User Reviews

At the end of part one, the Suliban have captured the Enterprise and Archer was spirited off 1000 years in the future--where he and Agent Daniels find a dead Earth! With the pair unable to do anything on the dead planet to return to the past, they'll have to study the books they find to learn about the future and how it was changed. Additionally, they'll have to use what technology they can fabricate to try to get back to the past and stop the Suliband.

This is a rather exciting episode, though I actually thought part one was a bit more exciting. Regardless, the story is quite good and it made for a good season ending/beginning series. It also further solidified the notion that some of the Vulcans (especially the ambassador) are jerks. Well worth seeing.

The Enterprise is in danger of being scrubbed from its mission. This episode involves an effort to change time and allow a victory over the Suliban. There is a good deal of violence against the crew after Archer disappears. T'Pol and the others, must act without him while he attempts contact with them. I'm sure there are all sorts of intriguing mistakes involving the realities of time. Daniels, like Q in later incarnations of Star Trek, is one of those characters that is so far above the weak possibilities of humans that he throws a bit of a monkey wrench into the verisimilitude of the show. Nevertheless, this is very entertaining and sets up a second season very well.

Archer and Daniels are trapped in the destroyed 31st century without a time portal to send Archer back to Enterprise. Meanwhile T'Pol surrenders to Silik to avoid the destruction of the Enterprise and the crew is imprisoned in their quarters. Daniel realizes that the future has changed with the absence to Archer, and together they go to the library to research how the time line was damaged. Later Daniels uses Archer's communicator and scanner to contact T'Pol. Meanwhile Trip and Reed organize a resistance with Hoshi and T'Pol against the Sullibans, simulating an explosion of the nuclear reactor.

"Shockwave: Part 2" is an excellent conclusion of the last episode of the First Season. The episode is very intense and full of action and twists, culminating with the awesome statement of T'Pol to the Vulcan Ambassador Soval. My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): "Onda de Choque – Parte II" ("Shockwave: Part II")

While Archer is trapped in the future, the crew of Enterprise plan to retake the ship from the Suliban.

This conclusion is riddled with plot holes and conveniences but is very entertaining if you do not take the series too seriously. It is great to see the crew pulling together in difficult situation to overcome a bullying antagonist and as the action unfolds things do get rather exciting. By the time Archer's moment to shine comes along I had forgiven all the problems with the story details.

The only scene where there is no excuse for what we are seeing, other than sexual objectification is when Hoshi is asked to do something because of her physical stature. You can even see that any number of the actors could have done it, but obviously they wouldn't have looked half as good crawling through a 'tight' space and ending up with their top off.

It is an excellent Archer and T'Pol episode as they not only get moments of individual heroism but T'Pol in particular gets an opportunity to help keep the Enterprise in its business of exploration.

Viewed in 2022, the second part of Shockwave was every bit as good as the first although I have to admit to having caught up with both episodes later as I was not a great follower of the series at the time it was first released. The excellent quality of the writing continues to overcome any doubts I might have had about such a complicated time travel story. Besides, the future vistas of the destroyed city are just so "gorram" cool I find that my "suspension of disbelief" holds out fine.

Paper books that couldn't possibly have withstood hundreds of years exposed to the elements? A viewing portal that can look back in time made out of scavenged scrap copper? All this destruction because of the removal of one man (Archer)? Mysterious beings from somewhere in our future and Daniel's past screwing with the timeline? It takes a whole lot of visual impact and a pair of highly professional actors to distract from so many outrageous concepts and not everyone is going to buy in but, for me at least, the risks pay off.

Back on the Enterprise, everyone does their bit to outwith their captors . Trip hot-wires the cabin doorbells, Hoshi climbs through the pipework, Malcolm sticks his hand through a wall and T'Pol repeats over and over again that the "Vulcan Science Academy has declared that there is no such thing as time travel. Archer appears in the corner of T'Pol's cabin like a hologram and suddenly returns to the Enterprise with the time-line all neatly reset. Phew!

The crew then head off to meet up with a group of senior Vulcans who have been intent on curtailing the Enterprise's mission of exploration. Unfortunately, the final scene where Captain Archer stands up to the Vulcans with a speech about how wonderful human beings are (I paraphrase) doesn't go down so well in the 2020's. We get it: the USA was awash with post 9/11 patriotism and American exceptionalism when this series was being made but those values may be rather less universally espoused today.

Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5.

There was a scene where one of the slimy guys had a human neck.

Continuity is poor. Acting is mediocre. Story is not so bad. Such a cheap budget and Porthos was hardly in it.