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Enterprise Season 03 Star Trek

The Xindi

Star Trek: EnterpriseSix weeks into their mission into the Delphic Expanse, the Enterprise crew is on edge – thus far, they’ve managed to follow only a single lead. The crew is also growing accustomed to the presence of Military Assault Command Operations (MACO) troops aboard the Enterprise. Captain Archer and Trip work a questionable deal with an alien who claims to have a Xindi prisoner, and when the two Enterprise officers finally meet their first living Xindi, they become prisoners too – and now they have to rely on their enemy to help them escape. They’ll also need some help from the MACOs…if Lt. Reed can be convinced that the rescue mission would be best handled by commandos rather than Enterprise’s own security forces.

Season 3 Regular Cast: Scott Bakula (Captain Jonathan Archer), Jolene Blalock (Subcommander T’Pol), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Dominic Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Ensign Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Ensign Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Commander Charles “Trip” Tucker III)

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directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Steven Culp (Major Hayes), Chris Freeman (Alien Head Guard), Adam Taylor Gordon (Young Trip), Daniel Dae Kim (Corporal Chang), Richard Lineback (Kessick), Scott MacDonald (Xindi Reptilian), Stephen McHattie (Alien Foreman), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Marco Sanchez (Corporal Romero), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi Sloth)

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Anomaly

Star Trek: EnterpriseA spatial anomaly disrupts the structure of the Enterprise itself, just before a well-armed raiding party boards the ship, attacking the crew and robbing supplies from the Enterprise’s cargo bays. The raider vessel, apparently unaffected by the anomaly, slips into an even denser field of spatial disruption apparently unharmed. Archer orders a pursuit course, which damages the Enterprise even further. He intends not only to secure the secret of passing through the anomaly unharmed for the Enterprise, but to retrieve the stolen items and put the raiders out of business. But when a single prisoner is captured who could give him the means to do this, how far will Archer go to get the man to cooperate?

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directed by David Straiton
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Nathan Anderson (Sergeant Kemper), Robert Rusler (Orgoth), Julia Rose (McKenzie), Kenneth A. White (Engineering Crewman), Ken Lally (Security Guard #1), Ryan Honey (Security Guard #2)

Notes: Robert Rusler, though he’s barely recognizable here, is remembered by Babylon 5 fans as ill-fated hotshot pilot Warren Keffer from the second season.

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Extinction

Star Trek: EnterpriseStudying a planet in the Expanse at close range, an Enterprise landing party mutates into more primitive forms of life. The cause of this condition is a virus which has now infected Archer, Reed, Hoshi and even T’Pol. The human crew members are transformed, exhibiting personalities from a virological archive of an alien civilization. But by the time Archer and the others can gain an understanding of what has taken control of them, they have traveled to an ancient alien temple – where a group of hunters, who don’t seem eager to help the crew or Dr. Phlox find a cure, is waiting for them.

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directed by LeVar Burton
music by Velton Ray Bunch

Guest Cast: Craig Baxley Jr. (Decon Agent #1), Philip Boyd (Com Officer), Daniel Dae Kim (Corporal Chang), Roger Cross (Tret), Kiante Elam (Alien Humanoid), Troy Mittleider (Palmer), Jimmy Ortega (Decon Agent #3), Keith Schindol (Decon Agent #2), Brian Williams (Stunt Alien Decon Agent)

Notes: Guest star Jimmy Ortega’s other Star Trek appearance goes all the way back to the beginning of the post-movie era – he had a brief part in Encounter At Farpoint as an Enterprise bridge officer frozen solid by Q.

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Raijin

Star Trek: EnterpriseArcher calls in a favor from a merchant he met at a previous stop in the Expanse. But when he stops by the planet where the merchant does business, Archer picks up an unexpected passenger – an alien sex slave named Raijin escapes from a bazaar and returns to the Enterprise with him. Once on board, Rajiin is a mystery, defying Phlox’s attempts to find out more about her species, but she certainly catches everyone else’s eye. She is able to telepathically invade everyone’s mind an insinuate herself into their deepest fantasies, whether her “victim” happens to be Trip, Captain Archer, Hoshi, T’Pol…

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directed by Mike Vejar
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Nikita Ager (Raijin), B.K. Kennelly (Alien Merchant), Steve Larson (Zjod), Dell Yount (B’Rat Ud)

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Impulse

Star Trek: EnterpriseDeep in the Delphic Expanse, the Enterprise encounters a drifting Vulcan science vessel – a ship that was T’Pol’s last assignment before serving at the Vulcan consulate on Earth. It has managed to drift through a chaotic asteroid field too dense and dangerous for the Enterprise to navigate, so Archer takes a small team in via shuttlepod to search for survivors. As it turns out, the Vulcan ship’s entire crew has survived – but they have become infected with a condition that breaks down their emotional control and leaves them in a zombie-like state, attacking anyone who comes near them. Archer and his boarding party are eventually beseiged in a closed-off part of the ship, and T’Pol is infected with this disease during a skirmish with the Vulcan crew, growing increasingly paranoid and violent toward her crewmates.

