ENT: Cogenitor

         Well, they found a way to make Archer less likable. All they had to do was have him refuse asylum to a possible slave and then blame the guy who helped her when she commits suicide. Ok, lets step back a second, I used female pronouns there because the progenitor seems to prefer that to the it she is referred to by her owner/masters. The big problem in this story is it felt like maybe they changed directions on the story at some point in the process and instead of having this be an interesting exploration into different sexual patterns it turned into a civil rights episode gone horribly wrong. This all seems especially horrible because it really felt like the only reason Archer refused asylum was because it might mess up his bromance with their captain. The fact that the Vissians had a bunch of tech we know starfleet ends up with makes it seem like starfleet decided to work with them in the end and just let slavery keep happening. 
         We open with the Enterprise exploring a hypergiant star when another ship emerges from the suns atmosphere and hails them, Their captain is super chill and soon he and Archer are having bro time in a shuttle flying into the sun. Trip starts hanging out with their chief engineer who is super friendly. The engineer and his wife come over for dinner and bring their cogenitor, a third gendered Vissian who is only there to help them have a baby. Trip is fascinated and tries to learn everything he can even sneaking a scanner in to dinner with the family. He learns the congenitor is just as smart as the rest of them but he feels she (he feels it is a she and she seems to agree) is being oppressed since she is not allowed to read or participate in culture or even have a name. He takes things into his own hands and teaches her to read and she becomes fascinated with the idea of being more than just a thing to help make babies. The captains return and she requests asylum but Archer is way to into his bro for that and sends her back. Later the news comes that she committed suicide which is somehow Trip's fault and not Archer's?

         Review: The message seemed all backwards in this one and it wasn't great other than that. Really makes me wish I was done with ENT already. Into Darkness is sounding better every day...

1 out of 10