Just a Dream : "Vanishing Point" turned out to take place entirely in a hallucination Hoshi had mid-transport. "Doctor's Orders" winds up also being this, for Phlox, plus a nice little Twist Ending .
Alternate Reality Episode : "In A Mirror, Darkly" takes place entirely within the Mirror Universe, with the only main connection to the Prime Universe being the U.S.S. Defiant from the original series episode, "The Tholian Web".
Phlox owns several creatures, and while some of them are because things such as their hair and saliva are used in his medicines, he's shown to care about them as pets too.
Hoshi once owned a slug, is shocked at the sight of a Tribble being eaten, and shows affection towards other people's pets.
"The Andorian Incident": At the end, the real villains are revealed to be the Vulcans , but the Andorians are still the antagonist for the majority of the episode.
"Silent Enemy": The enemy is an alien ship which attacks the Enterprise.
"Marauders": The Klingons are the antagonists.
"The Augments": The Augments are the genetically altered humans led by Dr. Arik Soong.
Anti-Human Alliance : In the Mirror Universe , there is an alien resistance force that is fighting back against the Terran Empire.
The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that Time Travel is impossible. It is illogical to think otherwise.
In the Mirror Universe , they've also determined that parallel universes are impossible.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking : According to the inventor of the transporter, "People said it was unsafe, that it caused brain cancer, psychosis, and even sleep disorders."
"Dear Doctor." The fact that there is no such thing as evolutionary predestination is the point that no team of Star Trek writers has ever managed to get through their collective heads. If a species evolved something fatal, that is an accident . It's not something deliberate to make room for another species in that niche.
In "Carpenter Street" the Xindi are attempting to create a bio-weapon, and need samples of all 8 blood types to make it. They only get 6, and T'Pol states this is still enough to infect 75% of humanity. However, the 2 types they didn't get, AB+ and B-, are 2 of the rarest blood types, together they account for only about 5% of humans. This means the virus would actually be able to infect about 95% of humanity, not 75% as T'Pol said.
Trip does bring up in the episode that they were told to cross at night in training
The Xindi Attack on Earth etches a swath of destruction 4000 kilometers long, stated to be all the way from Florida to Venezuela, hitting Jamaica and Colombia. 4000 kilometers would indeed reach all the way from the northwestern corner of Florida almost all the way across Venezuela, but it starts in lower central Florida and proceeds almost due south, which is accurately shown to cut across Cuba and Panama(and, by extension, well into the Pacific Ocean). Unless at least Columbia and Panama got folded into Venezuela, it's not exactly on the way, nor is Jamaica.
Artistic License – Gun Safety : Target practice frequently happens in the armory, where the ship's high-yield torpedoes and weapons are held. After target practice in "Sleeping Dogs," Hoshi points her phase pistol at Reed's chest while handing it back to him, breaking just about every rule of gun safety.
Artistic License – Physics : For one thing, Earth-like gravity on a comet; one of the characters breaks his leg after falling a yard or so.
As Long as It Sounds Foreign : In "Broken Bow", Hoshi says she doesn't think that Klingonese has an expression for "thank you", but The Klingon Dictionary includes the verb tlho' for "to thank" (in context it would be conjugated as matlho' , "I thank all of you"). This may be Hoshi's mistake, but more likely it's a misplaced attempt to invoke Language Equals Thought .
Ascended Meme : Fans coined the name "Future Guy" to refer to the otherwise unnamed mysterious leader of the Temporal Cold War who first appeared in the pilot and was known only as the "Humanoid Figure". Ironically the writing staff actually took this name and used it for the character.
The Bad Guy Wins : They did a Black-and-Gray Morality version of this for the Mirror Universe episode "In A Mirror Darkly" with everyone being villainous in one way or another. The "heroes" were the Vulcans T'Pol and Soval, made sympathetic in part by their being a conquered people, but T'Pol is shown being rather cruel and manipulative in her own way, and both Vulcans are initially working for The Empire against The Resistance in any case. To make a long story short, they lose to the megalomaniacal version of Jonathan Archer, who's shown laughing and partying with his "Captain's Woman" Hoshi Sato as he celebrates his victory and prepares to take over as Emperor. To keep the ending from being completely disgusting, however, Hoshi Sato gives him some poisoned champagne to drink, and then embraces Travis Mayweather as her new consort in front of Archer as he lies dying from the poison. Later, upon reaching Earth, she carries out what had been his plan, demanding that Starfleet surrender or be destroyed, and announcing that she is the new Empress.
In one episode, aliens possess a sick Trip and Hoshi. They're shocked and confused by how these bodies feel so weird and frail and immediately leave them.
In "The Crossing", a noncorporeal alien possesses Malcolm Reed and is intrigued by the phenomenon of having sexual organs.
Bigger on the Inside : In "Future Tense" a time travel pod with blue organic circuitry and a mixed species pilot, all of which harkens to the Trope Codifier. Trip : Malcolm, how can a ship be bigger on the inside than the outside? Malcolm : This gives space exploration a whole new meaning.
Beware the Nice Ones : As mentioned in Humans Are Special , Ambassador Soval reveals that this is part of why the Vulcans are so wary of Humans. They managed to rebuild their entire civilization in next to no time after suffering a worldwide nuclear holocaust, discovered Warp Drive (due to efforts of an eccentric drunk in a shanty-town, no less) and are now on the way to forming the precursor to The Federation . The Vulcans are afraid of how fast humanity is progressing.
Biodata : In the pilot episode, the Klingon courier Klaang carried information injected directly into his DNA , concerning the Suliban's attempts to destabilize the Empire.
Bizarre Alien Sexes : In "Cogenitor" the crew come across a tri-gendered race called the Vissians. Trip gets very, very interested in this, to the point that it becomes a diplomatic incident.
Blessed with Suck : Archer tries to claim that this applies to the human race with his infamous "gazelle speech" at the start of the second season. While his basic point makes sense on some levels, his attempt to paint it as a good thing just comes off as ridiculous. Fortunately, T'Pol then steps in and makes the same argument in a much more articulate way.
Bond Villain Stupidity : Malik must have seen every Bond film, and not picked up on what not to do. He decides to leave Archer on board Cold Station-12 and release all the diseases in storage five minutes after they leave, even after shooting his weakling brother . Soong calls him out on this when Archer shows up alive and well the next episode.
Book Ends : The pilot episode opens with a young Jonathan Archer saying "where no man has gone before." The last line in the series also belongs to Captain Archer, getting the "To boldly go, where no man has gone before" line after Picard and Kirk's respective parts of the speech.
Bottle Episode : Nearly the entirety of "Shuttlepod One" takes place in, well, a shuttlepod, over the course of a few days, with Trip and Malcolm driving each other crazy.
Bounty Hunter : "Bounty" sees a Tellarite bounty hunter capture Archer in short order, in order to bring him to some very Klingons after the events of "Judgment."
Brainwashed : Hoshi (brain parasite), the crew ( space babes in "Rajiin" and "Bound"), Mirror Universe Trip (mind-meld) .
The Defiant (from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Tholian Web") makes an unexpected re-appearance over 37 years after that episode aired.
In the alternate timeline where the Xindi destroy Earth, the last human colony is located on Ceti Alpha V . The writers openly admitted to twisting the knife that much more - even if the humans were to somehow escape the Xindi, the colony would be destroyed anyways in less than a century.
Deconstructed with T'Pol's Pa'nar syndrome. The Vulcan Mind-Meld subculture and related Pa'nar syndrome disease served as allegories for homosexuality and AIDS, including the scorn heaped upon the former and the stigma attached to contracting the latter. Archer and Phlox repeatedly expressed their distaste for the Vulcan bigotry related to this issue, but they themselves continually point out that T'Pol, who has Pa'nar Syndrome, is not a member of the Mind-Meld minority, and contracted the disease through a non-consensual attack. T'Pol eventually pointed out to them that, by attempting to "excuse" her having the disease, they are supporting and even justifying the Double Standard that the High Command has against the Mind-Meld minority.
In "North Star", the theme of overcoming prejudice and tolerance is slightly undone as Bethany, the only person willing and able to give them any kind of respect and consideration, is later revealed (for no reason) to be a quarter-Skagaran herself. As a result, the Sheriff taking a level in kindness and becoming more tolerant is the only thing that preventing this aesop from being completely mangled.
Bug War : One of the Xindi races is insectoid.
Busman's Vocabulary : Hoshi is a linguist, and in "Two Days and Two Nights", she uses "learned several new conjugations" as a jokey Unusual Euphemism for a one-night stand.
Call-Forward : Numerous, with their own page here.
Ceiling Corpse : An early episode has the away team board an unresponsive alien vessel. The place is already quite spooky when Hoshi spots its crew strung up from the ceiling, having their blood mechanically harvested.
Celebrity Paradox : The space shuttle Enterprise appears in the opening credits and as a drawing in Archer's ready room. In real life, it was named as such because of a write-in campaign by fans to have it be in honor of Kirk's ship; NASA had originally planned to name the shuttle Constitution . Presumably, in the Star Trek universe, it was named in honor of the other American vessels named Enterprise .

