February 2012
12 posts
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99. [ENT] Demons – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
The Scooby gang have been recalled to Sunnydale by the Mayor to witness his attempts to ascend to snakehood by forging an interstellar alliance with various races in the quadrant, while Robocop is growing a human/Vulcan hybrid on the Moon. While I unscramble my franchises and their shared actors, please read on! Peace talks have opened up on Earth and Enterprise has been...
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98. [ENT] In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II – SHORT...
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
Enterprise is destroyed, Captain Forrest is dead, but the Defiant has been claimed by the boarding party, and once they have weapons online, they make short work of the Tholians and rescue the remaining crew from the escape pods. The main cast suit up in classic TOS uniforms to complete the whole fanboyish appeal of the episode. Everyone starts looking through the historical...
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97. [ENT] In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
We open on a familiar scene. It’s Bozeman, Montana, 2063, and a Vulcan ship is descending on Zefram Cochrane’s launch site to make First Contact. The familiar Jerry Goldsmith score swells with the emotion of the moment… but something is off. Very off. As Cochrane attempts and fails to give the Vulcan salute, he then reaches into his coat and pulls out a...
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96. [ENT] Bound – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (2/5 stars)
It’s attack of the five foot green skinned space babes from Orion in this episode. An Orion ship intercepts Enterprise and the captain, one Harrad-Sar, claims to be there to attempt to soften the relations between Starfleet and the Syndicate. Archer agrees to come aboard his ship, where he’s wined, dined, and given a show of some rather exotic olive-colored...
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95. [ENT] Divergence – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
If Enterprise drops below warp 5, the bus will explode! And as fortune would have it, Columbia is close enough to rendezvous, but in order to bring Trip over to Enterprise to fix the problem they have to pull up alongside each other, touch the warp fields together, and send him rappelling along the grappler from one hangar to the other, floating in space at warp 5. By the...
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94. [ENT] Affliction – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
Enterprise has returned to Earth to see the launch of Columbia, and to transfer Trip over to Hernandez’s command. T’Pol asks if the transfer is about her, and Trip insists that it’s not, except they seem to be having psychic daydreams about each other. (No, really, not joking about this.) After Phlox and Hoshi stop off at Madame Chang’s, commenting on...
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93. [ENT] The Aenar – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
T’Pol’s scans of the drone ship reveal that it’s being flown telepathically, and it looks attuned to Andorian physiology. Shran explains that there is a subspecies of Andorian called Aenar. They’re blind, albino, and telepathic. They’re also extremely reclusive, and pacifist to boot… except that they have pretty strong evidence that an...
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92. [ENT] United – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
The drone ship could be anywhere. Trip and Reed are doing their best to throw a wrench in the works, prevent any further attacks, but the Romulans have found a new model for the ship’s cloak: Enterprise. While Shran’s love Talas lays dying in sickbay from a point-blank kill phaser graze, Archer concocts a plan to track down the ship, but he needs a lot of ships to...
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91. [ENT] Babel One – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Enterprise is escorting a Tellarite ambassador to Babel, a neutral planet, where they will deliberate on a trade dispute between the Tellarites and the Andorians. The Tellarites are argumentative and rude, which is just how they like things, and Archer must hold his own in an insult match. The trip to the diplomatic talks is waylaid when they receive a distress call from...
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90. [ENT] Observer Effect – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
In a fun but obscure callback to the original series, we’re reintroduced to a non-corporeal species that we first met in the same episode that introduced the Klingons. The Organians negotiated a peace treaty between Klingons and humans in that episode, though in this one I daresay they are a bit more callous, a bit less interested in the sanctity of life, however...
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89. [ENT] Daedalus – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (1/5 stars)
In the fable of Daedalus, he created wax wings for his son Icarus, only for them to melt when Icarus flew too near the sun, causing him to plummet to his death. An appropriate metaphor, as the creators of this episode must surely have felt the sting of watching it fail so miserably. Pretty much every aspect failed miserably, from the writing to the casting to the acting to the...
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88. [ENT] Kir'Shara – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
With the Kir’Shara in hand, the trio of Archer, T’Pol, and the other apostrophized one attempt to make their way to the High Command to show them the true writings of Surak, because this will magically change everything, even though the language of Surak isn’t spoken anymore, and people can’t just take it on say-so that it’s actually the...
