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I think we're all being a little hard on this one...
By Yesterday's Lemmiwinks

...but everyone has their own opinion so it's all good. As has been said a million times before in life and on this board, there are no new story formulas. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy and it just comes down to how you dress up that plot device to make a story...and I think that this one actually does a really good job of that. I was intrigued the whole time, not what I expected at all. This episode really punched me in the gut a couple times... here's why.

While as a stand alone episode, the plot might not have been an amazing work of writing. When put in the cannon of this arc that were in right now it really throws us a few loops. Here we are, at the beginning of the hour, and we just find out that ENTERPRISE has found another sphere and we're so much closer to being able to identify exactly how many spheres there are in the expanse. The crew also now has a real alternative to using Trellium-D on the hull (remember how toxic it was for T'Pol) because they can more accuratly map where these spacial distortions will occur. Progress. They even take a shuttle through the cloaking barrier, which months ago was wreaking havoc on the ship. But then, BLAM! He erases their records in the situation room. Should they have a back-up somewhere? Probably, but that didn't make it any less painful to watch as our villian smugly stared at Archer as he deleted the files.

Another way the episode wrenched my insides was at the end. Even after watching this a**hole use his religion to destroy and belittle ENTERPRISES cause and resolve, I couldn't help but feel a little choked up when he stepped out of the pod and saw what had happened to his planet. I know, you all saw it before in TOS... but I didn't. :-)

Anyway, the only other thing I have to say is what's with all the talk about T'Pol not busting things up on the bridge? I'm sorry, but she and Mayweather were the only two of the crew on the bridge and they were outnumbered like 2 or 3 to 1 by the "fanatics..." and all of the "fanatics" were armed! It doesn't seem like a very logical step to try to overpower them with no weapons and those kind of odds, seeing as they probably would have killed her if she had tried to fight them. She did start to act up a little, but she quickly realized that there was no logic in getting herself and Mayweather killed.

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