Claiming Via Flag : The Special Edition Title of the mirror universe episodes depict an astronaut planting a Terran flag on the moon.
Clash of Evolutionary Levels : In an instance where nature does most of the work, the Enterprise finds a planet peacefully cohabited by two slightly different species at different evolutionary levels. The dominant species had a genetic condition which slated them to die out in a couple hundred years, while the lesser species was evolving to replace them. The Enterprise ultimately did not assist the dominant species as it would alter the planet's natural development. Comparisons to Humans and Neanderthals were made to justify this decision.
"Detained": Archer is detained under suspicion of leaking intel to the Suliban.
"Canamar" Archer and Tucker are mistaken for smugglers.
A Klingon Kourtroom episode, "Judgement", which also pays homage to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .
Cold-Blooded Torture : How do you torture a Vulcan? With a neural field that suppresses their ability to suppress their emotions.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience : Enterprise's phase cannons and torpedoes are a bright orange in color. Andorians fire blue particle weapons (hardly surprising), and any enemy they engage, be it Klingons, Xindi, future-Nazis or even Vulcans , fire green beams and torpedoes.
Comic-Book Adaptation : A notable averting of the trope; as of 2014, Enterprise stands as the only Trek franchise series to not have had a single comic book adaptation.
Commonality Connection : In "United", Shran and Archer discover this about each other, after he inquires about the paintings of the various ships on the wall of his cabin. Archer explains they are vessels from across the centuries named Enterprise , leading Shran to reveal that his ill-fated ship, the Kumari , was similarly named after the first icebreaker to circumnavigate Andoria.
Communications Officer : Hoshi's job. Her linguistics expertise also came into play because the Universal Translator was still a work-in-progress, it appeared to be operated manually, and given that we rarely see anyone using it, it's possible that Hoshi was either the only one able to operate it, or that it only partially worked, and Hoshi had to 'fill in the blanks' on her own. Unfortunately, the writers often couldn't find anything to do with her, and so she ended up doing random errands for several episodes. This was not helped as the show had an all but non-existent B-Cast for the first two seasons.
The Compliance Game : In "Desert Crossing", Trip's heatstroke is making him very sleepy but Archer fears that Trip would go into a coma if he fell asleep. So, he makes Trip stay awake by playing a game where they name countries beginning with different letters. When they get to "X", they argue over whether Xanadu counts.
Conflict Ball : Reed is pretty much the only person on board Enterprise who has an issue with the MACO's in season 3. Everyone else just treats them like extended members of the crew. His rivalry with Major Hayes in particular comes off as being incredibly one sided as whilst Reed is continuously ranting about the guy, Hayes takes half a season to finally blow his lid and retaliate in the episode Harbinger (and even then, it was Reed who elevated the situation to a physical fight rather than the other way around).
Conforming OOC Moment : In the episode "The Hatchery", Malcolm, Trip, and T'Pol stage a mutiny because they're disgruntled with Archer trying to save some alien babies instead of doing his job. While it's understandable that the casual Trip and the crotchety Malcolm would stage a mutiny, T'Pol is usually quite calculated and by-the-book. Also, everyone besides Archer is against the idea of saving the alien babies, including Phlox, who's a doctor and loves alien creatures.
Conqueror from the Future : The Sphere-Builders. A whole race of them .
Conspiracy Kitchen Sink : Insinuated by "The Forge", "Awakening", and "Kir'Shara." Apparently, all the dickery the Vulcans play on the humans and Andorians has its roots in reunification with Romulus .
Continuity Porn : Season 4 is chock-a-block full of references to TOS and has encounters with the Organians, a Gorn, the Mirror Universe, and T'Pau.
Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel : The show uses contemporary visual effects and construction techniques to make the Enterprise feel like a submarine with bolts in the walls, compared to the plywood sets of the original series. This is Handwaved in several places with explanations that smooth over the consistency issues with a couple of different theories - one is that the Enterprise is a very crude spaceship with no designer or creature comforts and all the technology out on display, while the look in TOS and other series are aesthetically-minded and designed to make things easier to use and less likely to break and come apart at the seams. This handwave is supported by the "Trials and Tribblations" episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine which directly makes reference to TOS era have particular styles and designs, much as unique architectural styles such as art deco are referenced today. In a Mirror Universe episode where the characters find a TOS era ship sent into the past, they treat it as an advanced warship for their time despite having cream painted walls and static monitor displays.
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot : "A Night in Sickbay". Porthos contracts a deadly disease, the NX-01 offends a major galactic power, and the ship is stranded and need of a rare component... because Archer brought his dog to a sacred grove of trees . Tucker and T'Pol lampshade it.
Cowboy Episode : "North Star" took place on a human colony in the Expanse. The culture there is bizarrely informed by the American west, a la "Spectre of the Gun" (TOS).
Crazy Cultural Comparison : The crew of the Enterprise causes a faux pas with an alien representative, who leaves in a huff, apparently disgusted by something. Eventually, Mayweather finds out that they find eating offensive. When asked how they do it, the alien explains that it's the same, but eating in the presence of others is a disgusting act for them.
Will Riker and Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the final episode.
While no actual characters crossed over, the Mirror episodes were a sequel to a Star Trek: The Original Series episode, and featured a TOS-era Federation Constitution -class starship, fully stocked with uniforms and quite operational.
The very first image in the opening sequence shows Kazakhstan from space, and anyone with a knowledge of geography will be able to easily make out Baikonur Cosmodrome - the "Soviet Cape Canaveral."
Culture Clash : Frequently. Trying to shake hands with Vulcans, eating in front of Kreetassans, and a host of other first-contact mishaps.
In "Fight or Flight?", when Hoshi's pet slug Sluggo doesn't move much, this causes her and Phlox to suspect that it's dying.
In one episode, Trip and Archer are in a Thirsty Desert and Trip becomes very sleepy. Archer thinks this is a sign he has heatstroke and needs to stay awake lest he go into a coma.
Dead Guy Junior : Trip and T'Pol's temporary baby, Elizabeth, after Trip's recently murdered sister.
Deadly Sparring : "Harbinger" features a sparring match between Lieutenant Reed and Major Hayes that turns into an all-out fistfight due to the professional tension between them. This leads to a trip to sickbay and a serious chewing-out by Captain Archer.
Decontamination Chamber : Transporters with bio-filters hadn't been invented yet and are viewed with suspicion anyway as brand new technology, so these get used. Really, given the 'bio-gel' used as a disinfectant, the real reason for this was for fanservice. The decon scenes all features the characters down to slightly more than their underwear rubbing each other .
Delayed Ripple Effect : Daniels says that massive changes in the timeline don't immediately alter the future. Even though taking Archer to the future resulted in immediately destroying the future...
Depending on the Writer : Characterization can vary greatly between episodes, most notably Captain Archer's varying tolerance for Vulcans.
Designated Victim : Unlike actors playing previous Trek captains, Scott Bakula was more than willing to appear battered and bruised, until Archer getting thrown in prison and beaten up by interrogators became a series cliché.
Diplomatic Back Channel : In the early days of space travel, Earth was considered a neutral party as they had not been apart of galactic politics long enough to have biases. As such Captain Archer often found himself arbitrating disputes between long conflicting parties, particularly between the Tellarites, Andorians, and Vulcans with his only goal being establishing Earth as a good neighbor and a willing ally. He does such a good job that Earth, Teller Prime, Andoria, and Vulcan will eventually be the founding members of the United Federation of Planets.
Distant Finale : Doubly so — "These Are The Voyages..." is set in 2370, showing Riker and Troi observing events that took place in 2161 (when the previous episode took place in 2155).
Does This Remind You of Anything? : " Reed Alert , that's not bad"
Double-Blind What-If : The episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" has Mirror Universe Archer tell T'Pol that in his universe Zefram Cochran killed the Vulcans and stole their ship, and idly wonders what would have happened had First Contact been peaceful... which is in fact what happened in the "main" universe.
Double-Meaning Title : Referring to the ship itself as well as the "enterprise" of venturing into the unknown and going where no one- ah you know the rest .
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male : Trip gets zero sympathy in “Unexpected” when he’s made pregnant, and he has to state over and over that he was a gentleman and didn’t lay a hand on the alien.
Downer Ending : "Cogenitor" ends with the third-gender cogenitor committing suicide when they realize they'll never be able to experience the free life Trip showed them.
Dream Sequence : T'Pol experiences one in Season 1's "Fusion"
Dream Spying : Trip and T'Pol pop into each others dreams in one episode, despite being on different vessels.
Drowning My Sorrows : In "Shuttlepod One", Trip and Reed find the bottom of a bottle of bourbon after they're stranded in space facing a slow death. "The Universe can laugh at us all it wants to; it's not getting my bourbon!"
Duel to the Death : In "United", a furious Shran declares this after the murder of his lover by one of the Tellarite ambassadors. Trying to save the conference, Archer, Hoshi and Travis figure out a loophole in the rules to allow him to substitute Archer in the ambassador's place and find a non-lethal way to settle the duel, which still respects Andorian tradition.
"Broken Bow" features Enterprise using a blaster-like pulse weapon against the Suliban. It would never be seen again, with the ship's armaments being phase cannon and spatial torpedoes, and later on, photonic torpedoes.
A couple of early episodes would have characters referring to their ship as "the Enterprise ." Besides one mention in "The Augments," no one would refer to Enterprise with the definite article. (Nor should they, any more than they'd refer to the captain or the doctor as " the Archer" or " the Phlox".)
Eerie Arctic Research Station : In the episode "Regeneration", a team of scientists at an Arctic research station in the middle 22nd century comes across Borg drones preserved in the ice from Time Travel events that took place in Star Trek: First Contact . After investigating and recovering the bodies, the drones infiltrate the Enterprise and manage to relay a message to the rest of the Collective before they're stopped.
"Sleeping Dogs" ( Das Boot In Space !), "Shadows of P'Jem", "Dawn", "The Forgotten", "Countdown", "Zero Hour", "Storm Front", "United."
"Countdown" and "Zero Hour" have the rebellious Xindi helping Enterprise fight the sphere-builders.
In United , Humans, Andorians, and Tellarites band together to stop the Romulans.
Epic Launch Sequence : The pilot episode features the launch of the titular starship, which also represents the launch of Earth's endeavor to truly explore the galaxy.
The pilot episode "Broken Bow" has a Klingon crash on Earth in Oklahoma and was shot by a farmer with a plasma rifle that has the mechanical behavior of a lever-action shotgun. It gave the series a stronger 20 Minutes in the Future tone that set it apart from other Star Trek shows.
For better or for worse, "Dear Doctor". For better in that it firmly establishes that the rule of conduct we've come to know in Star Trek (i.e. the Prime Directive) do not yet exist in the Enterprise era. For worse in that many fans chose this episode as the point where they abandoned Enterprise and televised Star Trek (if they didn't jump ship with "A Night in Sickbay").
Exotic Extended Marriage : Denobulans (both male and female) tend to have three spouses each. Dr. Phlox, the Enterprise's chief surgeon, thus had a total of 720 people he was directly or indirectly married to.
Expy : The Xindi are loosely this to the Dominion in the latter seasons of DS9 , with the Sphere Builders filling the role of the Founders (an enigmatic, all-powerful race who, initially at least, are treated with a near-religious reverence by the rest of the Xindi, and are typically represented by an aloof bald female spokesperson), the Humanoids, Arboreals, and Aquatics collectively taking up the role of the Cardassians (being somewhat suspicious and paranoid towards humanity, but motivated primarily by survival and being more willing to question the Sphere Builders), and the Reptilians and to a lesser extent Insectoids taking up the role of the Jem'Hadar (fanatically devoted to the Sphere Builders, and Absolute Xenophobes who, with one or two exceptions, are beyond any hope of reason).
False Flag Operation : In "Kir'Shara", Archer reveals that the embassy bombing was planned by V'Las to give them a pretext for rounding up the Syrannites and keeping the titular artifact from being found .
Famous, Famous, Fictional : The opening credits sequence are a visual example, presenting a montage of real historic advancements in human exploration - sailing, flight, undersea, near space - culminating in the fictional invention of next-generation orbital shuttles, warp drive, and the launch of the titular starship.
In "Dawn", when Trip is stranded on a hostile planet with an Arkonian pilot, he discovers that Arkonian saliva can heal wounds rapidly.
Dr. Phlox took advantage of the medicinal properties of several non-sentient alien species in his sickbay.
The Enterprise decontamination room exists mainly so the audience can see the main characters stripping down to their skivvies and rubbing decon gel over each other ( provided they're not both men ).
The 'struggling-to-escape-our-bonds' moment in "Shadows of P'Jem."
T'Pol's catsuits , that no Vulcan has ever worn before. (In the future; in the past, who knows?)
Shirtless Scenes , usually involving either Captain Archer, or the well-muscled Trip Tucker.
Shower Scene — a zero-G surprise involving Captain Archer and a Daydream Surprise Shower of Love involving T'Pol/Trip.
Vulcan neuropressure: designed to make Trip relax while being massaged by a hot Vulcan chick with nothing on under her robe. Yeah, right.
Green Skinned Space Babes : Orion slave girls! Three of them! And there's Talas, a blue-skinned Andorian Action Girl .
The Mirror Universe ! "In a Mirror, Darkly" has both the sexual kind and fanservice for actual fans. It brings back the evil Terran Empire from the Original Series "Mirror Mirror", the USS Defiant is back ("The Tholian Web"), all the women have midriff-exposing outfits (combined with the 1960s-style miniskirt), Hoshi sleeps around and gets into a Cat Fight with T'Pol, and a Gorn is bought back and made into a credible threat.
Fear Is Normal : In "Fight or Flight", Hoshi is a bit uneasy on the spaceship and when she screams upon seeing some corpses, she fears she's nothing but a nervous wreck. Eventually, however, she realises she's a useful officer when she learns to speak to some aliens.
Femme Fatale : Mirror Hoshi becomes a rather unexpected example of this trope.
First Contact : Numerous instances, such as with the Andorians and several species only present in this series.
Following in Relative's Footsteps : Jonathan Archer's reason for becoming a spaceship captain is because his now-dead father Henry was also one and Jonathan wanted to honor Henry.
Foregone Conclusion : One episode takes place when Archer and his friend A.G. Robinson were in the academy. At one point, they're in danger of dying, but we know that Archer survives, and that A.G. doesn't die until much later.
Time agent Daniels leaves a holographic database in cabin E-14 that only is can be accessed only when Daniels gives permission. Justified, as Archer is probably inclined to not attempt to access it by force simply because it's probably well protected by extremely advanced technology. Not to mention, screwing around with time travel, even simply in the form of an information database from the future, is probably not a good idea. It's still odd that breaking in is never mentioned in season three, however, where the crew is often in extremely bad circumstances, where failure means the destruction of the Earth.
Remember that Suliban cell ship that was capable of warp 5, cloaking, and had a tractor beam, that Starfleet recovered in the pilot? It took until the second season before they mentioned they were still trying to figure out its technology, but still, it seems it was relegated to Starfleet's junk drawer since they are never mentioned again.
Just think how much simpler the plot of "Minefield" would have been if someone had remembered they have a transporter beam that has already been successfully used on humans...
Fun with Acronyms : United Earth's M ilitary A ssault C ommand O perations soldiers.
Genius Ditz : Tucker. In "Shuttlepod One" it's shown that he doesn't understand simple algebra problems, which you think would be required reading for anyone who happens to be in charge of an matter/anti-matter reactor?!
Genetic Memory : Sim, Tucker's clone grown from an alien creature injected with his DNA, is shown to somehow possess all of Tucker's memories up until that point.
Genre Blind : In Rogue Planet , the viewer can immediately tell exactly what's going on when Archer hears an unfamiliar woman's voice calling out to him: it's a telepathic creature native to this world. Archer... not so much.
The Ghost : Chef is mentioned numerous times over the course of the series, but the only time he appears on screen, his face is obscured, and the only time any characters talk with him onscreen, it's in the Series Finale which takes place in a holodeck simulation, where Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation has taken his place.
Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex : It's implied that this has been going on on Earth on a planet-wide scale following the Xindi attack, with a record number of marriages and births over the next year.
Go Through Me : In the Vulcan arc, Trip (in command while Archer is missing on Vulcan) places the Enterprise between the Vulcan and Andorian fleets to try and keep them from doing too much damage to each other.
In proud tradition...Orion slave girls return in the fourth season. It turns out that they enslave their men with powerful pheromones.
Talas the Andorian gets an honorable mention as a Blue-Skinned Space Babe.
Handshake Refusal : Sub-commander T'pol does this to Trip Tucker in the pilot episode. Justified in that T'pol is a Vulcan, Vulcans being touch telepathic aliens who don't like touching members of their own species, let alone emotional humans. It pretty obviously doubled as a snub, however.
"Harmful to Pets" Reminder : Captain Archer knows that too much cheese is bad for his dog, Porthos. It doesn't really stop him, though.
Hate Plague : The episode "Singularity" has the NX-01 approaching a black hole for scans, and the closer they get, the more they started to suffer from this as their obsessions clashed with each other.
Heroes Love Dogs : Archer absolutely adores his pet beagle Porthos. In "A Night in Sickbay", he's willing to throw away humanity's burgeoning relations with the Kreetassans when Porthos becomes infected with a virus after visiting their planet. Admittedly, it's not a very good episode but it does illustrate how much he loves his dog.
Chef , Future Guy .
For a long time Admiral Gardner, until he turned up in the Mirror Universe . So it's He Who Must Not Be Seen In This Timeline.
Hilarious Outtakes : This was the first Star Trek series to have official season blooper reels compiled for DVD release.
The Sphere Builders, the Vulcans, the Romulans and Dr. Arik Soong try to plan to their benefit but end up causing the very events they're trying to avoid.
The Klingons, who in their attempt to create Augments, ended up creating a virus that nearly wiped them out. In the end, they managed to find a cure, but this still left them no longer possessing cranial ridges .
