Enterprise - United

[Anonymous]

IMHO, "United" is Star Trek at its best. No, I'm not suggesting in any way that it's the best Trek episode, but it has all the makings of a great one.

After all, you have the beginnings of the Federation, with a strong emphasis on cooperation and compromise, good interaction between the characters (the scene where Tucker jokingly threatens Reed with a formal reprimand comes to mind), Andorians, Tellarites, and Romulans to boot. And that's not even mentioning the Andorian Ushaan duel, which personally reminded me of both TOS's "Amok Time" and DS9's duel between Worf and Gowron (can't remember which episode).

Trek at its best.