Monday, October 18, 2010

#16 Fussion

The Enterprise runs across a small Vulcan ship and is hailed. The ship belongs to an order of Vulcans that has devoted themselves to find balance between logic and emotion and thus act much more "human".

The ship is in need of some repairs, so the crews of each vessel intermegle and get to know one another. T'Pol is basically ordered to work with the Vulcans, something she shows discomfort with at first and later comes to accept. She is convinced by a member of the order to try to find balance and experience emotion herself, she tries - has some bad dreams and later is mind raped during a mind meld with the crew member. She ends up in the sick bay and Archer sends the other ship on its way. Archer being the gentleman that he is does not apologize to T'Pol for putting her in the situation.

#15 Shuttlepod one

I hate Trip. He is by far the worst Star Fleet officer I have ever seen. In this episode Trip and Malcolm Reed get stranded in a shuttlepod during a survey mission. something goes wrong and they start to leak oxygen - they are going to run out of air before the Enterprise returns and are left with no way to communicate with the ship. 


Reed starts to record goodbye messages to his friends and family and Trip tries to find some way to save them, Trip wants Malcolm to do something but instead of leading by inspiration like a star fleet office should he just becomes down right mean.  




Apparently this episode is a cast favorite of  Dominic Keating and Rick Berman. I think they are all savages...