#14 Enterprise: Shadows of P'Jem

So far the best episode.

T'Pol is to be held accountable for the discovery of the spy network in the 'Andorian incident' and is ordered to return to Vulcan. Archer is unhappy and goes to bat for her.

They plan to make a stop on a alien ally to the Vulcans and are kidnapped by some dissidents, and ransom is demanded.

Lucky for Archer he does not need to rely on his incompetent crew to rescue him, our good friends from Andoria are wanting to repay a debt to Archer. So they help with the rescue, Archer uses the indecent to convince the Vulcans to reconsider T'Pols recall. and everyone is happy.

Andorian Assault Squads rock!

#13 Enterprise: Sleeping Dogs

Look out its T'Pol in her Undies again Time!

So the Enterprise stops to look at a gas giant and lo and behold there is a mysterious ship stuck in the atmosphere. They send a shuttle down to the ship - turns out to be Klingon, and find the crew unconscious by some neurotoxin.

T'Pol want to leave and as normal she was right. The Away team gets trapped on the ship and needs to figure out how to escape, it turns out there is one member of the Klingon crew awake she steals there shuttle pod and escapes, only to be picked up by the enterprise.

Basicly its a weak episode used to just get some crew members into the decon chamber again. 

It also leaves me wondering... Why is T'Pol not in command, or at least not taken more seriously... She is pretty much always right... 

#12 Enterprise: Dear Doctor

So I return! Sorry for the delay in posting anything new I have had too much stuff going on lately...

So with no more delay and more than 9 hours of trek viewing behind me I present to you my impressions of Dear Doctor... 

On-board are some sick aliens who are looking for help, it seems The episode has the crew stumbling onto a pre-warp ship.there entire world is suffering from a disease and they are in danger of extinction. It is decided the Enterprise can interfere because the species has had contact with other warp capable species, so they set down on the planet and have Doctor Phlox start looking for a cure. 

Are you ready for my hate of Captain Archer to grow? So it turns out that there are two sentient species on this planet and they live peacefully and somewhat symbiotic with each other. Also the disease is not a disease at all! Its a genetic mutation that will wipe out species A in a few generations allowing species B to become dominant. Heres what happens: The Doctor finds a cure - Archer and him have an argument, Archer wants to give out the cure but the Doctor says No because that would be tampering with the natural evolution of this planet and its species... 

Archer backs down from the Doctor and does not give out the cure, thus causing the preventable deaths of millions upon millions of species A. He cites that someday there will be a prime directive preventing him from interfering with this species as his reason:

  "Some day my people are going to come up with some sort of a doctrine, something that tells us what we can and can't do out here; should and shouldn't do. But until somebody tells me that they've drafted that...directive...I'm going to have to remind myself everyday that we didn't come out here to play God."

I disagree 100% The prime directive would not prevent the federation from helping this species for a number of reasons:

A) The species has already had contact with numerous other warp capable species. 

B) The other Species on this planet would inherit all the technology, and as a result would lose its own cultural identity anyway (the doctors argument)

C) The Vulcans have been helping humanity solve disease, hunger and other human issues for the last 90 years! 

This seems appropriate again.

The Doctor is still my favorite character on the ship, his argument was sound (in a way). There is also a small side plot with the Doctor coming into a relationship with Crewman Cutler.... 

Nerd Trek Update:

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#11 Enterprise: Silent Enemy

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A strange vessel drops out of warp, does not respond to the Enterprise hails; when the ship suddenly leaves Malcolm announces his scans were empty, No life signs, proportion etc. Over the course of the episode the Enterprise is harassed by by aliens, fired upon and even boarded. The creatures are never seen in Star Trek before mushroom people.

As always the Enterprise is vastly out gunned and is bullied around by the Psilocybinoids, Archer decides that he is tired of being pushed around - sets course for Earth to have Phase Cannons installed. Malcolm and Trip are able to jerry rig some cannons together and in an unseen act of pure Star Trek when the Aliens intercept the Enterprise, Archer pushes the limits ordering the ship to be overloaded to kick some Alien ass with its new Phase Cannons.

And they do.

Its about damn time that this ship started living up to its (wait thats the future) name! If the NCC 1701 is going to be a flag ship then there is a lot more action like this to be done. I Think Archer needs to turn around and kick everyones ass that has been pushing them around.....

Or at least stop being such a pansy and make his mark on the Galaxy lest the NX-01 become just another Enterprise C with a single moment of Glory. 

Its too bad Kirk was not born yet, he would not have needed to install the Phase Cannon, he could have just wielded it with his bare hands.

                                      

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#10 Cold Front

"Oh boy"

So here we have our second Temporal Cold War eppisode (TCW:2).....

The Enterprise finds itself among an alien pilgrimage, Archer invites the Aliens over for a visit, among them is Silik the villain from first episode, he apparently was sent from his 'from the future' masters to steal some tech from Ensign Daniels who is apparently a cook on Enterprise from 900 years in the future and looking for Silik.

Yes Im less advanced and I still win.

Question: Why did he not reveal himself the first time Silik showed up? He would have had the full support of all the security personal that were hunting down the suliban in the very first episode.

Also the teaser for this episode has Silik being punished by his boss from the future by having some of his bio-modifications removed - in other words he is weaker then in the first episode, doing the mission by him self, and being hunted by the Chef....whom he kills on there first encounter.

The Episode ends with T'pol offering to help Archer right his report to star fleet... will the next episode start with Archer being removed from command by Starfleet (or Starfleet of the future)

I must say...I am not impressed. I wonder why we never hear about this temporal cold war in the "future" storyline's, Im hoping Kirk found the footage and using his awesomeness removed it from the continuity...

Wait-spock..This story-is-not...good, give-me-those... scissors