ENT: The Seventh

         We are finally back to episodes that are just not good rather than actively bad and I will freaking take it. I was ready to condemn this episode as just another one where the Vulcans turn out to be liars, but no, T'Pol was just being psychically messed with by the bad guy who is actually a bad guy. It is never really clear if she was right to kill the dude she did many years earlier, but that's fine too. I would rather things be a bit ambiguous than having everything be exactly how it seems and therefore hella dull like it has been lately. It is a little irritating that Archer is still always right despite being a total idiot, but whatever, you can't have everything I guess. 

         We open with T'Pol getting a secret message from the Vulcans that they have found some guy. She tells Archer he is about to get a message from Starfleet to change course and that she will need a shuttle and some guns to go get a dude. She also tells him she wants him along. And they take Travis but don't mention why. Archer leaves Trip in charge so you know there will be some antics. The dude they are looking for is a Vulcan altered to look like an alien and everyone else like him has been caught, something T'Pol worked on years earlier. They show up on the planet and catch the guy pretty much instantly but then can't leave because they are washing the decks outside or something? T'Pol starts getting visions of shooting the guys friend and freaks the hell out. She tries talking to him but he just messes with her more. So she goes to his ship despite allegedly not being able to and finds that he has no dangerous weapons like she was told. A fight breaks out and he escapes and they all go to his ship since now the dumb reason they can't isn't mentioned any more. At first it looks like she was right but Archer finds the controls for a hidden compartment and he is there with a gun and some bioweapons. He does the dumb thing where he dares her not to shoot him and she doesn't until Archer talks her into it. But since it was on stun it doesn't matter and is dumb. 

         Review: Sub-standard feels pretty good these days, but it doesn't help this be any better of an episode.

3 out of 10