The alien ship really strikes me as being at least partially organic. The roaming-free grass is evidently part of the environmental systems (not to mention that their main food grows on the walls). There also seem to be water tubes with eels flowing through them (reminds me of Darwin the dolphin and his tube system from SeaQuest). The "terraphasic" coils sounds a bit unusual, and the warp core set looked very flowing and organic. Lots of green and earth tones in the set designs, too.

It also strikes me that the writers are trying to stick to a realistic portrayal of early deep space exploration. We've never seen any human crew members before go through an environment acclimation procedure before. That was interesting to watch, and it didn't strike me as being too big a drag on the pacing. It was also good to see that Tucker needed a great deal of time before fully adjusting to the climate.

The mess room scenes are really beginning to grow on me. I liked watching the buffet breakfast line and the exchange between Phlox and T'Pol. T'Pol is still quite a grump and still seems to hold a good deal of contempt for human cuisine. First there's the meat, and now she doesn't like blueberry pancakes. It did stick me as a bit odd that food is served through a buffet line, though. I was expecting something more like a cafeteria line.

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: Siegfried ]

I still don't think we saw a toilet in Archer's bathroom. Are we ever going to get to see one of those things on a starship?

There's still some nice interplay here between the characters. Watching the final dining scene with Archer, T'Pol, and Tucker really did remind of how a lot of the TOS episodes ended. You have Archer supervising a trading of remarks between T'Pol and Tucker. Quite nice, actually. It's also nice to see that Archer actually invites other crew members to dine with him. This time Phlox got the invitation.

The Klingons are quite the hostile little warriors, aren't they? I guess they're still ticked off with Klaang nearly dying in a cornfield. The Klingons do seem to be quite trusting of the Vulcans. Seems that they do have a good diplomatic relationship at this point in time. This episode really shows off their aggressive nature with the "fire first, ask questions later" introduction to Enterprise.

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: Siegfried ]

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Originally posted by Siegfried:
I still don't think we saw a toilet in Archer's bathroom. Are we ever going to get to see one of those things on a starship?

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"I can see my house from here!"

{Edit: Krenim, how could we possibly have done that?}

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: The_Tom ]

"I can see my House from here."

There.. now its a classic.

I have noticed a trend in Enterprise, though... The show takes us interesting places for about 45 minutes or so, then concludes with a sequence of the bridge with Archer explaining the ship out of trouble. The climax of Broken Bow's plot was the temporal chamber and then the high council scene, but 'Fight or Flight'; 'Strange New World' and 'Unexpected' have all ended with Archer having to stand there, get Sato to hook up the translator and then Archers bullshits to get out of trouble and resolve the episode. I find it less than satisfying.

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]

Besides, Hoshi Sato was the one doing all the talking at the end of "Fight or Flight," not Archer. This episode it was T'Pol and Archer together that were talking to the Klingons, and the climax sequence itself took place with just Archer, the Klingons, and the aliens.