Kir'Shara
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 9
The Vulcan trilogy concludes with T'Pol and Archer being chased through the desert by power-mad Vulcans while Enterprise and the Andorians unite to face off against the same.
(viewed 09/05/2009)
Awakening
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 8
The Dune thread continues as Vulcan dissidents discover that Archer now harbors Surak's "essence" and try to get it out. In the meantime they're bombarded almost into oblivion by the Vulcan High Command, an attack which results in the death of T'Pol's mother.
(viewed 09/04/2009)
The Forge
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 7
In which the Enterprise gang enter into Dune territory. The episode finds Archer and T'Pol braving the deserts of Vulcan after an attack on the Earth embassy there. Not so bad, actually.
(viewed 09/03/2009)
Azati Prime
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 18
Hot on the heels of the Xindi, Archer ends up in their clutches and the ship is attacked by the same. Interesting to see an attack where real damage and casualties are inflicted as opposed to simply having people bounced around in their seats a bit.
(viewed 08/30/2009)
Hatchery
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 17
I have to confess that I wasn't expecting much from an episode about Xindi eggs. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be one of the better episodes (and not just Enterprise) that I've seen for a while. Archer faces off with his senior officers over his obsession with caring for and protecting said eggs, an obsession that may have disastrous results. A mutiny ensues, complete with some geuinely worthwhile moments of drama.
(viewed 08/19/2009)
Doctor's Orders
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 16
An uncommonly dull episode finds Phlox moping around the ship and apparently having hallucinations while the rest of the crew are in an induced coma for their own protection. Why are crew members in an induced coma for their own protection? Like it matters.
(viewed 08/10/2009)
Countdown
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 23
A decent effort here as the...countdown to the Xindi attack continues. As Archer allies with one faction, Hoshi is kidnapped by another to help them crack a code and MACO Major Hayes is killed rescuing her.
(viewed 05/16/2009)
The Shipment
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 7
Archer, Reed and Hayes are hot on the trail of the Xindi weapon, this time around on a planet where explosives are being made. Moral quandaries for the scientist working on the explosives and whatnot. Ho hum.
(viewed 02/26/2009)
The Crossing
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2, Episode 18
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Enterprise style, as mysterious alien beings take over Trip and various other crew members. A somewhat promising premise that fell apart as the episode unreeled.
(viewed 12/26/2008)
Precious Cargo
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2, Episode 11
Trip rescues a foxy royal alien babe from kidnappers. They clash while sharing an escape pod and on the planet where they land, but eventually end up playing kissy face. Elaan of Troyius (TOS) anyone?
(viewed 12/05/2008)
Marauders
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2, Episode 6
Enterprise comes to the aid of a colony of deuterium miners who are being harassed by Klingons. A bit by the numbers, but not too bad overall.
(viewed 11/28/2008)
A Night in Sickbay
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2, Episode 5
Archer stays over in sickbay with his sick dog. Attempted humor ensues, along with a risque dream about T'Pol.
(viewed 11/26/2008)
The Augments
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 6
As the Augment arc ends, Soong and Malik have a showdown and Soong gets the worst of it. He escapes to Enterprise, who cautiously agree to work with him to defeat the Augments. The latter plan to destroy the entire universe - or something loopy like that.
Not a bad arc, all in all, this Augment thing. The main weakness, the Augments themselves, with their strategically distressed, matching clothing, and especially Malik, who was pretty much drawn straight from Cartoon Villain 101.
(viewed 11/19/2008)
Cold Station 12
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 5
The Augments take over a research facility and differ with their "creator" - Soong - over the severity of their tactics.
(viewed 11/18/2008)
Borderland
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 4
The first of a three-episode arc chronicling the misadventures of Arik Soong and his Augments, a group of enhanced genetic mutants. Resemblances to the TOS Space Seed episode and The Wrath of Khan are presumably quite intentional.
Stars Brent Spiner as Soong and Alec Newman, of Dune miniseries fame, as the baddest of the Augments. Part one finds the latter nearly provoking war with the Klingons and several Enterprise crew members captured by Orion slavers.
(viewed 11/17/2008)
Carpenter Street
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 11
A ho-hum time travel episode finds Archer and T'Pol chasing the Xindi around Detroit in 2004.
(viewed 11/11/2008)
North Star
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 9
Wow. Where to start? Star Trek in all of its incarnations was at it's worst when it veered off into godawful dress-up episodes like this one. Western movie cliches abound in an astoundingly farfetched tale about cowboys carted off to an alien planet to serve as slave labor, before rebelling and taking over the planet.
Paradoxically, though, if you can look past the cliches, the absurd premise and the predictable plot, the actual execution of the episode was not so bad and even had a few clever moments, including one in the inevitable gunfight that wraps things up.
(viewed 11/09/2008)
E Squared
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 21
Enterprise meets Enterprise and their descendants. They fuss over tactics at first, rattle sabers and then end up cooperating to take on the Xindi menace.
(viewed 10/15/2008)
The Forgotten
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 20
In the aftermath of a serious attack, Archer continues to sort out the Xindi issue while Tucker deals with guilt due to the death of a subordinate. Some good moments in this one.
(viewed 09/01/2008)
Twilight
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3, Episode 8
A pesky anomaly and some parasites cause Archer to experience memory glitches for a period of many years. Finally he's cured and the future and past are set right again.
(viewed 08/30/2008)
Observer Effect
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 11
While Trip and Hoshi battle a virus they picked up on an away mission, "observers" inhabit various crew members so that they can study human behavior. Conflict arises when the observers bicker over whether to save the pair. Interesting.
(viewed 06/15/2008)
Daedalus
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 10
Transporter inventor Emory Erickson comes aboard to test a new transporter. Turns out he's trying to retrieve his son, who's been lost in a transporter mishap. Archer goes along with this, though it may be placing the ship and crew in danger and over the strong objections of T'Pol and especially Trip.
(viewed 06/08/2008)
The Arsenal of Freedom
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1, Episode 20
While on an away mission, Picard and Crusher fall in a big hole. In the meantime, LaForge deals with the stress of command while battling the planet's defense system.
(viewed 06/06/2008)
