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…
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Archer has a flashback to the days of the NX Warp Project testing. Not great, but not terrible either. It’s nice to see the ‘what they were like…
The Borg show up, jumping up and down lightly on continuity. There’s a great episode of the Doctor Who reboot, *Dalek*, that manages to take back a villain…
Enterprise runs into a race with three genders,one of which is a third class citizen. This episode dances right on the edge between ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘stupid’, until in…
Phlox has to decide whether to treat a member of his race’s deepest enemies. So, what can make even the incredibly phlegmatic Dr Phlox crack? How about someone…
Ensign Merriweather visits home. Gah. I know I sometimes call for episodes that tell us a bit more about the character of the main cast, but this is…
Archer is put on trial by the Klingons. Ah, the venerable trial plot. We’ve seen it so many times: Star Trek VI, *Tribunal*, *The Drumhead*, *The Menagerie*, *Court…
Enterprise runs into some non-corporeal aliens. This episode really clicked for me. It’s a pure science fiction tale, and would not be out of place in either TOS…
Archer and Trip get themselves taken prisoner. A collection of cliches - mistakenly taken prisoner, swept up in the prisoner revolt, etc - that somehow rises above its…
Enterprise finds an abandoned ship with a mummified Human corpse. Mostly more confusing time travel arc stuff, without the benefit that we normally have in those episodes of…