Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series) Storm Front (2004) User Reviews

Germany Invades the United States of America

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 27 September 2009]

Captain Archer is burned and captured by the German soldiers after destroying the Xindi weapon. Meanwhile the Enterprise's command discovers that they are on Earth in 1944, and Germany has invaded the United State of America; therefore they realize that history has changed. T'Pol sends Travis and Trip in the Shuttlepod One to investigate and they are fired by airplanes. While being transported to meet the evil red-eyed Vosk, the resistance attacks the convoy and Captain Archer is captured by the group. He is arrested and stays in Alicia Travers' house in Brooklyn. In the meantime, the time traveler Daniels totally aged visits the Enterprise and explains that the timeline had been changed and he sent the Enterprise to 1944 to try to fix; otherwise there is no future for the mankind.

"Storm Front: Part I" is an engaging episode of Enterprise. The story shows history upside-down, with the battlefield in the United States of America in the World War II with the resistance acting in New York. Let's see how Captain Archer, T'Pol and the crewmembers of the Enterprise will resolve this situation. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Tempestade Temporal" ("Temporal Storm")

World War II?!

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 13 April 2015]

At the end of the season three finale, the Xindi super-weapon is destroyed and somehow Archer and the Enterprise (separately) are somehow shot back to WWII!!! And, when Archer awakens, he's in a Nazi mobile hospital!!! And, the shuttle approaching San Francisco is set upon by P-51 fighters!! Huh?!?!? Obviously this is one strange episode and it's so weird that you HOPE that this isn't a shadow of things to come. Fortunately, this and the following episode are the only Nazi ones and the reason all this occurs is interesting....though quite silly. The bottom line is that if you love "Star Trek: Enterprise", don't show your friends these two episodes--they'll think you're nuts. And, for fans, it IS enjoyably strange and very watchable.

Alien Nazis!

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 30 April 2010]

One would have thought that after saving humanity from the Xindi at the end of season three the crew of the Enterprise might get some time to relax and get the ship repaired; no such luck however as the destruction of the weapon has sent them into the past. This isn't a past we'd recognise though; it is the middle of the second world war but the Germans have successfully invaded the eastern part of the United States with the help of a race of alien time travellers. The crew believe that Captain Archer was killed when the weapon exploded but in fact he is injured on Earth where once free from his Nazi captors he must find out why history as changed and contact the Enterprise.

After the long running Xindi story arc it was nice to see something different, and while using the Nazis as a plot device is somewhat cliché it is given a nice new twist by having them in North America. I liked the fact that the Enterprise is shown battered and bruised after all it has been through rather than being in perfect condition. The one thing I wasn't so keen on was the scene where one of the Enterprise's shuttles is intercepted by US fighters over San Francisco, it was a good idea but the special effects were a bit too obvious.

Seems odd that this ep is only rated at 7.5.

[sogoodlooking · 9/10 · 23 September 2020]

Golden Brooks does impressive work as Alicia Travers, separated by war from her husband. The mystery of the aliens, who joined up with the Nazis to accomplish we-don't-know-what is intriguing and makes for an exciting and unusual story . The appearance of a Suliban only adds to the mystery, but sadly Blalock is back to a ruinous haircut of the kind that dogged her performances in Seasons 1 and 2.

The piggishness of Nazis is smartly conveyed in a brief, disgusting encounter on the street, where an attempted caress of Alicia is far more violative than a five-minute fistfight. The resistance is made up of loan sharks, a delightful alternative to a more conventional, tiresome nobility.

This alternative past is nicely set up, with strong details quickly painted in, with a startling image of a battered White House decked in Nazi bunting.

Good job all around. It's hard to see where this could be improved.

When Will They Rest?

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 27 March 2017]

After giving everything they had to get past the Xindi and destroy the weapon, how can they go on. The remaining crew thinks Archer is dead, but he is on earth, in the hands of an alien race that is in cahoots with the Nazi's who have invaded the West. Archer meets a black woman in Harlem who is friends with a bunch of gangster types. The talk to a man who gives them information about the clay faced aliens. These guys are going to mess up the time/space continuum. Trip and Travis take a shuttle to the surface and face the worst of the enemy. Meanwhile, Daniels shows up on board the Enterprise. He has been damaged by the travel he has done and lies dying in sick bay. I'm on a wait and see trip here.

Crazy but entertaining

[snoozejonc · 6/10 · 23 November 2020]

Archer wakes in New York 1944 where the Nazis have won the war and aided by a race of Aliens are invading the US.

