Star Trek: Enterprise – Season 3 (PWTVR00016)
Overview
The third season picks up a bit from the second season low. Whereas Season 2 was mostly depressing, with very few notches in the Enterprise’s “win” column, this season had not only a few more wins but also some allies. Don’t get me wrong, they’re still at war, but they aren’t generally about to die every week just from the Expanse.
Episodes That I Liked
There were four episodes that I rated 5/5 and another seven that I rated 4/4. For the top ones, they were mostly about time travel including dealing with space/time parasites (E08); the Enterprise J (E18); the Enterprise itself (E21); and the conclusion of the general Xindi storyline (E24 – finally!).
For the remaining seven, we learned more about the Xindi species (E01); dealt with an interesting moon (E02); rescued some slave girls (E04); fell in love with a clone (E10); and shouldn’t have trusted monks (E12), marauders (E19) or reptilian Xindi (E23).
Episodes That Were Watchable
I admit that I was a bit surprised to see after the fact that all of the rest of the episodes were rated 3/3, I thought there were a few stinkers in there just because so many of them were blah…but I gave them individually a boost to 3, apparently.
There are some interesting episodes throughout the season including a lot obviously about the Xindi (E07 had frenemies; Westerners in Xindi Space (E09); Xindi are time-travelling too (E11); new alliances (E20)) while they were planning for war (field tests in E13, stings in E14, and Council challenges in E22).
But I think the big difference in the season was that there were some other episodes too that were more classic ‘trek, with biochemistry/devolution (E03); lost Vulcans (E05); telepathic friends (E06); relationship jealousies (E15); and Archer focusing on some eggs (E17). There was also a classic episode where the Doctor had to deal with everyone being asleep for safety reasons (E16).
Episodes That I Didn’t Like
As I said in the previous section, I was surprised to see there were none rated 2/5 or worse. I wasn’t thrilled with everything, but there weren’t any I particularly disliked.
