History Awesome / StarTrekEnterprise

* The MirrorUniverse two-parter was the CMOA for the entire series, but special kudos has to go to [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Mirror!Hoshi]], who assassinates Mirror!Archer and crowns herself Empress of the Terran Empire by threatening to use the USS ''Defiant'' to attack Earth. And looks [[EvilIsSexy damn sexy in the meanwhile]].

* Pretty much all of the episode for the Enterprise crew and Xindi allies (Maco Red-shirt going out fighting, Reed fighting a Reptilian, The Acquatics last minute heroics) with a guest appearance by fan favorite Shran. Everyone had a BigDamnHeroes moment.

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* Archer's epic NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech to the hostiles in Season 1's "Silent Enemy." The fact that he ends the speech (which is seen entirely via an alien viewscreen) by firing a phaser at the hostile's recorder--punctuated by a switch to static--is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the whole episode.

* Archer facing down a crew of UngratefulBastard Klingons in "Sleeping Dogs". After he and his crew risk their lives to save the Klingon ship from being crushed in a gas giant, their captain threatens to attack ''Enterprise'' until Archer puts him in his place.

* In "Fusion," a pissed-off Archer confronting Tolaris on his MindRape of T'Pol. It's extra great because he starts off the conversation affable and charming (in other words, ''very'' Scott Bakula) before he drops the bombshell:

* In "Shockwave, Part 1," Archer snapping out of his funk after ''Enterprise'' is recalled to Earth and giving out orders to his senior crewmembers so they can track down a Suliban ship and obtain evidence that they weren't responsible for the destruction of a mining colony.

* "Shockwave, Part 2." That episode featured some truly cool moments for the crew.
** Captured by the Suliban and held prisoner in a nebula, it seems that the ''Enterprise'' crew has opted to just blow up their ship. The Suliban tow the ship out of the nebula into empty space just as its warp nacelles are bursting into flames. As soon as they leave....the flames suddenly cease, the nacelles get ethereal glow, and ''Enterprise'' blasts off into warp speed! Trip had faked the warp core breach just so they could escape. Badass Engineer? Damn straight!
** Archer returns to his own time and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on SmugSnake Silik.

* Archer bluffing the alien invaders in "The Catwalk" and playing a GameOfChicken with them, to scare them off of his ship. It's such a dick move, but it's great.
* Ironically, despite being the chief engineer, Trip gets his when he is in ''command'' of ''Enterprise'' during "Cease Fire." Archer and T'Pol are on a planet disputed by the Vulcans and Andorians. While they're trying to negotiate a cease-fire without being killed, the Vulcan and Andorian fleets are about to start shooting at one another in orbit. They each advise ''Enterprise'' to withdraw. Instead, Trip targets ''both'' fleets, threatening to open fire on whoever fires first.
* Archer's speech in a {{flashback}} in "First Flight" after he and A.G. Robinson succeed in proving the warp five engine can work:

* Early in "The Expanse," ''Enterprise'' is attacked and easily disabled by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, and is only saved when reinforcements arrive to drive the Klingons away. ''Enterprise'' is refitted throughout the episode for its dangerous mission in the Expanse, and among the improvements are a cache of brand-new photonic torpedoes and no less than ''seventeen'' additional phaser cannons. When the Klingons came calling again, they were...unprepared, to say the least.

* The episode "Twilight" is a Crowning Episode of Awesome. Everyone gets great moments here: Archer killing a Xindi-Reptilian with a bronze sculpture, T'Pol ramming the Xindi ship attached to ''Enterprise'' into another Xindi ship, Phlox managing to develop a cure for Archer that involves shooting him full of antimatter, and all three of them blowing up the ship to erase the timeline that necessitated all of the above.
** Let's not forget the harrowing destruction of Earth that starts the whole thing--which is also an Awesome Moment for the SFX staff, as they made that sequence simply because they had nothing better to do and it wound up kicking off the episode.
* The Xindi engineer Gralik's speech to Archer in "The Shipment" deserves to be quoted:

* Definitely the best part of "Chosen Realm" was Archer and the crew [[DieHardOnAnX taking back]] ''Enterprise'' from the Triannon extremists.
* Shran in "Proving Ground": [[ItMakesSenseInContext "The Andorian Mining Consortium runs from no one!"]]
** Also in "Proving Ground," after Shran has revealed his duplicity and gets a little smug about it, Archer decks him.

