Kinda stoked to finally find out what it is Klingons do not discuss with outsiders! So far I honestly don't get what is supposed to be happening with the virus. I am not sure if it is supposed to be a natural virus or if it was designed from the start. And why it seems to produce stable human looking klingons sometimes but always just kills them with the people Phlox is working with. The other subplots are a bit clearer although I am not sure who the guy Malcolm apparently actually works for is. Some sort of spy shit apparently, but it seems to have ended his career at this point and also pretty much totally failed to cover up the Klingon connection to Phlox's kidnapping. It seems like they are setting Trip up to return to Enterprise and probably hook up with T'Pol again, but who knows.
We begin with some Klingons working on some sort of genetic science stuff. They drag in a prisoner who insists his sentence was commuted before injecting him with some sort of stuff that makes his head ridges start to disappear. Back on the ship they have arrived at earth for the launch of Columbia and Trips transfer there as chief engineer. T'Pol shows up in his quarters and asks if he is leaving because of her and he says no but we all know the answer is yes. On the surface Hoshi and Phlox emerge from a Chinese restaurant and walk half a block before Phlox gets abducted by some sort of aliens. Archer shows up to help investigate but Starfleet is already on the job. Trip starts settling in, there is still a lot of work to do, but he seems excited to be doing it. He meets his new captain, Hernandez who we met a few episodes earlier when she went rock climbing with Archer. She invites him to dinner and he accepts, although it was actually probably an order. On Enterprise Archer talks T'Pol into mindmelding with Hoshi to try and clarify her memory of the attack and it works, she recognizes that one of the men spoke rigelian and one of their shuttles left earth right after the attack.
Malcolm is working on his part of the investigation when he tries to contact starfleet about a gap in the satellite coverage. His transmission instead goes to a dude in a leather jacket who orders him to meet him on earth. Malcolm meets the guy and we learn he is part of some sort of shadowy organization and apparently works for them before Enterprise. Phlox meanwhile gets taken to a Klingon colony where he is put to work on a virus he quickly realizes has augment DNA. The next day T'Pol is meditating when she finds Trip in her thoughts and it is apparently real as he wakes from the same "dream" in engineering on Columbia. Enterprise gets underway following the Rigelian shuttle when the find its debris. Malcolm hides the fact that it was Klingon weapons and destroys the data on the recorder on orders from his mysterious master but is caught by Archer and relieved of duty. Enterprise is attacked by Klingons who steal something and leave behind a computer virus that threatens to destroy the ship.
Review: Lots of excitement but especially the virus stuff was pretty unclear to me. Interesting to see where the Trip/T'Pol relationship is going too. Looking forward to tomorrows ep.
6 out of 10
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