Enterprise locates the Xindi weapon and finds it heavily protected.
I enjoyed this and would have considered a great episode had it not been for one or two little wrinkles.
There is an exciting mission involving Archer being (yet again) captured and violently interrogated. At the same time the Xindi give the Enterprise somewhat of a battering which is all very exciting to watch.
I particularly enjoyed the exchanges between Archer and his captors. Scott Bakula does fortitude in the face of torture very well. Randy Oglesby is also excellent in all his scenes, producing what is easily the best performance of the episode.
One of the wrinkles comes from T'Pol. Her behaviour (which is explained during the next episode) and Jolene Blalock's performance don't work at all for me. Enterprise depiction of Vulcans has been mostly poor throughout the series and this is another example. You have to ask yourself if the writers keep having to make excuses for showing Vulcan emotion, why just not bother having so much focus on Vulcan characters.
Also the whole fuss made over Archer's suicide mission is pointless. We know he's not going to die so why waste screen time on all the melodrama surrounding this situation?
Overall a pretty strong episode that ends on a solid cliffhanger that made me need to see what happens next.
I enjoyed this and would have considered a great episode had it not been for one or two little wrinkles.
There is an exciting mission involving Archer being (yet again) captured and violently interrogated. At the same time the Xindi give the Enterprise somewhat of a battering which is all very exciting to watch.
I particularly enjoyed the exchanges between Archer and his captors. Scott Bakula does fortitude in the face of torture very well. Randy Oglesby is also excellent in all his scenes, producing what is easily the best performance of the episode.
One of the wrinkles comes from T'Pol. Her behaviour (which is explained during the next episode) and Jolene Blalock's performance don't work at all for me. Enterprise depiction of Vulcans has been mostly poor throughout the series and this is another example. You have to ask yourself if the writers keep having to make excuses for showing Vulcan emotion, why just not bother having so much focus on Vulcan characters.
Also the whole fuss made over Archer's suicide mission is pointless. We know he's not going to die so why waste screen time on all the melodrama surrounding this situation?
Overall a pretty strong episode that ends on a solid cliffhanger that made me need to see what happens next.