The Best Episodes Written By Rick Berman

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(29 votes)

   #1 - Zero Hour

   S3:E245/26/2004

   Archer puts his life on the line in a risky gambit to intercept the Xindi superweapon and disarm it from within.

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   8.4/10(27 votes)

   #2 - Shockwave (1)

   S1:E265/22/2002

   Starfleet orders Enterprise to return home when the crew seemingly causes the destruction of an alien planet. However, a visit from Crewman Daniels leads Archer to believe that this disaster was the plot of one of the factions from the temporal cold war.

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   8.3/10(28 votes)

   #3 - Azati Prime

   S3:E183/3/2004

   Archer sets out on a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon as Enterprise faces a brutal attack.

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   8.2/10(17 votes)

   #4 - Endgame

   S7:E255/23/2001

   Stardate: 54973.4 - Twenty-six years in the future, a regretful Admiral Janeway hatches an audacious plan to bring Voyager home sooner, rather than have it spend an additional sixteen years making its journey.

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   8.1/10(36 votes)

   #5 - Timeless

   S5:E611/18/1998

   Stardate: Unknown. In the future, Harry Kim attempts to correct a mistake he made 15 years earlier, which had resulted in the loss of Voyager during use of experimental engine technology.

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   8.1/10(30 votes)

   #6 - Carbon Creek

   S2:E29/25/2002

   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 with humans in 1957. That year, a Vulcan ship crashed on Earth and three crew members survived, including T'Pol's great grandmother. They pose as humans in Carbon Creek and take on jobs while waiting for rescue and soon find themselves becoming more involved with the town's residents.

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   7.9/10(28 votes)

   #7 - The Expanse

   S2:E265/21/2003

   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 Xindi and that their next attack will destroy Earth.

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   7.9/10(26 votes)

   #8 - Fallen Hero

   S1:E235/8/2002

   Enterprise is sent to the planet Mazar to pick up a Vulcan ambassador who has been expelled for misconduct.

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   7.8/10(29 votes)

   #9 - The Andorian Incident

   S1:E710/31/2001

   Enterprise visits an ancient Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T'Pol's concerns that her human colleagues will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the Vulcans.

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    7.6/10(53 votes)

    #10 - Unification (1)

    S5:E711/4/1991

    Stardate: 45233.1. Ambassador Spock has disappeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the crew investigate the fragments of a Vulcan ship discovered in the wreck of a Ferengi vessel.

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    7.6/10(33 votes)

    #11 - Equinox (2)

    S6:E19/22/1999

    Stardate: Unknown. As Janeway's determination to capture Captain Ransom becomes an obsession, Ransom begins having second thoughts about his methods.

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12. 

    7.6/10(51 votes)

    #12 - Unification (2)

    S5:E811/11/1991

    Stardate: 45245.8. Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.

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13. 

    7.6/10(29 votes)

    #13 - Cogenitor

    S2:E224/30/2003

    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 Vissians treat all Cogenitors. Trip attempts to help the Cogenitor, even though it interferes with Vissian culture.

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14. 

    7.6/10(31 votes)

    #14 - The Maquis (2)

    S2:E215/1/1994

    Stardate: Unknown. Sisko tries to resolve the Maquis crisis by preventing a war, freeing Gul Dukat and offering the defected Hudson the chance to return.

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15. 

    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #15 - Shockwave (2)

    S2:E19/8/2002

    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 ship, but Reed, Trip, and T'Pol formulate a plan to eject the aliens.

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    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #16 - The Maquis (1)

    S2:E204/24/1994

    Stardate: Unknown. The destruction of a Cardassian ship leads Sisko, Dukat, and Sisko's old friend Cal Hudson to the fact that there is an unofficial war between the Maquis and the Cardassians.

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    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #17 - Hope and Fear

    S4:E265/20/1998

    Stardate: 51978.2. When an alien helps the Voyager crew decode the mysterious encrypted message from Starfleet, the crew learns the whereabouts of a secret experimental starship that may be able to get them back to the Alpha Quadrant within a mere matter of months.

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    7.5/10(32 votes)

    #18 - Equinox (1)

    S5:E255/26/1999

    Stardate: Unknown. Voyager encounters another Federation starship, the USS Equinox, in the Delta Quadrant. But as an alien presence prepares an attack, Janeway begins to uncover the Equinox's sinister secret.

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    7.5/10(26 votes)

    #19 - Stigma

    S2:E142/5/2003

    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, without revealing T'Pol has been infected by it.

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    7.5/10(48 votes)

    #20 - Ensign Ro

    S5:E310/7/1991

    Stardate: 45076.3. Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.

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    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #21 - Fight or Flight

    S1:E310/3/2001

    Captain Archer wants to convert curiosity into deeds and decides to enter a ship floating in space. Hoshi has trouble adjusting to life on Enterprise.

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    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Shadows of P'Jem

    S1:E152/6/2002

    Archer and the crew are disappointed to discover that T'Pol has been ordered by the Vulcan High Command to leave Enterprise--and equally frustrated at her seeming indifference to leaving their ranks. T'Pol's last mission as a Starfleet officer, however, proves eventful when she and Archer are kidnapped by a militant faction on an alien planet.

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    7.3/10(46 votes)

    #23 - Broken Bow

    S1:E19/26/2001

    The Enterprise, under Captain Jonathan Archer, sets off on its maiden voyage with a mission to return a wounded Klingon to his people.

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    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #24 - The Xindi

    S3:E19/10/2003

    Captain Archer and his crew set out to gain information about the mysterious and antagonistic Xindi race.

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    7.2/10(36 votes)

    #25 - Think Tank

    S5:E193/31/1999

    Stardate: Unknown. With Voyager pinned down by a fleet of bounty hunters, Janeway receives an offer from a group of geniuses infamous for solving unsolvable problems but asking unconventional prices.

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