I am of two minds about this episode. First of all I am so done with this shows worshiping obsession with Archer being a hero. He is just not written or acted that way and it makes the show seem silly when people treat him like he just is a hero. At the same time the Vulcan/Andorian feud is one of the only interesting bits of story this show has going for it making this an at least interesting episode. Last time it turned out the Vulcans were the jerk and this time it is the Andorians which I also appreciated. Too often the Vulcans are just obviously wrong and acting illogically so it is nice to see them come off as at least somewhat reasonable. At the same time I am not sure the ambassador should have let himself get bullied like he did, but I guess Archer had to be right or there wouldn't be an episode.
We open with Commander Shran telling his subordinates to get Archer to help negotiate a cease fire with the Vulcans. Archer gets ordered in to help but the Vulcan ambassador who is pissed he is there. Archer goes down to the surface and gets Shran to agree to the Vulcan ambassador coming down to negotiate. They both claim some moon and are willing go to war over it maybe. Or at least some of them are. Archer convinces the ambassador to come down on a shuttle but it gets shot down. It turns out the second in command of the Andorians isn't interested in peace, but Archer calls her out for it in front of her leader and he agrees to peace talks or something.
Review: I find it hard to focus on episodes where Archer is supposed to be an inspirational figure when he barely manage to bumble by most times. Still not a terrible episode, but as you can tell from the summary not much actually happened.
4 out of 10
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