10 Star Trek Episodes That Just Didn't Work

This third season episode saw the name of the show change to 'Star Trek: Enterprise', where all episodes prior to this had just been called Enterprise. That is the lead point in this entry as this outing is one of the worst that Star Trek has offered in its entire run.

Directed by Levar Burton, who later admitted that he had told the producers he was ashamed to have worked on it, the story revolves around Archer, Reed and Hoshi devolving into aliens who are primitive and violent. It is similar to Identity Crisis, an episode of The Next Generation that saw Geordi go through a similar transformation.

The script is staggeringly awful and the dreadful performances do nothing to help. It is a deeply uncomfortable example of actors simply going through the motions. Scott Bakula, Linda Park and Dominic Keating are all much better than this script gave them credit for. Even the now-timely threats of quarantine and fears of spreading viruses among wider populations do nothing to help the fact that this episode is a stinker.