Category: Star Trek

After the Romulan mine incident, the Enterprise is limited to warp 2, the crew has lost use of a major portion of the ship, and long-range communications are down. Archer reluctantly sends out a call to any nearby ships for aid, a message is received pointing the Enterprise toward a space station. The station is completely unmanned, and Archer has to barter with a computer for repairs. The repairs begin immediately once a price is agreed upon – in this case, warp plasma – and the work is not only performed with tremendous speed, but it’s up to or beyond Starfleet specifications. A remote probe even repairs Malcolm’s leg from the injury he sustained while trying to defuse a Romulan mine. But though it seems like a bargain, the station’s computer decides to increase its price – and it’ll cost a member of the bridge crew his life.

written by Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: none

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A visit to the homeworld of the protocol-obsessed, easily offended Kreetassans goes badly – very badly. Trip is mildly annoyed when this means he won’t be able to barter with the Kreetassans for a replacement warp plasma injector, but Archer insists on looking elsewhere for the vital part. But just when Archer thinks his day can’t get any worse, it does – Porthos, who went to the Kreetassans’ planet with the landing party, has suddenly fallen ill due to something in the planet’s atmosphere. Dr. Phlox isolates the dog and begins treatment, but reluctantly admits to the captain that Porthos could die. Archer is enraged by the thought that the protocol-bound Kreetassans didn’t bother to cross-check their planet’s atmosphere against the genetic samples provided in advance for all visiting crew members (including the captain’s dog). When the Kreetassans then demand an apology for an act of sacrelige (namely, the fact that Porthos relieved himself on one of their most sacred trees), his concern for man’s best friend becomes Archer’s worst enemy.

written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by David Straiton
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Vaughn Armstrong (Kreetassan) and Porthos

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Vulcan High Command secretly contacts T’Pol to give her new orders. One of a small number of criminals wanted by the Vulcans has been spotted near the Enterprise’s current position, and T’Pol’s duty – as a former security officer for the Vulcans – is to track him down. Starfleet is contact to ensure that the Enterprise will be diverted to T’Pol’s destination, but nothing else is revealed to the crew. Archer is annoyed by the secrecy until T’Pol takes him into her confidence to explain the mission. The last time she encountered this criminal, she acted swiftly and even managed to kill an accomplice who was trying to do the same to her, but her quarry escaped. However, when Archer and T’Pol go undercover to catch up with her target, he claims to be an innocent man – a man whose business partner T’Pol murdered in cold blood.

written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Bruce Davison (Menos), David Richards (Dockmaster), Vincent Hammond (Huge Alien), Coleen Maloney (Vulcan Officer)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Archer, Hoshi and Malcolm return from a mission to a pre-warp civilization riddled with paranoia – and on the brink of war between two major political powers. But as they prepare to leave the planet behind, Malcolm realizes that he left his communicator behind. Archer and Malcolm go back to retrieve the communicator, trying to prevent not only cultural contamination but a sudden technological advance that could forever affect an entire world. But when they’re captured in the process – carrying more advanced technology – Archer can either contaminate the planet’s cultures by breaking the news to his captors that he and Malcolm are aliens…or they could die trying to protect that secret.

teleplay by Andrè Bormanis
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by James Contner
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Francis Guinan (Gosis), Tim Kelleher (Lt. Pell), Brian Reddy (Dr. Temec), Dennis Cockrum (Alien Barkeep), Jason Waters (Soldier)

Notes: Fittingly enough for someone who shares a name with the Enterprise-D’s bartender, Francis Guinan is no stranger to Star Trek, having appeared in the early Ex Post Facto episode of Voyager. Fellow guest star Tim Kelleher was an ill-fated crewman in the final episode of Next Generation.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

As the Enterprise approaches a triple star system, Archer is forced to bring the ship to a crawl to avoid the unusual gravitational stresses. The crew looks forward to taking things easy for the duration of the flyby at impulse power. Lt. Reed proposes a battle-readiness status for both the ship and crew, though Archer is initially a little dubious about the proposal for a “Reed alert.” But as T’Pol works on a sensor sweep of the three stars, she notices that the crew is becoming irritable and obsessive. Dr. Phlox sees the signs of the growing problem after conducting tests on Ensign Mayweather all night – but he, too, is too absorbed in all the possible implications of that discovery to innoculate the crew against the immediate threat. In fact, T’Pol is the only member of the crew immune to the effects, which she links to unique radiation interactions among the stars. She plots the only possible course out of the system…only to find that it’s one she can’t fly solo.

written by Chris Black
directed by Patrick Norris
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Matthew Kaminsky (Cunningham) and Porthos

Notes: This episodes does indeed show the beginnings of red alert on Starfleet vessels, as well as Trip’s accurate assessment that Reed’s early ideas for an audible alert signal sounds like “a bag full of cats.”

