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

19. Shockwave, Shockwave Part II

Seasons one and two of Star Trek: Enterprise are far better than their reputation would suggest. We only have to look to the episodes that straddle them to see that. It all started with a massive explosion, followed by incomprehension, and time travel. Shockwave, and Shockwave, Part II were high-end sci-fi, with a vertiginous cliffhanger, and clever resolution.

Before Kovich was Kovich, he was Daniels, plucking Captain Archer every which way out of the timeline. At first, in Shockwave, that merely meant more room for a chat, semi-clothed, about quantum beacons and data discs. Second, it caused the end of everything on Earth in, and at some point before, the 31st century. It was a long way down what was left of that skyscraper!

In Part II, we also learnt that, in the regular 31st century, they taught teenagers how to communicate through time. Prank calls must have been something else! Thankfully, this particular one saved the past and its future.