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This ENT basher is impressed
By Sphire

As someone who has a strong dislike of Enterprise, even I have to admit that Observer Effect was a good-to-great episode. It was strongly written and acted, something that I can rarely say about an episode of Enterprise. What I really liked was the equality of dialogue and screen time given to all the cast. Everyone had something interesting and meaningful to do, which shows how episodes can be improved with just that one adjustment. Some of Hoshi's background story rang false (i.e. breaking CO's arm, being a black belt), but I liked the interplay between her and Trip, especially the part where they say they're envious of each other's skills. That's the kind of simple yet natural character touch that I took for granted on DS9. Heck, Trip had more chemistry in one episode with Hoshi than in three seasons with T'Pol.

Also, this was surprisingly strong for a ship-based bottle episode. There was no reliance on superfluous action or space battles, no continuity breakage or overkill, no planet of the week, etc. The possession/virus plotline would appear on the surface to be a rehash, but this episode had enough good elements in it to make it fresh.

My question is, good lord where was this stuff for the first three seasons? There have been some strong episodes this season, but Observer Effect is the very first episode of ENT that I've actually liked from start to finish. I hope they can keep this up, but I'm sorry, one great episode out of eighty is not nearly enough to change my opinion of ENT.

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