Enterprise's Second Year Episodes

Shockwave, Part 2 (Episode 28)

First Airdate: September 18, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #78. Enterprise, UPN, (3.2 rating)

Carbon Creek (Episode 27)

First Airdate: September 25, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #87. Enterprise, UPN, (3.0 rating)

Minefield (Episode 29)

First Airdate: October 2, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #85. Enterprise, UPN, (3.5 rating)

Second Airdate: December 25, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #96. (X) Enterprise-Wednesday, UPN, (1.2 rating)

Third Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary:Archer and the Enterprise crew inadvertently veer into an enemy minefield.(Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Archer (Scott Bakula) learns what makes Lt. Reed (Dominic Keating) tick when the pair try to defuse a mine that has affixed itself to the Enterprise.
Since dutiful Malcolm Reed isn't the ship's most gregarious officer, the outgoing Archer tries to break the ice with a casual breakfast. To Reed's relief, the awkward get-together is interrupted by the discovery of an uncharted world. His relief is short-lived, however, when the Enterprise strikes a mine en route to the planet, setting off an explosion that damages the ship. When another mine latches onto the hull, Reed is sent into space to dislodge the warhead, only to suffer an injury that impels Archer to come to his aid.

Story by: John Shiban

Teleplay by:

Directed by: James Contner

Dead Stop (Episode 31)

First Airdate: October 9, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #82. Enterprise, UPN, (3.5 rating)

Second Airdate: January 1, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #94. (X) Enterprise-Wednesday, UPN, (2.0 rating)

Third Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: The recently damaged Enterprise docks at a fully automated alien repair station, where services are rendered at a heavy price. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Following the ordeal in the minefield, the crew links up with an automated repair vessel that troubles Archer when its computer steals information from the Enterprise's data banks.

Story by: Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong

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A Night in Sick Bay (Episode 30)

First Airdate: October 16, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #76. Enterprise, UPN, (3.9 rating)

Second Airdate: January 15, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #101. Enterprise, UPN, (2.0 rating)

Third Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: When Porthos gets sick, Archer moves into Sickbay and learns more about Dr. Phlox.
Archer spends a fretful night in Sickbay with Dr. Phlox after Porthos, Archer's pet beagle, picks up a deadly virus on an alien planet. Meanwhile, crew members believe Archer's increased stress level is due to Porthos' illness, but Dr. Phlox suspects it has to do with Archer's repressed sexual tension and urges Archer to discuss it with T'Pol.(Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide)Archer is fuming after the Kreetassans refuse to part with parts for Enterprise because of a diplomatic gaffe involving his dog, Porthos, which then falls ill with a mysterious disorder. But Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley) thinks there's more to Archer's rants than meets the ear.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

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Directed by: David Straiton

Marauders (Episode 32)

First Airdate: October 30, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #89. Enterprise, UPN, (3.6 rating)

Second Airdate: January 22, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #103. Enterprise, UPN, (1.8 rating)

Third Airdate: ?

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Summary: Captain Archer and crew help a colony of deuterium miners defend themselves against Klingon raiders. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Archer and Trip visit an alien colony seeking deuterium fuel, but their suspicions are aroused when the planet's drillers prove reluctant to deal with them. Aboard Enterprise, Mayweather's sensors detect an approaching Klingon vessel.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by: David Wilcox

Directed by: Mike Vejar

The Seventh (Episode 33)

First Airdate: November 6, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #86. Enterprise, UPN, (3.2 rating)

Second Airdate: January 29, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #108. Enterprise, UPN, (1.6 rating)

Third Airdate: ?

