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We’ve made it to the end of season two of Star Trek: Enterprise! Another 26 episodes in the can and we’re even closer to the crew and all of their hang ups and personality problems. The series moved towards a more conservative approach with its storytelling. The year was mostly episodic and moved away from storylines that dominated the first year: the conflicts with the Vulcans and Andorians, and the Temporal Cold War.
In its place, we got a season with some severe highs and lows. The middle of the season was a long stretch of bad to awful, with the run from A Night in Sickbay to The Seventh being one of the worst string of episodes we’ve come across. The middle was book ended by better hours of television, with the last third of the season being relatively strong.
Memory Alpha summary of the second season:
The second season of Star Trek: Enterprise sees less focus on the Temporal Cold War and the conflicts between Vulcan and Andoria. Instead, the season embraces a more episodic format than that of the previous year. However, some service is given to the aforementioned story arcs and a new one is introduced involving the Klingon Empire‘s attempts to capture and incarcerate Captain Archer. The biggest change to impact Enterprise occurs in the season finale, when an attack against Earth by the Xindi wipes out seven million people. Enterprise NX-01 is refitted and sent on a new mission: to locate the Xindi and do everything possible to prevent a second attack.
In this episode of the podcast, Wes and Clay discuss their thoughts about the second season and how it compares to the first and the other Star Trek shows. Plus! The guys list their favorite and least favorite episodes of the season, re-calibrate their character power rankings, and answer some listener questions.
This episode was originally live streamed on our YouTube channel and it has been repurposed as an audio only podcast. Please forgive any audio hiccups!