My guess is this is the ENT attempt to make a version of Inner Light but they failed, big time. At least 20% of this episode is unsubtitled alien gibberish that I pretty much just zoned out through. To be fair having Archer speaking gibberish is hardly new. Also Archer making a big deal out of saving the virus at the end is super dumb. Sure, that race is gone, but forcing people to become that race and also super dumb isn't the way to preserve them. In theory this isn't a terrible idea for an episode, it just wasn't executed well at all.
We open with dudes in space suits killing some guy with flame throwers. On Enterprise they discover a new planet with a ship crashed on it. They head down to investigate and of course don't wear atmosphere suits since there is never anything bad on alien planets. Soon Archer, Malcolm and Hoshi are all turned into bug eye aliens and T'Pol only barely manage to get word to Enterprise before they tie her up. Cut to 20 minutes later and some aliens show up demanding to kill the infected people. Trip won't stand for it and they manage to rescue them and cure the illness. Along the way Archer has memories of an ancient culture or something but it is really shallow and doesn't go anywhere. It ends with him telling Phlox to save the virus for some reason.
Review: Terrible decisions in turning this from a story to an episode really doomed this one. Not an awful idea, but not a well told story in the slightest.
3 out of 10
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