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’…
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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…
Enterprise finds a disturbing scene on an abandoned ship. This episode serves two main purposes - first, establish a different tone to the previous series. This isn’t the…
Archer has to find and rescue Klaang. I enjoyed the general plot of the episode, with some good action sequences mixed with some insight into the characters. I…
Earth’s newest ship goes on a mission to return an injured Klingon. So far it’s an interesting start to a series. The show is clearly trying to do…