My summary today is going to be a little short out of exhaustion, not because I hated the episode as sometimes occurs. As a second to last episode of the show this was quite successful. It even made me kinda feel something for the IDIC, which always felt like the cash grab by Roddenberry (look it up, he made it to have something he created to sell at conventions), feel both important and meaningful on a personal level. And yes, the fact that my wife is pregnant with twins right now may cause episodes about babies to seem extra significant. At the same time I am still not sure why Paxton wanted to create the baby. It never seemed to be at the center of any of his plans, maybe it was just propaganda? But if so, why not just stick fake ears on a human baby and call it an abomination? Was the lady dying to get the hair to T'Pol part of the set up? Finally, man it sucks to be Kelby. First he gets hella shit for thinking Trip is coming back and taking away his job, which is exactly what happens, and this time he gets accused of being a spy when it obviously wasn't him.
We open with the video of Paxton giving his demands. All communication is blocked and why they try to come in closer Enterprise is his by the verteron array and forced to retreat to Earth (not at all clear why he doesn't just destroy them). Malcolm gets some hot tips on how to get in from Section 31 and they head to Mars to mount a rescue. The plan is to take a shuttle in hiding behind a comet to hide their approach. Travis gets a warning from his ex that she is actually Starfleet Intelligence and there is an actual Terra Prime agent but he ignores it until the engines go out on the shuttle but Travis flies them in on thrusters alone. They sneak into the evil lair and manage to get a showdown right as the array is being powered up. Samuels somehow talked his way onto Enterprise and tries to get Hoshi to destroy the array as soon as it powers up but she refuses since that would kill Archer and everybody else. Archer and company get into a fight concluding with the window being broken open and a climactic fight between Paxton and Archer. They fail to stop the array but Trip sabotaged it enough to miss Starfleet. Back on Enterprise they find the traitor who kills himself. Unfortunately the baby dies due to a problem with the clone process but Phlox tells Trip it is in fact possible to reproduce with a Vulcan. We close with Archer giving a Kirk speech to the gathered delegates as they presumably prepare to form the Federation.
Review: Hard to believe this is the second to last episode of Trek as we know it! Quite a bit of fun and some good messages, but also some plot holes you could fly a shuttlepod through, even on thrusters.
6 out of 10
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