"Dear Doctor" manages to provide an unusual instance of evolution being both the real life version, and the Hollywood version. The Menk are going to evolve into a lifeform superior to the Valakians, and so the Valakians 'evolve' a genetic defect to make room for them. So that the Menk can evolve due to their altered environment. Basically, it manages to mix Goal-Oriented Evolution and evolution influenced by environment into a single plot point.
However, in the end, the small bit of realistic genetics gets overshadowed by Hollywood inventiveness. Evolution (in simplest terms) is the accumulation of genetic traits and mutations passed into successive generations by natural selection and adaptation. In other episodes, Phlox seems to understand the fact that as soon as you involve anything external to an ecosystem (technology, medicine... doctors) you are changing the parameters for selection and adaptation, however he doesn't seem to realize how this applies to the situation at hand . What is truly frustrating is that in nearly all other episodes, Phlox actually shows a good understanding of medicine and ethics, so this drop into Idiot Ball stupidity is particularly noticeable.
In Real Life , the first Space Shuttle was called the Enterprise , with the second being the Columbia . In this series, the first warp-5 ship is called Enterprise , with the second called Columbia ; and the semi-canon Expanded Universe materials indicate that the remaining warp-5 ships continued with the Theme Naming ( Challenger , Discovery , Atlantis and Endeavour ).
In the Mirror Universe the Enterprise crewman still wear the standard jumpsuits (with added Bling of War ) but in homage to Uhura's fanservice-y outfit in "Mirror Mirror" the women wear a two-piece, including a high-cut shirt that shows off their taut abs.
Hotter and Sexier : Or at least, it tried to be. Unfortunately it was during its run that the "eww, girls are gross" fanbase and the "SF should have no romance" fanbase and the "shipper" fanbase and the "all romance in Star Trek is childish fanservice" all collided. The amount of gratuitous and really odd fanservice with things like " crewmen rubbing each other down half-naked with antibacterial cream in the decontamination chamber " that just left most people disgusted or really really confused didn't help either.
Human Resources : The repair station in "Dead Stop" grabs a crew member from any ship it repairs and uses them to power itself. Travis is narrowly saved from this fate, but the others they find are too far gone.
Humans Are Diplomats : While this era clearly stumbles occasionally, Series 4 has Starfleet begin to forge an interstellar alliance, even managing to unite the Vulcans and Andorians who have thus-far been at war for centuries . With the Tellarites on their side, this eventually leads to the formation of the Coalition of Planets, the precursor to The Federation . Not that we actually get to see most of that...
Ambassador Soval and Admiral Forrest had a very interesting conversation in "The Forge" where Soval explains why Vulcans were so aloof and withdrawn to them despite being allies. Vulcans had a devastating world war and it took them sixteen hundred years to rebuild their race. Humans suffered a similar thing and within a hundred years discovered FTL travel, made contact with aliens, united as a single world government, solved world hunger, world poverty and eliminated all curable diseases. On top of that, they had started the makings of The Federation . Vulcans were concerned that they could either be powerful allies or end up like the Klingons.
Soval also points out that humans remind the Vulcans of their past violent and emotionally turbulent selves before they embraced logic. Little does Soval or Forrest know that there's another expansionist species descended from pre-logic Vulcans that fits this description — the Romulans.
The episode "Observer Effect" returns the Organians, who study how different species react to a silicon-based virus. It's explicitly stated that humans display more compassion in fighting the virus than any other species that has been observed in 800 years.
Hybridization Plot : One two-episode arc towards the end of the series involves anti-alien extremists stealing the DNA of Trip (a human) and T'Pol (an alien; specifically a Vulcan) to make a cross-breed baby girl, who they name Elizabeth. The extremists cite Elizabeth as the kind of thing that will happen if aliens interact with humans and therefore as a reason why they shouldn't.
Hybrids Are a Crapshoot : Zigzagged in a two-part story arc towards the end of the series. A baby is created from the DNA of Trip and T'Pol such as that she's essentially their daughter even though T'Pol was never pregnant. Throughout the episodes, the baby has a fever and high white blood cell count which ultimately kills her, and other characters wonder if it's because humans and Vulcans have incompatible chromosomes. As it turns out, however, the baby was just created imperfectly; humans and Vulcans are indeed capable of safely interbreeding, which was proven true in the previous season thanks to time-travel shenanigans .
Purposefully invoked and deconstructed in "Damage", where Archer realizes that in order to reach Azati Prime in time to prevent the Xindi from destroying Earth, he must engage in piracy and steal a replacement warp coil from the Illyrians. In other words, become no different from the Osaarian pirates from "Anomaly" that he so despised. This happens a couple of times in the Expanse, where Archer takes actions that he would never have dreamed of before and would have thought of as completely hypocritical when it was only his ship, crew and mission he had to take care of, but which become horribly necessary when the fate of his entire species (and throw in half the quadrant too) are on the brink of extinction.
John Paxton, the leader of the xenophobic Earth organization Terra Prime. He had unwavering dedication to his cause, and was willing to scorch half of San Francisco to make his demands known. Considering this was after a devastating alien attack, their concerns about an alien alliance had some validity. T'Pol deduced from a trembling hand that Paxton had a genetic disorder, one that should have killed him when he was a teenager, but didn't because of "freely given" alien medical technology. Paxton will only admit that he's not the first leader to fail to live up to the standard of an idol (in his case, a mass murderer from Earth's post- World War III period), and refuses to back down. This fact exposed him as a man who was just racist.
Archer's actions in "Fortunate Son" where he holds a tirade against Ryan for seeking revenge against pirates who have repeatedly attacked his ship and nearly fatally injured one of his crew, compared to "Silent Enemy" where Archer seeks revenge against unknown aliens who have repeatedly attacked his ship and nearly fatally injured one of his crew. Bad enough already, but the latter takes place only two episodes later!
On a broader scale, Archer is always advocating open-mindedness and embracing other lifeforms, and yet as the series goes on, we find that he falls into the occasional habit of being suspicious, paranoid, and almost hostile upon first contact with truly alien forms of life or humanoids that are very different from the human norm for absolutely no good reason (except maybe his "feelings"), while he is warm, welcoming, and forgiving to more familiar humanoids for the exact same lack of reasoning. Sometimes his paranoia ends up being justified by the plot, but not for any reason that he could determine beforehand. And this suspicion isn't around when he meets human-looking aliens who turn out to be devious, so you can't put it down to an indefinable sense of "gut" instinct. It edges onto What Measure Is a Non-Human? in his interspecies treatment.
In "The Breach", Phlox points out that Denobulan Medical Ethics prevent him from treating someone who does not want to be treated and that he must respect his patients wishes, even if they lead to their death. Which makes his actions in "Dear Doctor" even more shocking in retrospect, since the Valakians most certainly did want to be treated! Considering that throughout the entire series his upholding of Medical Ethics and his practice of medicine is completely consistent except for "Dear Doctor", this comes closer to a cross between Idiot Ball and Out-of-Character Moment (see Idiot Ball for more), and in fact his actions and attitude in "Dear Doctor" are hypocritical in many ways when compared with the way he acts in the rest of the series, not just in patient autonomy and duty of care.
Likewise Archer in "Dear Doctor". When all is said and done, he is quite happy for him and his crew to have the services of an alien physician with advanced bio-medical knowledge to assist them as they explore the unknown and have to deal with the health threats inherent in doing so. But helping the Valakians is "playing God"! When combined with his long-standing complaints about the Vulcans withholding their technology from humanity, it comes across as the pinnacle of hypocrisy since Archer is just fine with humans receiving alien assistance.
To be fair, the proposed intervention which Archer rejects would have altered the evolution of the planet's entire society, while his crew's use of alien medical technology is just "handy" and "convenient."
Hybrids Are a Crapshoot : Zigzagged in a two-part story arc towards the end of the series. A baby is created from the DNA of Trip and T'Pol such as that she's essentially their daughter even though T'Pol was never pregnant. Throughout the episodes, the baby has a fever and high white blood cell count which ultimately kills her, and other characters wonder if it's because humans and Vulcans have incompatible chromosomes. As it turns out, however, the baby was just created imperfectly; humans and Vulcans are indeed capable of safely interbreeding.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy : Interestingly, both sides of a Love Triangle do this for T'Pol, a few episodes apart.
An in-universe version: the creator(s) of the Augments enhanced their aggression, ambition and tendency for violence (or in other words, all primal human instincts left over from basic humanoid evolution before higher cortical functions took over) and didn't make sure that their dis-inhibition wasn't lowered at the same time? How was that a good idea at all? These geneticists basically made sure that the reasoning and complicated thought processes inherent in the cerebral cortex (particularly the frontal lobes) that makes humans human (also the limbic system and capacity for compassion) was enslaved to uncontrolled primitive desires. In their Augments they reduced humanity to a primitive animalistic group-society with the added cruelty and violence of intelligent humans. All that their "higher intelligence" did was make sure that they lived in such a manner with advanced technology. Yes, this was clearly the way forward for human evolution and genetic science .
In "The Expanse", unless Duras had caught up with them that very second, we have to assume that he'd intentionally waited until Enterprise had dropped out of warp in the Solar System before staging his ambush, instead of attacking them whilst in Deep Space. Naturally, this ambush occurring right in their own backyard means that Starfleet shows up in less than a minute.
In "Bound", knowing that the Orion females are emitting a pheromone that allows them to manipulate the men onboard, they decide to lock them in the Decon Chamber as a safety precaution... then decide to post a male guard in the room with them.
I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder : Phlox uses this one in "Doctor's Orders" when neither he nor T'Pol—the only crew members awake at the time because plot reasons feel qualified to operate the warp engine: "I'm a physician, not an engineer!"
Inferred Holocaust : Invoked at the end of "The Communicator", where to prevent cultural contamination by revealing their alien origins, Archer lets a highly paranoid military power believe that they are genetically engineered super-soldiers from their enemy nation, with advanced particle weapons, sub-orbital craft that is not only invisible to radar, but the naked eye as well! Archer reflects at the end of the end of the episode, that despite preventing them from acquiring advanced technology, with all the political tension on that planet, chances are that they probably made things a lot worse!
The constant destruction/rebirth of Shuttlepod 1, the zombie shuttlepod.
Mostly averted. Unlike Star Trek: Voyager , damage inflicted in one episode ("Minefield") meant they had to pull into a space repair dock in the next ("Dead Stop"). And severe damage in the third season meant that for the rest of the season they spend time repairing the ship but almost anything more then a hiccup and the ship starts to fall apart again. As well, there weren't any starbases around and any damage to the warp drive meant that help was months or even years away.
The alternate Enterprise from "E2" is shown as being even more battle-scarred, due to having spent over a century in the Expanse after being thrown back in time.
Insane Admiral : Averted. Uniquely among the other Trek shows, Enterprise had a regularly occurring Reasonable Authority Figure in Admiral Forrest that the crew reported to. Even his Mirror Universe counterpart was largely honorable (going down in a Heroic Sacrifice to give Archer time to complete the mission), if a bit brutal.
"Genetic predestination"... Star Trek has always had issues with the idea of "genetic predestination" - an idea which by its very nature is a logical fallacy - but in "Dear Doctor" is where the full force stupidity of it comes into play. Basing an entire episode on an idea which has no inherent sense whatsoever does not a good outcome make .
Archer does some pretty impressive rhetorical gymnastics to convince himself that the Valakians simply are not ready to handle warp drive technology yet, and won't be before they become extinct. This despite the fact that they have what is definitely a late-21st Century level of technological development and slower-than-light space travel, as well as what appears to be a peaceful civilization. As shown in Star Trek: First Contact , humanity's first warp drive spacecraft was designed, built, and flown by a borderline alcoholic living in a post- World War III shanty town in the wilds of Montana out of salvaged materials in an abandoned missile silo! On what basis is Archer casting aspersions on the Valakian's being "ready"? Or does humanity privately acknowledge that there were fair odds that Cochrane might have blown up North America when he tried to launch the Phoenix and they just try not to think about it too much?
Inscrutable Aliens : In the episode Silent Enemy , the Enterprise encountered an alien ship that did not speak when hailed and soon turned inexplicably hostile.
Instrumental Theme Tune : Disastrously averted. Enterprise was the only series in the Star Trek franchise that didn't use an instrumental theme. "Faith of the Heart" was poorly received. Many online petitions were submitted for its removal from the title sequence.
Intimate Lotion Application : A recurring scene in the series was the crew going through a Decontamination Chamber upon returning to the ship, which involved them stripping down to their skivvies and rubbing "decon gel" onto each other. It often provided fuel to T'Pol and Trip's sexual tension whenever they had to do it.
Invaded States of America : During the Temporal Cold War, intervention from aliens allowed the Nazis to invade the United States.
Terra Prime are a human-supremacist organization, which promotes openly racist, highly xenophobic rhetoric, as well as the belief in maintaining racial purity. This is despite the fact many of their members are shown to be from ethnicities subjected to the same kind of harassment, throughout human history. Of course, this was probably the whole point .
In the Mirror Universe episode, evil Captain Archer proudly shows off the shotgun Zephram Cochrane used to kill the first Vulcan who stepped onto human soil.
Season 3 - A not-so-negative example of this trope. The Issue Drift is worked naturally into the storyline and there are no instances of Author Filibuster or any Strawman Political .
The season 4 Vulcan arc where the Vulcan High Command is trying to destroy a religious extremist group hiding out in a remote desert encampment who supposedly bombed the Earth Embassy, while really the High Command is trying to justify a war with Andoria behind the scenes , is the more explicit example of this trope.
Then there's Terra Prime - quite figuratively a terrorist organization who values human supremacy over all other forms of life and who thinks interspecies offspring are an abomination, and that Starfleet is contaminating Earth by letting other species come and visit or live there. Turns out they have the same rationalizations and paranoia as every white-supremacist, anti-semitic, religious-extremist, misandrist / misogynist or any other group which believes they are superior to another group of human beings in the world today.
Joke of the Butt : In "Precious Cargo", Trip says to an alien noblewoman, "Move your butt!". She doesn't seem to understand, so he says, "Your backside! Your rear end!".
Jurisdiction Friction : In Season 3, Malcolm sees himself having this with Major Hayes, the commander of the MACO detachment. Oddly, he keeps this attitude even after fighting alongside the MACOs on several missions, including going in with Major Hayes on the kemocite facility.
Archer is undercover on a pre-industrial alien world, and doing some covert work alongside an alien female. When his Universal Translator breaks and he can no longer understand her, he smooches the woman to shut her up and distract her long enough so he can fix the translator behind her back.
Played with later in the episode, where she reveals she realized he was fiddling with this translation device and just went along with it anyway, and at the end of the episode when they kiss for real and both of them joke that it's because his translator's broken again. She had no idea he was an alien the first time they kissed and he covered by claiming he thought someone was coming their way (they were hiding at the time).
Well, Klingon Lawyers actually. In fact, this trope is actually brought up by the Lawyer, who is afraid he is seeing the destruction of his society thanks to the dominance of the warrior culture.
Later on a Klingon Scientist - actually a Klingon Doctor - brings up a similar problem, that his house was a warrior caste and his family actually disowned him for becoming a doctor, even when he served in the Klingon Army as The Medic, and that the High Council delegates so few funds to medical research that he was not only forced to steal the Interspecies Medical Exchange database in order to help his patients, but he's not even allowed to ask for help from anyone because the Warrior Caste would see it as being weak, dishonorable, and exposing their vulnerabilities to their enemies.
Kryptonite Factor : Trellium-D, for Vulcans, who for the last five series seemed impervious or substantially more resilient to anything that harms or afflicts humans and other humanoids. That, and mating cycles.
Kudzu Plot : Once again, related to the "Temporal Cold War." Even the producers admitted they had no idea where it was going.
Lampshade Hanging : In “The Andorian Incident”, Trip gets very close to pointing out a core problem with in-universe Starfleet/the Federation in that “going where no man has gone before” tends to be going to planets where people settle and assimilating them, but as this is a prequel and he’s biased, he blames the Vulcans.
Laser-Guided Karma : The Vulcans refuse to lend Humanity any aid during the Xindi Incident, even though the Earth is certain facing destruction should the Xindi attack again. The destruction of Vulcan in the new Alternate Universe of Star Trek (2009) could be considered severe karmic payback for this .
Later-Installment Weirdness : Spock explained that the war between the Romulans and Earth was fought with "primitive atomic weaponry", using "primitive space vehicles" that allowed no quarter and no captives, nor was ship to ship visual communication possible in Star Trek S1 E14 "Balance of Terror" . The Enterprise NX-01 comes equipped first with plasma cannons and is later upgraded to phase cannons (precursor to phasers), also comes equipped with spatial torpedoes (which may be nuclear by nature) and is later upgraded to photonic torpedoes (precursor to photon torpedos, but similar in form and function in almost all but name), which only one weapon in Enterprise's arsenal throughout the series may apply to "primitive atomic weaponry". The Enterprise also comes equipped with a transporter, a brig, and a viewscreen allowing transporting enemy personnel from their ships and/or transporting soldiers to board their ships, imprisoning enemies, and visual communication with enemy ships respectively (the latter explanation is hand waved by showing during the series that the Romulans only stick to audio communication and don't reveal themselves visually to their enemies during the ST: Enterprise era, while Spock's briefing implied that visual communication was impossible between Earth, Romulan and/or either side's Allied ships, due to technology constraints).
