ENT: Shockwave

         Wow, finally an episode that actually feels like an episode of Star Trek! I had just about given up on such a thing. Now it is still hardly perfect, but it at least made some sense and even managed to make the temporal cold war at least a little bit interesting. I like the idea that the time travelers don't know everything as well. It was getting pretty bland when everything he said was true and worked perfectly. The raid on the Suliban ship actually made sense in the context of the story which was great. So often this show seems to throw in some action when it really doesn't make any sense. I do hope they had an interesting idea for how to conclude this two parter, but for now I am just enjoying having watched a not entirely terrible episode of ENT.         
         We open with Enterprise arriving at a matriarchal mining colony and Trip is of course excited to visit. They get a shuttlepod prepped and spend some time going over local procedures. But when they enter the atmosphere something goes wrong and they end up lighting up the atmosphere and killing everyone on the surface. Starfleet is understandably pissed and demands that Enterprise return home. Archer is super depressed and takes it out on his crew because he is a terrible captain. When he goes to bed though Archer finds himself ten months earlier on earth. Crewman Daniels appears despite having died a while ago and tells him that this is temporal cold war business. When Archer leaves his cabin a few hours later he calls the senior staff together. He has Trip get working on beacons to reveal cloaked ships and gets Malcolm to locate a device on the shuttle that caused the disaster. They return to the area and locate a cloaked vessel. Archer, Trip and T'Pol head to the cloaked ship after Enterprise disables her with weapons and steal some data disks. We see the Suliban leader get yelled at by future guy and get instructed to bring Archer back. They surround Enterprise with attack drones or something and demand Archer. He puts T'Pol in command and heads over to surrender (would Kirk have done this???). But before he can he finds himself in the ruins of the 31st century where Daniels tells him a disaster has happened and all the time travel equipment is gone and they are screwed.

         Review: A actually decent episode, I may regret this later but I think it is even slightly above average for Trek. Possibly if part II turns out awful I may revise this score, but for now:

6 out of 10