Enterprise

Season One

Broken Bow (2-Hour Premiere)

Two members of an alien species known as the Suliban chase a lone Klingon to Earth and through the fields of a farmer in the town of Broken Bow, Oklahoma who shoots and seriously wounds the Klingon. Later, against the protests of the Vulcan ambassador to Earth, who feels that humans aren't ready to explore the galaxy on their own, Starfleet decides to send the brand new starship NX-01 "Enterprise" on her first mission -- to take the Klingon home to Q'onos. But enroute, the Suliban intercept the Enterprise and kidnap the Klingon, who is carrying something that they desperately want. Captain Archer takes the Enterprise to Rigel X, a planet the Klingon had visited before coming to Earth. There, three 2-person away teams try to find clues as to who may have kidnapped the Klingon. Although they come under attack from the Suliban radicals who have the Klingon, a Suliban woman (who the Klingon had met earlier) provides Archer with some leads. The Enterprise crew members barely manage to escape Rigel X, and then track the warp trail of a Suliban vessel to a gas giant planet. The planet's thick atmosphere is hiding a Suliban space station, and the Enterprise soon comes under heavy attack. But Archer and Reed manage to rescue the Klingon, with Archer being transported to safety aboard the Enterprise at just the last minute before being hit by a Suliban phaser blast. Enterprise completes its mission to Qo'noS and delivers the Klingon to the Klingon High Council. There, a secret message is retrieved from his DNA -- the contents of which is unknown to the Enterprise crew. The Enterprise then departs to begin a long-term mission of exploration.

Fight or Flight

After more than 2 weeks in deep space without coming upon any inhabited planets, the crew of the Enterprise is beginning to get bored. Eventually, they come upon an alien vessel, but they get no response to hails. An away team (Archer, Phlox, and Sato) shuttles over to investigate. What they find, is that the alien crew has been killed and their bodies hung up from the ceilings to drain fluids into a pump of some kind. Sato, already not enchanted with the idea of spaceflight, panics at the sight of the corpses. Back on the Enterprise, Phlox learns that a substance similar to human lymphatic fluid is being drained from the alien bodies, and suggests that the Enterprise crew might be a target for whoever the attackers were. T'Pol recommends that they leave the area immediately, and Enterprise begins to leave the area. But Captain Archer's conscience about leaving the bodies hanging there gets to him and the ship returns to the alien vessel. But soon, the attackers return and set their sights on Enteprise and her crew. Also approaching is another vessel of the same type as the one with the dead crew. The captain of the alien ship at first thinks that the Enterprise crew had attacked his counterpart, but Sato manages to learn enough of the alien language in time to explain what had happened. With help from the now friendly alien, Enterprise and the alien ship launch a counterattack on the attacking ship and destroy it.

Strange New World

Enterprise comes upon a beautiful Earth-like planet and a survey team shuttles down to investigate. Five survey team members remain overnight to study some nocturnal animals; but a fierce storm soon blows in, forcing the team to take shelter in a nearby cave. Then, one by one the human members of the survey team begin to catch glimpses of other strange beings who seem to be merging into the rocks of the cave. When a team member sees what looks like T'Pol talking to one of the aliens, she begins to form a conspiracy theory involving cooperation between the Vulcans and this planet's hidden inhabitants. Meanwhile, another survey team member becomes lost outside the cave and has to be emergency transported back to Enterprise. Dr. Phlox finds that the man has been exposed to some kind of psychotropic substance and has been suffering from hallucinations. Back on the planet, the other team members, led by Trip Tucker, accuse T'Pol of a Vulcan conspiracy. Caught up in the hallucinations, Trip even goes to the extreme of threatening T'Pol with a phase pistol. Eventually, T'Pol and Captain Archer use some creative play acting to allow T'Pol to gain control of the situation and inject an antidote into the other survey team members. By daybreak, the storm has subsided and Archer arrives in a shuttle to recover the weary survey team.