Lawful Evil : Invoked by Sheriff MacReady in "North Star", who ( initially ) defends keeping down the Skagarans because it's the law and chastises his Deputy for deliberately antagonising or murdering Skagarans simply for fun .
Legacy Character : The Enterprise herself. Archer and Shran discussed that both of their ships were named after prior vessels and wondered if their own ships would inspire other vessel names.
Locked Room Mystery : "Shuttlepod One" puts Trip and Reed in a stranded shuttlepod that's slowly losing power, and they hash out a lot of issues while waiting for death.
Looks Like Orlok : The Na'kuhl.
Lost Colony : "Terra Nova" has the crew find a lost human colony that's been driven underground and despises their homeworld thanks to radiation and a misunderstanding.
The Main Characters Do Everything : In the first seasons the Enterprise lacked a B-cast, meaning that they really did do everything. This includes Archer serving as a nurse, not having anyone trained to use the brand new, notoriously unreliable transporter , and sending Hoshi around to do random inconsequential jobs as though she were an intern.
Made of Iron : Archer seems to repeatedly forget that Vulcans have superior strength and stamina to humans. Naturally, his attempt to try and out-jog T'Pol in "A Night in Sickbay" fails spectacularly.
The Man Behind the Man : Future Guy in the first couple seasons, the Sphere Builders in Season 3.
Marshmallow Hell : In "Shadows of P'Jem", Archer gets a faceful of T'Pol's, umm...'class-D planets' as the pair struggles to escape their ropes.
Mauve Shirt : Major Hayes. Also Commander Kelby, Trip's replacement as chief engineer.
Meaningful Name : Enterprise is named after a largely capitalist concept of starting something new, an odd name for the first deep space exploration/diplomatic vessel that a united and rapidly post capitalist Earth sends out. The second ship of the NX Class, Columbia, is named after a personification of the Americas and often more specifically the USA; also an odd choice for a representative of a united Earth. Meta, Enterprise was named for the US Navy ships of the same name, Gene Roddenberry and some of the initial staff being navy men, and Columbia was named after the Space Shuttle; in universe, it's plausible that both are named after the shuttles.
"Dear Doctor" has Dr. Phlox confront an ethical dilemma based on Trek writers' usual poor understanding of evolution when they find a species with a genetic disease.
"Stigma" is an AIDS allegory when T'Pol is found to have a disease contracted from mind-melding, which is described as "a deviant practice" by this era's Vulcans.
"Similtude" is another ethics conundrum; when Trip dies, Phlox creates a fast-growing clone to harvest organs from.
"Countdown" sees a Xindi-Reptillian do this to poor Hoshi so she'll give them launch codes. Hoshi resists as long as she can, but it's not pretty.
Mistaken for Flirting : In one episode, Hoshi Sato is trying to find out what Malcolm Reed likes to eat, so that she can throw him a Surprise Party for his birthday . She asks him if he has a favorite food and mentions she has a hotplate in her quarters, but he refuses to answer and thinks she's coming onto him.
Mistaken for Insane : Implied in an episode, when a man from the 21st century is being hauled away by the police and ranting about what went on during the episode, which involved aliens and Ray Guns , the police look at him incredulously.
Mistaken for Spies : "Communicator". Malcolm accidentally leaves his communicator behind on a pre-warp planet that's on the brink of war. He and Archer go back to retrieve it, and are assumed to be spies from the other side of the war.
Mister Seahorse : In "Unexpected", Trip gets pregnant when he and a female Xyrillian stick their hands in a bowl of glowing pebbles.
The Mole : Several of them that run the gamut from helpful to harmful. Archer's steward Daniels turns out to be a time agent from the 31st century. Malcolm Reed works for an early incarnation of Section 31 , while reporter Gannet turns out to be working for Starfleet Intelligence and Ensign Masaro for radical Earth group Terra Prime .
In the pilot episode we are treated to Klingons running across the Great Plains of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Broken Bow is a real place in the hilly, heavily forested southeastern corner, one of the few areas of the state that actually DOESN'T look like this.
A literal example of the trope is in "Carpenter Street," which takes place in Detroit and ends with a shot of some mountains which can't be found anywhere in Southeast Michigan.
Mr. Fanservice : Trip took his shirt off enough times to count for this. He's reduced to his undershirt and underwear on three separate occasions in season one alone. He even spends half of one episode saving the day wearing this under combo. Of course this doesn't compare to T'Pol's complete nudity...
T'Pol, an attempt to have a Seven of Nine character present from the get-go. Also provides Star Trek's first actual bare ass shot.
Mirror Universe's Hoshi Sato .
Hoshi crawls through a Jeffries Tube, but manages to lose her shirt on her way out.
The Mutiny : "Hatchery". Justified , though, in that Archer's judgement has been compromised.
Mythology Gag : There were three major Admirals in the series, Admiral Forrest, Admiral Leonard and Admiral Williams. The original series trio was Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and McCoy ( DeForest Kelley). Kelly was the first of them to pass away; Admiral Forrest is the most prominent of those Admirals in the series.
Nature Lover : Captain Archer loves doing outdoor activities, such as camping and hiking.
Never My Fault : The Vulcans used a monastery to spy on the Andorians. According to them, it's Archer and T'Pol's fault that their sacred site was subsequently destroyed. They don't consider that maybe they shouldn't have built a sensor array under it.
Never Trust a Trailer : Season 2 had trailers for three episodes ("A Night in Sickbay", "Cogenitor", and "Bounty") portrayed as light-hearted, sex-filled episodes. "A Night in Sickbay" was a disaster, and "Bounty" had the sex stuff as a cheap b-plot. "Cogenitor", on the other hand, was very dark, but also critically very well received. "Cogenitor" actually tried to analyze the moral questions of gender-based oppression and whether non-interference is the best course of action, and is generally considered one of the few standout episodes from the first three seasons. It's just that fans look back and chuckle at how goofy the trailer looked.
No New Fashions in the Future : Civilians and government officials typically dress in a style virtually identical to early 21st century (that would be now) business formal. This was partially an intentional choice to highlight how this prequel series was only a hundred and fifty years from our present day.
Enterprise has handrails that could accidentally sever fingers ("Unexpected"), the De-Con chamber is not located anywhere near the airlock, doesn't have a proper seal and can be hotwired to open from the inside ("Acquisition") and the manual overrides to vent plasma fires can only be reached from the outside of the ship ("Forgotten"). Furthermore, the highly dangerous and very experimental transporter doesn't have an officer specifically trained in its operation ("Strange New World").
In "Shockwave", the Enterprise crew are visiting a colony planet that, due to technobabble, is capable of blowing up if proper landing procedures are not taken. This would be bad enough, but on top of that, instead of having dedicated ships and pilots to transport visitors, they just let the Enterprise enter their atmosphere with no more precautions than an instruction manual.
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup : Averted with the Xindi weapon. They build two prototypes, one of which is used to attack Earth and another mostly destroys a moon. By the end of Season 3, Archer is concerned that destroying the weapon will only result in the Xindi building another, which is why he tries to convince Degra and other council members to make peace. In addition, Degra was cunning enough to encrypt the schematics so it could not be easily rebuilt.
Noble Demon : Shran is generally portrayed this way. He's as suspicious, paranoid and ruthless as Vulcans accuse Andorians in general of being... but he has a conscience, and can always be trusted to do the right thing in the end, even if he takes a long, circuitous, and sometimes cruel path getting there.
Non Sequitur Environment : Whenever Archer gets pulled into some time-travel shenanigans courtesy of Daniels, he'll walk through a door on Enterprise and end up God-knows-when.
Nothing Is The Same Any More : The Xindi attack on Earth in "The Expanse."
Not Really a Birth Scene : In an episode, Dr. Phlox is putting Malcolm through some physical therapy for a leg injury, and it looks a lot like a birth scene, including Dr. Phlox telling Malcolm to push.
When Trip rants about Orion slavery in "Borderland," Soong points out that someone with such a strong Southern accent probably has ancestors who had a hand in the chattel slavery of their own time.
There's a subtle moment inn "The Forge" when Archer has a little chuckle as T'Pol relates the difficulties that have arisen between Surak's time and the present. T'Pol: Over the centuries, his followers made copies of his teachings. Archer: Let me guess: with the originals lost, whatever's left is open to interpretation. T'Pol: You find this amusing? Archer: I find it familiar.
In Enterprise , the growing realisation of this between Archer and Shran was part of what lead the Andorians to enter diplomatic talks with Humanity, noting their similarities as highly stubborn, yet honorable, men of their word, who serve on starships named after important vessels from history.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist : Commander Dolim is informed along with the rest of the Xindi leaders that humanity will destroy them in the future, so they engage in a pre-emptive strike against Earth in preparation for building an even stronger weapon to Kill All Humans . The Xindi are actually being manipulated by a shady cabal from a future timeline, but when Dolim learns of this, he greedily accepts their offer to make the Reptilians the dominant force of a new Xindi empire and turns on his allies, proving that his actions were never about protecting the Xindi, just about securing his power.
Novelization : The series' first episode, first season finale and second season finale were all adapted as novels. Enterprise is the only TNG-era series not to have its series finale adapted as a book.
Oddball in the Series : Until Picard came out some 12 years later Enterprise was the only Enterprise-centric series to not have a "To boldly go..." speech during the opening credits (Even the more recent Strange New Worlds features a speech). Also, Enterprise is the only series in the entire Star Trek franchise to have a vocal theme song. Every other series has an instrumental theme song.
Omniglot : Hoshi. We find out in "Observer Effect" just how extreme: when she has nightmares, she cries out in her sleep in several different languages!
The Oner : Technically, several - Enterprise frequently utilizes 30 second-1 minute long takes in several conversation scenes in order to keep the scene moving - but the one that stands out is a 3:41 long unbroken shot of a conversation between Trip and Archer during "Desert Crossing", the longest shot in Trek history.
The Only One : Fully justified for once. When Captain Archer says that NX-01 Enterprise is being sent to a crisis in the Borderland because they're the "fastest ship with the most experienced crew" he's right - Enterprise is the first human vessel capable of Warp 5 (most others are around Warp 2). The NX-02 Columbia isn't available till mid-way through the fourth season, and its most experienced crewmember is an officer who transfers over from Enterprise.
In "The Crossing", one of the early signs that Trip is possessed is when he leaves engineering in the middle of a job despite usually being hardworking. Likewise, it's a sign that the usually straight-laced Malcolm is possessed when he starts coming onto T'Pol, his coworker.
In "Singularity", a sign that the crew (except T'Pol and Travis) are being affected by dangerous radiation is when the normally polite Hoshi yells at a coworker and when Phlox, who's usually a very amiable guy, starts acting like a Mad Doctor .
Our Dark Matter Is Mysterious : In " First Flight " Vulcan scientists are said to have excited dark matter in experiments, causing it to give off light, by bombarding it with metreon particles. The Enterprise crew do the same to a dark matter nebula encountered in the episode.
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions : In "Cold Front", Trip apparently was under the impression that religious aliens must be automatically Space Amish , leading him to spend some time explaining the Warp Reactor in simplistic terms to a group of Borothan pilgrims, before one of them politely informs him that he's actually a warp field theorist .
Hoshi cusses T'Pol out in Vulcan in the pilot. T'Pol's response is something along the lines of "Very impressive, but I thought we were speaking English on this journey."
From the episode "Terra Prime" (a basic form of UT had just been invented by Hoshi): "There are protesters chanting outside the Andorian embassy. And they're using words that aren't in the universal translator!"
Piggybacking on Hitler : In "Storm Front", the Na'kuhl find themselves back in time on 20th-century Earth, during World War II. They side with the Nazis, offering to build advanced weapons in exchange for the resources they need to build a time machine. When the Nazis complain that the Aliens aren't helping them enough, the alien leader lampshades the trope by bluntly stating that the Nazis conquer countries; they conquer planets .
Plain Palate : The Vissians in "Cogenitor" don't have very flavorful foods because they prefer to focus on how their food smells.
Planet of Hats : Generally averted with the writers trying to give some depth to each. Most notably, the Klingon lawyer, who laments how the warrior caste so dominates his society.
Plasma Cannon : Used by the Enterprise before being replaced with Phase Cannons.
Plot Allergy : One episode reveals that the closest thing Malcolm has to a favorite food is pineapple... and that's only because he's been trying to build up a resistance to his allergy to it.
Precious Puppies : Porthos is such a good boy! Yes he is! Although apparently you shouldn't feed him cheese. Or bring him to any alien planets with sacred trees.
Prison Ship : One episode had Captain Archer and Trip aboard one of these. The other criminals launched an escape and killed the guards, forcing them to make themselves useful to the criminals in order to survive. It was basically Con Air In Space .
Protagonist-Centered Morality : Archer specifically. The show tends to go to great lengths to emphasize the good that will come from his actions in the future (i.e., the creation of the Federation) in order to rationalize away all the morally-dubious things he does in his present. He is also the subject of admiration in-show for the results of what his actions (especially when they benefit Earth), and is frequently praised and respected by other characters. This despite the fact that he often performs acts that he himself denounces others for doing and is incredibly arbitrary about what his values are.
Proud Warrior Race Guy : The Klingons, who because of the earlier time return to being the bad guys, or at least on much less friendly terms. In "Judgement" their warrior race status is deconstructed by a Klingon lawyer describing the culture degrading into pure warrior status, which leaves a large hole in the community for little things like doctors, lawyers, school teachers ...
Proxy War : The Temporal Cold War had a future version of the Federation opposed to the Na'kuhl and the Sphere Builders, each of whom backed various factions in the 22nd century with the goal of tampering with the timeline to either ensure the Federation would form or prevent it from forming.
Quirky Doctor : Phlox, the main doctor, is a cheerful Amusing Alien , who has a very wide smile, eats bugs , keeps a menagerie of pets , and talks in a singsong voice.
Real Life Writes the Plot : Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) wasn't bitter about his character's Advertised Extra status and attributes it to 9/11 forcing the writers to pull a major shift, saying that it was more important for Star Trek to do its job of commenting on contemporary society.
Red Eyes, Take Warning : "Storm Front".
The crew never suffered any fatal casualties in the first two seasons (despite incidents like a Romulan stealth mine blowing away a section of the hull), no doubt to avoid the 'phaser fodder' cliché. All this changed in the third season Xindi war arc with 27 crewmen killed. The trope is lampshaded in "The Forgotten", when Trip has to write a letter to the parents of a dead crewmember but can't remember much about her , so he keeps getting her mixed up with his dead little sister. There's also two classic redshirt incidents: in "The Council" three main characters and a MACO enter one of the mysterious Spheres, and in Season 4 "Daedalus" Reed goes searching through a dark room for a Negative Space Wedgie with an unnamed crewmember — no guessing who gets killed on both occasions. Deliberately parodied in "In A Mirror, Darkly" where Mirror Reed puts on an Original Series redshirt with near-fatal consequences.
This trope is played for drama after the aforementioned incident in "The Council". Malcolm Reed, usually The Stoic , is shown to be really very upset by the number of crew members Enterprise has lost since entering the Expanse and the seeming lack of response his fellow senior officers have to the most recent MACO death, and he worries that they're getting too used to losing people.
Refuge in Audacity : Archer in "The Augments", bluffing his way out of an encounter with a Klingon patrol ship by pretending to be a top-secret Klingon cruiser with the chancellor on board!
It's revealed that the Suliban Cabal is this, as many Suliban don't agree with their goals. Didn't stop others from lumping them all in the same group .
Terra Prime for Humanity, a bunch of xenophobes who want to eject aliens and sever diplomatic relations with them thanks to the Xindi attack.
The Syrannites are this for Vulcans. Subverted as it's revealed that instead of the radical terrorists they're portrayed as by the Vulcan High Command, they're actually a pacifist movement who desire to return the Vulcans back to the original teachings of Surak. And they succeed .
You get no points for figuring out which of the Xindi species doesn't turn good, and there's a clear Shout-Out to the miniseries V (1983) when the Xindi Reptilians snack on live mice.
Played straight in S3's "Twilight," but it doesn't take away from the episode the way it often did in Voyager.
Retooled twice in response to bottomed-out ratings — the first occurred in Season 3 and abandoned the Plot of the Week for a Darker and Edgier season-long "epic" story arc. When that failed, the show was retooled for Season 4 by bringing in new creative staff and focusing the season on two or three-episode long mini-arcs. Although the quality of the show improved significantly (Season 4 is usually considered the best of the show), it was too little too late and said season proved to be its last.
Revolting Rescue : In "Dawn", an alien heals Trip's wound by spitting on it.
Rogue Planet : " Rogue Planet " features such a world, called Dakala. It's a Minshara-class planet with a breathable atmosphere and a temperate climate, provided by hot gasses venting from its interior. It somehow has plant life despite not having anything to power photosynthesis.
"Earth? Never heard of it."
No mater how much he begs for it, do not feed cheese (or at least, not too much cheese) to Porthos.
Scary Dogmatic Aliens : Suliban (terrorists), the aliens in "Chosen Realm" (religious extremists), and the fractious Xindi standing in for the Middle East.
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : In "Terra Nova", we're told that the original 200 or so colonists objected to Earth sending another 200 people to settle on their world. While it's understandable why they might have felt they couldn't fit more people in the Conestoga colony, they apparently failed to realize they had an entire planet at their disposal!
Screw the Rules, I Make Them! : The First Monarch, in Precious Cargo , expresses this attitude towards the end regarding future visits from Enterprise's crew.
Sealed Evil in a Can : "Regeneration", "Cold Station 12"
Serkis Folk : Xindi Insectoids and Aquatics. Also Star Trek: The Original Series aliens the Gorn and Tholians are re-done as these in "In A Mirror, Darkly."
Archer and Tucker in "Desert Crossing." The writers presumably thought "It's a desert world; it'll be hot." Obviously nobody gets sunstroke or sunburn in the future, and in the present, nobody considers what desert-dwellers wear on Earth.
