History Recap / StarTrekEnterpriseS04E21TerraPrime

--> '''Masaro:''' I wanted you to know I'm sorry. I believed in what we were doing. Tell my parents I'm sorry. I never wanted anyone to get hurt. ''(shoots himself)''

* {{Terraform}}: Mars is in the process of it. The terraforming has already yielded a thicker atmosphere, eliminating the need for pressure suits, though they still need oxygen and thermal garment.

* WaveMotionGun: The verteron array on Mars is essentially a very big phaser cannon which is designed to shoot down asteroids/comets which pose a threat to Mars, and presumably anything else in the system. The beam is wide enough to encompass ''Enterprise'' entirely, and even at 2% power it causes considerable damage. Paxton's plan is to use it to destroy Starfleet Command. Fortunately, Trip throws its aim off, and only San Francisco Bay is hit.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Trip says that Phlox found a flaw in the method used to create Elizabeth, and determined that there's no reason why a human and Vulcan couldn't reproduce. In a hundred years, there will be a human-Vulcan hybrid who will become a Starfleet legend. His name is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]].

* NotSoStoic: You can see the repressed rage in T'Pol during her confrontation with Paxton.

* {{Hypocrite}}: As T'Pol points out, Paxton has a degenerative disease and is only being kept alive thanks to alien medicine. Had he been alive during Colonel Green's reign, he'd have been killed too. He tries to justify this by saying "many great men don't live up to their own standards."

* WaveMotionGun: The verteron array on Mars is essentially a very big phaser cannon which is designed to shoot down asteroids/comets which pose a threat to Mars, and presumably anything else in the system. The beam is wide enough to encompass ''Enterprise'' entirely. Paxton's plan is to use it to destroy Starfleet Command. Fortunately, Trip throws its aim off, and only San Francisco Bay is hit.

* WaveMotionGun: Paxton's plan is to use the verteron array to destroy Starfleet Command. Fortunately, Trip throws its aim off, and only San Francisco Bay is hit.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Hoshi, for the first (and only) time, gets to command ''Enterprise''.

Terra Prime takes control of a particle beam array on Mars and threatens to destroy Starfleet Command and alien consulates in their demands are not met.

* ManlyTears: Trip is clearly devastated by Elizabeth's death.

* [[DieHardOnAX Die Hard on Mars]]: Couldn't let the final season end without one last episode of this.

* UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}: After about forty years, we ''finally'' land on Mars in the ''Star Trek'' franchise. In particular, we see a landmark consisting of the ''Sojourner'' probe, belonging to something called the Mars Historical Preservation Society, that is dedicated to the late Creator/CarlSagan.

* ContinuityNod: Phlox provides Malcolm with a vomit bag on the shuttlepod in response to his motion sickness. He wastes little time in using it [[VomitDiscretionShot off-screen]].

* YouAreInCommand: Hoshi, for the first (and only) time, gets to command ''Enterprise''.

* SlowClap: Soval starts one in response to Archer's aforementioned speech, cementing the fact that Archer has earned his respect.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Trip says that Phlox found a flaw in the method used to create Elizabeth, and there's no reason why a human and Vulcan couldn't reproduce. In a hundred years, there will be a human-Vulcan hybrid who will become a Starfleet legend. His name is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]].

* RousingSpeech: After an entire show of mediocre speeches, including the infamous "gazelle speech," Archer closes with his best speech.
-->"Up until about a hundred years ago, there was one question that burned in every Human, that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them. Are we alone? Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet the more I've experienced, the more I've learned that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other. A final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together."