It is as ridiculous a concept as it sounds but I found it entertaining in the same way as seeing Captain Kirk in a Nazi uniform in the original series.

The best scenes for me involved Archer teaming up with resistance fighters and former Mafia hoods to fight the Nazi aliens. Now that's something I never expected to put in a sentence!

It all feels like a build up to the second part which will hopefully draw a line under the Temporal Cold War story. To be fair there was some great early promise with the story arc in the first few series, but if the build up was for this, all I can say is - LOL!

I'm hoping for a strong finish in part two to make the arc justify the initial investment of my interest.

Nazi Aliens? Hell Yes

[Vvardenfell_Man · 10/10 · 22 April 2024]

This season has had its ups and downs. This episode certainly doesn't. It's cheez wizz all the way through: time-traveling aliens have come back to help the Nazis conquer America. Naturally, the only possible way to save the day is for Captain Archer to work with a couple of Brooklyn thugs and this episode's love interest to drive fascism and futuristic particle weapons from America's heartland. This is B-movie heaven. I always love media that takes its time and waits to throw the Nazi twist in. It's a staple of '70s and '80s B-movies. The fact that Enterprise waited this long to do this premise shows remarkable restraint.

Best moment is definitely the part where the Nazi alien says "When we get back, you'll never have existed!" and then the mob guy kills him. The alien costumes are outstanding.

The Enterprise vs Alien Nazis

[Samuel-Shovel · 5/10 · 21 February 2018]

The final season go Enterprise kicks off with the crew realizing that, after destroying the Xindi weapon, they've been transported back in time to the WWII era. Presumed dead, Archer has somehow ended up on the surface of Earth and is captured by Germans but quickly escapes. However, the timeline is wrong. The Nazis control Washington DC thanks to the help of an alien lifeform. Archer tries to get to the bottom of this with the help of some New York gangsters who are part of the Resistance. Meanwhile, Silik is aboard Enterprise somehow and steals a shuttlepod and heads to Earth. Travis & Trip follow him and are subsequently captured. Archer finds his way back to Enterlrise and a very disfigured Daniels explains the whole situation to T'Pol and Archer. They must stop these alien Nazis from altering the timeline.

There's a whole lot to unpack here. We're not easing into Season 4 but are going in full throttle with this extremely confusing plotline. It kind of makes you wonder if the show's creators knew they were in danger of cancelation and decided to "throw the kitchen sink" to start this season.

This is the second season premiere where Archer is separated from the Enterprise (last time he went forward in time) and both times this issue has been resolved far too quickly. The premise of Archer needing to find his way back is an interesting one but when he reunites with the Enterprise in the same episode this is established, what's the point of even setting this up? Let's make it a longer plot arc!

I was pleasantly surprised to see Steve Schirripa in this episode but unfortunately he's sleepwalking through his small role. I did enjoy Golden Brooks' role though.

This whole Nazi alien plot isn't for me. I hope this gets resolved next episode so we can get back to what Star Trek does best: exploring space!

Space Nazis, how inspired

[whatch-17931 · 4/10 · 25 February 2021]

Manny Coro got handed one of the most cliched cliffhangers ever to deal with from the end of season 3 and should have wrapped that up with a 30 second "Archer was just dreaming". If you're pulling out the Nazis, you need a really good compelling reason, else it's just a very old tired cheap trick, and screams "just phoning it in".

Nazis have often been used as convenient evil villains that won't offend (hardly) anyone. But a show like Trek, set in space with Space Aliens doesn't need that. And the original series Trek episode where they used Space Nazis actually had a clever premise built on it.

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I have not seen a worst episode than this one....

[paulsmeyers · 2/10 · 6 March 2018]

I have, really, not seen a worse episode than this one! When a series does play with time travel it always does go baldy, with the exception of the comedy ones. First making historical errors is soooo easy. And in American series they make tons of those? can they never get a real historian of the period they try to act into?! Are "Nazis" always caricatures peoples and the USA depiction of resistance is so ridiculous. A person with fear in their belly do not think of anything else than their mission or self-preserves ion, the stupid are often dead before they can do harm to other. Second touching at even a detail in history can change a lot millions of years later. Or you can take the inverse theory and that history is self-Healing and any change does Nothing to history that shall health/correct itself. But in any case even the worse author know he should not make paradoxes and there are many, to many in this episode of this "B" series.