** From the same episode, Archer getting his turn to be smug when he forces Shran to get rid of the Xindi superweapon prototype by having T'Pol activate the prototype from ''Enterprise''. The resulting explosion leaves the Andorian warship crippled. ''Enterprise''? Not so much.

** To elaborate: in "Doctor's Orders" Enterprise had to fly through a distortion that would have killed humans and Vulcans if they were conscious. Phlox had to navigate the ship through the anomaly with only a minimal crash-course in the systems of an NX-class starship and T'Pol on his side who was affected by the distortion and was slowly losing her emotional control. And she was a hallucination anyway. And in these circumstances he had to restart the warp engines in a distorted region of space.
* ''Enterprise'' dropping out of the Aquatic Ship's launch bay into a major battle with the Xindi-Reptilians.

* Hoshi didn't get a lot of time to shine, but she did in "Countdown." The Xindi-Reptilians abduct Hoshi and use brain parasites to force her to de-crypt the Xindi-Aquatic activation codes for their superweapon. When she gets access to the code, she fights off the brain parasites, re-asserts her willpower, and adds even more encryption. When Dolim realizes what she's doing and drags her off for a second dose of brain parasites, she [[HeroicSuicide tries to throw herself to her own death]]. It doesn't work, and in the end, she does de-crypt the access code, but by then, TheCavalry has had [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu time to show up]].

* Captain Archer's final no-holds-barred fight with Dolim in "Zero Hour." As one Website/{{Youtube}} commenter puts it, it's the "best kill by a Starfleet captain. Ever." Nobody in a Starfleet uniform other than Worf has dispatched a foe in a manner so ''bloody.'' After a shaky first two seasons, Archer [[CharacterDevelopment became a much grittier captain]] over the course of season 3, and kicking Dolim's ass puts the capper on it.
* Pretty much all of "Zero Hour" for the Enterprise crew and Xindi allies (Maco Red-shirt going out fighting, Reed fighting a Reptilian, The Acquatics last minute heroics) with a guest appearance by fan favorite Shran. Everyone had a BigDamnHeroes moment.

* In "Storm Front," there's the climactic battle with ''Enterprise'' dueling [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi warplanes armed with plasma cannons]] over New York City.

* The Augments in the opening to "Borderland" provided a villainous example: Two of them, completely unarmed, are "captured" by Klingons, and then as they're being escorted to the brig, proceed to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown wipe the walls with the entire crew.]] One look at that opening, and it becomes obvious that the Klingons' desire to make Augments of their own in the later episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence" was not merely a case of [[CompensatingForSomething male-hormone-driven jealousy]]. Had there been a few more of them, one can see how the human Augments really could conceivably have overthrown the entire Klingon Empire.
** In "Cold Station 12," the augments and Dr. Soong take the titular viral research station and demand the access code to the other augments' embryos (frozen after genetic defects rendered them sociopaths). The director of the station, Doctor Lucas, refuses when his own life is threatened, so one of the augments grab one of the other doctors and infect him with one of the viruses they're researching, which quickly puts him into agony. Even though Lucas (and Dr. Soong) are obviously disturbed by this, Lucas still refuses, and when Soong tries to deflect moral responsibility, Lucas throws it back at him.

* Trip and Soval each get one in the Season 4 episode where they warn the Andorians about an impending Vulcan invasion of Andoria.

