T'Pol brings Archer with her on a top-secret mission when she is dispatched by the Vulcan High Command to capture a fugitive that has eluded their authorities for nearly two decades. Meanwhile, T'Pol reveals to Archer a dark and violent secret that she repressed, and Trip, who fills in for Archer while he is away, finds the weight of being the Captain hard to bear.
Nu i veckan så sänds avsnittet "Marauders" (30/10). Enterprise träffar återigen Klingonerna:
When Enterprise is in need of fuel, Archer discovers a desolate mining colony that is being controlled by Klingon marauders who are bullying the colonists and hoarding their fuel. After Archer discovers the problem, the crew trains the colonists to defend themselves and prepare for a final showdown against their Klingon oppressors.
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Archer spends a fretful night in sickbay with Dr. Phlox after Porthos, Archer's pet beagle, picks up a deadly virus on an alien planet.
"There’s definitely an impression that I did more than the eight or nine episodes of ‘The Next Generation’ I was actually in. I’m somewhat of the opinion that less is more. The Marx Brothers did four movies and everyone thinks of them as all being brilliant, where actually I think only two of them truly wonderful and two of them weren’t. That works, to a degree, in respect of the ‘Q’ as well. But there’s a part of me that says, ‘Boy, I would have liked to knock off a couple or more ‘Q’ episodes’. So I’m of two minds about it. I’m happy he made an impact, and I’m pleased that people think I did more than I really did, but I wish that I’d actually done a few more of them."
"If I were to do it again, I’d be interested in hearing people say, ‘He’s all over the map and yet it all seems very justifiable!’ I think it makes sense that he could be loving and innocent one moment and hateful the next moment, and on and on like that. Will I get the opportunity to do that? I don’t know. I’ve not spoken to (executive producers) Rich Berman or Brannon Braga about it, but sure, I’m open to coming back again."
While Enterprise surveys a black hole that's part of a trinary star system, the ship's proximity to the stellar phenomenon has a strange effect on the crew.
"We see their cool ships, but we never see the Romulans. I think it's cool that on 'Nemesis' you can see the Romulans of Picard's time, and at the same time you're seeing the early encounters with them on 'Enterprise;' there's great synergy there. But I think you've got to be real careful about going back to the old guys too much, because it looks like you're desperate. I did like the Ferengi show, but I'm in no rush to see them again. I've always had mixed feelings about the Ferengi because they're so broad, and we have no immediate plans for them."
Imorgon (2/10) sänds det tredje avsnittet, Minefield, i säsong 2 på UPN. Nedan är den officiella sammanfattningen från STARTREK.COM:
After unwittingly wandering into a minefield in Romulan territory, Enterprise becomes trapped when struck by an undetonated mine. When Reed takes a space walk to try to defuse the mine, he inadvertently gets pinned to the outer hull and Archer must choose between saving Reed or abiding by the Romulans' orders to depart immediately.
'Minefield' är det första manus som den före detta Arkiv X-skribenten John Shiban har skrivit. Avsnittet regisserades av James Contner, som även regisserade 'Carbon Creek'.
Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer) har tidigare lovat att detta avsnitt kommer att ha fantastiska optiska effekter.
"We're going to be out there on the hull and behind us you'll see the nacelles and just things that they haven't visually done before. There's a moment when a ship materialises behind Dominic when he's on the hull which I think is going to be stunning stuff."
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Things go from bad to worse when Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society on the brink of war to retrieve a communicator that was lost during an undercover survey mission.
"Quite frankly, the only real hurdle we had to overcome when trying to get Enterprise off the ground was that some people weren’t totally sold on the idea. There were a few individuals at the studio who wondered, and perhaps rightly so, ‘Shouldn’t Star Trek be a show about always moving forward? Shouldn’t it be in the 24th century and beyond? Is it the right thing to go backwards? The audience knows what happens already’ If you stop and think about it, though, the latter comments doesn’t hold water. It’s all fiction, and Sci-Fi to boot, which means that anything can happen and at any point in time. As a result of all this it took a while to get the programme going but it was a blessing in disguise. It would have been a real shame had this series premiered while Voyager was still on the air. The show definitely needed its own space, and that’s what it got."
"The contact that I’ve had with fans has been terrific. It’s from the very casual—the cab driver the other day on the road who honked his horn, I looked over, he saluted me and drove on—to the pilot who’s getting on the plane saying ‘you’re my favorite captain’ and it’s like ‘wait, you’re a real captain!’ I haven’t sat down with any long, in-depth conversations with fans. But I have friends who tell me what their friends are saying: ‘We hate the dog, we want you to kick some ass, we want you to kick the Vulcans’ ass!’ People are always compelled to give you their opinions so I get a lot of feedback even though I haven’t been out there much."