Unexpected

System malfunctions aboard Enterprise are traced to a small alien ship that's hitching a ride in the wake of Enterprise's warp drive. Trip Tucker goes to the alien ship to help them repair their warp engine. While there, the alien's female engineer helps Tucker acclimate to the environment in the alien ship, shows him an advanced holodeck system, and plays a telepathic game with him. But shortly after Tucker returns to Enterprise, he finds out that he's pregnant with an alien baby, apparently as a result of contact during the "game." Enterprise must now track down the alien ship to get help for Tucker. They eventually do, but there's one small problem -- the alien ship's warp drive went down again, and they're now hitching a ride behind a Klingon battle cruiser. The Klingons aren't interested in helping the aliens or Enterprise, but with some coaxing from Captain Archer, they are willing to let both ships leave in one piece in exchange for access to the alien holographic technology. Finally, the aliens transplant the a embryo from Tucker's body to a more suitable alien host, and Enterprise continues on her voyage of exploration.

Terra Nova

The Enterprise goes to investigate an Earth-like planet where a human colony had been established but hasn't been heard from in 70 years. They find a group of about 40 descendants of the original colonists, who have mutated and live underground as a result of radiation on the planet's surface. The mutants believe that a second human ship that had come to check on the original colony had attacked and irratiated the planet. Therefore, they believe humans, including the Enterprise crew, are their enemies. Although the mutants are still distrusting, the leader and his elderly mother agree to go to the Enterprise so that Dr. Phlox can treat the woman's cancer. In the meantime, T'Pol and Tucker discover that an asteroid collision was what caused the radiation on the planet that wiped out the original human colony. Only the children survived, eventually leading to the current generation of mutants. But now the small band of descendants are also dying because of the prolonged exposure to radiation in the underground caverns, which has also contaminated the underground water supply. Captain Archer and the Enterprise crew eventually get past the distrust of the survivors in order to transport them to the planet's southern continent, which was not affected by the original asteroid collision and resulting radiation.

The Andorian Incident

When the Enterprise pays a visit to a Vulcan Kohlinar monastery, Archer, T'Pol, and Tucker walk into a situation where four Andorians are holding the Vulcan monks hostage. The Andorians believe that the Vulcans are secretly spying on their homeworld from this Vulcan outpost. The Andorians are brutal in questioning Archer, who they believe is working in consort with the Vulcans. But the Vulcans insist to Archer that they have no technology on the planet except an old radio in the secret catacombs under the monastery. Tucker is able to repair the radio and contact the Enterprise with a plan to beam down an assault team. When a fire fight ensues and the Enterprise team chases two Andorians through an off-limits section of the catacombs, the humans and Andorians are surprised to find a sophisticated Vulcan surveillance array deep under the planet's surface. Even T'Pol is surprised by the discovery, and agrees with Archer to give the Andorians tricorder scans of the site as evidence of the Vulcans' violation of the treaty between the two feuding worlds.

Breaking the Ice

The Enterprise encounters a large comet, and Captain Archer decides to send Reed and Mayweather to collect core samples. Meanwhile, a Vulcan ship happens to arrive in the vicinity to observe Enterprise's efforts. All of Archer's attempts at courtesy to the Vulcan captain are rebuffed, much to Archer's annoyance. Not long after, Tucker discovers that an encrypted message has been sent to T'Pol from the Vulcan ship. With Hoshi's help, he decrypts the message, which turns out to be a personal letter to T'Pol. Feeling guilty about having at first suspected T'Pol of spying on Enterprise for the Vulcans, Tucker tells her about his having interecepted the letter. Surprisingly, T'Pol warms up a bit to Tucker as a result of his confession, and she asks his advice on the personal matter discussed in the letter, which involves her scheduled arranged marriage to a Vulcan architect. She's torn between her sense of duty to Vulcan tradition and her sense of duty to Archer and the Enterprise crew. Meanwhile, Reed and Mayweather run into some problems on the comet when the ice layer cracks and their shuttle drops some 30 meters below the surface into a cavern. Reluctantly, Archer must ask the nearby Vulcan ship for help to rescue the away team and the shuttle. Later, as the Vulcan ship prepares to depart the area, T'Pol, based on Tucker's earlier advice, decides to break with tradition and reject the arranged marriage, instead staying aboard Enterprise.

