Saturday, February 25, 2017

ENT: Storm Front, Part II

         Ok, overall this was a great episode, but not entirely for what it did, but for what it did with the show. This episode has a clear message of, "we agree the temporal coldwar was kinda dumb, but it should conclude somehow so we are going to wrap this as fast as possible and move on to better stories." My only serious complaint is how it makes clear that what they did to "fix" the timeline shouldn't have worked since the assassination of Lenin still happened so WWII is still hella messed up. Not sure how destroying a time machine in 1944 would solve a problem that took place almost 20 years earlier, but whatever, the temporal cold war is done and I am over it. 
         We open with the nazi conquest of America well under way with Hitler touring New York city (why wasn't this a story about killing Hitler????). However it is clear that the evil time travel aliens and their nazi allies are starting to have some serious differences, specifically why the aliens haven't given the nazis the super weapons they were promised. It seems this causes the head evil alien to have a change of heart and he offers to return Trip and Tucker in return for hearing out a proposal of his. Archer plays along but doesn't keep up the ruse for long and soon they are shooting at each other. Also it turns out that the Trip who was returned is actually Silik, but the other aliens are not aware of this as Silik stole a bunch of their data. Archer decides to team up with Silik along with the resistance mafia to go in and destroy the time machine once and for all. They make it inside and disable the shields but Silik is killed in the process. Enterprise ends up flying in low of New York City and getting in a gun fight with super stukas armed with plasma weapons, but they also destroy the time machine just before the badguys use it to seal our fate forever. We close with Daniels telling Acher they won't see each other again since the temporal cold war is now over apparently. 

         Review: A fun and action packed episode that is only bogged down but some fairly serious plot holes, but still manages to get us out of a terrible plot line that didn't seem to be going anywhere. Not perfect, but a sign of good things to come I really hope.

6 out of 10

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