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Finally saw it!
By Steve Krutzler

I finally get my TV and watched "The Council" tape last night. I definitely agree with everything Deus has to say, this is by far an outstanding episode. I thought the dialogue re: principal's office was OK, and although I agree that obviously it was meant to prime us for Hoshi's capture, I think it made logical sense for Archer to try and give the young Hoshi some comfort before going into an admittedly tense room.

Degra's death scene was absolutely excellent and the revelation of the Council chambers being on the lost Avian world was very cool. The CG of the location was very STAR WARS prequel-esque, that is, excellently conceived. The death scene was very well written and Dolan's final words to Degra were just plain cold. Imagine dying thinking your entire race is about to be conquered and your family is going to be murdered. "at the tip of my blade" was an excellent clincher!

My only gripe is that they sort of fell into the obvious "ugly Xindi = bad Xindi." All the "good" Xindi are the normal or otherwise cute and cuddly-looking Xindi while the insectoids and reptilians are stereotypically the baddies. This was driven home with Degra's story about Dolan... "the villain is a child killer so he's really a bad muthah..." was just a bit cliche and I would've liked something unexpected in their characterization. Maybe have the Acquatics call Degra to a meeting in that fishbowl chamber and then drown him, revealing that they're really on their own agenda, and then have that turn the Reptilians to the Humanoid/Arboreal's cause.

The final battle was spectacular, ENTERPRISE continues to set the bar for visual effects. This was almost like a DS9-style battle at moments, from the visual standpoint, and it was great.

Trip coming to terms with Degra was a little too sugary for my taste, I would've preferred Trip say something along the lines of "I respect that you're doing and I understand that you may feel remorse for killing 7m earthlings, and I'll work with you, but don't ever expect me to forgive you." That would've been far more believeable from Trip's perspective.

Anyway, on to "Countdown" and "Zero Hour" tapes over the weekend!!

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