ENT: Demons

         Before I go any further I want to call out the brilliant casting of Peter Weller as the head of Terra Prime. In addition to it being fun to see him on screen, he NAILS the part. You both believe him as a hater of aliens and as the head of a vast, Bond-villainesque conspiracy to blast a hole in the moon. Now there are also parts of this that make absolutely zero sense, especially everything involving sending Trip AND T'Pol to track down the evil racists that have their baby. First of all, Trip is a well known member of the Enterprise crew as is T'Pol who is also a VULCAN. Why would you send a Vulcan to track down a group that espouses hatred of all Vulcans? They don't even bother to cover up the ears.
         We open with an obviously evil dude named Paxton and his minion doctor looking over some female patient with both care and disgust, the camera pans down to reveal a baby with Vulcan ears. Cut to the inauguration of the "Coalition of Planets" which is obviously going to fail because it is not the Federation and Archer isn't in charge of founding it, some guy called Minister Samuels. After the speech by Samuels Tucker is stopped by his ex Gannet Brooks who is there to cover the event as a reporter. They are all interrupted when a woman bursts in saying, "they're going to kill her," before collapsing from a phase pistol shot to the abdomen. Before dying she handed T'Pol a vial of hair that Phlox determines came from Trip and T'Pol's child. Malcolm calls up his section 31 contact and finds out the people with the baby are called Terra Prime but not much more than that. 
         Archer starts work investigating while Travis gives his ex a tour of the ship that ends with them making out in a shuttlepod. On the moon Paxton keeps being evil and kills the doctor taking care of the child and watching inspirational videos of Colonel Green. Archer eventually figures out Terra Prime is likely based on the moon and the dumbest thing in the episode happens with Trip and T'Pol both sent to investigate. T'Pol gets shot and captured and Trip goes to a Terra Prime meeting where he is recognized and taken to Paxton. Travis is shocked when Archer and some MACOs show up in his quarters to arrest Gannet as a spy for Terra Prime which she initially denies before demanding a lawyer. On the moon Paxton goes full Bond villain by taking off his lunar mining colony, warping to Mars and taking over a comet redirection array. He blasts a hole in the moon and demands all aliens leave Sol system.

         Review: It is classically Star Trek to deal with issues like xenophobia and racism and this feels like it fits right in. Humanities transition to the forward thinking people we see in TOS and TNG presumably didn't come easily. Not sure about the baby stuff or anything involving Trip and T'Pol this episode, but it didn't ruin things.

7 out of 10