When they opened with Trip dead I was kinda worried that this would be the episode where he gets killed. This all stems from something I saw on the Wiki implying that he gets killed during the course of the series. This may not even be true, when I saw it I stopped reading to avoid spoilers. It also got my interest because I was hoping he would have an important death saving them all or something. And he actually did. But then Phlox and Archer couldn't leave good enough alone and sorta cloned him to use for spare parts. It is one of those things where I think you are supposed to feel for the dilemma Archer is in, but this was pretty much going to be the situation either way. The alternative I guess is that Trip recovers only to have to watch himself die of old age. Having to go to his own funeral was bad enough. He is going to need a lot of neural massaging to get over this one.
We open at the funeral for what appears to be Trip. Cut to two weeks earlier and he is working on a plan to get the warp injectors working better. Something goes wrong and he jumps on the core saving the ship but sustaining a life threatening injury. The ship is also crippled and taking on some sort of debris that is threatening to crush the hull. Phlox offers a solution to both problems, make a short term clone of Trip to harvest for parts in a few days, but first he can save them all. Archer agrees to this for some reason, I guess he is just that worried about earth (not sure why he wasn't this worried yesterday). The clone, who they name Sim for presumably creepy reasons, starts growing up with Phlox as a surrogate father. But he quickly starts having Trips memories come back to him. He doesn't understand what is going on until Archer shows him Trip's body. Sim quickly grows up and comes up with a plan that saves the ship. But Archer he determined to kill him and harvest his organs even though there is a change he could have is rapid development halted. The reason for not doing so is super shallow and in the end Archer requires that he submit to execution to save Trip. We end with Sim's funeral and Trip looking HELLA bothered by all this.
Review: The justification that this is all to save earth might have worked better if they hadn't spent the entire last episode messing around in the space wild west for no clear reason. Archer's terribleness actually helped this episode at least be one to think about which is better than usual.
4 out of 10
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