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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] An absolute joy to watch, both dramatically and tech-wise. Perhaps Enterprise's best so far. The whole episode is a Continuity bonanza -- Ceti Alpha V! The Mutara System! Alpha Centauri colonies! Yridians! Shran! The return of the [i]Intrepid[/i] and Ramirez from "The Expanse!" Some gorgeously composed effects shots of a starship battle! A flotilla of Earth ships! A new Xindi ship! The Zefram Cochrane statue being put to unusual use! Lots of reasons to use exclamation marks! Plotwise, essentially take "Before and After," "Yesterday's Enterprise," "The Visitor, "Year of Hell," "The Inner Light," the film "Memento" and press puree. The wonderful thing is that the finished product doesn't feel at all derivative. More spoilerish stuff follows. $ $ $ $ $ $ $ We're treated to a vision of a potential 12 years of events following Archer's infection with weird temporal microbes that give him Guy Pearce syndrome. T'Pol and Tucker attempt to carry on the mission to stop the Xindi weapon, but Archer proves to be of declining usefulness and the mission runs into snags -- ultimately, Archer is relieved of command and T'Pol is installed as his replacement. The Xindi attack Enterprise, killing Travis in a virtually ignored death scene that is so blink-and-you-miss-it that I'm convinced TPTB were having a bit of fun, and despite mad skillz on T'Pol's part the starboard nacelle takes it up the butt, leaving Enterprise only Warp 1.7 capable. Consequently, the Xindi finish the weapon and cleave Earth into itty-bitty pieces (one of the more interesting VFX in Trek history) and then set about exterminating the human race from the galaxy, leading to Enterprise taking on something of a Battlestar Galactica role and leading a flottila of Earth's remnant ships to set up a new life on Ceti Alpha V, where Archer's continues to live under T'Pol's care. Flash forward 9 years later, and Phlox arrives with new hope for treating his disease... The actual story is told in a nifty unchronologicalish manner... akin to The Visitor, pretty much, and there's a nifty finale that thematically recalls alt-Picard jumping over the tactical console and firing phasers at the Klingons. As usual, Trek has a fair amount of fun with showing a possible future of the crew, with Captain Tucker, Commander Reed (sporting a rather tacky-looking goatee) and Lieutenant Sato. Mullets are apparently all the rage on Denobula in 2065. So big kudos from me. Proof Enterprise can tackle some pretty well-trod terrain and turn in a very entertaining hour. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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