What a fun episode starting with the subverted first contact that we half saw in the movie of the same name. Then they replaced the intro which was probably my favorite part. It has been months since I have not skipped the intro so it was fun to see that yes, I do sometimes like show intros, just not the dumb standard ENT one. I also appreciate that they don't seem to be breaking the rule that Kirk was the first person from our universe to visit the mirror one, but by having the Tholians steal a TOS era Constitution Class ship they can sorta have things both ways. I wasn't sure why they didn't start with Archer as captain, but it became clear they wanted to show how brutal this Archer is. This only confuses me about why they then kill Forrest, but I guess so they would force Archer to take over the Defiant.
As I just mentioned we open with Zefram Cochrane murdering some Vulcans to get their stuff and then cut to the mirror opening. On Enterprise Malcolm is showing off the agony booth he apparently just invented to Captain Forrest and his first officer Archer. It seems Archer is eager to go get some weapon or something from the Tholians but Forrest isn't interested. It doesn't take long for Archer to show up with some followers though at seize command and throw Forrest in the brig. He gets Trip and T'Pol working to install a cloaking device and it is obvious T'Pol isn't really on his side. Before they can get the cloak working there is a sabotage in engineering which gets blamed on Trip who is put in the agony booth. They kidnap a Tholian and torture the location of a base out of him. Archer gets them underway as the actual saboteur T'Pol frees Forrest and takes back the ship. But Archer has locked in the controls and so it is a trip to the Tholians no matter what at this point. After torturing Archer Forrest finally listens to Archers plan, it seems the Tholians are travelling to an alternate universe and have taken back a ship, but a ship from the future as well. They arrive and find a constitution class Defiant in the Tholian base. For some reason Archer gets put in charge of the team sent to destroy the ship but Enterprise is destroyed before they can do it so they start powering it up instead.
Review: Not nearly a complete episode, but a fun part one with lots of nice nods to TOS. Looking forward to seeing where this goes from here!
6 out of 10
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