Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 1]
Storm Front (1)
Shown 8 Oct 04
The Temporal Cold War has boiled over. Archer ends up back in World War Two. The Germans (eeevil) has made an alliance with aliens, who helped them invade the USA. Captain Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ), a git, has made an alliance with the Mafia (including a token black babe). T'Pol commands the Enterprise in orbit.
This is Part 1 of 2.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 2]
Storm Front (2)
Shown 15 Oct 04
The Germans are unhappy with the alliance.
Sillick (the Pseudopod leader) appears. The amateurish Mafia thugs massacre highly-trained German troops. Unconvincing!
The World War Two setting has been used before - Voyager had alien Hunters team up with Nazi holograms to oppress the French Resistance. That was bad enough, but that was an idealised situation portrayed through clumsy hologram programming. After all, nobody would ever thing that Fair Haven was realistic. But the Enterprise alternate universe is whitewashed. It is the 1940s, but there are no references to America's Jim Crow laws (although, to be fair the episode is set in NYC).
In the future There will be no war on Earth between HUMANS, but Aliens will have different values. In other words, the Feds have a Socialist democracy.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 3]
Home
Shown 22 Oct 04
The crew are finally back on Earth. Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) is pro-military, and gets abuse from Earth's Vulcan Ambassador (Gary Graham - Alien Nation ). naturally, Archer goes climbing (that is what Kirk would do) with his ex-GF (a female captain). Tucker and T'Pol go to her mother ( Joanna Cassidy ) where they have the usual soap opera problems. Meanwhile, the Doc falls victim to human xenophobia.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 4]
Borderland (1)
Shown 29 Oct 04
Two modified humans hijack a Klingon ship. To get more info, Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) visits Dr Soong (Brent Spiner - Star Trek: TNG ) - in a prison!
The Eugenics wars were only a couple of decades ago. The Augments are in the borderlands between the Klingons and the Orion Syndicate. The Orions (who will be reduced to an organised crime syndicate in a few centuries) are slavers, and kidnap T'Pol.
This is Part 1 of 3.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 5]
Cold Station 12 (2)
Shown 5 Nov 04
Dr Soong (Brent Spiner - Star Trek: TNG ) and the Augments raid a space station to get enough embryos to make an army. Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) is in pursuit.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 6]
The Augments (3)
Shown 12 Nov 04
This is the conclusion of the 3-episode arc, directed by LeVar Burton ( Star Trek: TNG ). Enterprise follows Dr Soong (Brent Spiner - Star Trek: TNG ) into Klingon space. The Augments have internal dispute - Soong versus the brat (Alec Newman - ). It is a bit like an episode of 24 - they have a new goal!
There are the expected references to the Briar Patch ( Star Trek: Insurrection ) and artificial life-forms.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 7]
The Forge (1)
Shown 19 Nov 04
Admiral Forrest ( Vaughn Armstrong ) is at the Terran embassy on Vulcan when it is bombed. The Vulcan government blames a religious sect. Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) and T'Pol hike into the desert to find the sect. T'Pol's mother ( Joanna Cassidy ) is the main suspect! Has she been framed?
Trip, Phlox and Earth's Vulcan Ambassador (Gary Graham - Alien Nation ) question the witnesses.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 8]
Awakening (2)
Shown 26 Nov 04
Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) has Sirok's soul in him, the rebel leader (T'Pau, future grandmother of Spock) wants it out. T'Pol is bitter against her mother ( Joanna Cassidy ).
The Ambassador (Gary Graham - Alien Nation ) and Trip try to work out what the villain's plan is - he uses warships!
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 9]
Kir'Shara (3)
Shown 3 Dec 04
The Ambassador (Gary Graham - Alien Nation ) and Trip take Enterprise to Andoria, and face Shran (Jeffrey Combs - The Frighteners ).
T'Pau, T'Pol and Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) try to escape. There is an unconvincing ending. Political changes will pave the way for a Starfleet takeover ...
We discover who is behind the plot ...
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 10]
Daedalus
Shown 14 Jan 05
Archer's Mentor (Bill Cobb - The Others ), inventor of the transporter, investigates a subspace event. They experiment with a Quantum Transporter, which would allow interplanetary travel! This idea was later expanded on in the reboot movie Star Trek (2009) .
The story goes on to show an urban myth first mentioned in Enterprise [Season 2, Episode 11] Vanishing Point . However, the twist in that story indicated that the myth was false ...
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 11]
Observer Effect
Shown 21 Jan 05
Trip and Hoshi contract a mysterious virus. Two non-corporeal life-forms inhabit crew members to observe. But they have a Prime Directive of non-interference. They want to find the correct species to make First Contact with. But there is no correct answer.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 12]
Babel One (1)
Shown 28 Jan 05
The title seems to be a reference to Babylon 5 , our last, best hope for peace.
Enterprise takes a Tellerite Ambassador to a peace conference with the Andorians. Shran (Jeffrey Combs - The Frighteners ) has been attacked ...
Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) must cope with troublesome guests and enemy star-ships. Brian Thompson ( X-Files ) is the enemy space-ship captain.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 13]
United (2)
Shown 4 Feb 05
Trip and Malcolm are still aboard the marauder ship. Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) gets the Vulcans, Tellerites and Andorians to team up against it - but first he must duel Shran (Jeffrey Combs - The Frighteners )!