Civilization

Archer and T'Pol go down to a planet to study its pre-warp civilization. They soon find that the population of one town is becoming ill. A local woman scientist is befriended by Archer and, in the process of investigating the mysterious illness, they discover that members of another race are operating an underground mine that is contaminating the town's water supply. Dr. Phlox synthesizes an antidote, but Archer is found out by the aliens and their ship attacks the Enterprise in orbit. Thanks to some quick thinking by T'Pol on the Enterprise, the alien ship is disabled. In the meantime, Archer and his lady friend on the planet disable the three aliens and begin the process of dismantling the mining equipment. Before leaving, Archer promises the woman that the Vulcans will check in from time to time to make sure that the aliens don't return.

Fortunate Son

The Enterprise is sent by Starfleet to aid an Earth cargo ship that was attacked by Nausican pirates. When the Enterprise arrives, they soon find that the cargo ship's first officer is in charge because the captain has been injured and that the first officer is hiding something -- he has taken one of the Nausicans as his prisoner. When Captain Archer leads an away team to investigate, they're trapped in a cargo pod by the freighter crew and set adrift. Meanwhile, the cargo ship fires on the Enterprise and warps away in search of the Nausicans who had attacked. Instead, they fall into a Nausican trap and are boarded. Enterprise eventually arrives in time for Captain Archer to intercede with the leader of the Nausicans to give the freighter crew the opportunity to release their prisoner. However, the first officer refuses until Mayweather, himself the son of a freighter captain, convinces the first officer that the good of his crew and the future safety of other cargo ships are more important than his own personal desire for revenge against the Nausicans.

Cold Front

The Enterprise diverts to a nearby star nursery, when they meet with a transport ship carrying pilgrims who are there to see a rare stellar occurence that they consider to be an important spiritual event. Unknown to the Enterprise crew, one of the pilgrims is actually Sillik, the Suliban operative who had almost killed Captain Archer during the Broken Bow incident. One of Archer's stewards reveals that he's from 900 years in the future and warns Archer about Sillik's presence on the ship. Meanwhile, Sillik intervenes by saving Enterprise from a core breach caused by the the stellar phenomenon the ship is there to witness. Later, when it becomes clear that the Enterprise is caught in the middle of a temporal war "battle" between Sillik and the operative from the future -- both of whom claim that their actions are in Enterprise's best interest -- Archer isn't quite sure who to believe. But when Sillik kills Archer's steward/future operative, Archer's course of action is chosen for him. But although he is able to prevent Sillik from gain access to a piece of technology from the distant future that is a kind of "temporal sensor," Sillik manages to escape to a waiting Suliban ship. Later, uncertain as to what other technology from the future may be hidden in the quarters of his former steward, Archer orders the quarters sealed until further notice.

Silent Enemy

When a mysterious alien ship silently approaches the Enterprise and opens fire with advanced weapons, Captain Archer decides to return home to have phase cannons installed on Enterprise at Starfleet's Jupiter Station. But the enemy ship attacks again, causing major warp drive damage. As a result, Archer has second thoughts about having originally left Earth without all of Enterprise's systems having been installed and tested. But Reed and Tucker, along with the engineering crew, come through by themselves installing the phase cannons -- just in time to fight off yet another attack by Enterprise's enigmatic enemy.

Dear Doctor

In a letter to a medical coleague on his home planet, Dr. Phlox recounts a mission to a pre-warp, spacefaring planet where a plague threatens the extinction of one of two races that inhabit the planet. Despite the doctor's best efforts, he can't fina a cure to what turns out to be a genetic defect in the race. Meanwhile, the doctor contends with the affections that an Enterprise crew woman has been showing towards him. Later, after analyzing the blood samples from members of the second, less developed race on the planet and finding a cure for the plague, Phlox also discovers that this race has the potential for developing to become the dominant race on the planet. This poses Captain Archer with the dilemma of whether to help the primary race cure its plague at the risk of changing the natural evolutionary chances of the second race. Based on Phlox's guidance and his own internalized "prime directive," Archer finally chooses on the side of not interfering with the evolutionary future of the planet by curing the plague.

