Star Trek: Enterprise: Season 2
In one short year, Jonathan Archer, captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01, has made a name for himself and his crew, both with his Starfleet superiors and perhaps less favorably with mankind's alien neighbors. Set during the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romu
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise NX-01 during the early years of Starfleet in the mid-22nd century.
- Captain Archer has made a name for himself and his crew with his Starfleet superiors and mankind's alien neighbors in one short year.
- The series is set a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
- The show was originally titled simply Enterprise for its first two seasons and was created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.
Season overview
In one short year, Jonathan Archer, captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01, has made a name for himself and his crew, both with his Starfleet superiors and perhaps less favorably with mankind's alien neighbors. Set during the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation. Originally titled simply Enterprise for its first two seasons, the American science fiction television series was created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and aired on UPN.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Shockwave (2)
Sep 8, 2002 · 43 min
Daniels and Archer must find a way back to the 22nd century in order to make sure history plays out as it should. Meanwhile, on board Enterprise, the Suliban have taken over the sh
Carbon Creek
Sep 25, 2002 · 43 min
After Archer and Trip become curious about a visit she made to a Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek, T'Pol explains to them that Vulcans actually had their first contact
Minefield
Oct 2, 2002 · 43 min
When attempting to explore a new planet, Enterprise triggers a cloaked mine. While the crew deal with the resulting damage, it's discovered another mine is stuck to the hull. Durin
Dead Stop
Oct 9, 2002 · 43 min
Suffering from damage inflicted in the Romulan minefield and unable to complete repairs on their own, Archer orders a distress call to be put out. A response leads Enterprise to a
A Night in Sickbay
Oct 16, 2002 · 43 min
Archer spends a night in sickbay with Dr. Phlox after Porthos contracts a deadly virus on the Kreetassan homeworld. Crew members suspect Archer's increased stress level is due to P
Marauders
Oct 30, 2002 · 43 min
In need of fuel, the Enterprise arrives at a Quonset mining colony for deuterium supplies. They discover that Klingons are forcing the colonists to give up all their deuterium. Arc
The Seventh
Nov 6, 2002 · 43 min
Archer, Mayweather and T'Pol travel to an arctic world to apprehend a fugitive, when T'Pol is contacted by Vulcan High Command. The mission takes a dangerous turn when T'Pol begins
The Communicator
Nov 13, 2002 · 43 min
Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society, that is on the verge of war, to recover a lost communicator from an undercover survey mission.
Singularity
Nov 20, 2002 · 43 min
While Enterprise is surveying a black hole in a trinary star system, the stellar phenomenon causes strange effects on the crew.
Vanishing Point
Nov 27, 2002 · 43 min
Hoshi experiences her first transporter experience and strange aftereffects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly.
Precious Cargo
Dec 11, 2002 · 43 min
Trip boards an alien cargo vessel to help repair a stasis pod, which holds a beautiful woman in suspended animation. When the woman accidentally wakes up, she reveals she's not a p
The Catwalk
Dec 18, 2002 · 43 min
When a lethal neutronic storm approaches faster than Enterprise can escape, the crew take shelter in the maintenance shafts inside the warp nacelles. They also provide refuge to a
Dawn
Jan 8, 2003 · 43 min
During a solo test mission on Shuttlepod One, Trip is attacked by a territorial alien and forced to land on the night side of a moon. As he tries contacting Enterprise, he discover
Stigma
Feb 5, 2003 · 43 min
Enterprise visits a planet where an Interspecies Medical Exchange conference is being held. Dr. Phlox tries to obtain research on a terminal disease from the Vulcan contingency, wi
Cease Fire
Feb 12, 2003 · 43 min
Both the Vulcans and the Andorians make a claim to a small planet and military conflict soon erupts. As the fighting goes on, the Vulcans announce they are willing to discuss cease
Future Tense
Feb 19, 2003 · 43 min
The Enterprise crew find a small craft drifting in space and are surprised to find it contains a human corpse. More questions arise when the Suliban and Tholians make claims to the
Canamar
Feb 26, 2003 · 43 min
Archer and Tucker are arrested and placed on a prisoner transport heading for a penal colony, Canamar. They won't have a chance to correct this error, as one of the inmates plots a
The Crossing
Apr 2, 2003 · 43 min
Noncorporeal aliens possess the bodies of the Enterprise crew.
Judgment
Apr 9, 2003 · 43 min
In a Klingon tribunal, Archer stands accused of aiding fugitives of the Empire and faces death if found guilty.
Horizon
Apr 16, 2003 · 43 min
Mayweather discovers his father has died and that things on his old home, the E.C.S. Horizon, have greatly changed.
The Breach
Apr 23, 2003 · 43 min
When militants take over a world, the Enterprise crew move to evacuate Denobulan geologists that are deep underground. Meanwhile, Phlox has to save a dying Antaran that refuses tre
Cogenitor
Apr 30, 2003 · 43 min
The Enterprise crew makes first contact with the Vissians, a species with three genders. Trip meets one of the species' third gender, known as Cogenitor, and learns how badly Vissi
Regeneration
May 7, 2003 · 43 min
The remnants of an alien ship and two frozen cybernetic bodies are uncovered in the arctic by a research team. These aliens soon thaw out and flee Earth, taking the research team w
First Flight
May 14, 2003 · 43 min
Archer tells T'Pol the story of when he and a rival named A.G. Robinson were in competition for breaking the Warp 2 barrier.
Bounty
May 14, 2003 · 43 min
Archer learns the Klingons have put a price on his head when he is captured by a Tellarite bounty hunter. As Enterprise pursues, a virus causes T'Pol to go into premature Pon Farr.
The Expanse
May 21, 2003 · 43 min
An alien race known as the Xindi launch an attack on Earth, causing great casualties and massive damage. As Enterprise heads back home, an unlikely source informs Archer about the