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Summary:T'Pol recruits Captain Archer and Ensign Mayweather to assist her on a mission to complete some unfinished business from her earlier career in covert operations. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide)T'Pol and Archer team up to nab a corrupt Vulcan in a tautly scripted episode.
T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) is troubled when she receives orders from the Vulcan High Command to locate a traitorous mole named Menos (Bruce Davison), who was planted on a rival planet 30 years earlier. Posing as a smuggler, Menos profited from the illegal-weapons trade he was sent to derail. While T'Pol has chased down such renegades before, a series of disturbing flashbacks prompts her to ask for the captain's help with the mission, which was assigned to her without his approval. Putting aside his displeasure over the snub, Archer (Scott Bakula) agrees to accompany her to the frozen moon where their quarry has been located.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by:

Directed by: David Livingston

The Communicator (Episode 34)

First Airdate: November 13, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #101. Enterprise, UPN, (3.0 rating)

Second Airdate: March 5, 2003

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Summary: Things go from bad to worse when Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society on the brink of war to retrieve a communicator that was lost during an undercover survey mission. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide)Archer and Reed go undercover on a preatomic-era alien world to retrieve a communicator Reed left behind on a previous visit and they're captured and held as spies.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by: Andre Bormanis

Directed by: James Contner

Singularity (Episode 35)

First Airdate: November 20, 2002

Nielsen Rating: # 95. Enterprise, UPN, (3.1 rating)

Second Airdate: March 12, 2003

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Summary: While Enterprise surveys a black hole that's part of a trinary star system, the ship's proximity to the stellar phenomenon has a strange effect on the crew. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) As the Enterprise nears a black hole, members of the crew are exposed to radiation, which causes them to become increasingly obsessed with mundane tasks. Trip, for example, can't stop tinkering with the captain's chair, while Phlox is fiercely determined to find the cause of Mayweather's headache.

Story by: Chris Black

Teleplay by:

Directed by: Patrick Norris

Vanishing Point (Episode 36)

First Airdate: November 27, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #90. Enterprise, UPN, (2.5 rating)

Second Airdate: March 19, 2003

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Summary: When Hoshi Sato goes through her first Transporter experience, strange aftereffects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly and that her very existence is threatened. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Hoshi is convinced her body's molecules are destabilizing after enduring a traumatic trip through the Enterprise transporter to escape a sudden storm on a primitive planet.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by:

Directed by: David Straiton

Precious Cargo (Episode 37)

First Airdate: December 11, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #87. "Enterprise," UPN, (3.1 rating)

Second Airdate: March 26, 2003

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Summary: Trip Tucker boards an alien cargo vessel to help repair a stasis pod holding a beautiful woman in suspended animation. When the woman accidentally awakes, she reveals she's not a passenger, but a prisoner. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Trip discovers a kidnapped Krios royal aboard an alien freighter, but her haughty behavior interferes with Trip's rescue efforts when the pair must share a cramped pod.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by: David A. Goodman

Directed by: David Livingston

The Catwalk (Episode 38)

First Airdate: December 18, 2002

Nielsen Rating: #83. Enterprise, UPN, (3.0 rating)

Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: When a lethal neutronic storm approaches faster than Enterprise can escape, the entire crew takes shelter in the most heavily shielded part of the ship — the maintenance shafts inside the warp nacelles — for several days. They also provide refuge to a group of aliens who aren't entirely upfront about themselves. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) After rescuing a group of stranded aliens, the Enterprise is caught in a perilous ion storm, compelling the crew to retire to the safety of the ship's reinforced---but cramped---catwalk.

Story by: Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong

Teleplay by:

Directed by: Mike Vejar

Dawn (Episode 39)

First Airdate: January 8, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #97. Enterprise, UPN, (2.5 rating)

Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: Trip Tucker is alone on a test mission aboard Shuttlepod One when he is fired upon by a territorial alien and forced to land on the night side of a moon. As he tries in vain to contact Enterprise, he discovers his alien foe has also made an emergency landing nearby, and the two nemeses must contend with each other as the extremely hot rising sun threatens their survival. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Trip is marooned after his shuttle is downed by an Arkonian pilot whose ship crashes on the same moon, while Archer's search is stalled by the Arkonians' distrust of T'Pol. Directed by Roxann Dawson (“Star Trek: Voyager”).

