ENT: The Andorian Incident

         Another episode that largely felt like a Trek episode! Other than the Vulcan's being dirty liars and essentially the villains of the series so far. Also I am really not sure where they are going with T'Pol. I get that she is supposed to be a stoic Vulcan, but mostly she just seems unable to figure out what to do around humans. There is lots of stunned silence as she watches Archer actually solve problems. Also the matte painting of the Vulcan observation post was awful. Presumably a facility like that has some sort of soldiers or whatever who would rush to defend it. Also, maybe a door lock? And, why did the Andorian stop shooting at Archer to come see what he found. If he was actually as suspicious as he seemed earlier this is pretty strongly out of character. Finally, there were only FOUR Andorians, do you think Kirk would have let FOUR dudes hold him very long? But still this is getting closer to being Trek.
         We open with some meditating Vulcans being interrupted by armed Andorians. Back on Enterprise Archer and Trip are going over star charts complaining about Vulcans. They ask T'Pol if it would be cool if they stopped by a Vulcan monastery to chill for a bit, but she discourages them. So of course they do it anyway but when they arrive something seems odd. There are recent blast marks on the door and the monk who greets them is alone. This sets T'Pol off, but instead of helping she stands by and watches Trip and Archer bum rush an armed Andorian and then get captured by the rest. It seems the Andorians are sure the monks have some sort of spy array but they haven't found any proof, until now. It seems Enterprise's arrival has convinced them they are right so they try beating the information out of Archer. But of course it doesn't work. The monks offer to let them use an ancient transmitter after the Andorians destroy their coms. 
         Trip gets led into the ancient catacombs to use the transmitter and manages to get a signal through to Malcolm on the bridge letting him know to not send down another shuttle. Archer realizes the room the Andorians are working from is probably linked to the catacombs so he gets himself beaten up again to test it. Which is hella dumb because it turns out you can see into the room from the catacombs. Archer has a team of three beamed into the room with the prisoners so they can rush into the catacombs which I guess splits up the guards but they never say that is the plan. It works though and they take out to of the Andorians while the other two flee into the catacombs. We end with a firefight there which reveals the Andorians have been right all along and the Vulcans are dirty liars and T'Pol helps them reveal her people to be conniving for no good reason. The Andorian thanks Acher for his help and credits.

         Review: Like yesterday this felt like an episode, but it still fell a bit flat for me. Too much of it made no sense and or completely conflicted with what we have established about Vulcans.

4 out of 10