*** Also from that story, Soval telling Archer to do whatever it takes to find out the truth behind the bombing, with his full support.
* In "Kir'Shara," Shran contacts ''Enterprise'' right in the middle of a huge battle just to say "Tell Captain Archer that's ''TWO'' he owes me!" By this point in the series, Shran was practically guaranteed an Awesome moment [[EnsembleDarkhorse every time he showed up.]]
* In "Babel One," Archer firmly standing his ground against Gral when the Tellarite ambassador protests against Archer's decision to head to Andoria to return Shran and his remaining crew.

* The sight of a combined Vulcan/Andorian/Tellarite fleet in "United" coming to help ''Enterprise'' against the Romulan drone ship. This is what truly lays the foundation for TheFederation.
* The entire two-parter "Affliction/Divergence" is one for Phlox as he tries to create a cure to the Klingon plague under increasingly difficult and tense circumstances and succeeds, capping it by stopping a Klingon ship from destroying the colony by beaming the virus on board and blackmailing them into backing off.

* The MirrorUniverse two-parter "In a Mirror, Darkly" was the CMOA for the entire series, but special kudos has to go to [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Mirror!Hoshi]], who assassinates Mirror!Archer and crowns herself Empress of the Terran Empire by threatening to use the USS ''Defiant'' to attack Earth. And looks [[EvilIsSexy damn sexy in the meanwhile]].
** The ISS ''Enterprise''. The scene where Commander Archer and his team storm the Tholian complex and literally ship-jack the ''Defiant'' was priceless.
** The scene where they make it to the ''Defiant'''s bridge and boot up the ship's computer. The camera panning lovingly over every station as they power up and all the TOS bridge sound effects come in one-by-one.
** The ''Defiant'' going into battle was surprisingly badass. Long-time fans of the show remember the ''Constitution''-class ships (e.g. the TOS ''Enterprise'') firing phasers at other ships in a weak manner, mainly due to limitations of the time. The ''Defiant'''s phasers, on the other hand, rip the Tholian and ISS starships to shreds.
** The pre-credits sequence takes the awesome and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments beautiful]] ending from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''...and flips it inside-out for maximum ''Awesome'' goodness:

** Even the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl5zw6fGjdA credits sequence]] gets in on the act, replacing the usual "Montage from Past to Present" with "War! Conquest! ''Exploding [[SlowLaser Frickin' Laser Beams]] ''!"
*** SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The theme used in the opening credits, over the scenes of war.
*** In all fairness, the "In a Mirror, Darkly" theme is awesome simply by virtue of having a theme slightly (and perhaps ironically) more reminiscent of the OST series.
** For the show as a whole, just about the only thing anyone can agree on is how awesome "In a Mirror, Darkly" is.
* One of Trip's best moments would certainly have to be in the fantastic episode "Terra Prime." He was held captive by the terrorist group Terra Prime. Part of the story involves this group cloning a half-human/half-Vulcan from Trip and T'Pol. After his guard insults his daughter, Trip tenses up and the more physically intimidating guard notices. He taunts him, saying "Go ahead and try." Trip begins to back down, then says "Okay!" and uppercuts the guard. He then takes a moment to sabotage part of Paxton's weapon system before the guard recovers. Even Paxton is impressed.
** Also in "Terra Prime," T'Pol calling John Frederick Paxton out on his hypocrisy, what with having a genetic disease that would've gotten him euthanized under Colonel Green and receiving alien medical treatments despite his FantasticRacism towards aliens.

** It might have been a piece of scenery, but the "Creator/CarlSagan Memorial Station" on Mars in "Terra Prime" was awesome. Great quote, too:

* "Terra Prime" has a vindicating moment for Hoshi Sato. For the only time in the series, she gets command of the ship, and does a hell of a job. Especially when Minister Samuels tries to pull rank on her, and Hoshi has precisely ''none'' of it. Compare this to the timid girl in "Fight Or Flight." You tell 'im, Hoshi!

* On a meta-level, the TwistEnding from "The Andorian Incident" is one of the '''boldest''' moves in the whole series, kicking off one of the show's more memorable recurring arcs and upping the Andorians from minor bit players into a major faction that helps create TheFederation.

