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By Mycroft

The spacewalk also offers the opportunity for comedy, which for once isn't broadly overacted by Trinneer.

Comedy, yes, but the scene certainly was refreshing - showing Trip and Archer as real people who makes mistakes. We see a chief engineer screw up an apparently simple repair, the dumbfounded look on both Archer and Trip with the unspoken "Oh, shit! Now what do we do?", and Trip admonishing Archer for his first shot near miss and then both just start taking shots as it shuttle gets further away. (Why all weapons don't include some kind of targeting guide is long ST mystery)

I thought the final crash with Trip and Archer just standing there as the shuttle skidded dangerously close was a nice homage to Men in Black.

It is rather odd that Hoshi would use the crystal ball to see scenes of space battles the Enterprise fought years ago instead of seeing what is happening now.

True, but only if she was actually using the crystal ball to telepathically scan the heavens. I think it is much more reasonable to believe that Tarquin was actually simulating the experience, showing Hoshi how his telepathy works or how she could visualize the universe with his guidance. The images Tarquin selected may have been pulled from Hoshi's mind or from his own to give her a sense of wonder, while shielding her from any horrific encounters. She imaged a reptilian Xindi, a encountered species, not one of the others that are as yet unknown to ENT. For all we know, uncontrolled use of the ball could have overloaded Hoshi's synapses.

Though it still wouldn't explain how she learned to read an entire alien book in an entirely unknown alien language a short time after she first laid eyes on it without help or a Rosetta Stone of any kind.

Didn't Hoshi comment that the language resembled a form of archaic Klingon? Considering past interactions, its logical that Hoshi is probably now fluent in Klingon and may have delved into the Vulcan database to learn earlier, archaic forms. Tarquin would have selected a book for Hoshi that was a challenge but within her translating abilities. (It must have also been pretty good as literature since Hoshi couldn't put it down).

The producers have been giving Hoshi superhuman abilities for some time now and while "Exile" does at least begin to try and justify those abilities, what's being portrayed is still far in excess of what is possible or plausible.

Some form of telepathy does explain her uncanny ability with languages.