Season 2 TrekWeb Poll Results

Written by Sid K., edited by Steve Krutzler

With the revamped third season of the STAR TREK prequel bearing down, the only for certain is the diverse range of opinions that will surely emerge once the first episode airs. To some, the series may return with the glory they've imagined; for others, no change will be enough and the broadcast will do little to change already-fermented opinions.

TrekWeb will take the pulse of online fandom each week with our continuing episode polls, and while the process is a bit short of scientifically foolproof, we thought we'd take a look back at last season to see just how each episode fared. As you might expect, TrekWeb's favorite episodes tended also to be the most-watched, except for "A Night In Sickbay," whiched drew the season's largest audience but finds itself near the bottom of almost all the measures.

A week after the initial airing of "The Expanse," the relative poll rankings for season two of ENTERPRISE were tabulated with "Dead Stop" and "Future Tense" leading the pack. Based on poll numbers, pulled at one or more points for the week following each episode’s airing (more specifics below), the episodes for season two have been ranked for four different measures: average, median, percent ‘10’ votes, and percent ‘1-5’ votes. For most of the season, the episodes bunched themselves into the elite, the average, and the sub par, however, some episodes near the end of the season filled in the gaps between the average and the elite making it hard (but not impossible) to draw a dividing line.

Ranking by Average

Top Flight (8.7 – 7.85)

1. Dead Stop
2. Future Tense (near tie with DS)
3. Cease Fire
4. Expanse
5. First Flight
6. Regeneration
7. Singularity (near tie with Regen)

Average (7.75 – 7) (8-12 are near ties with each other)

8. Cogenitor
9. Judgment
10. Catwalk
11. Minefield
12. Canamar
13. Breach
14. Stigma
15. Carbon Creek
16. Dawn
17. Shockwave 2
18. Seventh

Sub Par (6.6 – 5.6) (25, 26 outdistanced the others badly; 21, 22 near ties)

19. Communicator
20. Bounty
21. Horizon
22. Marauders
23. Crossing
24. Vanishing Point
25. Precious Cargo
26. A Night in Sickbay

Ranking by Median

1. Future Tense
2. Dead Stop
3. Cease Fire
4. Expanse
5. Regeneration
6. First Flight
7. Singularity
8. Cogenitor (near tie with Singularity)
9. Minefield (near tie 9-11)
10. Judgment (near tie 9-11)
11. Catwalk (near tie 9-11)
12. Stigma
13. Breach
14. Dawn
15. Carbon Creek
16. Canamar (near tie with CC)
17. Seventh
18. Shockwave 2
19. Communicator
20. Bounty
21. Horizon
22. Marauders
23. Crossing
24. Vanishing Point
25. Night in Sickbay
26. Precious Cargo

Ranking by Percent of ‘10’ Votes

1. Future Tense
2. Cease Fire
3. Dead Stop
4. Expanse (near tie with DS)
5. Regeneration
6. First Flight (near tie 6-8)
7. Cogenitor (near tie 6-8)
8. Singularity (near tie 6-8)
9. Minefield
10. Stigma
11. Seventh
12. Judgment
13. Catwalk
14. Canamar
15. Dawn
16. Breach
17. Carbon Creek
18. Communicator (near tie with CC)
19. Shockwave 2
20. Bounty
21. Marauders
22. A Night in Sickbay
23. Precious Cargo
24. Vanishing Point
25. Crossing
26. Horizon

Ranking by Percent ‘1’ – ‘5’ Votes (Ascending)

1. Dead Stop
2. Future Tense
3. Cease Fire
4. Expanse
5. First Flight
6. Singularity
7. Regeneration
8. Canamar
9. Carbon Creek
10. Minefield (near tie 9-11)
11. Judgment (near tie 9-11)
12. Catwalk (near tie 9-11)
13. Breach
14. Shockwave 2
15. Dawn
16. Cogenitor
17. Stigma
18. Seventh
19. Communicator
20. Marauders
21. Bounty
22. Horizon
23. Crossing
24. Vanishing Point
25. A Night in Sickbay
26. Precious Cargo

Rankings are based on vote counts obtained on the Friday and/or Monday after each episode aired (Tuesday in rare cases) as well as the final poll results. The statistics did vary based on the timing of the voter snapshot. Every attempt was made to establish the rankings such that they reflect consistency within their time frames (e.g. closely ranked episodes which all had Monday counts would be based on the Monday counts). Final poll results did not exist for "Singularity" and "Precious Cargo"; final mission voting was disregarded for "A Night in Sickbay," "Dawn," "Vanishing Point," "Canamar," and "The Catwalk" since their voting extended beyond a week’s time and would be inconsistent with the others (votes for The Expanse were pulled on Wednesday May 28 to get consistent numbers with the majority). In a few cases, when no consistent time frame existed for relative comparison, the rankings were a judgment based on the numbers at hand.

Average is the sum of the numeric designations of the poll ratings (1-10) voted divided by the number of votes. Median is the rating point where the number of votes above and below are equal. Ranking by Percent of ‘10’ votes is the number of rating 10 votes cast divided by the total number of votes cast (e.g. 43% of the votes for "Future Tense" were 10’s; 14% of "Horizon"’s votes were 10). Ranking by Percent of 1-5 Votes is the number of votes cast for the lower 5 ratings divided by the total number of votes.

For detailed poll results for any of the season two episodes, visit TrekWeb's Mission Logs.

O. Deus has been a TrekWeb visitor since the site's 1996 inception. Along with being an ardent poster, he is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Deus has written reviews and columns for TrekWeb for over two years.

"Anomaly"

"The Xindi"

Season 2 Poll Results

"The Expanse"

"First Flight" and "Bounty"

"Regeneration"

"Cogenitor"

"The Breach" (Williams)

"Horizon" (Williams)

"Judgment"

"The Crossing"