I think the writers of ENT think that science fiction means you come up with a crazy monster, and that is about as far as they got. When it comes to actually making the creature interesting or saying something about society as it is now, they totally fail. Instead it is all about Hoshi flailing around not trusting herself and then punching a bunch of buttons. I know they mostly all have incomprehensible space jobs, but hers seems especially tenuous. They give her grammar words to throw around when they want her to sound serious, but that is about it. Also this week she thinks T'Pol hates her I guess? Didn't really work.
We open with one set of aliens leaving Enterprise all pissed off about some sort of misunderstanding Hoshi can't quite figure out. As their ship undocks a strange, slimy looking alien crawls off their ship and onto Enterprise. There is a B story about Archer trying to get Trip interested in water polo but that doesn't actually go anywhere. The alien starts kidnapping people in a cargo bay with slimy tentacles. Archer and Trip lead a team to investigate, but are both caught in the slimy web and Malcolm has to flee in defeat. Now Hoshi has to try and figure out how to talk to it while Malcolm develops the first ever forcefield to try and do, I am not sure what actually. I mean, hold it back, but why this couldn't be done with a video screen or window is totally unclear. Phlox figures out the thing is actually smart so now Hoshi has to get over her Vulcan hate and let T'Pol help her. But of course she does it pretty much on her own anyway since this show hates Vulcans. Travis has a kinda out of the blue scene with the aliens from the opening where he has to apologize for whatever it was they did wrong which works and they get the location of the creatures home planet. Hoshi gets a box to talk to the creature for her and it calms down and releases all the captured people for no more reason than why it kidnapped them in the first place. They take it home and leave it with the rest of it since it is apparently one huge organism or something?
Review: Normally I really like episodes that try new things, but this time I was pretty disappointed. Almost no part of the story actually worked despite having the structure of a story that actually makes sense buried in there somewhere.
3 out of 10
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