Category: Trekathon
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Trekathon 697: The Shipment (ENT)
Archer follows a trail to a mining facility supplying the Xindi weapon. Now we have some complexity and variety in the Xindi – they aren’t all a threat to Earth. Some of them could be on our side. And Archer is becoming less angry, more willing to act like a Star Fleet Captain. Not that…
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Trekathon 696: Exile (ENT)
Hoshi makes contact with a creepy psychic. Yay, we finally noticed that the enormous sphere from a few episodes ago was significant. Only when they worked out there were 50 or so of them. And now maybe, just maybe, the mystery of the why and how of these spheres has made something workable. And theres…
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Trekathon 695: Impulse (ENT)
T’Pol turns out to be allergic to MacGuffin-D. An interesting development – I was expecting that this trellium-D plot was going to eliminate the silly anomalies, and we could just move on. So on the one hand it’s a bit disappointing that we’re still going to have the weird anomalies. But on the other we…
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Trekathon 694: Rajiin (ENT)
Archer brings a spy on board. It’s pretty hard to do this plot without some people coming across as morons. There’s a little bit of stupidity (not locking Rajiin in her quarters), but it’s at a reasonable level. Really, this Rajiin is just a very effective spy, quite good at her job. Still, I’m sure…
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Trekathon 693: Extinction (ENT)
Archer, Hoshi and Reed get mutated by an alien virus. Unlike previous attempts at similar stories (*Genesis* most notoriously) there’s no attempt to try and relate what happens to any kind of underlying nature of the characters. This episode is more reminiscent of *Masks* actually, but unlike that episode the regular cast don’t take any…
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Trekathon 692: Anomaly (ENT)
Enterprise gets robbed. Not a terrible story, but it’s starting to not feel very much like Trek to me. Archer has become so angry that we have a mysterious ancient alien space station, and no one on the crew bats an eyelid. There’s no sense of exploration or wonder. There’s just violence and action. Archer…
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Trekathon 691: The Xindi (ENT)
Enterprise tries to find the Xindi homeworld. Not a goods start to the season. That opening scene felt like a scene of the Trade Federation in Star Wars. And the sequence on the mining facility was pretty tedious. Archer gets betrayed by the obviously horrible alien, and absolutely no one is prepared for it. Just…
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Trekathon Season Review: Enterprise, Season 2
For the most part this is a show without clear direction There’s a general flailing around from theme to theme, never quite sure what kind of story will work. And very little is landing. It’s generally a pleasant way to spend an hour, but it’s not rising to the heights established by the other series.…
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Trekathon 690: The Expanse (ENT)
Earth gets attacked for no known reason, and Enterprise has to go find out who’s responsible. There’s a pretty bald attempt to draw everything together here – the mysterious future guy, the Klingon bounty on Archer’s head, the Suliban. It makes for an over packed episode that doesn’t really hold together as a coherent story.…
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Trekathon 689: Bounty (ENT)
Reed is proved very correct about Archer’s lax attitude to security, as Archer gets captured by a bounty hunter. Dull and uninteresting stupidity. Archer gets himself taken prisoner by being stupid, tries a couple of stupid things that don’t help him get out of the situation, then tries a stupid thing that does help him.…