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Cold Front

Archer invites a group of stargazers aboard, not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them.

This episode marks the introduction of the temporal agent, Daniels.
This is the first time Daniels dies, after being shot by Silik.

Larry Niven wrote an interesting non-fiction essay on time-travel. Assuming that it is true "time travel" (i.e., producing reconfiguration of a single linear sequence of events, rather than simply creating a new branch-point in a multiverse of probability branch-sequences), he makes the case that all time-travel inventions will inevitably result in pinching themselves off and destroying the sequence of events which produced the time-travel invention, hence even if time travel is possible, it will never exist.

This one, like so many other Enterprise episodes, is quite good!

Loved the special effect where Time agent Daniels shows Archer the future in a holgraphic time line...



Silent Enemy


When Enterprise is attacked by an unidentified enemy ship, the crew must work frantically to get their new phase canons to operate. Meanwhile, the captain charges Hoshi with finding out Malcolm's favourite food in time for a surprise birthday dinner.

The music for this episode was composed by Velton Ray Bunch, who worked on Scott Bakula's previous series, Quantum Leap.

It is said several times that they need to find our Malcolm's favourite food for his birthday dinner. However, once they finally figure it out, there is no dinner - only an impromptu get-together of a couple of officers with a cake.

His favorite food? Pineapple!

Malcom and Tucker try the phase canons out, and destroy a mountain top on a lifeless world, but the plasma relays overload in the process.

They get it all fixed, and fire on the enemy ship, with negligible effects, until they decide to cause the overload again, and are able to prevent the phase canon from causing as much damage as before. The shots destroy the ships'
deflector shields; a few well aimed torpedoes cause a lot of damage to the ship, which limps off into the direction it came, venting drive plasma as it does so.

Love this one! The fight scenes were great fun, and the sub plot with Malcom's birthday was a nice touch.


Dear Doctor

The crew visits a planet that is home to two distinct humanoid species. When it is discovered that one of the two might be headed toward extinction, Archer and Phlox have to make a difficult decision whether or not to become involved.

I was on the phone during most of this one. It looked okay..


Sleeping Dogs

While investigating a gas giant, Enterprise comes across a damaged vessel hovering in the atmosphere, and T'Pol, Hoshi and Malcolm go aboard to investigate. However, once aboard, they are ambushed by a hostile female Klingon who hijacks their shuttlepod, and strands them on the Klingon ship, which threatens to implode under the pressure of the planet's atmosphere.

This one is very good! We get to observe what was for the Enterprise crew their first first glimpse of Klingon food.

This episode introduces photon torpedoes.

Every now and then, Klingons in the Star Trek Universe mention a Targ, mostly as a pet, and in this episode we get another rare view of one.

There were a few goofs, like, why did Hoshi, Malcom, and T'Pol have to undergo decontamination, but not Archer? They were all on board the Klingon vessel.

Was still a pretty good episode!