Having watched as much Trek as I have in the two years I am starting to see a trend in how seasons are arranged. The best episodes (or at least the ones they trust the most) tend to be at the beginning, the middle is the coast phase and more experimental episodes end up at the end. This is clearly a coast phase episode, but in the case of ENT that means it is actually ok. Not like, good, or something, but ok. This seasons contractually obligated episode devoted to space madness is at least fun in that it isn't an exact Naked Time rip off, but the explanation does turn out to be radiation (which you instantly recover from as soon as you move away) which is pretty lame. I honestly wondered how T'Pol was figuring out that there was a problem given how she is routinely treated by the crew.
We open with T'Pol alone on the bridge with all the crew passed out around her. She kinda seems to have given up by that doesn't actually sync well with the end, but maybe they just got too lazy to look back a few pages while writing. It seems she wants to investigate a black hole but Archer has more important needs, his captains chair isn't very comfortable. Also Malcolm is determined to make the crew better at responding to emergencies so they decided to have him invent red alert. Except that was already a thing on navy ships. But whatever, he is inventing it. The crew all start freaking out, especially Phlox who tries to perform brain surgery on Travis. T'Pol figures out what is causing the problem but to get out she needs someone to pilot the ship while she does her scanning thing. So of course it has to be our hero (hahahaha) Archer. She wakes him up from obsessing over a book about his father and throws him into a cold shower until his brain is cured of space radiation. Yes, that is actually what happened. They save the day and everyone is totally fine again. Oh, and it turns out the chair was just mounted too high.
Review: Not terrible, but also wondering if my brain is just going numb because of this show. Two months left, I can do this!
4 out of 10
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