Star Trek: 10 Hated Episodes You Grew To Love
5. A Night In Sickbay
This is an episode for dog lovers everywhere. Wouldn't you want to stay by your best friend's bedside until they're better? Captain Jonathan Archer certainly did and, wouldn't you know it, Porthos was back to normal by the next day.
The episode, seriously thin on plot and action, was a bit of a damp squib when it dropped. This came at a time when Star Trek: Enterprise was struggling with its identity - was it a clone of The Original Series and The Next Generation, or was it something new and unique?
A Night In Sickbay leaned towards the former. What has saved the episode in the intervening years is Archer's dogged determinism and John Billingsley. Phlox is the true hero of the hour, keeping busy through the night, just doing what he does.
It's an episode that's gone from 'ugh, that one' to 'oh! that one!' Does it reach the peaks of Azati Prime or In A Mirror, Darkly? Of course not! But it's a sweet little slice of life aboard Enterprise.