The decontamination room. While it does make sense for it to exist in the capacity that it does, Star Trek is not above ignoring realistic things for expediencies sake. Unless it involves half-naked characters rubbing each other .
Shoot the Dog : An ongoing trope of the Season 3 Xindi War, notably in "Anomaly", "The Shipment", "Azati Prime", and "Damage."
"We might as well be firing holographic bullets" , among many others.
Malik crawling across the bridge in "The Augments" should remind you of the death of another Augment.
Detained features a shout-out to Quantum Leap . The episode is notable for reuniting Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell on screen for the first time since Quantum Leap ended. While they don't exactly quote Quantum Leap characters, and the relationship of the characters in this is antagonistic, the conversational tones do resemble a few conversations Al and Sam had.
The video of the Vulcan crew of the Seleya losing their minds and murdering each other is clearly a reference to Event Horizon .
Slap-Slap-Kiss : Trip and the First Monarch, in Precious Cargo .
Soundtrack Dissonance : The new, more upbeat , version of the Opening Theme coincided with the show's turn into Darker and Edgier territory in Season 3 as part of a general Retool . This was more often than not quite jarring when the teaser ended on an Oh, Crap! moment only to segue into a bouncy pop song.
Played Straight , though, with some of the aliens' fashions (such as the Suliban or the Xindi-Reptillians). And then there's Daniels, the time cop masquerading as a steward, whose ribbed 31st-century outfit makes a compelling case for him to stick with the Starfleet flight suit.
Space Marine : The M.A.C.O. unit assigned to the ship in the third season. They wear dark uniforms, have a decidedly more military structure, are much more formal, and are there more or less explicitly to kick Xindi ass.
Space Mines : In the episode, "Minefield", the Enterprise runs into a cloaked field of Romulan mines.
Space Pirates : Nausicaans in "Fortunate Son", Ferengi in "Acquisition", the Takret in "The Catwalk" and the Osaarians in "Anomaly." The Klingons have a habit of plundering undefended colonies ("Marauders", "Sleeping Dogs", "Judgement"), and even Archer has to resort to these tactics during the Xindi War ("Damage").
Space Suits Are Scuba Gear : T'Pol wears a space suit with a gratuitous external air hose in "Damage."
Space Travel Veto : The xenophobic terrorist front, Terra Prime, opposed Earth Starfleet, exploration of space and the launch of the NX-01 Enterprise but were ignored. They experience a brief resurgence of power after the Xindi attack on Earth until disbanded by Captain Archer and the authorities.
Space Trucker : 'Boomers' are human space freighter crew. Ensign Mayweather grew up on these freighters and so has more experience on what's 'out there' than the rest of the crew who grew up on an Earth that's still an Insignificant Blue Planet to the rest of the Alpha Quadrant. Due to the long space voyages the boomers have developed their own culture (though not to the level of a Proud Merchant Race ) but the advent of faster warp engines threatens that.
Space Western : "North Star," quite literally. A colony of humans are found in the Expanse, whom were abducted from the 19th century American West. The Xindi arc be damned, Archer and company get to investigate and play cowboy for a few days!
Special Edition Title : "In A Mirror, Darkly." Even the song changed. Many people prefer that episode's opening credits to the usual ones and ads used the titles.
Spinoff Sendoff : This series is the only one not to be sent off by the previous series, but rather by one of TNG's movies, First Contact , with a recorded message from Zefram Cochrane.
Stable Time Loop : "Regeneration" reveals Star Trek: First Contact was one. Basically, the Borg attacked earth, going back in time, where several were shot down. Then, they wake up, and send the location of Earth to the Borg. It was estimated to take 200 years to reach them. 200 years later, basically, the Borg attacked Earth, going back in time...
The Starscream : Pretty much everyone from the Mirror Universe in "In A Mirror, Darkly", but especially Mirror Archer and Mirror Hoshi .
Vega and Proxima Centauri have major Earth colonies already, and Zefram Cochrane is known to have retired to the latter before disappearing. Interestingly, Proxima was not the first human extrasolar colony — that honor went to Eta Cassiopeia, a star about nineteen light-years away, as depicted in "Terra Nova".
Vulcan and Andoria are located in the 40 Eridani A and Procyon systems, respectively, and Vega has a major Earth colony as early as the 2150s. Procyon V is also the site of the final battle against the Sphere Builders in the 26th century according to "Azati Prime".
In "Anomaly", Trip is offered a medical treatment involving being covered with Aldebaran mud leeches, which would require him to lay prone and stay still to avoid angering them. He declines .
In "The Aenar", Regulus is used as a staging ground for a Vulcan invasion of Andoria . Considering how far away Regulus is from those systems, it's likely the writers took some creative license here for the sake of using a familiar name.
Rigel X is visited in the pilot episode, and again in the series finale. The system is home to the Rigelian species and, according to the Star Trek Expanded Universe, the Orions as well.
Phlox's planet of Debobula fought a series of wars with the inhabitants of Antares, which ended inconclusively in the 19th century, according to "The Breach".
Straw Hypocrite : John Frederick Paxton, the leader of Terra Prime. He at least has the decency to admit to it when called on the fact.
Stupid Jetpack Hitler : "Zero Hour", "Storm Front" (Stukas with Frickin' Plasma Cannons! )
Subspace Ansible : Despite the fact that later Enterprises would take hours or days to receive a pre-recorded subspace message, communications with the NX-01 are all real-time. But they're not as far out, and we do see relay beacons being deployed at one stage.
Superdickery : Archer and Hoshi start off "Babel" in a big argument that culminates in him suggesting she might want to leave in a shuttle pod if she's so dissatisfied with the state of things on Enterprise, and oh-by-the-way she's looking a little bit heavy lately. Then she grins and says "that was a nice touch." Turns out they were practicing proper etiquette for dealing with a Tellarite ambassador. Tellarites apparently love to argue over everything.
Surprisingly Happy Ending : The three-part "Augments" episode ends on an unusually positive note. Although the Augments are defeated, Arik Soong (grandfather of Dr. Noonian Soong) is simply incarcerated. But while in prison, he changes his research interests to artificial intelligence. He also remarks that the fruits of his research may take a generation or two. That research, whatever it is, is implied to lead to the 24th century's Soong creating the android Data. This is significant as the episode made no indication that he had fathered any children previously. So it is possible that sometime before his death, he will be released from prison.
Taught to Hate : One episode concerns Dr. Phlox treating a patient who's bigoted against Denobulans. Phlox reveals that he used to be bigoted against that guy's species too , but only because his grandma told nightmare-inducing stories about them, and he eventually learned better as he grew older.
Team Switzerland : Starting with Archer's position in the Vulcan-Andorian conflict, in which he proves willing to look at the Andorians' side (albeit in part because of his own Fantastic Racism ) and gets the respect of one of their captains in doing so. Season 4 solidly establishes this as reason Earth became the center of a Federation in which they aren't the most strong, technologically advanced, expansionist, or logical species: they're the only ones all of those species are willing to trust because they all have long grudges against each other, which puts humans in the position of mediators and people willing to look for an explanation beyond "they did it because we'd like to have another go at them."
Technically Living Zombie : The Vulcan crew in "Impulse." Long-term exposure to trellium-D has not only stripped them of emotional control, it's turned them into mindlessly violent shamblers.
The teleporter has only recently been approved for non-cargo use and hardly anyone trusts it — which turns out to be a reasonable fear when they beam up a guy and he ends up with rocks and leaves sticking out of his skin because he'd been teleported during a violent storm.
As it turns out, the inventor of the teleporter was no stranger to this either, being crippled when his spinal column was mangled in an early test.
T'Pau was an old Vulcan priestess, and the most powerful figure on Vulcan, who presided over Spock's Shotgun Wedding in "Amok Time" . The original actress was Celia Lovsky. A holographic version, played by Betty Matsushita, turned up in VOY's "The Darkling". note (The Doctor incorporated some of her traits into his program in order to expand his horizons, but was warned that T'Pau could be "ruthless" in the application of her "logic.") On Enterprise , the young T'Pau was played by actress Kara Zediker. Note also that Lovsky's Viennese accent is totally absent , though as Kara enthusiastically attests, "I had that in my back pocket in case they wanted it."
"Colonel" Green was a self-styled militiaman and a major player in WWIII. He is the closest thing Trek has to a Hitler figure; indeed, his zealotry and high body count won him a few admirers a century later. A facsimile of Green tried to kill Kirk in "The Savage Curtain" ; here he was played by Phillip Pine. A clip of the younger Green, played by Steve Rankin, makes an appearance in ENT's "Demons".
Timey-Wimey Ball : Much of the Temporal Cold War arc, brought to a conclusion in the beginning of the fourth season and even the characters who knew what was going on couldn't explain exactly what was happening.
Token Aquatic Race : The Xindi are a collective of five (formerly six) intelligent species, all native to the same planet. All but one of them are land-dwelling, the sole exception being the Xindi-Aquatics, who live exclusively in water and have to attend meetings of the Xindi council in a tank.
Tonight, Someone Dies : Actually used in-universe in "Observer Effect", where two crew members are possessed by non-corporeal life forms observing how Enterprise is going to react to a lethal infection on board their ship. As they discuss it, one of them remarks that they've been watching people get infected on this planet for centuries, and someone always dies.
Too Good to Be True : In "Dead Stop" T'Pol notices Captain Archer is visibly troubled about the mysterious repair station they've found which is able and willing to fix every bit of the extensive damage to their ship (and the injuries to its crew) in exchange for the amazingly low price of just 200 liters of warp plasma. His instincts are sound, as it turns out there's a "hidden fee" the station also tries to extract from them.
Took a Level in Badass : In Seasons 3 and 4, Archer's fighting prowess considerably improved to the point where he could hold his own against anything up to a Xindi-Reptilian.
Toy-Based Characterization : When Captain Archer (the captain of a spaceship) was a boy, he would build model spaceships.
Trailers Always Spoil : A frequent complaint of fans was that the promos for upcoming episodes often spoiled key plot details, and in at least one case even spoiling an ending. Additionally, going to break within episodes themselves, UPN would air previews that gave away plot details coming later in the episode.
Translation Convention : The universal translator automatically translates any spoken language into the listener's primary language, for both the person using it and anyone they're speaking with, though since it's a relatively new technology at in the series' setting it can sometimes fail, leading to some combination of Expospeak Gag , My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels , Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas , Pardon My Klingon , and Curse of Babel and requiring Hoshi's translating abilities .
Two Girls to a Team : T'Pol and Hoshi, the experienced and emotionless Vulcan officer and (initially) nervous rookie communications specialist. Interestingly, as T'Pol learns to embrace her emotions more as she spends more time around humans, Hoshi becomes much more adept at dealing with her own fears and doubts as the mission progresses.
Uncertain Doom : Lorian and the rest of the crew of the alternate Enterprise from the third season E Squared. We last see the ship under heavy fire from alien raiders and five hours later haven't joined up with the Enterprise of the present. T'Pol says it's likely they were destroyed, but Archer isn't so sure, but still wonders if by getting them safely through the subspace corridor they ended up erasing themselves from existence since they prevented the actions that would have led to their own births. T'Pol then asks why they would still remember the other Enterprise and Archer doesn't have a good answer for her. It's not clear if they were destroyed, erased themselves, or ultimately survived.
Unconventional Food Usage : in the episode " Shuttlepod One ", Lieutenant Malcolm Reed used the "terran delicacy" mashed potatoes to temporarily seal a breach in the hull of the shuttlepod he was stranded in.
Understatement : When Rajiin asks Archer why he's looking for the Xindi, who have already attacked Earth with a WMD and are believed to be building something roughly analogous to a Death Star for their second attack, he says he wants to "resolve a disagreement."
Unit Confusion : In " Strange New World " the wind speed for the severe storm trapping the crewmembers on the planet is reported in kilometers per hour, like how wind speeds are usually given in imperial units (miles per hour). Wind speeds is normally measured in meters per second. The wind speed given, 80 km/h, equals to about 22 m/s, which amounts to relative hard winds, but nowhere near what's depicted on screen like what a wind speed of 80 miles per hours (35.7 m/s) would be.
Universal Translator : Averted, in that it is a recent development in this series and needs to be backed up by omniglot Hoshi Sato.
Verbal Tic : Phlox tends to—hmm?—speak with one.
Villain Ball : Malik in the Augments story arc. Besides his overall Bond Villain Stupidity , he is willing to risk the embryos that they had risked everything to obtain by attacking a Klingon outpost and blaming it on Earth (and yes, this action ends up getting all of the augments killed).
Villain Episode : The two-parter "In A Mirror Darkly", which focuses entirely on the Mirror Universe characters. Complete with a more militant Title Sequence .
Villainous Breakdown : In "Kir'Shara," V'Las loses control of his emotions and starts shouting as his plans fall to pieces, noticeably contrasted with T'Pau's calm.
Virtual-Reality Interrogation : In the episode "Stratagem". Captain Archer tries to get information out of an alien by convincing him that they are now friends and that years have gone by. The alien ship they have supposedly stolen is actually set up inside a small shuttle in the ''Enterprise'' landing bay . The small touches making the simulation seem real include tattooing both their arms with prison barcodes.
Voodoo Shark : The show's creators tried to explain away its Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel nature by claiming that it took place in its own timeline, created by the Borg's actions in Star Trek: First Contact . Fan reaction to this explanation was almost universally negative — at best it was viewed as a silly solution to a problem that only a tiny minority of fans really cared about, and at worst it was felt to make the show's prequel status meaningless if it wasn't in the same continuity as the prior shows — and so the reboot movies and Star Trek: Discovery unsurprisingly ignored it, presenting this show as fully in-continuity with both.
Well-Intentioned Extremist : Arik Soong, who sincerely believes that Augments are the future of humanity and in the right hands, genetic engineering could be used to save countless lives. Despite his actions leading to a number of deaths, he tries to prevent causing casualties and is genuinely horrified when Dr Lucas' refusal to give up the codes consigns a fellow colleague to death.
We Will Not Have Pockets in the Future : Averted thanks to the zipperiffic uniforms worn by Archer & Co.
In "Shockwave", Daniels explicitly states that history never recorded the disaster that lead to 3600 Paraagan colonists being incinerated when their atmosphere ignited? After wrestling with the guilt for the entirety of Part I, they end Part II relieved that they aren't the cause and that the Suliban are to blame and become re-focused on finding them to bring to justice. Although understandable that they are relieved that they aren't the cause of the colony extinction, after grieving the deaths in the first half they just become determined to find who is to blame and no one mourns the fact that 3600 people are still dead, mentions the impact of their death or what will happen to the timeline and history now that an entire colony of people are wipe out. They also don't bring up the idea of going back in time to prevent it... or were they expecting Daniels to change history back later?!
What happened to the Automated Repair Station in "Dead Stop", which was shown rebuilding itself at the end of the episode?
On a franchise-wide level, what happened to the Xindi , the Denobulans and the Suliban in the next three hundred years?
What happened to the Illyrians from whom Archer stole a warp coil in "Damage"? Without the coil, they were left 3 years from home. While it might undermine the moral dilemma of "Damage" slightly, it seems unforgivable that Archer wouldn't ask the Xindi to help the Illyrians once he got on better terms with them.
With Friends Like These... : In "The Andorian Incident", while the Vulcans clearly were wrong and spying on their adversaries, Archer intentionally reveals their spy array to the Andorians, which possibly gives them reason to start an interstellar war . Archer seems to forget that, while he personally doesn't care for them, the Vulcans are Earth's closest allies and the Andorians have honestly done nothing to dispel the image that they're the aggressors in this conflict, since they've been figuratively beating the crap out of Archer since the moment they've met him. Why is interstellar policy being determined by a man, who honestly is most likely suffering a concussion at this point?
Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide" : "Dear Doctor" being the standard bearer here. Between them, Phlox and Archer come to the conclusion that Goal-Oriented Evolution has already condemned the Valakians to extinction and that giving them the cure for their genetic problem, which they have on hand, would constitute "playing God". Although it could be argued that they were doing exactly that by being so presumptuous as to decide that their hypothesis about the evolutionary direction of the Valakians and the Menk was predestined and not just speculation on Phlox's part.
Would Hit a Girl : Archer doesn't have any problems with brawling with a female Andorian commando in "Cease Fire", especially when she hit first.
Archer holds a grudge against the Vulcans for withholding information on warp technology, so his father (an FTL engineer) never got to see his work in practice. Even though Archer learns that it's all a bit more complicated than that, resentment on this issue is maintained by other humans (one Terra Prime operative mentions the Vulcans' failure to stop World War III as the reason he joined the xenophobic organization).
In the episode "Dear Doctor" a pre-warp civilization is trying to (very slowly) scout out other civilizations that might have access to technology that could cure their race of impending extinction. Archer takes one look at the guys and realizes, much to his chagrin, that they simply don't have the technological infrastructure to build warp engines, so just handing them the schematics would be worthless. Archer has just become everything he hated about the Vulcans.
You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious : When T'Pol addresses Commander Tucker as "Trip" in "Countdown", he takes notice!
You're Insane! : Archer to the terrorist leader in "Chosen Realm": "You're out of your mind!"
You Won't Feel a Thing! : In the episode "Similitude": Captain Archer : Dr. Phlox is going to have to perform an operation. Sim Trip at 8 : Will it hurt? Dr. Phlox : Not at all. You won't feel a thing. Sim Trip at 8 : Doctors always say that.
Zee Rust : The NX-01 actually seems more futuristic than the original series USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). Worth noting that the set designer openly admits that fact is true, simply because real-world technology has advanced past TOS in places, and that he tried to keep it a balance of TOS and real-world modern. Lampshaded when the Mirror Universe crew takes the Constitution -class starship Defiant and gush over how futuristic and modern the Bridge is.

