August 2011
13 posts
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24. [ENT] Desert Crossing
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Enterprise is back on course for Risa, but a distress call from a ship 2 light-years off course puts yet another delay in that trip. Turns out the guy just forgot to change his fuel filter. As thanks for the help, he insists on inviting them to his home for a meal in their honor and to play a sport called Geskana, and he especially wants Trip there. But it’s a desert...
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23. [ENT] Fallen Hero
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Efficiency’s down 3%, so obviously T’Pol thinks the crew hasn’t been having enough sex. She thinks a trip to Risa, the galaxy’s Vegas, is in order, which prompts Trip to bust out his Hawaiian tee. I don’t even know anyone who owns a Hawaiian tee, even ironically, and I have an uncle who’s Hawaiian. Unfortunately, vacation plans have to be...
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22. [ENT] Vox Sola
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
A cultural misunderstanding with the Kreetassans arises when they’re invited to the Enterprise’s mess hall. The Kreetassans storm off, clearly offended at something they saw, but Hoshi is unable to properly translate their offense. As the Kreetassan ship undocks from the Universal Standard Docking PortTM, something liquidy and alive slips through the airlock and...
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21. [ENT] Detained
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Many years ago, before the internet was full of cat videos and you had to choose between receiving calls or downloading .gifs at 5 kbps, there was a little old science fiction show about this guy who would travel through time periods, each time entering into someone else’s body and having to set right what once went wrong, before leaping off to the next adventure....
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20. [ENT] Oasis
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
While eating dinner with a trader, Archer gets a tip about a derelict ship that might have engineering supplies they need, except that it’s “haunted.” OoooOOOoooo. For those of you who haven’t seen this episode, but have seen the Deep Space Nine episode Shadowplay, it’s basically the same plot, and wouldn’t you know it, Rene Auberjonois features...
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19. [ENT] Acquisition
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Enterprise is adrift. A butt rises in view. Oh wait it’s a Ferengi. Four Ferengi. Actually three Ferengi, because one of them is Shran posing as a Ferengi. Oh, make it two Ferengi, because Neelix is the captain, posing as a Ferengi again after having traveled back in time 200 years. Actually, make that one Ferengi, because Balok from the Corbomite Maneuver is also in...
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18. [ENT] Rogue Planet
SCORE: (2/5 stars)
As Archer resists posing for a photo, they encounter a rogue planet. Archer, apparently having slept through most of his astronomy courses, seems surprised that they’ve found a rogue planet when there are more rogue planets than stars in the galaxy. What is surprising is that the planet has life, concentrated near geothermal vents. There’s also a ship down at the...
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17. [ENT] Fusion
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
When Archer was a little boy, his dad gave him an astronomy book that he’d pore through for hours, despite its horrible misprint of not having the Rigel system listed. On the cover was the Arachnid Nebula. Now, decades later, he’s going to see this same nebula with his own two eyes. That’s gotta be a pretty huge boyhood fantasy. I know my fantasy has long been...
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16. [ENT] Shuttlepod One
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Reed and Trip fly Shuttlepod One into an asteroid field attempting to rendezvous with Enterprise. They’re three days early and, though Enterprise was meant to be surveying this field, there’s no sign of them. Their sensor array is down so they’re having to rely on sight, and the comm’s fried so they can’t broadcast a signal. Reed spies something...
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15. [ENT] Sleeping Dogs
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Reed and Hoshi are doing target practice in the armory, if you know what I mean. And I mean they’re shooting phase pistols, if you catch my drift. And I mean Hoshi is getting rated on the phase pistols, if you catch my meaning. I’ll say this for her aim: she is a fantastic translator. Enterprise drops out of warp to drop a probe into a Class 9 gas giant, as one...
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14. [ENT] Shadows of P'Jem
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Ambassador Soval is at Starfleet headquarters, bitching to Admiral Forrest about having been caught with their pants down at P’Jem, the Vulcan monastery/listening post that Archer and the Andorians uncovered several episodes ago. You know, Soval, you’re really bitching at the wrong people. You should have been yelling at your own guys for building the dang thing in...
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13. [ENT] Dear Doctor
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
This episode brings out very mixed feelings in me, because it’s the first Phlox-centric episode, and Phlox is definitely the best character on the show… but the conclusions this episode comes to are just mind-bogglingly stupid and show a severe lack of scientific and moral understanding on the part of the writers.
Phlox receives a letter from Dr. Lucas, his...
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12. [ENT] Cold Front
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Welp. It’s the Temporal Cold War again.
Silik, having failed to break up the Klingon Empire in the pilot episode, is strapped down in the Future Room (which we shall henceforth call it) and his genetic modifications are removed as punishment. The guy from the future (henceforth known as Steve) tells him he’ll get it back if he can complete the next mission...