Story by: John Shiban

Teleplay by:

Stigma (Episode 40)

First Airdate: February 5, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #96. Enterprise, UPN, (2.9 rating)

Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: While Enterprise visits a planet where an Interspecies Medical Exchange conference is taking place, Dr. Phlox tries to obtain research on a terminal disease from the Vulcan contingency there. But he must not reveal that T'Pol has contracted this disease, because that knowledge would forever stigmatize her among her people. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) In this affecting AIDS allegory, Jolene Blalock exudes a cool vulnerability as T'Pol, who reveals that she has a rare illness linked to a sect of Vulcan outcasts.
The pointed episode, which continues the Star Trek tradition of addressing social issues through its sci-fi storylines, finds T'Pol confronting the symptoms and stigmas involved with Pa'nar's syndrome. It's a brain ailment associated with mind melders---the telepathic, emotional Vulcans ostracized by their logical, unemotional peers. Wary of the disgrace that disclosure might bring, T'Pol hides her condition while Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley) discreetly consults Vulcan physicians about treatment.

Written by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by:

Directed by: David Livingston

Cease Fire (Episode 41)

First Airdate: February 12, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #94. Enterprise, UPN, (2.9 rating)

Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: A military conflict erupts between the Vulcans and Andorians over a small terraformed planet that both sides make claim to. In the midst of the skirmish, the Vulcans announce they wish to discuss terms for a cease-fire, but Imperial Guard officer Shran believes the only one he can trust to mediate such a negotiation is Jonathan Archer, so the captain and his ship are called into the fray. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) The Enterprise is caught in the midst of an age-old feud when Archer is ordered to mediate a bloody planetary dispute between the Andorians and their long-time Vulcan nemeses.

Written by: Chris Black

Teleplay by:

Directed by: David Straiton

Future Tense (aka Crash Landing) (Episode 42)

First Airdate: February 19, 2003

Nielsen Rating: #84. Enterprise UPN (4.62 million people)

Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: Far beyond where any Earth vessel has ventured before, the Enterprise crew is shocked to find a small craft adrift in space that contains what appears to be a human corpse. Trip Tucker and Malcolm Reed discover the craft holds some strange secrets, and the mystery deepens when the Suliban arrive making claim to the salvage. On top of that, Captain Archer is confronted by the Tholians, who also aggressively try to procure the enigmatic vessel. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Archer's interest in a human body recovered from a crashed spacecraft takes a backseat to threats posed by the Suliban and the Tholians, both of whom seek the craft.

Written by: Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong

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Directed by: James Whitmore, Jr.

Canamar (Episode 43)

First Airdate: February 26, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: Upon leaving the Enolian homeworld in a shuttlepod, Archer and Tucker are mistakenly arrested and placed on a prisoner transport vessel bound for the penal colony Canamar. Before the error can be rectified, one of the alien inmates engineers a takeover of the transport, leading Archer to engage in a dangerous gambit. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Following a seemingly successful first contact mission, Archer and Trip are charged with smuggling and imprisoned aboard a penal vessel, where several inmates plot escape.

Story by: John Shiban

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Directed by: Allan Kroeker

The Crossing (Episode 44)

First Airdate: April 2, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: Enterprise is swallowed by an otherworldly vessel occupied by noncorporeal creatures who invade the bodies of crew members and trade consciousnesses with them. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Trip and several other members of the Enterprise crew are possessed by ghostly beings after the ship is swallowed up by a massive alien vessel.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga and Andre Bormanis

Teleplay by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Directed by: David Livingston

Judgment (Episode 45)

First Airdate: April 9, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: Captain Archer stands accused before a Klingon tribunal of conspiring against the Empire, and his only hope of escaping a death sentence or life in the dilithium mines of Rura Penthe is an aging and disenchanted Klingon lawyer with little energy or enthusiasm for the case. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Archer (Scott Bakula) is put on trial by the Klingons and accused by a disgraced Klingon officer of having his battle-cruiser crippled by the Enterprise in a firefight, and of aiding rebels of the Empire, but he finds a friend in his defender, Kolos.