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Why Scott Bakula Hated Star Trek: Enterprise's 26-Episode Count

Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer Star Trek Enterprise

"Star Trek: Enterprise" doesn't have the best reputation. A prequel set in the 22nd century, "Enterprise" took place before the Federation was founded and when humanity was just beginning to travel where no (hu)man had gone before. General consensus is that it didn't do enough to stand apart from past "Star Trek" shows, despite its supposedly different setting, and made the franchise look like it was out of steam.

"Enterprise" wound up being the first "Star Trek" series since the original to not get seven seasons; the fourth season, which aired from 2004 to 2005, was its last produced. The show improved as it went on; season 4 (showrun by the late Manny Cato) is often downright great . Unfortunately, it was too little too late for a season 5 that could've kept this stride going.

Scott Bakula, who starred as Captain Jonathan Archer, has some theories about why the show got off on the wrong foot and ultimately couldn't take full flight. For one, Bakula feels the series was unfairly burdened in holding up the declining United Paramount Network (UPN). "Enterprise" needed to succeed for the network to succeed and there were some tight creative leashes in play (like no "Enterprise" actors being allowed to direct episodes).

Bakula shared some more insights in the 2012 reunion special "In Conversation — The First Crew." One of his criticisms? Too many episodes all at once.

Enterprise was the culmination of too much Star Trek

Star Trek Enterprise NX-01 starship damaged season 3 Xindi battle

Bakula, discussing "Enterprise" with his old castmates and co-creator Brannon Braga, got into some of the problems the show faced. Something he pushed back on from the beginning, he said, was doing 26 episodes a season. "26 episodes a year is stupid [...] I said, what the hell was that all about? It was like, you have too much product, you don't have room to air it, and [the cast is] exhausted."

The exhaustion was felt on the writing side as well, per Braga. "It gets hard to do 26 episodes that fully exploit the potential of the show [...] by the middle of the second season, it was like let's either stop or let's do something radical," he recalled. Bakula also pinpointed "Enterprise" season 2 as the pivotal season, recalling Braga summoning him to his office to discuss how the show needed some innovation.

Said innovation was to structure the third season around an overarching story. After enigmatic aliens known as the Xindi attack Earth, the Enterprise sets out to investigate. This structure still allowed for standalone episodes throughout the season, though, a la the Dominion War arc of "Deep Space Nine" and the typical season structure of UPN neighbor "Buffy The Vampire Slayer."

"Season 3 was the first time I was actually enjoying writing every single episode, and I think it showed," Braga recalled. Bakula also got his wish: season 3 was cut to 24 episodes and then season 4 was cut to 22. Oh the irony, the best seasons of "Enterprise" are also the shortest.

Enterprise inherited its problems from Star Trek: Voyager

Bakula has another issue with how "Enterprise" was rolled out. When it premiered in September 2001, "Star Trek: Voyager" had only finished months prior back in May. That also contributed to a feeling of "Star Trek" bloat. To quote Bakula directly:

"We should not have come on right on the heels of 'Voyager.' That was the other thing. In a perfect world. But I know what the world was, the world was, 'We have to launch UPN, we have to hold up UPN.' But in a perfect world, if we could have waited and let the smoke settle."

Since the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987, there had continuously been a "Star Trek" show airing new episodes. (Not counting season breaks, of course.) The last two seasons of "Next Generation" overlapped with "Deep Space Nine," then "Voyager" launched during "DS9" season 3. There was already a feeling when "Enterprise" premiered that "Star Trek" had hit a wall. "Voyager" also received many of the criticisms "Enterprise" did, that it didn't do enough to stand apart from other "Star Trek" shows.

Ronald D. Moore, a prolific "Trek" writer, quit "Voyager" and channeled his frustrations with that show's rut into "Battlestar Galactica." According to Braga, his producing partner Rick Berman even unsuccessfully fought against launching "Enterprise" so soon after "Voyager." "The [golden] goose was already hobbling," as Braga put it.

"We were writing these kind of little episodes that I feel could have been on any of the other four franchises," said Bakula, commenting on the first one and a half seasons of "Enterprise." This echoes a criticism I've read on many message boards. This uninspired writing being produced at a glut set "Enterprise" up for failure from the beginning. Not even the "incredible" last two seasons (to echo the word Bakula used) could save the show.

Divergence (episode)

1.2 Act One
1.3 Act Two
1.4 Act Three
1.5 Act Four
2 Memorable quotes
3.1 Production history
4.1 Starring
4.2 Guest stars
4.3 Co-star
4.4 Uncredited co-stars
4.5 References
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Summary [ ]

With 47 minutes to a potential reactor breach on Enterprise NX-01 , Archer forms a plan which involves freeing Reed from the ship's brig . Thirty minutes from a rendezvous with Columbia NX-02 , Archer tells Reed that they have to bring over Tucker while at warp; as the transporter won't operate at warp, Tucker had informed Archer that Reed has had experience doing this. As the Klingon watches, Reed explains that he transferred personnel as training exercises at warp one and after every move was rehearsed for several weeks in simulations, but they have little choice. T'Pol is already working on calculations to merge the warp fields of both Enterprise and Columbia , but the ships have to be less than fifty meters apart. Archer says that Ensign Mayweather can handle the flying, so long as Reed can bring Tucker safely aboard. Reed muses that Archer will have to let him out of the brig.

Act One [ ]

As Tucker says he's ready to go, Captain Hernandez contacts Enterprise , as the ship has matched Enterprise 's speed and trajectory. Reed is in Launch Bay 1 on Enterprise , and tells Archer that Columbia can start their rotation; Columbia spins 180 degrees and increases speed to be belly-to-belly with Enterprise . With the Columbia nearing final position, Archer tells his crew to brace for warp field contact. The two ships shake momentarily, and Reed tells Mayweather to hold the ship steady, or " Chef 'll know who to blame for the mess in the galley ". T'Pol heads to engineering to prepare everything for Tucker. Reed fires a tether across to the ceiling of Columbia 's launch bay, and after clipping his EV suit to the cable Tucker begins his trip over. As T'Pol detects a fluctuation in the warp field, Mayweather begins to have trouble maintaining their distance from Columbia as Enterprise slowly starts to drift away. Tucker asks what is happening, but Reed tells him he's doing fine, before realizing that the tether is reaching its limit and that he has to hurry up. T'Pol is unsuccessful in stabilizing the warp field by diverting power to it, and Tucker is released from the tether just before Reed pulls him clear. Immediately after, the entire tether assembly is ripped out of the ceiling, clears the launch bay doors and is lost to space.

Tucker can think of only one way to fix the warp engines: a cold start. Shutting down the engine will reset the algorithms, and when it restarts, the subroutines will be back to normal. Archer points out the flaw – but Tucker says that Enterprise will have to enter Columbia 's warp field. They will only have a minute or two, but Tucker has thought of a shortcut. Instead of decrypting the subroutines – which would take hours – Tucker suggests purging them completely.

Heading for engineering, Tucker notes the two MACOs outside the launch bay. Reed says he has had a slight misunderstanding with the captain, and assures he'll fill in Tucker at a better time before heading back to the brig much to Trip's confusion.

Gathering all the stats on the engines, Tucker notes that someone " hasn't taken very good care of [them] ". T'Pol suggests he " speak(s) with the Klingons ". Tucker tells the science officer to take note: he is about to perform a manual shutdown and restart in less than two minutes. T'Pol declares that it's not possible. " Watch me ", he replies.

Hernandez contacts Enterprise , and informs them that they've routed everything they can to the warp field, but asks Archer to make it quick. Archer gives Tucker the go-ahead and the engineer performs the shutdown procedure. As soon as the nacelles power down, Tucker sets the engineering crew to work. Hernandez tells them they have less than a minute. With mere seconds to go, the warp engines spark into life and the extended warp field collapses, but Enterprise is warp-capable again. Tucker asks that Enterprise drops to impulse, so he can look things over. Archer asks Hernandez and Columbia to stick around for a while.

Back on Qu'Vat Colony , Doctor Antaak finds Phlox in his cell, who has been brutally handled by the general and his men. Phlox tells Antaak to "end it", and contact Starfleet , as he refuses to create Klingon Augments , " living weapons ", as he puts it. Antaak however has been looking over Phlox' research, and has found a weakness in the virus . Phlox notes that he's right, but K'Vagh wouldn't get his Augments, and would therefore refuse the doctor's treatment. Antaak thinks they should do it without telling the general, who will eventually find out, but Antaak notes that saving millions of innocent lives would give them both a more honorable death.

Act Two [ ]

Reed is taken, rather forcefully, to his quarters where Archer is awaiting him. On his screen is a picture of Harris , and Reed complains that Archer has gone through his personal files. Archer has used the database to identify Harris, who worked in Starfleet Security until 2149 . Reed says there is nothing more to add, but Archer replies that that is unacceptable, as Reed has put every member of the crew at risk. Saying he is only following orders, Archer retorts that he'll go to Starfleet and blow open the whole conspiracy if he has to. As Reed doesn't know any more, Archer tells him to contact Harris, so he can find out himself.

Antaak and Phlox are comparing family histories, and Antaak sees that Denobulan mating practices must be " very complex ". Phlox asks the Klingon about his family, and the older man replies that his own father disowned him when he became a healer. He then blames himself for the Augment virus , and Phlox is there ultimately because of his failure.

The Bird-of-Prey with the Klingon Augments aboard it arrives back at the colony, and Laneth reports that the Enterprise was destroyed, and Starfleet will believe it to be a catastrophic engine failure. K'Vagh sees that one of them is missing: his son. Laneth says that he was killed by the Humans, and it was therefore without honor.

K'Vagh checks up on the two doctors, who report excellent progress. Phlox claims to have found the "switch" that will "turn off" the virus; he will have it within the hour. K'Vagh contacts Krell , who tells him that his project has been shut down by the Klingon High Council . K'Vagh argues that all their research will be lost if the colony is destroyed, so Krell gives them three days, or Qu'Vat will be destroyed.