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 14]
The Aenar (3)
Shown 11 Feb 05
The villains are after Enterprise. Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) goes to Shran's home-world to find Albino telepaths. This is similar to Archer and T'Pol's trek through the desert in The Forge.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 15]
Affliction (1)
Shown 18 Feb 05
Back on Earth, Phlox is abducted. Detective Kate McNeil thinks it is Earth-Firsters (with a transporter beam?). Reed is part of a secret plot - the Bureau?
Klingons want Phlox to cure a plague - he never suspects them of using biotechnology or germ warfare! We discover why some Klingons looked semi-human in Star Trek: TOS . It is a nice nod to continuity.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 16]
Divergence (2)
Shown 25 Feb 05
Columbia and Trip try to rescue Enterprise. James Avery (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) is a Klingon General. The plot threads are all predictably tied up.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 17]
Bound
Shown 15 Apr 05
The Orion Syndicate gives Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) a trio of green-skinned slave girls. Unfortunately, their pheromones control men and give women headaches. Trip is immune (thanks to T'Pol). Archer wants to divorce the women, leaving them homeless and unemployed.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 18]
In a Mirror, Darkly (Part I)
5th July 2005 - Tuesday
This title is a reference to a story by the classic Sci-Fi writer Phil K. Dick . The episode starts with the end of Star Trek 8: First Contact , when James Cromwell meets the Vulcans. However, this being the mirror universe (inhabited by the evil versions of the characters), Cromwell tries something new.
Then we get to the alternate Title sequence. It is even more militaristic than the original one, reminiscent of Babylon 5 .
Aboard the Warship Enterprise, Admiral Forrest ( Vaughn Armstrong ) is commander and Hoshi is his concubine. She actually looks feminine, and gets to act! The female uniforms reveal their navels (deliberately, no doubt, because in the 1960s the censors would not allow it). Meriweather, the Token Black Guy, becomes Archer's personal bodyguard. Just to give him something to do, probably.
All in all, an excellent episode. The story involves the Kirk-era USS Defiant. This is part I of II, to be concuded next episode.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 19]
In a Mirror, Darkly (Part II)
12th July 2005 - Tuesday
Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ), clad in a Kirk-era costume, has to track down and duel a Gorn. This one is CGI, rather than a man in a rubber suit - faster, more threatening but not necessarily more convincing.
T'Pol starts a rebellion (with Gary Graham - in a goatee!). The Empire is more interracial than the Federation - Archer's crew has multiple Vulcans, an Andorian and even an Orion female (fully dressed!). Hoshi and T'Pol have a catfight.
All in all, this is a significant improvement on the original.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 20]
Demons
19th July 2005 - Tuesday
A San Francisco politican (Harry Groener, The Mayor in Buffy: Season 3 ) founds the Federation. He brings the Vulcans (including Ambassador Gary Graham - Alien Nation ), Andorians and Telerites along to celebrate the deal. However, there is no security. A severely gunshot woman staggers in, and dramatically lives long enough to give Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) an obscure clue to who her killers were.
Malcolm Reed contacts his Conspiracy associate, while Meriweather meets up with an old GF. She is a reporter - and a caucasian, which allows the first interracial Trek relationship since ...?
Suspicion falls on Earth Prime, a group of human isolationists. Luckily for the Human Race, a sinister man in a business suit (Peter Weller - Robocop ) has a half-Vulcan baby in his custody.
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 21]
Terra Prime
25th July 2005 - Tuesday
Peter Weller ( Robocop ) and his private army (including Peter Mensah - Spartacus ) have landed on Mars and taken over the laser array. It is powerful enough to destroy San Francisco at a distance of several Light Minutes. Would this not have been a useful tool against the Xindi? After all, it has already been used to deflect comets and suchlike.
On Earth, Weller's Isolationists have a groundswell of support. We know it is serious, because apparently They use words that are not in the Universal Translator! Starfleet, however, decides to overrule the democratic process and plough on regardless. The rebels, their hostages and the entire population of Mars are deemed expendable! This is all explicable when you remember that the self-appointed ruler of the Federation is The Mayor from Buffy: Season 3 !
Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ), Malcolm and Meriweather try to sneak aboard the rebel base. Apparently there is a turncoat on the Enterprise crew - will it be a major character? A recurring one? This is Trek - what do you think?
Enterprise [Season 4, Episode 22]
These Are The Voyages ...
1st August 2005 - Tuesday
Commander Riker has a tough decision. For inspiration, he participates in a holodeck recreation of one of Archer's final missions. Picard and Data's voices are heard, and Troi makes an appearance in person. This is set in the era of the Star Trek: TNG Pegasus episode: Riker can look ten years younger than he really is, but poor Troi cannot!
The Enterprise crew are all six years older than in the previous ep. Archer (Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap ) and the crew must help Shran (Jeffrey Combs - The Frighteners ) and his daughter. Apparently Andorian politics, even years after they entered the Federation, are still murky!
The climax? The ship is boarded, and both Reed's security teams and the Mako commandos are nowhere to be seen! One crewmember faces their demise.
The holodeck simulation is too perfect - it should be more like Reg Barclay's version of Voyager . The show should have ended with the Peter Weller two-parter. This is a throwaway ep that brings continuity with Star Trek: TNG (and the Kirk era).