#9 Ent: Fortunate Son

Archer is a chump. As is the rest of the crew, with the exception of the two non-humans... In this episode a human freighter sends out a distress call and star fleet dispatches archer to investigate. It turns out the 'boomers' are hiding a  Nausicaan captive on board and are planning on getting revenge for all the times they have been victims of the pirates. 

Now for the lameness. 


Archer lets the boomers attempt to kill himself and his away team on the cargo ship - They seal them in a pod, cause a leak and eject it; then going to warp and evading the Enterprise. Question: If the enterprise can find a far more advanced alien ship capable of cloaking - why was it so hard to find a human cargo ship traveling at just over warp 1? 


Cargo ships are apparently the Appalachia of space. They dont want help, they dont want to travel faster - when told they can soon get a warp 3 engine that will shorten a 5 year trip into 6 months, they balk at the idea preferring the slow way things are. 


Then when the Enterprise finds the cargo vessel (armed with one plasma cannon) it is being attacked by three Nausicaan ships. This is the first time the Enterprise vastly out guns anyone, but instead of attacking the Nausicaan's and ending the piracy; oh by the way the secret pirate lair full of all the loot stolen from humans is RIGHT THERE! - Archer convinces the Boomers to let the prisoner go, and everyone just goes on there merry way. 

.....How the hell did Star Fleet survive? Archer lets everyone (including his own crew) walk all over him. He lets the Boomer that tried to kill him go - He let the Pirates go, likely to continue attacking human cargo ships - He gave advanced holographic technology to the Klingons (Cloaking what?) - And sent The Mallurians who were poisoning a pre-warp society with a covert mining operation (And also tried to kill Archer) Go.... 


I hope this series gets better, I remember Archer being a chump - But not this bad...