After what I went through yesterday anything would be an improvement, so even this rather bland episode counts I suppose. I guess this is supposed to be a story about standing up for yourself, but honestly it seems like these guys are just going to get crushed by a larger group of Klingons as soon as Enterprise is a few light years away. If you are going to live in an isolated outpost in an area with raiders, maybe have some sort of self defense plan? I guess this episode could have maybe worked as a western or something like that, but as it is I just don't think it made much sense. Sure they made the bad guys Klingons, but it isn't like it turns out to matter. They might as well have been any of the generic Voyager evil races.
We open on a mining colony where the workers are surprised by the approach of an Enterprise shuttlepod. The miners say they don't have the deuterium Enterprise needs but seem willing to try when Trip offers to try and repair their pumps. I guess they are supposed to be likable, but they mostly seem kinda dumb. Soon we learn why they are poor, Klingons show up and demand deuterium but because of the broken pumps there isn't any but instead of doing anything they just leave angry. Time for Archer to do the Seven Samurai thing, but instead of actually killing the bandits they decide to just show them they can stand up for themselves. This is clearly a horrible plan. On screen at least it works and they drive the bandits away, but they are still poorly armed and the plan only worked because they were willing to destroy the very deuterium they rely on for literally everything to make it work. Enterprise gets what it needs though and flies away.
Review: This is a low grade knock off of Seven Samurai which totally misses the point of the movie. The peasants aren't actually able to stand on their own and if the bandits were alive at the end they would just come back and destroy the village. These miners are doomed and Archer is an idiot.
3 out of 10
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