Category: Enterprise

Dr. Phlox asks Captain Archer to make a course change to retrieve a team of Denobulan mineralogists who are on a planet where, due to a change in government, they won’t be welcome for much longer. As the Enterprise arrives and Trip, Malcolm and Mayweather prepare to find the Denobulans, another ship has been fired upon by that planet’s new security forces, forcing Archer to take it aboard. Phlox is shocked to find that the ship’s survivors include Antareans, a race locked in a centuries-old war with the Denobulans. When one Antarean patient refuses to allow Phlox to perform a life-saving surgery, the doctor won’t budge to save him…but is it because his patient has asked him not to, or because his patient is an enemy? And will Archer’s order to perform the surgery regardless of the patient’s wishes be carried out?

teleplay by Chris Black & John Shiban
story by Daniel McCarthy
directed by Robert Duncan MacNeill
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Henry Stram (Hudak), Mark Chaet (Yolen), D.C. Douglas (Zepht), Laura Putney (Trevix), Jamison Yang (Crewman)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

While coming closer to a giant star than any human starship has ever dared to go, the Enterprise is hailed by a Vissian ship which is venturing even closer. The Vissian captain is an amiable man open to technological and cultural exchanges between the two crews, and even offers Captain Archer the chance to accompany him on a close survey of the star’s surface aboard a Vissian “stratopod.” Meanwhile, Trip and Malcolm become friendly with some of the Vissians paying a visit to the Enterprise. Trip is fascinated to learn of the Vissians’ three-gender society, in which the third sex serves as a cogenitor during reproduction. But when he learns that the cogenitors are treated as second-class citizens, receiving few rights and no education, Trip tries to show the one cogenitor aboard the Vissian ship a new way of life. The cogenitor learns fast, picking up fluent English in only a day. When the cogenitor requests asylum, Trip’s well-intentioned interference could mean the end of friendly relations between the two crews.

written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by Levar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Andreas Katsulas (Vissian Captain), F.J. Rio (Vissian Engineer), Larissa Laskin (Calla), Becky Wahlstrom (Cogenitor), Stacie Renna (Traistana), Laura Interval (Vissian Woman #2)

Notes: Andreas Katsulas played Narn Ambassador G’Kar in the pilot movie and all five subsequent seasons of Babylon 5, also appearing in the one-off spinoff The Legend Of The Rangers. Sharp-eyed Trek fans may also remember him as the devious Romulan Commander Tomalok in such Next Generation episodes as The Enemy, Future Imperfect and All Good Things; this was one of his last television performances before his death in 2006. Again, photon torpedoes are mentioned here as a technological advance that several other races – now adding the Visians to the Klingons – have made ahead of Earth.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A call from Admiral Forrest leaves Archer distraught – his old friend, A.G. Robinson, the first human to break the warp 2 barrier, has died in a mountain-climbing accident. Robinson’s first test flight ended in disaster, as his attempts to pass warp 2 result in the destruction of the NX-Alpha at Jupiter – and a narrow escape for its pilot. After the near-disastrous test flight, the NX program was nearly canned, with the Vulcans advising that Starfleet slow down its space program, until Archer and Robinson – with the help of a bright young engineer named “Trip” Tucker – decided to launch a second and entirely unauthorized test flight. The flight was a success in terms of proving stable spaceflight faster than warp 2, but it would propel one of its two pilots into a career as Starfleet’s first starship captain…and would see the other leave the fleet altogether.

written by John Shiban & Chris Black
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Keith Carradine (Robinson), Michael Canavan (Vulcan), Vaughn Armstrong (Forrest), Victor Bevine (Flight Controller), Brigid Brannagh (Ruby), John B. Moody (Security Officer)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Six 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)

written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A 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?

written by Mike Sussman
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.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Studying 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.

written by Andrè Bormanis
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.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Archer 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…

written by Brent V. Friedman
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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

An 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.

written by Phyllis Strong
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Velton Ray Bunch

Guest Cast: Maury Sterling (Tarquin)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Following 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?

written by Chris Black & Brent V. Friedman
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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Following 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.

written by David A. Goodman
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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green