While this episode may sound like some sort of Canadian taffy, it is actually a remake of Conair but with Archer playing Nicholas Cage. Unfortunately it turns out that the only thing worse than Scott Bacula playing Archer, it is him playing Archer playing a tough guy smuggler. At least he doesn't totally lose the fist fight he got into near the end of the episode! Also unfortunately Trip doesn't get to have much of a part since this is clearly an "Archer is a hero" episode. Kinda made me want to go watch Conair is maybe the only really positive thing I can think of about this one.
We open with with the discovery of Shuttlepod 1 drifting in space and the doctor finds human blood on the walls inside. But no bodies so they conclude it was an abduction. It turns out Archer and Trip have been arrested by the Enolians and accused of smuggling. T'Pol figures this out and arranges for their release. But of course as soon as the news that they are being released gets out on the ship two prisoners take over the shuttle but to escape they end up needing Archers help. Since suddenly he is a great pilot he saves the day while convincing them he is a notorious smuggler or something. He gets them to let Trip go but that goes bad when Trip tries to knock out his Nausicaan guard. They are going to dock with a shuttle, escape and leave everyone else to die but somehow the shuttle is full of Enterprise crew who save everyone on board but Archer has to be hero guy so he stays for a while for no clear reason and then gets into a fist fight trying to save the main bad guy. He fails but gets away with his life.
Review: Not a great episode, but not offensively bad. Pretty average for ENT at this point.
4 out of 10
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