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story by Jonathan Fernandez & Terry Matalas
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Sean McGowan (Corporal Hawkins)

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Exile

Star Trek: EnterpriseAn unknown man, appearing to be human, is repeatedly seen aboard the Enterprise by Hoshi, but sensors never pick him up. Finally, the person she has repeatedly sighted contacts her more formally, offering to help track down information on where the Xindi are building the next superweapon to be deployed against Earth – in exchange for Hoshi’s company for a few days and an opportunity to study her unique communication and translation abilities. While she’s away, the Enterprise is nearly ripped apart by gravitational anomalies, and Archer and Trip venture onward in a shuttlepod to find the source of the problem. They find an artificially constructed sphere exterting the deadly gravitational influence – and then discover that there are dozens of such spheres throughout the Expanse. And when Hoshi tries to leave her host, she discovers that he has no intention of letting her return to the Enterprise.

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directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Velton Ray Bunch

Guest Cast: Maury Sterling (Tarquin)

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The Shipment

Star Trek: EnterpriseFollowing a lead given to Hoshi by Tarquin, Archer, Reed and Major Hayes infiltrate a shipping depot on a planet in the Expanse. According to Tarquin’s information, a shipment of components vital to the superweapon being prepared by the Xindi will arrive soon at this outpost, and Archer plans to intercept it. Archer and his team capture and question Gralik, the inoffensive Xindi-Sloth cargo master, at his home, and Archer is unusually rough with him – but the captain begins to question his own methods when Gralik expresses surprise and regret that his outpost may be moving shipments meant to kill massive numbers of innocent lives. But is he outraged enough to help Archer sabotage the next shipment of weapons components?

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directed by David Straiton
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Randy Oglesby (Degra), John Cothran Jr. (Gralik), Steven Culp (Major Hayes), Jack Alsted (Sloth #2), Sam Witwer (Sloth #3), John Eddins (Xindi Reptilian)

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Twilight

Star Trek: EnterpriseWhile investigating an orderload in the starboard warp nacelle systems, Captain Archer and T’Pol encounter an unusual spatial anomaly, and Archer is overcome by it after pushing his science officer out of the way. Archer awakens in the sick bay of the Enterprise, told by Dr. Phlox that a parasitic infection he contracted is preventing him from retaining any short-term memory. After this condition makes it apparent that Archer is unfit for duty, T’Pol is made the ship’s Captain. Phlox attempts a more aggressive treatment, and when Archer awakens from it, an older T’Pol tells him that twelve years have passed – none of which he can remember – during which the Xindi have destroyed Earth and are now systematically hunting down the last 6,000 surviving humans who escaped the planet’s destruction.

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directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Gary Graham (Soval), Brett Rickaby (Yedrin Koss), Richard Anthony Crenna (Security Guard)

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North Star

Star Trek: EnterpriseFollowing up on leads about kidnapped humans in the Expanse, the Enterprise visits a planet where humans are supposedly being held in slavery by a race called the Skagarans. Archer, Trip and T’Pol disguise their identities and mingle with the natives, where they find that the story is now very different: the humans, kidnapped long before the 22nd century, have risen up and overthrown their former masters, and the Skagarans are now a belittled under-class, not allowed to receive an education or hold any position of power. But even then, Archer is still determined to restore balance and equity to the two races inhabiting this world, even if it means revealing his true identity and rocking the humans’ beliefs to the core.

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directed by David Straiton
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Glenn Morshower (Sheriff MacReady), James Parks (Deputy Bennings), Paul Rae (Bartender), Emily Bergl (Bethany), Steven Klein (Draysik), Gary Bristow (Stablehand), Mike Watson (Skagaran), John Baron (Yral), Alexandria M. Salling (Taliyah), Jeff Eith (Cowboy #1), Cliff McLaughlin (Cowboy #2), Tom Dupont (Cowboy #3), Dorenda Moore (MACO #1), Kevin Derr (MACO #2)

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Similitude

Star Trek: EnterpriseCritically injured by an explosion in engineering, Trip is left in a coma. The Enterprise becomes ensnared in a phenomenon that’s gradually covering the ship’s hull with energy-draining particles. Dr. Phlox is less than optimistic about the chief engineer’s chances of survival by conventional means, and offers the captain an unorthodox solution – growing a clone by using a mimetic creature that will grow to maturity in less than a week, and die in 15 days. Phlox hopes to replace a damaged portion of Trip’s brain with the identical tissue removed from his clone. But in the week it takes to raise and teach the clone, the crew becomes more attached to it than they expected – and when the critical moment arises, Trip’s clone would rather live out the few days left to him than serve as a source of donor organ tissue for Trip himself.

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directed by LeVar Burton
music by Velton Ray Bunch

Guest Cast: Shane Sweet (Sim-Trip, age 17), Adam Taylor Gordon (Sim-Trip, age 8 ), Maximillian Kesmodel (Sim-Trip, age 4)

Note: The music from this episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For A Series in 2004.