Sleeping Dogs

Enterprise finds a Klingon scout ship disabled inside the atmosphere of a gas giant planet, and T'Pol, Reed, and Hoshi shuttle over to investigate. They find most of the crew disabled, but a female crewmember steals the shuttle pod and leave the Enterprise away team stranded on the Klingon ship. As the ship sinks deeper into the planet's atmosphere, its hull begins to collapse from the intense pressure, and Enterprise can't go after them because it's own hull is weaker than that of the Klingon ship. After the Enterprise regains its shuttle pod and detains the Klingon woman, Captain Archer has to try to convince her to help ectivate the Klingon ship's engines to bring it to a safer orbit around the planet. Meanwhile, Dr. Phlox discovers that the Klingon crew was disabled by poisoned liquor they had swiped from an alien race during a recent raid, and concocts an antidote.

Shadows of P'Jem

Because of her role in the earlier Andorian incident, the Vulcans have suspended joint operations with Starfleet and have recalled T'Pol to Vulcan. Meanwhile, Captain Archer takes T'Pol on one last away mission, to visit the planet Coridan. But the shuttle pod is attacked by Coridian rebels who hold Archer and T'Pol as hostages in return for weapons from the Enterprise. The Vulcan ship that's to take T'Pol back to Vulcan arrives, and it's captain immediately decides to launch a major strike against the rebels, although Tucker and Reed were planning a more low-key rescue attempt. On the planet, Archer and T'Pol are caught in an escape attempt, but when Tucker and Reed make their move before the Vulcans, they find allies in the Andorians who Archer had earlier helped to uncover the Vulcan surveillance post at the P'Jem monastery. This rescue attempt is successful, until the Vulcan assault team arrives at the wrong time and T'Pol ends up being wounded when she jumps in front of the Vulcan captain to save him from being shot by one of the Coridian rebels. Later back on the Enterprise, Archer convinces the Vulcan captain that T'Pol's action to save his life deserve some consideration and that T'Pol should be allowed to remain aboard the Enterprise.

Shuttlepod One

Returning to an asteroid field where the Enterprise was conducting a survey, Tucker and Reed in a slightly damaged shuttlepod detect wreckage on an asteroid that appears to be that of the Enterprise. The wreckage, though, is of an alien ship and the Enterprise has rescued the few survivors. While Enterprise goes to carry the survivors to their home planet, Tucker and Reed, unknowing of these developments, head at impulse to a nearby planet, but with only 10 days of oxygen remaining and little hope of reaching the planet within that time. Facing certain death, Tucker and Reed soon start to get on each other's nerves as Reed's pessimitic personality and Tucker's more optimistic personality begin to clash. When a micro-singularity strikes the shuttlepod, an oxygen tank is ruptured, leaving them with less than 2 days of oxygen. Eventually, with their oxygen level down to just a few hours and in the freezing cabin of the shuttlepod, both become unconscious -- only to wake up later in Enteprise's sick bay. Enterprise had returned from it's mercy mission in the nick of time and found the stranded shuttlepod.

Fusion

Enterprise is hailed by a civilian Vulcan ship who's occupants have been on an 8-year voyage to explore their emotions. While Tucker helps them repair their engines, they use more advanced sensors to help Enterprise chart the nearby Crab Nebula. Tucker developes a friendship with the Vulcan engineer, but T'Pol has a more negative experience. She becomes intrigued by the proding of another of the Vulcan crew, who encourages her to begin to explore her emotions by not meditating at night so that she can dream. He later suggests a mind meld - the first she has experienced - to share her dream experiences with him. But the meld turns into a mental assault when he refuses to end the meld at her request and she has to forcibly push him away. T'Pol is left with some mental trauma that she'll have to deal with, and Captain Archer orders the Vulcans to leave Enterprise and continue on their way.

