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Synopsis: Starfleet orders Enterprise to return home when the crew seemingly causes the destruction of an alien planet they were exploring.


MJC Review: 

The Drama -

This was a pretty good episode. A little bit of action, adventure, drama, and mystery all rolled into one. Quite a lot for a 40-45 minute episode. I thought that the story parts and scenes flowed well. The center piece for Archer in this "temporal cold war" episode was his strong feelings for human exploration. The accidental destruction of the colony really hit him hard. After all, he was out there to prove humanities ability to explore the stars peacefully. As Trip noted, he has been wanting and waiting for this opportunity his whole life. And now innocent people have died because of what seemed to have been a human mistake. The whole situation had put Archer into some deep, guilt depression. The effect on the crew was quite obvious. It was quite surprising to see T'Pol actually give "emotional" encouragement to Archer. I thought it was somewhat out of character for a Vulcan, but maybe not so much for T'Pol. However, it was not so much T'Pol's talk that got Archer "motivated", rather it was his encounter with illogical time travel. After learning how the colony was really destroyed from chatting with the 31st century "human" Daniels, Archer was really motivated to seek and reveal. However, Archer's actions may have gotten him and crew into worse danger than before. But that's time travel. Things don't always turn out as or was or will be expected. I'm not sure if this story should have ended with a cliff hanger, especially for a first season run. There should have been some sort of wrap up, but left certain issues open for the next season opener.


Tid Bits -

So what was the real reason that Daniels did not travel back to the 21st century? Because the temporal gods banned him from that era for dying in the first place! That was one hilarious look on Trip's face when Archer was talking about all that future engineering stuff to him -- 'uuhhh what was that??'.


What it all means - 

More temporal time travel mechanics stuff. Don't think about it too much or you'll get a head-ache.


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