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Carpenter Street

Star Trek: EnterpriseFor the first time since the Xindi first attacked Earth, the enigmatic Crewman Daniels appears to Captain Archer – who turns on him angrily for not having ever warned him of the impending strike. But Daniels insists that 31st century history records no Xindi war with Earth – therefore, the entire struggle is an enormous disruption in the timeline, and Daniels is here to warn Archer of a new threat. Xindi-Reptilians have been detected interfering with Earth’s timeline in the early 21st century. Archer and T’Pol travel back to the year 2004 to find the Xindi and stop them from wiping out humanity a hundred years before the Enterprise’s time – but they must first figure out why people are disappearing in a run-down part of Detroit, and how the kidnappings connect to an attempt at genocide.

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directed by Mike Vejar
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Matt Winston (Daniels), Leland Orser (Loomis), Michael Childers (Strode), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Xindi-Reptilian #1), Tom Morga (Xindi-Reptilian #2), Erin Cummings (Prostitute #1), Donna DuPlantier (Prostitute #2), Billy Mayo (Cop #1), Dan Warner (Cop #2)

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Chosen Realm

Star Trek: EnterpriseA chance encounter with a small vessel full of humanoids on a spiritual pilgrimage turns out to be more than a coincidence – their leader, D’Jamat, has specifically sought the Enterprise. His followers attack the crew and hijack the ship, intending to use it to turn the tide in a holy war that has divided their planet for centuries. When D’Jamat demands that Archer select a member of the crew to die, Archer chooses himself – and even names his own sentence, “death” by transporter. In fact, Archer merely has himself beamed into the bowels of the Enterprise, where he coordinates a last-ditch effort to retake the ship. But even if he can’t, has the end of this so-called holy war already been decided?

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directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Paul Biallargeon

Guest Cast: Conor O’Farrell (D’Jamat), Vince Grant (Yarrick), Lindsey Stoddart (Indava), Tayler Sheridan (Jareb), David Youse (Nalbis), Gregory Wagrowski (Ceris), Matt Huhn (Triannon), Kim Fitzgerald (Crewman)

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Proving Ground

Star Trek: EnterpriseAt a meeting of the multi-species Xindi war council, it is announced that a prototype of the next sphere weapon – this one on a larger scale intended to take Earth out in a single strike – is nearly ready. If the leaders of the various Xindi species approve of the weapon’s test firing, the genuine article could be on course for Earth in a matter of mere weeks.

Using the traceable kemosite planted by Gralik, Archer and the Enterprise crew find the location where the Xindi plan to test their weapon – but that proving ground is tucked away behind a dense field of the spatial anomalies that have severely damaged the Enterprise in the past. An attempt to navigate the anomalies fails, and the Enterprise becomes stuck in what seems to be a hopeless situation – until a tractor beam pulls her to safety. Archer is stunned, and T’Pol is suspicious, to see that Captain Shran of the Andorians has followed them simply to offer his help – with surprisingly few strings attached. When Shran is all too eager to help Archer hijack the test weapon, Archer must consider destroying his prize if only to keep Shran from using it to develop a weapon of mass destruction for use against the Vulcans.

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directed by David Livingston
music by John Frizzell

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Combs (Shran), Molly Brink (Talas), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Scott MacDonald (Xindi Reptilian), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi Sloth), Granville Van Dusen (Andorian General), Josh Drennen (Degra’s Assistant)

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Strategem

Star Trek: EnterpriseThree years after the end of the human-Xindi conflict, Archer and Degra, the Xindi-humanoid weapons develeoper, escape from imprisonment at the hands of the Xindi-insectoids. Degra has experienced memory loss during his interrogation, and Archer reminds him that after destroying Earth, the various Xindi turned on each other in a vicious civil war. But Archer is also insisting that Degra must help him return to the place where the fateful Xindi sphere-weapon was tested before being launched toward Earth. And Degra is unaware – at least at first – that everything he is being told is untrue.

Order DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxteleplay by Michael Sussman
story by Terry Matalas
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Josh Drennen (Thalen), Randy Oglesby (Degra)

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Harbinger

Star Trek: EnterpriseWhen Major Hayes orders security and self-defense drills for the Enterprise’s crew without going through Lt. Reed, the Enterprise security chief is most annoyed and sets out to prove that his crewmates are every bit as capable of handling themselves as the MACO commandos. In the meantime, one of the MACOs is handling Trip quite well, embarking on a romantic relationship with him that leaves T’Pol strangely unsettled. The Enterprise encounters an anomaly containing a tiny pod. When the pod is pulled free, Captain Archer and Dr. Phlox are alarmed to find one humanoid life form aboard, and they’re even more alarmed by his agonized recounting of cruel treatment by the Xindi. But at the first opportunity, their visitor proves that he is, in fact, a Trojan horse sent by the Xindi themselves – and Hayes and Reed may be too busy exchanging blows with one another to stop the alien from destroying the Enterprise.

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story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Velton Ray Bunch

Guest Cast: Steven Culp (Hayes), Thomas Kopache (Alien), Noa Tishby (Amanda Cole)

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