Star Trek: Every Two-Parter Ranked From WORST To BEST

27. Affliction, Divergence

Trying to find satisfying in-universe explanations for out-of-universe issues is like trying to find the haystack in the needle — we're imagining the 'problem' the wrong way round. Those sudden forehead ridges probably did need some sort of internally consistent clarification. Affliction and Divergence gave us one. If we didn't like the answer, we probably should have asked better questions!

This fourth season Star Trek: Enterprise two-parter provided one of the most gripping cliffhangers and resolutions of the franchise. No bomb on the bus — a subroutine in the warp matrix instead. Sabotaged by the Klingon Augments, the NX-01 couldn't go below warp 5 or the reactor would breach.

Luckily, the NX-02 was nearby. Now, they just had to zipwire Mr Tucker across to perform one of the biggest 'have you tried turning it off and on again?' jobs in history. Oh, and Malcolm's been a very naughty boy!