Star Trek: Enterprise – Season 1 (TVR00014) – 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪
Overview

Most of Season 1 is about the first Warp 5-capable Earth vessel venturing out into uncharted space. The Vulcans have been taking very cautious steps in helping humans expand, and Archer has been pushing for Earth to take a more aggressive, risky approach. The season shows early attempts, selecting a crew, venturing out, and a series of bloody noses as they meet both friendly and less-than-friendly allies. The Vulcans give them T’Pol, which helps and hurts with the Andorians, Klingons, and a host of other smaller races. But throughout it all, there is a hint that something bigger is going on, as Crewman Daniels teaches Archer about the Temporal Prime Directive.
Episodes That I Liked
The two best episodes of the season are about time travel, including EP11 Cold Front where the Time War becomes more apparent and answers a few questions while opening a host more. EP26 ShockWave Pt 1 brings time travel back to the fore as well and serves as the cliffhanger for the season.
Six other episodes are rated 4/5, including a two-parter (EP01 and 02 kick off the series with Sulibans and Klingons on Earth); E10 where you get to meet Nausicaans with predictable results given their history of attacking merchant vessels; E12 with a lot of focus on phasers; E17 with Vulcans who embrace emotions rather than suppressing them; and E20 with an old crashed ship sending out an SOS with seemingly no survivors on board, yet there is…something.
Episodes That Were Watchable
Fourteen more episodes are rated 3/5, and it is the reason why the whole season is similarly rated. E03 deals with Hoshi having trouble adjusting to being on a ship; E04 has a planet that causes hallucinations; E05 rises to okay which is surprising since the premise is that Trip gets pregnant; E06 looks at a lost colony; E07 and 15 deal with Andorian / Vulcan relations, and other than the main Andorian, they’re kind of a wash; E09 has interactions with a pre-warp society and the start of the “Prime Directive”; E14 is about rescuing a Klingon ship while E16 is about rescuing a shuttlepod; E18 has a rogue planet drifting through space; E19 and 22 show Malcolm isn’t doing a very good job with security since the Ferengi and a spider manage to take over the ship; and E25 is a trip to Risa where lots of little adventures happen for everyone. Of all of the mid-range ones, E13 deals with a week in the life of Dr. Phlox and while it was a great premise, there wasn’t enough “oomph” to get above 3/5.
Episodes That I Didn’t Like
Four episodes really weren’t that great…”thawing” relations with Vulcans (namely T’Pol, E08), an internment camp (E21), a disgraced Vulcan Ambassador (E23), and a trip through the desert (E24).
List of Episodes from Season 1
S01E01 | Broken Bow Pt 1 | Sulibans on Earth? Not a good time | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
S01E02 | Broken Bow Pt 2 | Visiting Cronos? Priceless | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
S01E03 | Fight or Flight | Hoshi finds her sea legs | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E04 | Strange New World | Camping with hallucinations? Fun | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E05 | Unexpected | Trip’s blind date goes too well | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E06 | Terra Nova | Find a lost colony, get taken hostage | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E07 | Andorian Incident | Someone always breaks a treaty | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E08 | Breaking the Ice | Comets, Vulcans…everything thaws | 🐸🐸⚪⚪⚪ |
S01E09 | Civilization | Oooh, no Prime Directive? Cool | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E10 | Fortunate Son | Nausicaans and Boomers don’t mix | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
S01E11 | Cold Front | Temporal observatories and cold wars | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
S01E12 | Silent Enemy | Oh, look, target practice for phasers | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
S01E13 | Dear Doctor | Week in life of Phlox and an epidemic | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E14 | Sleeping Dogs | Joke: Klingons fly into a gas giant | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E15 | Shadows of P’Jem | An Andorian rescue op? Great | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E16 | Shuttlepod One | One way ticket to cold space | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E17 | Fusion | Vulcans who embrace emotion? Scary | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
S01E18 | Rogue Planet | Save the wraiths, save your memory | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E19 | Acquisition | A Ferengi boarding party? Embarrassing | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E20 | Oasis | A crashed ship with spooky survivors | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
S01E21 | Detained | Internment camps? Not that interesting | 🐸🐸⚪⚪⚪ |
S01E22 | Vox Sola | A space spider spins its web on board | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E23 | Fallen Hero | Vulcan Ambassador slash criminal? | 🐸🐸⚪⚪⚪ |
S01E24 | Desert Crossing | Space captains like the desert? | 🐸🐸⚪⚪⚪ |
S01E25 | Two Days and Two Nights | It’s Risa, anything goes | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
S01E26 | Shockwave Pt 1 | Always a bad time for time travel | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
The Bottom Line
A show still getting its space legs
