Enterprise Episode Review
In which there is a sinister space station full of secrets.
What Happened
Wanting to do something about the giant hole in the side of the ship (gained in "Minefield"), Enterprise stops at a mechanized space station, where the onboard computer proceeds to cut a deal to make the repairs.
As the crew relaxes, Mayweather is lured down to a cargo bay and electrocuted. During the autopsy, however, Phlox realizes that the corpse is really a clone. Archer and T'Pol make their way into the station's computer core, where they find Mayweather and several others hooked up to the computer array.
Freeing his crewman, Archer orders the ship to break away from the station, destroying it in the process.
The Good
- Yeah. I guess that Archer would have to think twice about adding "dead in the water" to the distress call.
The Bad
- Suspicion is one thing, but Archer was getting downright pissy. What happened to gung ho explorer guy?
The Cliche
- Teasing all the tricks from Star Trek universe in the show is getting to be horribly predictable. This time it's the replicators.
- When is a bargain a bargain? When all it costs you is a useless Ensign.
- Mayweather switch. Okay, I thought it was clever, mostly because I had decided that he'd had his brain sucked. And I suppose Hoshi did a good enough job with the sniffle story about being friends with Mayweather, even though I don't exactly remember them being that close.
- Trip delaying the computer with complaints about the service.
- The living computer idea was a clever take on Evil Computers! - but how convenient that all the other victims had been there long enough to be brain dead so we don't feel bad for blowing them up.
- They were pretty casual about blowing the station up. If they hadn't wasted all that time at the start wandering the halls, we might have heard from someone else that was snatched.
Best Lines
Phlox: "It might heal faster if you let me apply a few more Regulan blood worms."
Reed: "You are not putting any more of those things in my leg. You still haven't found the last one."
Phlox: "It will come out on its own. Eventually."
Trip: "It was my idea, sir."
Archer: "I think Lt. Reed is old enough to make his own decisions." I think so, too. Stupid twits.
What Did I Think?
Good. Solid, but not particularly exciting.
