It seems like every time Archer gets in trouble and you think he has hit the bottom someone throws down a shovel and tells him to keep digging. This is one of those silly "prime directive" episode where something goes wrong and to solve it they need to make everything way worse. Sure they managed to retrieve some lost tech from the surface of this planet, but they did it by showing off their alien tech and leaving behind clear scientific evidence that they have been visited by aliens. Also it seems like they are determined to make Malcolm unlikable again so of course he is the one who messes things up to start with. Finally this seems like one of those problems they could have easily solved with the transporter. We know the communicator is on so how hard can it be to get it to send a signal they can lock on to?
As I mentioned above we open with the realization that a communicator was left behind on an away mission to a pre-warp civilization. And even though the prime directive doesn't exist they decide they have to take the risk of getting it back. Malcolm and the captain return to the surface and waste no time falling into a trap laid by the local army. They are taken in for interrogation but decide lie about knowing anything about the communicator three seconds before having more pulled out of their coats by soldiers. Archer gets beaten up a lot since that is how we do things and Trip comes up with a rescue plan using a Suliban ship they have apparently had on board the entire time which has a functioning cloak. After so cloaking humor they get the rescue going after Archer has been put through a medical exam and determined to be an alien, but since he won't talk they are lined up for execution. Luckily the execution room has an skylight apparently so Trip flies the cloaking pod down and rescues them after a fire fight and of course all their captured tech is in the same room since the locals are idiots and they all get away scott free.
Review: So many bad decisions by Archer are making it clear he is the worst captain of any show. Not that we needed more proof of that, but whatever.
3 out of 10
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