ENT: Unexpected

         I guess I should have known the day my wife and I announced her pregnancy I would get a Trek episode about being pregnant. And so of course this episode is entirely either Hollywood stereotypes about being pregnant or crazy alien pregnancy jokes. Anyway, I didn't think this one was great. I also had issues with the Klingon subplot. I guess they are retconing them to now be the TNG/DS9 Klingons rather than the reckless raiders of TOS. Also, T'Pol can just lie now? We don't give any fucks about Vulcan's not really getting that. Maybe Spock was supposed to be extra bad at it beause he was compensating for being part human, but if so, maybe say that or something.
         We open with a bunch of random systems failing all over Enterprise. After some sciencing they discover an eddy in their warp exhaust so Archer lights the plasma revealing a cloaked ship and maybe damaging the engines. There is a Xyrillian ship there and they manage to communicate. The Xryillian's engine has failed and they request help so Trip volunteers go to. He has to go through what they call decompression but it is clearly more than that since there are a bunch of fumes and burning in his lungs. When he gets inside he is greeted by lizard people and ignores their suggestion that he rest. He starts tripping out and asks to go home but Archer orders him to take a nap. When he wakes up he feels better and starts flirting with the Xryllian engineer. They fix the engine together and she takes him to a holodeck and they share thoughts by putting their hands in a bowl of glowing pebbles. Trip goes home but soon finds out he is pregnant with her child. Lots of pregnancy jokes later they find the Xyrillian ship hiding behind some Klingons and talk the Klingons into working with them in exchange for the holodeck tech I guess? The Xyrillians don't seem stoked by agree and trip gets his baby girl removed and put into one of the Xyrillians.

         Review: Not great, but actually a little better than the last couple. I am going to stick with the same score though for the lack of creativity.

3 out of 10