The Worst of Star Trek: Enterprise

The Worst of Star Trek

Enterprise

These are the Voyages

The. Worst. Episode. Of. Star. Trek. Ever.  

Enterprise cocreator and executive producer Rick Berman actually called this episode "a valentine to the fans".  NO.  This is a fuck you the fans.  Episodes like "Turnabout Intruder" and "Code of Honor" are sexist and racist, but this episode is actually insulting to the fanbase.  The six year flash-forward to the final mission of the NX-01, seen as a holodeck episode on the Enterprise-D during the events of "The Pegasus" (an episode that has bugger all to do with the Enterprise finale).  Putting TNG characters in another series episode is one thing, but putting TNG characters in Enterprise's finale is insulting to Enterprise.  A series finale is supposed to celebrate the legacy of the series.  Characters from other series distract from the finale and have no place in it.  Add to that a weak, uninteresting story, unconvincing villains, and the death of fan-favorite character Trip Tucker (done very poorly) and this episode is just a clusterfuck.  Guest Stars Johnathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis have said they felt uneasy about being in another Trek series finale, and Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) has called this episode "appalling".  Truly.

Precious Cargo

Take a completely unoriginal storyline (a Starfleet officer dealing with a Kriosian metamorph and juggling related diplomatic issues-which we already saw in TNG's "A Perfect Mate") and elements of Taming of the Shrew (already seen in TOS "Elaan of Troyius"- which "A Perfect Mate" was itself partly based on) and add a poison actress guest star with some of the worst, most forced, stilted, unconvincing acting, and it is obvious there was nothing Connor Trineer (Tucker) could do to salvage this one. 

A Night in Sickbay

Captain Archer's dog Porthos gets sick on an alien planet and has to spend a night in sickbay being treated by Dr. Phlox.  And the whole episode focuses on Archer moping around worrying about his dog.  While this might have worked as a B-Plot, it is definitely NOT enough for a whole episode.  Way to go pussifying your strong lead captain.

Honorable Mention: Acquisition

The Ferengi episode.  Using the Ferengi in Enterprise was a bad idea.  And then trying to preserve continuity (the already stated fact that no one in the Federation had heard of them until the 24th century) by never referring to them by name and even having them evade the "who are you" question is contrived bullshit.  The writers should have already learned from TNG season 1 (and season 6's "Rascals") that the Ferengi as villains just do not work.  They're too goofy and silly and unthreatening.  Going 200 years back in time does not change that.  As for using an anachronistic species as the central villain of an Enterprise episode, season 2s "Regeneration" did it better.