On Enterprise , Tucker says he'll help out a little in engineering – more specifically, help the vessel's new chief engineer, Kelby . He then asks why Reed is in the brig, but Archer says he can't go into it for the moment. Tucker decides to head back to Columbia , and T'Pol offers to walk him down. On the way in a corridor , T'Pol asks him if Tucker is having any problems, specifically with sleep but he says that he's fine. He asks if she is sleeping well and she awkwardly replies that she is and then promptly leaves him.

K'Vagh returns to the lab and tells Phlox they are running out of time and the Denobulan asks how K'Vagh's son contracted the virus. The Klingon reveals that they tested the virus on prisoners first, and when they had none left, Command chose a unit to be experimented on – the unit in which his son belonged. As his son asked for no special treatment, he was given none by K'Vagh.

Reed is tucking into his small dinner in the brig, but Marab , the Klingon next door to him, refuses to eat his meal, objecting by throwing his tray against the wall. Reed questions the Klingon need to fight, but he replies that anyone questioning that need would be imprisoned, if not killed. As Reed notes that that's not the way things are done in Starfleet, Marab believes that the Klingon Empire will defeat them because of it. Reed however, notes that the Klingon is sharing the same brig as he is.

Laneth and her shipmates are all becoming weak as a result of the virus, and that they'll stay together – as comrades – until they die. K'Vagh tells them that Phlox is working on a cure and they will all be healthy again. Laneth wonders if their appearances will be the same – otherwise they will be outcasts as other Klingons won't accept them for the way they are. She also tells the general that she felt fear in the battle with Enterprise for the first time since she was a child, and thinks they are all becoming weak like the Humans. K'Vagh assures them that he will not let the Empire turn their back on them as long as he is alive.

Archer is sitting in his quarters with Porthos , who is "missing Phlox" as well – and undoubtedly, his "stash of cheese ". His line of thought is broken as Harris contacts him through his desktop monitor , telling him that Phlox is on a mission of great importance to Starfleet. As they would never allow the kidnapping of one of its personnel, Harris directs Archer to Article 14, Section 31 of the Starfleet Charter . Archer guesses the Klingons are involved, but Harris insists they talk about Reed, who has done some good work for them over the years. Archer informs Harris that Reed was put into an impossible situation, but Harris replies there's more to it than just one captain and one ship. If Phlox is stopped from completing his mission, the repercussions will affect entire worlds.

Phlox holds four strains, one of which has the genetic trigger to stop the virus before it becomes lethal; unfortunately, he doesn't know which one. He will need a week to check, but as Krell won't extend his deadline, Phlox must infect four healthy Klingons. K'Vagh, Antaak and two guards are in the room, so the general advises Phlox to infect them instead.

In Archer's ready room, Reed is explaining to the captain why he joined Section 31 as a young ensign. He hasn't done any other work for them since before joining Enterprise . Archer shows him the medical scans of Marab, and thinks that it is a military experiment that went wrong. Harris also claimed that a cure needed to be found in order to create a more stable Empire for Starfleet to deal with. Reed confesses that he wanted to tell Archer everything, so the captain tells him to decide where his loyalties lie. Although Reed doesn't know where Phlox was taken, Starfleet Intelligence knows that there is a genetic research facility on Qu'Vat Colony, and that is a good place to start.

Act Three [ ]

Archer reinstates Reed, who returns to the bridge much to the surprise of the bridge crew. Enterprise is six hours from Qu'Vat Colony, and Reed recommends that Columbia withdraws to a safer distance so that Klingon patrols don't have a single target.

Phlox asks K'Vagh why he chose to pursue the Augment project, when Soong failed. The general replies that Soong's only mistake was making only a few Augments, and that Klingons have discipline – although Phlox points out that Augments don't. Preparing the final strain, Phlox injects K'Vagh with it, and the general asks if bloodwine would affect the results. Phlox doesn't believe so, and the Klingons begin to drink. K'Vagh offers him some but Phlox refuses, saying he never imbibes while on the job.

Archer is interrogating Marab in sickbay, who is becoming ill like his shipmates. Remaining defiant, Archer tells him that if he won't help them, he can at least help his own people. Marab agrees.

Phlox is taking scans of Laneth, who has become bed-ridden when Antaak enters, saying that the guards are displaying the first symptoms of the virus. Phlox also scans Antaak, but the look on his face tells all: K'Vagh has the cure, and Antaak will die. Phlox assures Antaak that if they work quickly enough, he too can be cured.

Krell is enjoying a bowl of gagh when Harris contacts him, saying that the Klingon failed to stop Enterprise or Columbia . Krell orders Harris to withdraw both ships, but as Harris has no authority to do that, Krell would rather destroy them. Harris reminds Krell of the arrangement and that it would benefit both Starfleet and the Empire, but Krell laughs it off, mocking Harris for believing him.

As Antaak prepares to extract the cure from K'Vagh, Archer enters the room, phase-pistol at the ready. Marab enters behind him, to the astonished K'Vagh. Archer announces his intentions to retrieve Phlox, to which K'Vagh insists that the Klingons need him – at which point the doctor cuts both of them off, since he can speak for himself, and asks Archer for a few more hours to cure the virus. K'Vagh is furious that he will cure the virus rather than perfect the Augment genome as he'd promised, but with the captain there to back him up, Phlox informs the general that he was lying.

Reed's sensors pick up the three Klingon warships in orbit, but communications to Columbia are jammed. On the surface, an alarm makes the Klingons aware the ships have arrived, and Archer has no luck contacting Enterprise . Krell informs that that the colony will be eradicated, against Archer's objections, claiming he has a "more effective solution". Phlox speaks directly to Krell, transmitting details of the anti-virus, but Krell says his orders are clear, claiming both Enterprise and Columbia as property of the Klingon Empire.

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Krell gives his tactical officer orders to proceed, and to leave nothing standing. His battle cruiser enters a lower orbit and begins to fire on the colony. Enterprise attempts to disable the enemy ship's disruptors, but is constantly drawn away by the two birds-of-prey. The Columbia arrives on scene, taking up a position behind the birds-of-prey, attempting to distract them while Enterprise disables the battle cruiser. Phlox says he will be able to finish creating the cure quickly if he has a Human host to replicate enough antibodies. Archer notices he is the only Human there, and knows the risks. Sitting down on the chair in the middle of the lab, Phlox straps him in.

Columbia disables the engines on one of the Klingon ships as their shields begin to fail. Phlox informs Archer of the possible side effects he will get from being injected with the virus. On Enterprise , Sato manages to cut through the jamming signal, but as Archer isn't available, Phlox talks to them instead, asking them to protect the colony until his work is complete. T'Pol orders Mayweather to place the ship directly between the battle cruiser and the colony, and orders Reed to increase power to the hull plating. In the lab, K'Vagh looks on as ridges appear on Archer's forehead.

The Klingon battle cruiser attempts to throw off Enterprise by shifting orbit, but the Starfleet ship stays with them. Finally breaking through the interference, T'Pol asks Hernandez for help, only to find that Columbia has lost its weapons. At Qu'Vat, Archer breaks free from his restraints, so K'Vagh holds him down while Phlox extracts the antibodies. During the process, Antaak has prepared a canister containing the virus, and sends it to Krell's ship, infecting its crew. On Enterprise , Reed notes that they can't hold their position for much longer.

Phlox speaks to Krell, telling him the contents of the canister, but Krell believes he's lying. Phlox tells him to either check his internal sensors or wait half an hour – which is when the first symptoms will appear. Krell brands it a cowardly attack, but Phlox says that if the cure is destroyed now, he too will die from the virus, unless he orders his ships to stand down. Reluctantly, Krell agrees.

Krell 's fleet , the Enterprise and Columbia over Qu'Vat

Antaak is in Enterprise 's sickbay, having been treated successfully. He complains that his targ won't be able to recognize him now that he has a smooth forehead, which he calls a disfigurement. Phlox tells him he did his best to correct all his mistakes, which is all he could ask of himself. As he realizes his superiors will most likely end his career as a geneticist, he will have to find a new specialty – maybe in cranial reconstruction, something Phlox believes will soon become very popular. As Phlox goes to check on the captain, Antaak stops him for a moment, and thanks him for all that he did.

Archer is recovering, although he feels like having some gagh . Phlox says that his cranial ridges, along with his cravings for Klingon cuisine, will disappear within a few days, but Tucker says he should keep them – as he looks intimidating. Thanking Hernandez for her help, Archer thinks that at least one of them should do some exploring. Tucker says he will be staying around for a little while longer which, T'Pol muses, will make Kelby "delighted". Tucker reminds her it will only be temporary.

Reed is in his quarters, quietly reading, when Harris contacts him, thanking him for his work. As the conversation progresses, Reed tells Harris never to contact him again, but Harris tells him that recruitment policy dictates that no one can just walk away. Reed's reply is simple, he answers to one man alone: Jonathan Archer. Cutting Harris off mid-sentence, Reed returns to his reading.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" Hold her steady, Travis, or chef'll know who to blame for the mess in the galley. "

" What're they here for? " " The captain and I have had a slight misunderstanding. " " How slight? " " These gentlemen are here to escort me back to the brig. "

" Do you understand what will happen if the general learns that we've deceived him? " " A cure would save millions of innocent lives. What more honorable death could there be for a healer – Klingon or Denobulan? "

" Denobulan family units are different from Klingons. " " Ah, yes, I've heard. Three wives for each husband – three husbands for each wife. Your mating practices must be very complex. " " Wondrously so! "

" What'd they give you? " " It's dead – I can't eat that! No wonder you're all so weak. "

" General Sun Tzu said that the greatest victories are those won without fighting. " " The Great Kahless said there's no victory without combat. "

" Re-read the charter: Article 14, Section 31. There are a few lines that make allowances for bending the rules during times of extraordinary threat. " " What threat? " " Take your pick. Earth's got a lot of enemies. "

" The ethics, Doctor, are simple – three lives to save millions. "

" I need a little more time to cure this plague. " " Cure?! You were supposed to perfect the Augment genome! " " I lied. "

" I suggest you power down your weapons, admiral, and let me cure your people. "

" I doubt my superiors will allow me to remain in my position. I'll need to find a new specialty – perhaps cranial reconstruction! " " I have a feeling that's about to become very popular. "

" I answer to one commanding officer: Jonathan Archer. "

Background information [ ]

This episode was directed by David Barrett , a first-time director on Enterprise .
Wayne Grace previously played a Cardassian legate in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night ", and a Klingon, Torak , in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Aquiel " – coincidentally, Torak had first appeared aboard the IKS Qu'Vat .
Guest star John Schuck previously played the blustery Klingon Ambassador in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Parn in DS9 : " The Maquis, Part II ".

Prefix USS mistake in episode art

The graphic designers mistakenly added the USS prefix to both the Enterprise and Columbia in episode artwork. Neither of the ships were ever designated USS.
Reed's self-imposed exodus from Section 31 would prove to be short-lived; while he tells Harris that he takes orders from one commander – Archer – barely a month later , the captain himself, distrustful of the answers he was getting from Earth political figures regarding the burgeoning Terra Prime crisis, personally asks Reed to use his underground contacts in the hopes of getting some real answers to what's going on.
This episode and the preceding one ( ENT : " Affliction ") were written to explain the makeup change in Klingons between Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Motion Picture , which had been acknowledged as canon in " Trials and Tribble-ations " in 1996. The writers of Enterprise hoped their take would find a way of explaining the change, while simultaneously telling an interesting story. For more from "Affliction" teleplay writer Mike Sussman , see Klingon augment virus .
Manny Coto once referred to this installment as "probably the best episode we've done all season." Coto also believed Dave Barrett "brought an incredibly wonderful style to it." ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 37, No. 2, p. 41)

Production history [ ]

13 December 2004 : Final draft script is submitted.

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Starring [ ].

Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer
John Billingsley as Phlox
Jolene Blalock as T'Pol
Dominic Keating as Malcolm Reed
Anthony Montgomery as Travis Mayweather
Linda Park as Hoshi Sato
Connor Trinneer as Charles "Trip" Tucker III

Guest stars [ ]

Kristin Bauer as Laneth
James Avery as K'Vagh
John Schuck as Antaak
Terrell Tilford as Marab
Eric Pierpoint as Harris
Ada Maris as Hernandez
Wayne Grace as Krell

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Matt Jenkins as a Tactical Officer

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This Actor Turned Down the Chance To Be One of Star Trek's Most Important Characters

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It might not seem like it now, but in its early days, Star Trek was an underdog. Despite earning a dedicated fanbase with younger demographics during its three-year run, the original 1960s series wasn’t a ratings smash. NBC canceled the ambitious sci-fi excursion after three seasons, and there's a good chance Star Trek wouldn't have made it that far without a combination of good luck and powerful behind-the-scenes allies (like entertainment powerhouse Lucille Ball ). Trek 's evolution into a franchise powerhouse was a tenuous undertaking from the beginning: although supportive of creator Gene Roddenberry 's " Western in space " concept, NBC ordered a second pilot after deeming Roddenberry's first offering "too cerebral" (not to mention the episode's roughly $500,000 budget, a whopping price tag for the time). In this inaugural attempt, titled "The Cage," film actor Jeffrey Hunter played Christopher Pike, the captain of the Enterprise and the series' leading man. However, when the second pilot hit the airwaves, Pike was nowhere to be found . Instead, viewers were greeted by the swaggering charm of franchise staple Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ). Why didn't Trek 's main performer return for the full series?

Why Did Captain Pike Leave 'Star Trek: The Original Series'?

Before his brief stint with Trek , Hunter had been a consistently working character actor and leading man for over a decade . Although not a superstar, he was known to audiences for high-profile roles like Jesus Christ in the ancient Biblical epic King of Kings and his supporting turn in John Wayne ’s Western classic The Searchers ; superstar Marilyn Monroe even called him “the acme of young American manhood.” Eventually, Hunter branched into television after feeling “ dissatisfied with the roles being offered him in films ,” calling them "cotton candy, college-sophomore" scripts that capitalized on his looks.

His search for satisfyingly in-depth opportunities led him to Star Trek . Allegedly, NBC executives were convinced that Hunter could be Trek ’s lead, but Roddenberry championed Hunter's involvement. Nevertheless, Hunter ultimately refused Gene Roddenberry's offer to reprise Captain Pike for a revamped series order , despite Roddenberry reportedly “set[ting] up a special screening of 'The Cage' [...] in hopes of convincing the actor to stick with the project.” Hunter explained his decision during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal in 1965:

“I was asked to do it, I would have been tied up much longer than I care to be. I have several things brewing now and they should be coming to a head in the next few weeks. I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them ."

Captain Pike Still Became an Important 'Star Trek' Character

With hindsight, it's easy to extrapolate a scenario where Hunter continued with Star Trek and became as vital a part of Trek iconography as Shatner's Kirk : the first onscreen captain and, therefore, essentially the face of the franchise . At the time, however, Star Trek probably seemed like a risky gamble to those involved. Certainly, few could have anticipated the worldwide entertainment titan it would become. It makes sense why Hunter chose to return to the film world's familiar and flexible work over being tied down to a series .