** Don't forget the scene where they make it to the ''Defiant'''s bridge and boot up the ship's computer. The camera panning lovingly over every station as they power up and all the TOS bridge sound effects come in one-by-one... Wonderful.
*** The ''Defiant'' going into battle was surprisingly badass. Long-time fans of the show remember the ''Constitution''-class ships (e.g. the TOS ''Enterprise'') firing phasers at other ships in a weak manner, mainly due to limitations of the time. The ''Defiant'''s phasers, on the other hand, rip the Tholian and ISS starships to shreds.
** The whole sequence is a meta-CMOA for the creators and special effects people, proving that it ''is'' possible to make the Original Series aesthetic still look credible and badass here and now.

* A female MACO gets one in "The Xindi" while trying to break Archer and Trip out of a mining complex. A big alien attacks her from behind and knocks away her gun. She pulls some martial arts moves, takes him down, then rams her stunstick into his back for good measure.

*** The ''Defiant'' going into battle was surprisingly badass. Long-time fans of the show remember the ''Constitution''-class ships (e.g. the TOS ''Enterprise'') firing phasers at other ships in a pathetically weak manner. The ''Defiant'''s phasers, on the other hand, rip the Tholian and ISS starships to shreds.

---> (Cue looting)

--->'''Archer''': I SAID you're an ugly '''bastard'''!!!!
--->'''Archer''': You're going to call off your ships. And then you're going to giving me back those data disks you took.

** Specific moment: Archer telling Duras to "Go to Hell!" and cutting his transmission in "The Expanse."
** Actually the moment of badass is that he tells the angry Klingon to shove it and then proceeds ''to blast his battlecruiser to '''shit'''''. Complete with some [[AcePilot neat piloting]] from Ensign Mayweather.

* On a meta-level, the TwistEnding from "The Andorian Incident" is one of the '''boldest''' moves in the whole series, kicking off one of the show's more memorable recurring arcs.

* On a meta-level, the [[spoiler:TwistEnding]] from "The Andorian Incident" is one of the '''boldest''' moves in the whole series, kicking off one of the show's more memorable recurring arcs.

** Let's not forget the [[spoiler:harrowing destruction of Earth]] that starts the whole thing--which is also an Awesome Moment for the SFX staff, as they made that sequence simply because they had nothing better to do and it wound up kicking off the episode.

** To elaborate: in "Doctor's Orders" Enterprise had to fly through a distortion that would have killed humans [[spoiler:and Vulcans]] if they were conscious. Phlox had to navigate the ship through the anomaly with only a minimal crash-course in the systems of an NX-class starship and T'Pol on his side who was affected by the distortion and was slowly losing her emotional control. [[spoiler:And she was a hallucination anyway.]] And in these circumstances he had to restart the warp engines in a distorted region of space.

* Trip and Soval each get one in the Season 4 episode where they [[spoiler:warn the Andorians about an impending Vulcan invasion of Andoria.]]
** Soval's is when Shran [[spoiler:is torturing him with a device that removes Soval's emotional control and in order to convince Shran that he's telling the truth, Soval says something to the effect of "Then turn it to a higher setting already."]]
** Trip's comes when [[spoiler:Administrator V'Las tries to get them to back down, Trip informs him that Starfleet has been told what ''Enterprise'' is doing, so they will know who destroyed ''Enterprise''.]]

* The MirrorUniverse two-parter "In a Mirror, Darkly" was the CMOA for the entire series, but special kudos has to go to [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Mirror!Hoshi]], who [[spoiler:assassinates Mirror!Archer and crowns herself Empress of the Terran Empire by threatening to use the USS ''Defiant'' to attack Earth]]. And looks [[EvilIsSexy damn sexy in the meanwhile]].

