Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series) The Forgotten (2004) User Reviews

Best Episode of the Xindi Arc

[bitomurder · 9/10 · 11 April 2018]

"The Forgotten" is a well written and exceptionally acted episode that is hands down the best episode in the Xindi arc. Very little action highlights this wonderful episode about internal struggles. From struggles keeping the ship together while everything that can go wrong does to Degra's grappling with the thought of betraying his people and following the human he has been trying to exterminate, this episode touches on deep internal struggles of the ship and her crew and the action is secondary and kept to a reasonable minimum. This one hits all the right emotional buttons and is a standout among a season of high powered action.

"The Forgotten" is dominated by the acting of Connor Trinneer. His performance as Trip runs the gambit of exhaustion, anger, and pain that, put quite simply, is the greatest performance by any actor in the entire series. We are treated to an episode where Trip confronts the pain of his lost sister by running from it, directing anger towards the person responsible, and finally with a heartfelt emotional breakdown where he finally gives into the loss. The final moments of his acceptance hit you like a bulldozer and it is hard to keep your eyes from getting a bit watery. The rest of the story does a good job of pushing the Xindi arc forward with Archer finally convincing Degra to join his cause and help him save billions of lives. "The Forgotten" is an exceptionally well written, powerful, and heartfelt episode that slows down the action a little but delivers heavily on strong character development and emotional substance.

Trying to forge an alliance with at least some of the Xindi...

[planktonrules · 9/10 · 10 April 2015]

The last several episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise" have all been like one long movie--not the usual self-contained episodes. They all tell the story of what happens when the ship finally reaches the Xindi ultimate weapon and how the humans and Xindi somehow make peace.

This particular episode features two of the Xindi species (the most human-like by the way) spending time with Captain Archer and discussing a possible peace between everyone. However, it's obvious that the Reptilian Xindi are rather insane and warlike and would LOVE to vaporize the Earth. What also soon becomes obvious is that some of the crew hate the Xindi and just want to kill them--Trip, of course, being among them because of the murder of his sister by their first weapon. Despite this, Degra makes a fateful decision-- one that definitely makes a HUGE departure of the humanoid Xindi from the alliance.

All in all, like all the recent episodes, this one is full of action and tension--and make it among the best episodes of season three. Exciting and well worth seeing.

Very strong episode but one part bothered me

[snoozejonc · 8/10 · 17 November 2020]

A severely damaged Enterprise meets up with Degra whilst Trip struggles to deal with loss.

This is a strong episode and it might appeal to others more than me, simply because I found the sub-plot a bit annoying in certain scenes.

The central plot involving Archer and Enterprise working with Degra and a faction of the Xindi is compelling and starting to make the overarching serialised story get quite exciting. There are lots of great scenes associated with this and Randy Oglesby is fantastic in all of them.

I also loved the scene with Trip Tucker and Malcolm Reed working on the plasma fire. Reed hardly ever gets much positivity from the writers and this is a rare chance to see him doing something cool and heroic for Enterprise.

I struggled with the sub-plot involving Trip. It's nothing to do with Connor Trinneer's performance as he did a great job in conveying the required emotion. There is a long build up to the letter, including angry outbursts, crying and moments of bonding with the emotional wreck that T'Pol has become. When he finally writes the letter, most of it is about him. I get that it's really his sister at the heart of the matter and it probably doesn't help that we had not been introduced to the lost crew member Taylor, but he comes across as pretty self-indulgent to me. Maybe I'm just a heartless cynic, so i'm not letting it influence my scoring of the episode. Overall it is strong and continues the intrigue about the main story of series 3.

The best episode of the season makes all the terrible ones worth it

[bygeahkburchill · 10/10 · 3 March 2013]

(Mild Spoilers) This may be the only 10-out-of-10 episode of the entire series. Well paced, well written, a complex mix of action, tension and quiet. This episode breathed like a living being. The most important thing this episode did was genuinely touch me. This may be the only episode of Star Trek ever, any series, any era, that has ever made me cry. Extremely powerful and layered with a masterful performance by Connor Trinneer that won't be forgotten. Even Jolene Blylock brought levels to her performance not previously seen. John Billingsley, in just a few scenes rounded out his caring doctor with beautiful acting. Randy Oglesby guests as Degra who plays an honorable and conflicted weapons developer who convincingly changes sides when presented with new information. Absolutely every aspect was top notch. The thing is, so much of what is great about this episode hinges on the earlier episodes of the season and so it is very welcome to feel somewhat validated for having slogged through the whole Xindi story arc and finally get to an episode which made all that work worth it. And, hey, it had a cameo from Seth McFarlane, so you got that too. Though this may be the least appreciated Star Trek Series it managed to bring us one of the best episodes the franchise has ever produced.

Superb Entry

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 26 March 2017]

The connection among the actors is really very good in this episode which brings two of the Xindi together with Archer. He needs to convince them as to what Andrews has told him. That the destruction of the Enterprise and the death of Archer will destroy both races. It takes some doing but the alliance is finally formed. Degra's trust is falling into place. Trip is becoming more and more hostile as Degra stays on board to help archer. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a superior entity that seems to be pulling the strings. The Reptilians are shown to have been doing their own thing, ignoring the council. A surprising thing happens when they show up to confront Debra and the Enterprise. We are now set up for a series of efforts to try to calm the storm.

Goodbye, Elizabeth

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 4 March 2008]

The Enterprises manages to arrive on the schedule for the meeting with Degra, and Captain Archer invites Degra and Jannar to come on board of the damaged Enterprise to show evidences that the Xindi are being manipulated by the trans-dimensional builders of the spheres, and Degra becomes impressed with the evidences. Meanwhile Archer assigns Trip to write a letter to the parents of crewman Jane Taylor, who died on duty during the attack of the Reptilians, while he is working hard trying to make the Enterprise operational again with a short staff. When the hostiles Reptilians threaten the Enterprise, Degra takes a surprising attitude.

The Fourth Season of Enterprise now is excellent, actually with one long story split in episodes. "The Forgotten" is dramatic, with the loss of eighteen members represented by Taylor and the reluctance of Trip in accepting Degra as an allied, superseded in the very end, when Trip accepts the loss of Taylor an Elizabeth. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Os Esquecidos" ("The Forgotten")

Degra Comes to Visit

[Samuel-Shovel · 6/10 · 10 February 2018]

In "The Forgotten", the Enterprise has a clandestine meeting with Debra and other select members of the Council regarding the weapon and Archer's proof that the Reptilians used time travel to attempt to secretly use and deploy a bio-weapon to destroy the human race in the past. Debra goes rogue, destroying a Reptilian ship in order to keep an alliance with the humans and attempt to stop the weapon from use.

Degra seems committed to helping the humans. We got a glimpse of this when he was captured and his mind wiped; he felt extremely saddened by the children and innocents that were to be killed by his weapon. Much like the atom bombs creators or Edward Nobel, Degra is a scientist that will live to see his work turned into a killing machine and will have to love with his regret.

Besides this, this episode is fairly average. Trip is coping with the loss of his sister still and must write a letter to one of his workers' family after she died in the Xindi Reptilian attack. I don't like when shows try to make us care about the death of characters that we've had no previous interactions with. There's not much emotional weight to it if I never even realized that Jane Taylor existed prior to this episode. They're just using her for emotional fodder and I'm not buying it.