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Tragically, Hunter passed away in 1969, only four years after filming his single Star Trek episode . Hunter seemed to appreciate the series' vision, having praised its ideology: "Except for the fictional characters," he said, "it will be like getting a look into the future and some of the predictions will surely come true in our lifetime." Even though NBC never officially aired "The Cage," Hunter still made his mark on Star Trek lore ; before "The Cage" became widely available through special edition DVDs, a two-part episode from Season 1, " The Menagerie ," recycled the majority of Hunter's footage into a flashback format resolving Pike's story (played by Sean Kenney in Hunter's stead).

Decades later, director J.J. Abrams ’ first two prequel films incorporated the character ( Bruce Greenwood ) as a mentor to Chris Pine 's youthful Kirk, while the ongoing Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fully explores Pike's ( Anson Mount ) years at the Enterprise helm. For the brief time he was onscreen, Hunter gave Captain Pike dignity, curiosity, and a brooding, responsible charisma that was more somber than flirtatious : the epitome of an era-appropriate hero who happened to be a futuristic space explorer.

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On this day in history, September 8, 1966, iconic TV series 'Star Trek' premieres

The world first met Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock on this day in history , Sept. 8, 1966, with the premiere of the television series "Star Trek."

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before," said actor William Shatner in the show's opening.

Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk.

Throughout the series, the crew of the starship Enterprise "confront strange alien races, friendly and hostile alike, as they explore unknown worlds," said the official "Star Trek" website.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936, LEGENDARY SINGER-SONGWRITER BUDDY HOLLY IS BORN IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS

The series' first episode, "The Man Trap," was actually the sixth episode produced, said the website IMDB.

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"After landing on planet M-113, the Enterprise is stalked by a creature which can assume the shape and form of anyone it chooses, and which kills by removing the entire salt content of its victims' bodies," said the episode's summary on Apple TV.

The first pilot produced, "The Cage," was nixed as it was considered "too cerebral" for NBC's audiences, said IMDB.

"The Cage" would not see a wide release until Oct. 14, 1986.

Conversely, "The Man Trap" had a monster and "more action" than the other five episodes, said IMDB, which NBC thought would be more appealing to audiences.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, AUGUST 6, 1911, TV SITCOM STAR LUCILLE BALL IS BORN

While "Star Trek" is now a cultural phenomenon with scores of dedicated "Trekkies," the first iteration of "Star Trek" was not nearly as commercially successful.

The show, which is now referred to as "Star Trek: The Original Series," was canceled after just three seasons and 79 episodes.

The program gained a cult following during its syndication, notes Encyclopedia Britannica. Nearly two decades after its cancellation, "Star Trek" was rebooted into "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

That show, which aired from 1987-1994, starred Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

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"Nearly 100 years after Kirk, Spock and the original Enterprise patrolled the galaxy, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a new U.S.S. Enterprise and a new crew carry forth Starfleet’s orders to ‘seek out new life and new civilizations’ and ‘to boldly go where no one has gone before,’" says Star Trek's website.

There have now been 11 "Star Trek" television series, as well as 13 movies.

The current version of "Star Trek" is "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," which is available to stream on Paramount+.

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"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" debuted in 2022 and takes place before the events of "Star Trek: The Original Series," says its website.

September 8 is now celebrated worldwide by "Trekkies" as " Star Trek Day ," says the "Star Trek" website.

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"On that day, ‘Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry introduced audiences to a world that championed diversity, inclusion, acceptance and hope," said the "Star Trek" website.

Decades later, "we celebrate the day and the franchise’s enduring legacy."

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16 TNG & Picard Characters’ Starfleet Ranks After Season 3

7 star trek: tng "yesterday's enterprise" details you missed, i hope star trek's forgotten enterprise captain is back for good after their upcoming movie return.

The crew of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation went on to become one of Starfleet's greatest success stories – in part, thanks to Star Trek: Picard . Over the course of TNG's seven seasons, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D became just as beloved as the characters from Star Trek: The Original Series . Captain Picard and his crew saved the galaxy several times over, eventually becoming Starfleet legends. Picking up about 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis , Star Trek: Picard checked in with the Enterprise-D crew, revealing how impressive their careers had become.

While the first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard focused on Jean-Luc and a new set of friends, Picard season 3 reunited the TNG crew aboard the rebuilt USS Enterprise-D . It's not particularly surprising that Picard became an accomplished Starfleet Admiral, but he's not the only member of the Enterprise-D crew with a particularly impressive resume . In total, TNG created two Admirals in Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), as well as two Captains in William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Worf (Michael Dorn), and a Commodore in Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton).

Star Trek: TNG Created 2 Admirals

Jean-luc picard & beverly crusher both became starfleet admirals.

Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher were already incredibly accomplished Starfleet officers by the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but Star Trek: Picard revealed more about their impressive careers. Picard had achieved the rank of Admiral before he resigned from Starfleet in protest after the Romulan evacuation was called off. Jean-Luc briefly returned to Starfleet after Picard season 1, before getting pulled into another adventure in Picard season 2 and then retiring again. Picard soon embarked on another mission, this time to help Beverly Crusher.

After the seismic events of Star Trek: Picard season 3, many franchise icons have emerged with new ranks that signify their importance to Starfleet.

After reuniting with his Enterprise-D crew, Picard and his friends saved the galaxy from a devastating Borg/Changeling attack. In the aftermath of their victory, Picard returned to his retirement, while Dr. Crusher returned to Starfleet. Crusher was reinstated with the rank of Admiral and became Head of the Starfleet Medical Branch. Neither Picard nor Crusher would have been able to advance to the position of Admiral without all of their accomplishments on TNG . As the Captain and Chief Medical Officer on the Federation flagship, it's no surprise that Picard and Crusher went on to become Starfleet Admirals.

Picard and Crusher both accompanied their son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), to see him off for his first assignment as an ensign aboard the USS Enterprise-G.

Star Trek: TNG Created 2 Captains & 1 Commodore

Will riker & worf became starfleet captains, while geordi la forge ascended to the rank of commodore.

The careers of the rest of the Enterprise-D bridge crew are no less impressive. Commander Will Riker took over command of the USS Titan in Star Trek: Nemesis, finally accepting a promotion to Captain. When Riker and his wife, Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), lost their son Thad to illness, Riker left active service but remained in reserve. He later returned to Starfleet full-time, maintaining the rank of Captain. Worf, too, had become a Starfleet Captain by the time of Star Trek: Picard season 3, and was working with Starfleet Intelligence.

Worf briefly served as Captain of the USS Enterprise-E, but the fate of the ship remains unknown (although Worf insists that whatever happened was not his fault).

Last but not least, Geordi La Forge had achieved the rank of Commodore by Picard season 3 and taken on the role of Head Curator at the Fleet Museum. When Picard approached Geordi in Picard season 3, the former Chief Engineer revealed that he had spent the last twenty years rebuilding the Enterprise-D. This turned out to be incredible forethought on Geordi's part, as the classic ship proved vital to saving the Federation on Frontier Day. With such an impressive roster, it's no surprise that Star Trek: The Next Generation ' s Enterprise-D remains one of Starfleet's most legendary ships.

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In the cards.

David Birkin, Isis Carmen Jones, Caroline Junko King, and Megan Parlen in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

2. Star Trek: The Next Generation

Michael Dorn and Brent Spiner in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

3. Star Trek: The Next Generation

A fistful of datas.

DeForest Kelley and Emily Banks in Star Trek (1966)

4. Star Trek

Shore leave.

Marina Sirtis and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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Brent Spiner in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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Data's day.

Michael Dorn, Nana Visitor, and Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

7. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Our man bashir.

Megan Gallagher in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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Little green men.

LeVar Burton and Dwight Schultz in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

9. Star Trek: The Next Generation

Hollow pursuits.

John de Lancie in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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11. Star Trek: The Next Generation

Walter Koenig, Colm Meaney, William Shatner, James Doohan, and Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

12. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Trials and tribble-ations.

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Tomorrow is yesterday.

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Whit Bissell, Eddie Paskey, and William Schallert in Star Trek (1966)

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The trouble with tribbles.

Armin Shimerman in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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The magnificent ferengi.

Jolene Blalock, J. Paul Boehmer, and Michael Krawic in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

16. Star Trek: Enterprise

Carbon creek.

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The neutral zone.

Armin Shimerman and Carlos Carrasco in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

18. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The house of quark.

Gates McFadden and Wendy Hughes in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

19. Star Trek: The Next Generation

Cirroc Lofton in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

20. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Robert Picardo and Jeri Ryan in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

21. Star Trek: Voyager

Someone to watch over me.

Kate Mulgrew and Kevin Tighe in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

22. Star Trek: Voyager

Dominic Keating in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

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Breaking the ice.

Gia Sandhu in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)

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Wed, Sep 26, 2001. In the mid-22nd century, the Earth ship Enterprise is launched under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. When the crew rescues an alien from a crashed spaceship, Earth gets its first look at the alien's race - the Klingons. Archer and his crew must walk a fine line as they attempt to communicate with the Klingon pilot ...
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Star Trek: Created by Gene Roddenberry. With Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols. In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.
Star Trek: Enterprise
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List of Star Trek: Enterprise cast members
List of Star Trek: Enterprise cast members
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise focuses on the first long-term manned Starfleet expedition and follows the adventures of Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew in the years preceding the birth of the United Federation of Planets. 4 seasons • 96 episodes • 2001-2005.
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List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes
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Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
by Knixon. w. **SPOILERS**: "Dear Doctor". Open. 3. May 01, 2023 at 3:15 PM. by Knixon. Go to Discussions. During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the ...
Star Trek: Enterprise
Set in the mid-22nd century, over 100 years before James T. Kirk helmed the famous vessel, this installment of the "Star Trek" franchise is set on the Enterprise NX-01 -- the first Earth starship ...
Star Trek: Enterprise's 20 Best Episodes, Ranked
Star Trek: Enterprise first aired in 2001, designed as a back-to-basics character-driven prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.Picking up many of the franchise's original themes and core values, Star Trek: Enterprise's best episodes explore the origins and moral ambiguities of such topics, simultaneously addressing ethical dilemmas and assumptions while granting greater depth and access to ...
Whatever Happened To The Cast Of Star Trek: Enterprise?
Earl Gibson Iii/Getty/UPN. Ensign Travis Mayweather served as the Enterprise's navigator and helmsman throughout the four-season run of "Star Trek: Enterprise." As played by actor Anthony ...
Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series 2001-2005)
Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series 2001-2005) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. ... Star Trek - The Next Generation (1 episode, 2005) Robert Watson ... orchestrator (1 episode, 2005) Alan Vavrin ... musician - percussion (uncredited) (98 episodes, 2001-2005) David James Nielsen ...
Star Trek: Enterprise (Series)
Star Trek: Enterprise is the fourth Spin-Off of the long-running Star Trek franchise. It ran from 2001 to 2005. ENT is a prequel series set in the 22nd century, around 100 years before Star Trek: The Original Series —though in practice, it worked better as a semi-sequel to Star Trek: First Contact, as hinted by the early appearances of James ...
7 Biggest Changes To Picard's Enterprise In Star Trek: TNG's Time
Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 15, "Yesterday's Enterprise" introduced an alternate universe version of the USS Enterprise-D, which has some distinct differences from its Prime Universe counterpart. "Yesterday's Enterprise" remains one of TNG's finest hours, and is often remembered as the episode that brought back Denise Crosby's Tasha Yar only to kill her off again.
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"Enterprise" wound up being the first "Star Trek" series since the original to not get seven seasons; the fourth season, which aired from 2004 to 2005, was its last produced.
Divergence (episode)
More Fandoms. Sci-fi. Star Trek. With Columbia's help, the Enterprise crew grapples with sabotage to their ship as they pursue the truth behind the kidnapping of Phlox. (Part 2 of 2) With 47 minutes to a potential reactor breach on Enterprise NX-01, Archer forms a plan which involves freeing Reed from the ship's brig.
Two Days and Two Nights
"Two Days and Two Nights" is the twenty-fifth episode (production #125) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. The episode won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling For A Series. [3] The television show episode first aired on UPN on Wednesday May 15, 2002. [4] This episode was directed by Michael Dorn, with the story by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, and the teleplay by ...
This Actor Turned Down Being One of Star Trek's Most ...
It might not seem like it now, but in its early days, Star Trek was an underdog. Despite earning a dedicated fanbase with younger demographics during its three-year run, the original 1960s series ...
Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series 2001-2005)
Wed, Oct 16, 2002. After previously offending the Kreetassans, Enterprise attempts to make a better second impression, only to upset the alien race once again. A frustrated Captain Archer returns from the planet only to be further upset to find that his dog Porthos, has been affected by a pathogen native to the world.
On this day in history, September 8, 1966, iconic TV series 'Star Trek
Live long and prosper! The television series "Star Trek" debuted on this day in history, Sept. 8, 1966, introducing the world to Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.
Why Star Trek: The Original Series Still Works 58 Years Later
Star Trek the Original Series has endured for nearly 60 years, but what is it about the adventures of the USS Enterprise that has such staying power? Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) were introduced to the world on Thursday, September 8, 1966, and the rest is history.Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future captivated ...
A collection of Behind the Scenes "Star Trek" photos (from TOS to
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Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series 2001-2005)
Wed, Oct 15, 2003. Hoshi Sato is contacted by a 400-year-old telepathic alien exiled on planet in the Expanse, shunned by his society because of his abilities. The alien offers to use his powers to help Enterprise find the Xindi and the weapon they are building, but only if Hoshi will stay with him while he works.
E²
E². " E² " (pronounced "E-Squared" [1]) is the seventy-third episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the twenty-first episode of season three. It first aired on May 5, 2004, on UPN in the United States. The episode was the fifth of the season written by Mike Sussman, and it was directed by Star Trek ...
Star Trek: The Animated Series
The Enterprise finds a deserted starship orbiting a dead star.Subscribe now and stream Star Trek: The Animated Series! https://prmntpl.us/4cHCfFfStar Trek im...
"Star Trek: Enterprise" Zero Hour (TV Episode 2004)
Zero Hour: Directed by Allan Kroeker. With Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating. Archer takes Degra's ship to try to prevent Earth from being destroyed and gets some unexpected help. Enterprise tries to destroy Sphere 41, but the Sphere Builders know about the plan.
The Next Generation's Enterprise Crew Is Star Trek's Biggest Success Story
The crew of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation went on to become one of Starfleet's greatest success stories - in part, thanks to Star Trek: Picard.Over the course of TNG's seven seasons, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D became just as beloved as the characters from Star Trek: The Original Series.
Cogenitor
Cogenitor. " Cogenitor " is the 48th episode of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the 22nd episode of the second season. It originally aired April 30, 2003 on UPN. Set in the 2100s of the Star Trek science fiction universe, the starship Enterprise led by Captain Archer encounters an alien race with a third gender.
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