* One of Trip's best moments would certainly have to be in the fantastic episode "Terra Prime." He was held captive by the terrorist group Terra Prime. Part of the story involves this group cloning [[spoiler:a half-human/half-Vulcan from Trip and T'Pol]]. After his guard insults [[spoiler:his daughter]], Trip tenses up and the more physically intimidating guard notices. He taunts him, saying "Go ahead and try." Trip begins to back down, then says "Okay!" and uppercuts the guard. He then takes a moment to sabotage part of Paxton's weapon system before the guard recovers. Even Paxton is impressed.

* Archer's epic WorldOfCardboardSpeech to the hostiles in Season 1's "Silent Enemy." The fact that he ends the speech (which is seen entirely via an alien viewscreen) by firing a phaser at the hostile's recorder--punctuated by a switch to static--is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the whole episode.

** Even the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl5zw6fGjdA credits sequence]] gets in on the act, replacing the usual "Montage from Past to Present" with "War! Conquest! ''Exploding FrickinLaserBeams''!"

* The Xindi engineer Gralek's speech to Archer in "The Shipment" deserves to be quoted:
--> '''Gralek''': I'm proud of my craft, Captain. I've practiced it for many years. I won't let my work be corrupted in this way. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Seven.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Million.]] [[MustMakeAmends People.]] If I'd chosen my clients more carefully, that tragedy might not have happened. [[TranquilFury I don't intend to let it happen again]].

** The pre-credits sequence takes the awesome and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments beautiful]] ending from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''...and flips it inside-out for maximum ''{{HSQ}}'' goodness:

--> '''Gralek''': I'm proud of my craft, Captain. I've practiced it for many years. I won't see my work corrupted in this manner. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Seven.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Million.]] [[MustMakeAmends People.]]

* Early in "The Expanse," ''Enterprise'' is attacked and easily disabled by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, and is only saved when reinforcements arrive to drive the Klingons away. ''Enterprise'' is refitted throughout the episode for its dangerous mission in the Expanse, and among the improvements are a cache of brand-new photon torpedoes and no less than ''seventeen'' additional phaser cannons. When the Klingons came calling again, they were...unprepared, to say the least.

* Archer's epic WorldOfCardboardSpeech to the hostiles in Season 1's "Silent Enemy." The fact that he ends the speech (which is seen entirely via an alien viewscreen) by firing a phaser at the hostile's recorder--punctuated by a switch to static--is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the whole episode.

** The pre-credits sequence takes the awesome and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming beautiful]] ending from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''...and flips it inside-out for maximum ''{{HSQ}}'' goodness:

*** CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The theme used in the opening credits, over the scenes of war.

* One of Trip's best moments would certainly have to be in the fantastic episode "Terra Prime." He was held captive by the terrorist group Terra Prime. Part of the story involves this group cloning [[spoiler:a half-human/half-Vulcan from Trip and T'Pol]]. After his guard insults [[spoiler:his daughter]], Trip tenses up and the more physically intimidating guard notices. He taunts him, saying "Go ahead and try." Trip begins to back down, then says "Okay!" and uppercuts the guard.
** Also in "Terra Prime," T'Pol calling John Frederick Paxton out on his hypocrisy.

** In "Cold Station 12," the augments and Dr. Soong take the titular viral research station and demand the access code to the other augments' embryos (frozen after genetic defects rendered them sociopaths). The director of the station refuses when his own life is threatened, so one of the augments grab one of the other doctors and infect him with one of the viruses they're researching, which quickly puts him into agony. Even though the director (and Dr. Soong) are obviously disturbed by this, the director still refuses, and when Soong tries to deflect moral responsibility, the Director throws it back at him.

-->'''Director''': I have my orders!

-->'''Director''': [[ShutUpHannibal HOW COULD YOU?]]

** In a sense, the episode itself is a big "TookALevelInBadass" for Archer and his crew, especially in that relatively early point in the show.

* Archer's epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the hostiles in Season 1's "Silent Enemy." The fact that he ends the speech (which is seen entirely via an alien viewscreen) by firing a phaser at the hostile's recorder--punctuated by a switch to static--is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the whole episode.

* In "Fusion," a pissed-off Archer confronting Tolaris on his MindRape of T'Pol.