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Point of No Return
By Sxottlan

Season 2 has always been what, in my mind anyway, really killed Enterprise. I still remember that there was a cautious optimism at the start of Season 2 following what had been a solid block of episodes at the end of Season 1. People felt the show had it together and was about to take off.

And then the exact opposite happened. Following Dead Stop, one of the most loved episodes of the series at that point, the show just bottomed out with stale, derivative episodes that instead of trying to build any kind of arc, be it TCW or otherwise, were unremarkable stand alones.

I don't recall a real stand-out episode until the next February when Future Tense aired (although I think the under-rated Singularity was in there somewhere). Even now, that episode only excelled at the "cool factor" and the events in the episode played absolutely no part in any future TCW episodes. Other episodes that managed to generate some excitement, such as Cogenitor, were interesting upon first viewing, but held no repeat value.

At this point, I only distinctly remember Dead Stop, Future Tense and Regeneration as the real great episodes of the season. There was still time to pull it together in Season 2 when many people were still on the fence and they just didn't do it. It's so damn perplexing how everything fell apart right when it shouldn't have. It was timing and that Season 2 slump proved to be the only real bad stretch of episodes the series suffered. I suppose there's never a good time to have a slump, but certainly not during sweeps that's for sure.

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