Rogue Planet

Enterprise comes upon a rogue planet drifint in open space, and an away team goes down to explore. The team finds s group of aliens who are on a huting expedition, which they claim to be a tradition of their race. The Enterprise away team stays on the perpetually dark planet, and Captain Archer soon begins to see apparitions of a beautiful woman, who turns out to be one of the alien hunters' prey -- an intelligent, shapeshifting creature with telepathic abilities. The woman asks Archer for help for her species from the hunters. Later, with Dr. Phlox's help, Archer is able to give the planet's indigenous species a way to avoid detection by the hunters, and he learns the source of the image of the beautiful woman that the creature had used to communicate with him.

Acquisition

A small Ferengi ship docks with Enterprise, which is drifting in space with the crew unconscious. The four Ferengi board Enterprise and begin to strip the ship, taking everything from weapons to pots and pans from the galley. The Ferengi also gather the female crewmembers in a cargo bay, intending to kidnap them and sell them into slavery. But, unknown to the Ferengi, Trip Tucker was in the decontamination chamber when the ship was flooded with gas and, therefore, he's still conscious. Later, the Ferengi awaken Captain Archer to demand from him the location of the ship's vault (which, of course, it doesn't have). Meanwhile, Tucker finds the Captain and they also manage to awaken T'Pol. The three then begin to sabotage the Ferengis' plans and corner them in a room in the lower decks of Enterprise, where they're stunned and sent packing -- after being forced to return everything they had stolen from Enterprise. [Note: Although this episode goes against Star Trek: The Next Generation canon, in which Captain Picard's Enterprise was the first to encounter the Ferengi, it should be noted that in this episode, none of the Enterprise crew know the identity of the aliens who have boarded the ship. Therefore, Picard's encounter with the Ferengi is still "officially" the first such meeting.]

Oasis

An alien trader tells Captain Archer about a derelict ship on a nearby planet, from which Enterprise can salvage dilithium and other components. But the trader warns that the derelict ship might be haunted. An away team goes down to the planet and soon find that several members of the ship's crew have survived, according to them, for some 3 years after having crashed. As Tucker and T'Pol help the survivors repair some systems on their ship, Tucker develops a friendship with a young woman. From Enterprise's scans and the discovery of an escape pod in orbit around the planet, the Enterprise crew realizes that things aren't what they seem. Eventually, the truth comes out that only the young woman and her father are real people. The rest of the "crew" are holographic simulations programmed by the elderly man to keep himself and his daughter company for the more than 25 years they've been stranded on the planet.

Detained

A shuttlepod with Archer and Mayweather is attacked by a militaristic race, and the two awaken to find themselves in a detention center where many Suliban, including children, are being held. The commander of the center wants whatever information the two Enterprise crew members have about the Cabal (the genetically engineered branch of the Suliban) and the temporal cold war, but Archer doesn't provide any useful information. Archer is more concerned about the treatment of the Suliban in the center. He and Mayweather begin to form an escape plan with the help of a couple of sympathetic Suliban and of the Enterprise, but they are found out and Archer is put into solitary confinement. But some good planning by T'Pol, Tucker, and Reed soon results in a rescue plan that allows Archer, Mayweather, and the Suliban detainees to escape.

Vox Sola

When an alien ship undocks from the Enterprise after an unsuccessful first contact meeting, an amorphous creature slips into the Enterprise airlock and makes its way to a cargo bay. The creature later captures two crew members with its tentacles and begins to envelope them in a slimy web. When Archer leads a team to investigate, he, Tucker, and a security officer are also caught by the creature. Dr. Phlox's investigation reveals that the human captives are being symbiotically linked to the creature to the point where it may soon be impossible to separate them. He also finds evidence that the creature may be intelligent. As a result, T'Pol and Hoshi set out to try to communicate with it. Meanwhile, Mayweather tracks down the alien ship and is able to mend relations with them and get information on where the creature may have come from. T'Pol and Hoshi are eventually successful in communicating with the creature, which wants nothing more than to be returned to its homeworld.