Story by: Taylor Elmore & David A. Goodman

Teleplay by: David A. Goodman

Directed by: Jim Conway

Horizon (Episode 46)

First Airdate: April 16, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: When Enterprise reverses course to go investigate a planetary phenomenon, Ensign Mayweather takes the opportunity to visit the cargo ship where he was born and raised, the E.C.S. Horizon. But his father, the ship's captain, just recently died, and Travis finds that things at home haven't been the same since. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Mayweather is granted leave to visit his family after the sudden death of his father, a cargo-ship captain. But his return to the old vessel is complicated by family tension. Meanwhile, Archer and Trip invite a reluctant T'Pol to see a movie.

Story by: Andre Bormanis

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Directed by: James Contner

The Breach (Episode 47)

First Airdate: April 23, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: Enterprise is asked to evacuate a group of Denobulan geologists from a world that has been taken over by a militant faction, and since they are located deep underground, the effort requires some treacherous spelunking by the rescue team. Meanwhile Phlox faces a dilemma when another evacuee, an Antaran afflicted with a fatal dose of radiation, refuses to be treated by a Denobulan because of very old bad blood between the two races. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) The rescue of a damaged transport prompts the Denobulan Phlox to confront his prejudices when he treats an Antaran (Henry Stram), whose people are sworn enemies of Phlox's. Other Denobulans are holed up in an underground cave, where Trip, Reed and Mayweather are dispatched to retrieve them.

Story by: Daniel McCarthy

Teleplay by: Chris Black & John Shiban

Cogenitor (Episode 48)

First Airdate: ?April 30, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: While studying a star in the early stages of going supernova, Enterprise encounters a race called the Vissians. The two crews get along famously, until Trip Tucker gets a little too curious about a member of the species' third gender — a nameless individual called a "cogenitor." (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Enterprise's first contact with the Vissian race proves mutually rewarding until Trip befriends an alien couple's congenitor — a being used for breeding purposes only.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by:

Directed by: LeVar Burton

Regeneration (Episode 49)

First Airdate: May 7, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: An arctic research team on Earth discovers debris from an alien vessel, nearly a century old, buried in a glacier along with the bodies of two cybernetically enhanced humanoids. Once those beings are thawed for investigation, they come to life and abduct the scientists and their transport vessel. Enterprise is called to intercept, but Captain Archer and his crew find these cyborgs to be an intractable, insidious enemy. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) Enterprise searches for a party of missing scientific researchers who vanished from the Arctic after discovering a crashed spacecraft and its dormant cybernetic crew.

Story by: Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong

Teleplay by:

Directed by: David Livingston

First Flight(Episode 50)

First Airdate: May 14, 2003

Bounty (aka Part 1, Episode 51)

First Airdate: May 14, 2003

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Second Airdate: ?, 2003

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Summary: A Tellarite bounty hunter captures Archer intending to turn him over to the Klingons for a substantial reward. Meanwhile, T'Pol is infected with an alien pathogen that unleashes her primal Vulcan urges. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) A crafty Tellarite tricks Archer into boarding his ship to collect a bounty from the Klingons; T'Pol's mating cycle is kick-started after she is contaminated by a stray microbe while exploring a desert planet.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Teleplay by: Hans Tobeason, Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong

The Expanse (aka Bounty, Part 2, Episode 52)

First Airdate: May 21, 2003

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Summary: A Tellarite bounty hunter captures Archer intending to turn him over to the Klingons for a substantial reward. Meanwhile, T'Pol is infected with an alien pathogen that unleashes her primal Vulcan urges. (Star Trek Com)

(TV Guide) The ship and the series change course in dramatic fashion with this bold second-season finale about the aftermath of an alien probe of Earth that kills millions. With Enterprise under fire from fans and critics for being too cautious, executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga penned a daring script that gives the crew a new ongoing mission: to thwart the Xindi, who launched the probe to avenge a future attack by Earth. To prevent the aliens from developing more weapons of mass destruction, Enterprise is sent into the Delphic Expanse, a dangerous area of space Archer likens to the Bermuda Triangle. But first, Archer must elude a Klingon obsessed with his capture.

Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

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