Never a good sign when the episode has a "clever" title, but this one isn't awful. I guess they probably had a meeting about how just ripping off/referencing Trek was getting boring so they had to make a Dr. Who reference with a time machine that is larger on the inside. Much like the Andorians I actually liked the inclusion of the Tholians in this episode. I haven't watched Tholian Web in a while, but they weren't totally new at the time if I recall (I checked, this is correct and the ships even look similar). The only serious question about this episode is how Enterprise found this ship first if it is so easy for the Tholians and Suliban to track down. The temporal radiation scenes aren't over used either and largely worked.
We open with Enterprise finding a small ship drifting through. Sensors can't pierce the hull so of course Archer has to personally pry the thing open to see what's inside. Turns out to be a dead human and not much else. Phlox discovers the guy is human, but also has Vulcan and several other species DNA. Trip and Malcolm are given the job of examining the ship and find a passage in the floor that leads to a ship as big as Enterprise but they are already inside Enterprise. They tell Archer and he decides to break into Daniels database of future events and discover that the ship is from 800 years in the future. The Suliban show up to try and claim the ship but only send a weak scout ship which Enterprise bests quickly. But more Suliban and Tholians show up to try and claim it. Archer orders the ships beacon activated and Trip manages to turn it on, but nothing happens. They rig the ship to explode (with some time radiation shenanigans) but that plan fails instantly.Luckily the ship and all evidence along with it disappear probably into the future. T'Pol continues to deny that time travel is possible.
Review: Not awful, but needed something a bit more to get it up to average. So decent, by ENT standards. Certainly not the worst temporal cold war ep.
4 out of 10
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