Enterprise 05-05-04

[Mark]

Enterprise - "E2"

While on their way to the Xindi council, Archer and crew encounter an Enterprise ship from the future that warns them about an unstable wormhole.

Cast: Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, John Billingsley.

Guest(s): Rick Worthy as Xindi Sloth, Randy Oglesby as Degra, Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Humanoid, Tess Lina as Karyn Archer, David Andrews as Lorian, Tom Schanley as Greer, and Steve Truitt as Crewman #1.

One of the last four new episodes for this season. Reading the description smacks of being more like filler, but the guest cast still includes many of the Xindi regulars, so I suspect it will be tied in well.

Even if it were to be filler, it has been directed by Roxann Dawson (Lt. B'Elanna "B.L.T." Torres from Voyager) who, along with Jonathan Frakes and Levar Burton, are (IMO) three of the best directors to come out of former ensembles. I believe that the Enterprise episodes that she directed rank up there with the best of the ones throughout the run of the show so far {episode 1.07 "Andorian Incident, The") (episode 1.22 "Vox Sola") (episode 2.04 "Dead Stop") (episode 2.13 "Dawn") (episode 2.25 "Bounty") (episode 3.06 "Exile") (episode 3.12 "Chosen Realm") (episode 3.16 "Doctor's Orders")}.

Just three more after this one for this season...

 

[RangerWickett]

I caught the last 15 minutes. Can you tell me if the first 45 minutes were any good? The future crew didn't seem to act very vigorously. They didn't seem to mind much that they were under attack.

 

[Silver Moon]

Surprisingly pretty good, given that all previous Treks have beaten this concept to death and then some.

 

[LordVyreth]

Did anyone else notice the massive, GIR-head-exploding temporal paradox in this episode?

 

[Wycen]

Did anyone else notice the massive, GIR-head-exploding temporal paradox in this episode?

Did you mean at the end or something else?

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I felt like i was watching Voyager when watching this episode.

heh.

 

[LordVyreth]

Did you mean at the end or something else?

Just the overall concept. The next-generation crew (heh,) prevented the Enterprise from going into the past, which means that they never became the next-generation crew, which means they never existed to prevent the first-generation crew from going into the past, which means they did go into the past, which means...GIR's head explodes.

 

[DMScott]

I caught the last 15 minutes. Can you tell me if the first 45 minutes were any good?

The first 45 minutes were pretty contrived. Not to say it was bad, because that's pretty normal for Enterprise and some folks like that sort of thing, but most of what you missed was just a clumsy setup for the big fight.

The future crew didn't seem to act very vigorously. They didn't seem to mind much that they were under attack.

More of a descendant crew than a future crew, really. They were fairly inept throughout the episode, but I guess I shouldn't blame them given the gene pool they were drawing from.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

More of a descendant crew than a future crew, really. They were fairly inept throughout the episode, but I guess I shouldn't blame them given the gene pool they were drawing from.

LOL. It wouldn't be so funny if it wern't so true. Maybe the doctor arainged for more interspecies breeding as well and some of the crew have Porthos for an ancestor to.

 

[myrdden]

No more frickin'-time-frickin'-travelling crap!

This episode wasn't even worth my entire attention span.