303 Extinction
The idea of this episode is that there is a planet that turns humans (but not vulcans, of course) into an alien race. A fairly primitive race too, as it appears.

Interesting, the people who were burned appear to have their clothes in tact. Not surprising I guess, clothes in the future are a little less fire prone than the polyester costumes that the actors are surely wearing.

Okay, I suppose I nitpick a lot. By why does Trip need to get T'Pol's DNA from the peaches? Why couldn't he just find one of her hairs in her underwear drawer or something?

Not much of a surprise. The alien race was wiped out many years ago. But I don't understand why Dr. Flox is so interested in eliminating the remnants of the civilization. He's a complicated man, and no one understands him but his larvae. Doc Flox.
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Why hurt me like that TiVo
Enterprise changes it's name to Star Trek: Enterprise, which apparently is too complicated a task for TiVo to handle. So TiVo doesn't record it and I have to wait until Sunday to watch it.

Grrr.
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302 Anomaly
Nobody said the word "anomaly" better than Jean-Luc Picard. None of these guys do. There is something odd about this episode, and the last one. They seem to have a different mood. Much tenser. They did some changes to the directing and producing in this third season. You can clearly see that Archer is getting pissed off.

These special-ops troopers, they remind me too much of US Special Forces. Why do they wear backpacks around their own ship? In case they get hungry on the way to the turbo-lift?

Very interesting. Archer is starting to refer to his science officer in a very similar way as Kirk used to. But T'pol doesn't have her face in a viewer. And I think she wears tighter pants.

And now Archer is torturing an alien. Turning into even a bigger jackass threat to everyone in the galaxy than Kirk was.
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301 The Xindi
The season premeire.

Just when I was getting used to the intro song they change it. Make it folksier, more like something that would come from the Carpenters than the Cardassians. Bah.

Why is Archer giving us so much backstory? He's explaining the new sets to us. Not very subtly either. I do like Topol's shiny new outfits.

This special new team, the ones with paint splattered on their uniforms, reminds me a bit of the Elite Force from Voyager. They swooped in like Rainbox Six and sniped up the place. They had guns that made clicking sounds as they loaded them. Brannan and Bragga are contemporizing combat just a little. Because we all just saw the war on TV, we probably don't want to watch wussy phaser battles anymore.

And what does Archer do when he find the planet he's trying to find destroyed? Go further into the "expanse" with no objective whatsoever. I have no idea what's going on in this show. Am I still watching Enterprise? I mean, I don't remembed James Taylor doing the theme song.

But Jolene Blalock boobies. Maybe this show isn't going to be so bad this year after all.
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226 The Expanse
The season finale.

More Klingons. Angry Klingons. Looks like Duras is back for blood. It turns out that the actor playing Duras, apart from having a history of playing Klingons in earlier Star Trek series, also had the honor of being in Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

"Architects take a lot of trips." Sure they do, Trip. You are an idiot. She was probably home. Along with the seven million people who live in this tiny strip in the middle of Florida. I guess there are a lot of trailer parks in the future.

The Vulcans don't believe in time travel. But the quantum date reads -420. That must means it was made by stoners, if logic prevails. Not that it was made in the future.

The Florida destruction scene looked kinda cool. I can see a parallel between that and the World Trade Center destruction. The destruction of the Klingon ship was also pretty neat. The special effects have certainly come a long way from the bluescreens of TNG. Nevermind what they did in the 60s.

But something tells me it's not good when your captain tells you to "hold on" and you have inertial dampners.

I am still waiting for them to reveal that this temporal shadow dude is Q.
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