While this would be a fairly weak episode of any series, it is so far the best episode of ENT! Not really saying much, but this at least felt like an episode of Trek. Unfortunately it felt like a fairly pale shadow of an actually good episode like Who Watches the Watchers or honestly Miri. I hadn't really put it together until I wrote that, but this episode is a lot like Miri. But that episode had been combined with some of the silly elements from Beyond The Thunderdome. Also, I am really not sure where they are going with the Vulcans, and T'Pol in particular. I had finally figured out that she was supposed to be first officer, so why does Trip get left in charge while Archer heads to the surface instead of her? She is right there on the bridge and he is just chief engineer. An important job for sure, but not the same job as first officer.
We open with Enterprise on her way to check on the first human colony outside the solar system, the titular Terra Nova. They are aware there were problems around 70 years ago and no one has heard from the colony since. There are some racist justifications why they didn't ask the Vulcans to help before they make it. They find the colony empty and fairly irradiated. But of course they spot mysterious figures who flee into a cave and I guess we are supposed to think they are aliens but it was obvious they were humans. They follow them into the cave but Malcolm gets shot and captured while the rest flee. They return unarmed and are sorta welcomed this time for no clear reason. Malcolm has a bullet in his let but they talk the Terrans into letting Phlox treat him. The Terrans blame earth for what happened to them and refuse to believe it was just a meteor. They also refuse to believe they are human. Archer talks one of the older women into coming back to Enterprise to get her cancer treated and the Terran leader comes along. After some research they discover only the Terran children survived and the ones who remain are their descendants, but the old woman was there when it happened. They go back to the surface but their shuttle sinks so they can contrive a way for Archer to help the Terrans. It works and they agree to be relocated on the same planet to a place with less radiation.
Review: Not a great episode but the best I have seen so far. It at least felt like it was trying to be a Trek episode so that is something.
4 out of 10
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