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Hoshi and Trip’s investigation of alien ruins is cut short by the arrival of a violent storm system. With the atmosphere too unstable to relaunch their shuttle, they’re forced to use the transporter to return to the Enterprise. When she arrives safe and sound aboard the ship, Hoshi feels odd, and she even thinks her fellow crewmembers are having difficulties seeing or hearing her; even the ship’s control panels don’t seem to respond to her touch. Dr. Phlox is convinced she’s in perfect health, but when Hoshi’s entire body begins passing through solid doors and walls, she fears that the transporter hasn’t properly reassembled her. And when Archer and the rest of the crew can’t see her any more, and refer to her in the past tense, it confirms her worst fears…so why can she still see them?

written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by David Straiton
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Keone Young (Hoshi’s Father), Gary Riotto (Alien #1), Morgan Margolis (Crewman Baird), Ric Sarabia (Alien #2), Carly Thomas (Crewman Rhodes)

Notes: Keone Young previously appeared in the first season Deep Space Nine episode If Wishes Were Horses as Commander Sisko’s baseball idol, Buck Bokai.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

An alien freighter approaches the Enterprise, asking for technical assistance. Archer rolls out the red carpet for his visitors, as Trip checks out the piece of equipment that seems to be giving them trouble: a stasis pod containing a beautiful, almost human-looking woman. The freighter’s pilots claim she is in suspended animation due to the long journey and their ship’s limited life support resources. As Trip works on the malfunctioning pod, she awakens and shows no sign of wanting to be in the pod, or on the freighter for that matter. When Trip releases her, the freighter’s captain attacks him, undocks from the Enterprise and takes off. One of the pilots is left aboard the Enterprise, and Archer and T’Pol have to improvise a good cop-bad cop routine to get any information from him. In the meantime, Trip resourcefully makes his own escape with the woman – a kidnapped princess – in tow, using one of the freighter’s escape pods. Now he doesn’t know which will prove more dangerous: finding a habitable planet on which he can set up camp and send a distress signal to the Enterprise, or dealing with his arrogant passenger.

teleplay by David A. Goodman
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Padma Lakshmi (Kaitaama), Leland Crooke (Firek Plinn), Scott Klace (Firek Goff)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Shortly after picking up three alien refugees, the Enterprise is caught in the path of a violent neutronic storm, whose radiation will kill the crew within mere minutes of exposure. Sick bay looks like the only part of the Enterprise with enough shielding to protect the crew, but it can’t hold everyone. Then Trip remembers the radiation shielding of the ship’s warp engines – even though the warp reactor will have to be taken offline and there’s only a long, narrow crawlspace, the “catwalk” inside the warp nacelles can protect the ship’s crew, and their increasingly shifty visitors as well. But while Archer and his crew take shelter in the engine, they’re unaware when an alien spacecraft docks with the Enterprise, and powerless to stop the ship’s soldiers from taking over the bridge. The Enterprise’s new guests are in pursuit of the refugees – and they decide they’d like to steal the ship as well.

written by Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Scott Burkholder (Tagrim), Zach Grenier (Renth), Aaron Lustig (Guri), Elizabeth Magness (Crewman #1), Danny Goldring (Alien Captain), Brian Cousins (Alien Lieutenant), Sean Smith (Alien Crewman), and Porthos

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Trip’s solo shuttlepod mission is cut short by an attack, forcing him to set down on a nearby moon. As he tries to contact Enterprise for backup, two complications arise which could prove to be fatal. The moon’s distance from its sun means that sunrise will bring a fatal temperature rise… and furthermore, Trip’s attacker has also become stranded on this world – a creature who doesn’t care if Trip lives long enough for help to arrive.

written by John Shiban
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Gregg Henry (Zho’Kaan), Brad Greenquist (Khata’n Zshaar)

LogBook entry by Earl Green