Fallen Hero

Starfleet diverts the Enterprise to pick up a Vulcan ambassador who has been expelled from an alien planet because of criminal negligence charges. But soon after, a ship from the planet intercepts the Enterprise demanding that the ambassador be returned to them. Without confirmation of this from Starfleet, Archer refuses and the alien ship opens fire. When the Vulcan ambassador refuses to explain her situation to Archer, he decides to return to the planet to get to the bottom of the situation. Meanwhile, T'Pol gets the ambassador to confide in her, and then T'Pol pleads with Archer not to return to the alien planet because the ambassador's life would be in danger. By now, two other alien ships have joined the first and the three chase the Enterprise all the way up to warp 5 (Enterprise's top speed). As the situation looks critical, the ambassador finally tells Archer that she is a key witness in a case against a criminal organization on the alien planet and that the people chasing the Enterprise are from that criminal organization. Despire attempts by the pursuers to scramble communications, Enterprise manages to contact the Vulcan ship it was originally scheduled to rendezvous with and the Vulcan soon come to the rescue. Before leaving the Enterprise, she tells Archer and T'Pol that she senses a bond of respect and friendship between them.

Desert Crossing

The Enterprise answers a distress call from a small vessel and ends up helping its sole occupant to make engine repairs. In return, the man invites Archer and Tucker to visit his home planet, a nearby desert planet. The two accept the man's invitations and go down for a fierce game in which the opposing teams try to score points by tossing a glowing sphere through a hoop. Meanwhile, Enterprise is hailed by a government leader from the planet, who warns them that Archer and Tucker might be in danger because the man they are with is a terrorist. But, despite Enterprise's attempts to contact Archer and Tucker, the planet's government has erected a blocking force field. Later, the camp where the supposed terrorists are comes under attack from government forces and virtually destroyed. Archer and Tucker manage to escape into the desert but are soon near death from the heat and lack of water. They are eventually located and saved from another government attack only because the man they befriended managed to escape the planetary force field and offer his assistance to the Enterprise in sending down a rescue team.

Two Days and Two Nights

The Enterprise stops at Risa for some R&R for the crew. Captain Archer reluctantly takes some shore leave, at T'Pol's insistence, and meets a beautiful woman who's in a villa next to his. They seem to hit it off quite well, but eventually she turns out to be from the planet where Archer had recently helped some Suliban prisoners escape, and she's really only after information on the Cabal faction of the Suliban. Tucker and Reed also have a negative experience when they also meet two beautiful women who turn out to be shapeshifting alien men sho rob them and leave them in a wine cellar in their underwear. Mayweather's luck isn't much better, as he injures himself rock climbing on the planet and has to be returned to the Enterprise. There, Dr. Phlox is deep into a 48-hour hibernation period and when he has to be awakened to treat Mayweather, he begins to act very strangely. In the end, only Hoshi had a nice time on Rise, meeting a young man who is also interested in languages, and they get together romantically.

Shockwave (Part 1)

While Captain Archer and several other Enterprise crew members are descending through the atmosphere of a planet for a first contact meeting with an alien colony, something goes wrong and the shuttlepod's exhaust ignites the atmosphere, killing all 3,600 members of the colony. Archer takes the guilt of the accident personally, especially after Enterprise is recalled to Earth and the Vulcans threaten to shut down their support for Starfleet. But when Daniels (the crewman from the future who had earlier contacted Archer for help in the temporal cold war) take Archer aside in time to explain that the Enterprise and the colony have been victims of the temporal cold war, Archer turns Enterprise around and heads back to the planet to investigate. With information provided by Daniels, Archer, T'Pol, and Tucker disable and board a cloaked Suliban ship and make off with data disks with evidence that the Suliban caused the accident in the planet's atmosphere. Enterprise is soon surrounded by hundreds of small Suliban ships and Silik demands that Archer surrender himself to the Suliban. To save Enterprise from certain destruction, Archer agrees, but when he steps off the turbolift, he finds himself with Daniels in a 31st Century Earth that has been totally destroyed -- and with no way to return in time to the Enterprise.