Space marines versus zombie Vulcans! The deathmatch of the century! At least you would think, but this episode didn't really do a great job delivering on its promise. Archer insisting on not killing the Vulcans was just dumb at that point. Sure, I get it, you want to save everybody, but they are a direct threat to your life and to say stun was ineffective was an understatement. You clearly try stun first, but that didn't cut it and their inability to get the situation under control led directly to the death of all the vulcans anyway since their ship ended up exploding.
We open with T'Pol totally out of control in sickbay as Archer and Phlox try to restrain her. They finally get her tied down and sedated as we cut to one day earlier. They are in an asteroid field with lots of the shielding stuff but the spacial distortions make the transporters useless. They get a signal from a Vulcan ship that has been in the expanse for a year and head in to investigate. They get on board and have a scramble in the dark all over the ship fighting infection zombie vulcans for most of the episode. Trip and Tucker manage to take a shuttle to an asteroid and get a bunch of the stuff. Eventually Archer and company figure out it is the shielding stuff that is making the vulcans crazy. Archer makes a bunch of poor decisions and they only barely escape with their lives and the vulcan ship explodes. Phlox manages to cure T'Pol the end.
Review: I guess this is part of the story arc since it is about expanse stuff, but really this is just a lame attempt at an action/horror episode. Revealing in the opening that they all make it back basically fine doesn't do great things for the tension.
.3 out of 10
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