Doctor Phlox writes a letter to colleague. An interesting story, which for me highlighted the strength of this character at least. Doctor Phlox is one of the most…
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Enterprise decides to step up its defences, because of a run-in with some mysterious aliens. There’s been something missing from a lot of the plots so far in…
An observation mission turns a lot stranger as the plot arc kicks into gear. Well, clearly the pathetic security of Starfleet ships was part of standard operating procedure…
The Enterprise responds to a distress call. Another developing theme - it’s the frontier, but things are changing. The tensions between the ‘new way’ and the ‘old way’…
Archer explores an alien planet, falls in love, saves the day. Y’know, Captain (Kirk) stuff. The lightest outing so far. While there’s an attempt to create some stakes,…
T’Pol turns out to be the ‘cool’ Vulcan, at least by comparison. The other developing theme of the show, other than the ‘space is dangerous’ message, is ‘we…
The Enterprise gets caught in the middle of some Andorians holding Vulcans hostage. Now that is not a twist that I was expecting. Everything we know about Vulcans…
The Enterprise investigates the site of a lost Human colony. Well developed, with a nice presentation of the ‘fallen humans’. The SF idea of ‘only the children survive,…
Tucker gets a little surprise from an away mission. The episode largely manages to rise above the idea, which had the potential to go quite wrong. But the…
The away team comes down with a case of the hallucinations. This story wouldn’t have worked as well in the other series. Everyone turning on each other would…