ENT: Damage

         Having T'Pol get addicted to trellium seems kinda silly, but it does at least explain her emotional outburst the previous episode. It seems like a strange way to get around an emotional block that is created by mental focus, but people are weird when it comes to stuff like this. The GreatestGen guys would probably call her the ultimate vape bro for injecting her vaped rock right into her blood. I really wonder what the hell the Xindi council was thinking sending Archer back to Enterprise. I guess it makes it easier to write with him home, but it seems like they really do need information from him. Also Archer turning pirate is hardly surprising. When he sets his mind to something he does it, even if it turns out to be a horrible idea. 
         We open with Enterprise it tatters and T'Pol not really holding herself together much better than the ship. Some of the Xindi council members yell at the bad reptile Xindi guy about beating up Archer and we learn they have taken possession of him. We see Archer briefly in an Aquatic Xindi space ship (which raises some questions, but doesn't seem impossible). He passes out quickly and we cut back to Enterprise. It seems that while many systems can be repaired there is just no way to get the warp engines going again without a new core. They are surprised by the arrival of a small ship which turns out to have a badly hurt Archer inside. He takes over fairly quickly and quickly notices something is wrong with T'Pol. She sneaks off in a space suit into a part of the ship in vacuum to retrieve her stash of some sort of green rocks we see her vape and inject. Enterprise encounters another badly damaged ship and offers a bunch of trellium-d in exchange for their warp core but the aliens aren't interested. They part ways as T'Pol tells Archer about a message hidden in the pod he was returned in that gives a meeting location and time, but they can't possibly make it without warp drive. Archer decides to go steal the core from the aliens. They aren't happy about it, but the plan works. T'Pol also has to go to Phlox eventually and he is shocked that she has been freebasing trellium to get an emotional rush and has probably done permanent damage to herself.

         Review: Mostly stuff moving things towards the conclusion of the season, but not a bad episode. I am going to give it an extra point for fixing problems with the previous episode. 

5 out of 10