Rajiin, Prod#ST:ENT 156
Synopsis:
Synopsis:  Captain Archer takes on a concubine passenger with unique abilities.
MJC Review:
The Drama -

This was yet another poor attempt at "sexing-up" the show. Here you have a chick that will do both guys and gals and yet there was not one real orgy-like action scene! If you're going to have some hot looking love slave on the show, at least have some real sex! I would give some credit to having a hidden agenda behind Rajiin. It did make the overall episode somewhat interesting, but the amount of show time that it took to get to that point was way too long and boring. This was also a rip-off from a FireFly episode (can't think of the episode name off hand) last year.

The scenes of Rajiin trying to escape and the Xindi raid had some fairly good action, but really meant little to the overall story. After all, where was security? Where was MACO?? Being in hostile territory, I would think that there would always be a contingent ready for action at any time! And are these human casualties from the raid just injury casualties or dead casualties (I don't think they were wearing red shirts). If the Xindi really wanted bio info on the humans, why didn't they just capture a human on the raid instead of Rajiin? Go figure.

It was good to see another opening scene of the Xindi council. The viewer was able to get more inside info on there plot and agenda. This made the episode a better tie in to the Xindi arc than the last two episodes.

I'm actually beginning to wonder if I should start channel switching to Smallville when Enterprise shows like this one get so boring. At least the season opener for Angel was good. It did put me in a better mood and not give this episode a rating of 1. Imagine that - an Enterprise review saved by Angel!  HA!! Go figure again. 

Tid Bits -
1) Mayweather just gets to pilot the ship during combat and doesn't get to check out the concubine.

2) Looks like security and MACO need to start practicing against boarding raids.

3) Archer and crew find out how to make Trellium-D. All in exchange for spices that you can get at Wall-mart.

4) I wonder if all the Xindi council scenes have all been shot. It would seem odd and a waste of time to bring back the actors and redo all of their makeup week after week for such a short scene.

5) What kind of love slave market doesn't have Orion slave girls??

What it all means -
Archer gets a concubine.
2 cool peace signs
MJC 200310.05
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