Somehow I am not surprised Archer decided to wipe out possibly an entire race of beings. I mean, I get that things were looking pretty bad, but it seems like maybe they could have agreed to try and fix their ship or something like that. The beings seemed totally friendly for a long time but maybe Archer is just racist against non-corporeal life? To go to the positives, it was nice to see them remember things that happened in previous episodes when writing such as the catwalk being more shielded than the rest of the ship. Not clear why the wisps decided attack them one at a time and not start with Archer. Would the crew have been able to tell if it was Archer acting crazy?
We open with Enterprise being surprised by a huge vessel showing up on their tail and only barely showing up on sensors. A door/mouth opens on the ship and it swallows Enterprise while disabling her engines and weapons. Once inside they see ghostly glowing things flying around outside to Archer takes Trip and Malcolm to the inside of the ship in a shuttlepod. When they arrive the atmosphere changes to what they need to breath and don't take of their helmets (smart!) but it doesn't matter because one of the creatures flies into Trip's head. It doesn't stay long and we see him (colored yellow instead of blue like all humans apparently) fly back in. They return to Enterprise and Phlox gives him a clean bill of health. When he returns to duty though the wisp flies back into him and he starts acting weird. Archer finds him gorging on food in the mess hall and the alien inside explains they just want to party man. Well, he says they are explorers too and even lets them go and returns Trip to his body as a show of good faith. But of course Archer decides that means time to get the guns ready.
Soon more and more crew start getting wisped including Malcolm who acts hella creepy to the ladies. T'Pol and Phlox come up with a way to scan for infected people and they are all confined to quarters. Tucker accidentally discovers that going into the catwalk provides protection from the creatures so Archer moves the crew in other than Phlox who turns out to be immune. For no clear reason they send T'Pol in to be wisped but it doesn't take on her. She also learns they are planning to take over the entire crew as their ship is doomed. So Archer decides the only solution is to flood the ship (other than the catwalk) with CO2 and kill everybody (literally not joking) and Phlox will revive them after the wisps are gone. Bear in mind these people are in their quarters all over the ship and are obviously going to suffer brain damage. Trip somehow gets retaken over (never explained) and has a fight with Phlox before he can flood the ship with gas. They start flying away as the aliens follow so Archer destroys their entire ship killing probably tens of thousands of them the end.
Review: Not one to make you have more respect for Archer that's for sure. No way JLP would have pulled a move like this. Not as bad as they come, but not good either.
3 out of 10
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