September 2011
13 posts
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37. [ENT] Vanishing Point
SCORE: (1/5 stars)
Hoshi and Trip are examining ancient hieroglyphs of a dead civilization when a science fiction storm full of treknobabbly energy cuts through the valley they’re in, forcing them to take the teleporter instead of the shuttlepod. Hoshi is understandably apprehensive about using the transporter, as I would be, but Trip goes first and comes out just fine, so she goes for it....
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36. [ENT] Singularity
SCORE: (2/5 stars)
Enterprise is on course for a black hole, and everyone except T’Pol has been rendered unconscious by… something. T’Pol narrates the ship’s current predicament to the ship’s log, AKA the loyal television audience. Two days ago they decided to set a course for the black hole because of its unique circumstance of being part of a trinary star system....
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35. [ENT] The Communicator
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
After returning from a planet with rubber foreheads on their faces, Reed realizes he’s made a grave error and left his communicator on the planet. I haven’t seen someone in Starfleet pull a boner like that since A Piece Of The Action in TOS, but as memory serves they left it there. Pull up a chair as we find out why they may very well have decided to leave it...
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34. [ENT] The Seventh
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
T’Pol gets a late-night call from the Vulcan High Command. A Vulcan fugitive by the name of Menos has been located less than 3 days from Enterprise, and T’Pol is ordered to go on a covert mission to retrieve him. Archer pries for details, but T’Pol is her usual tight-lipped self about Vulcan matters. She’s to take Mayweather, a shuttlepod, restraints,...
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33. [ENT] Marauders
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
We open on a deuterium mining facility, a dusty tent-filled site where plain folk do a hard day’s labor. An Enterprise shuttlepod comes down wanting to trade for their product, but the miners are unwilling to deal, despite having massive quantities stored up in their tanks. It’s not theirs, they swear, they were holding it for a friend! When Trip hears that they...
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32. [ENT] A Night in Sickbay
SCORE: (2/5 stars)
After another run-in with the easily offended Kreetassans, the away team is in a daisy-chain rubbing decon gel over each other’s naked bodies. The most naked of them all, Porthos, has picked something up from the planet, and Phlox wants to keep him longer to make sure he’s okay. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to get the plasma injector they wanted from the...
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31. [ENT] Dead Stop
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
In a surprising move of continuity, the damage sustained to Enterprise in the previous episode hasn’t been magically patched up by now, because Enterprise is 100 light years from the closest repair depot. I think self-repair varies inversely to how close you are to a repair station, because Voyager never had a scratch on her. Assuming they can scrounge up enough...
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30. [ENT] Minefield
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Archer invites Reed to have breakfast in the captain’s mess. Archer uses the time to attempt to get to know him, who is visibly uncomfortable and unable (or unwilling) to relax. When asked about interests or hobbies, Reed confesses that he doesn’t really seem to have any (which is a total lie, we know he was an Eagle Scout with two dozen merit badges and you...
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29. [ENT] Carbon Creek
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
The trio crack open a bottle of wine in the captain’s mess to celebrate one year of T’Pol being stationed on the ship. Why they aren’t celebrating about the ship having been on its mission for a year, seeing as the two things began at the same date? I don’t know. Shut up and let me review the episode already. As they get nice and boozed up, T’Pol...
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28. [ENT] Shockwave, Part II
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
With Archer yoinked off to the 31st century, Enterprise is left with its pants down as Silik threatens to destroy them for not delivering Archer to them. T’Pol insists Archer has vanished, and invites the Suliban to come and see for themselves. They search every nook and cranny of the ship, retrieve the stolen data discs, and find a futuristic device in the turbolift...
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27. [ENT] Season 1 Review
SCORE: (3.42/5 stars, averaged over all ratings from the season)
Thank you all for your readership up to this point. Now that I’ve hit the first season finale, I’m rolling out my end of season recap, and averaging the star ratings of each episode to find out how the season holds up overall. This should hopefully be a good metric to judge each series on, and should provide some...
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26. [ENT] Shockwave, Part I
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Tragedy strikes when Enterprise attempts to visit an alien mining colony with a volatile atmosphere. Despite following protocols exactly, the atmosphere ignites anyway, wiping out all 3,600 colonists on the planet. Further examination of the event shows that there was an EM signature emanating from below the shuttlepod. While Reed insists he did nothing wrong and they...
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25. [ENT] Two Days and Two Nights
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
It took 2 episodes of delays, but they’ve finally managed to get to Risa, where 2 days of shoreleave are scheduled for half the crew (gotta keep a skeleton crew running in case of emergency). The whole senior staff except T’Pol and Phlox head down for some much-needed vacation, and might I add that Hoshi should let her hair down more often? Travis plans on doing...
