Category: Trekathon

Enterprise helps out a remote mining settlement being bullied by Klingons. OK, so ‘bullied’ is a bit loaded – but a lot of the final act felt like the bit in a movies like BMX Bandits where the kids turn the tables on the bullies/mean adults. There’s really less violence than in the average *Home…

Archer discovers the risks of letting dogs go on away missions. Wow. I have never been this tense through an episode before. Normally when one of the main cast is sick, it’d be easy to believe that they’ll pull through without any problems. But Porthos is not ‘main crew’, and I was genuinely worried that…

Enterprise has to find somewhere to repair their damage. OK, so really everyone thought this was a good idea? Mysterious space station offering a deal too good to be true, and we’ll just go park our ship in the middle of it? Real sensible. They were lucky the station was only after spare brains, and…

Enterprise runs into a Romulan mine field. So, first up – I hope they’re going to be pretty careful about continuity with the Romulans here. Remember, it’s not until *Balance of Terror* that Starfleet sees the Romulans. So far so good, but maybe we shouldn’t be using them too much, hmmm? The best bits of…

The true story of Vulcan first contact. This felt a lot like Voyager’s *11:59* in setup, but it delivers a much more interesting story. More importantly, I felt that this episode started to deal with the problem of non-T’Pol Vulcans. Here we see that there’s almost a natural fit between Vulcans and Humans – that…

Enterprise saves the future. For a time travel episode that was surprisingly free of overly complicated plots. You could have rewritten the entire episode with Archer just being stranded off on another planet without very much effort at all. So rather than being all *Back to the Future II*, the episode is much more *Die…

Better than I expected. A lot better, really. Enterprise is the one Trek series that I’d never spent much time on, and what I’d heard at the time it was on TV wasn’t good. So my expectations were set pretty low. But the show has generally been good, certainly a lot better than the last…

Enterprise blows up a planet. An episode of two halves. Fortunately two halves of reasonable strength for a change. The first part is the crew dealing with a terrible tragedy they think they’ve caused. T’Pol’s lack of understanding comes across as a bit artificial, but we do feel that Archer is genuinely upset about what’s…

The Captain of the Enterprise goes on vacation on Risa. [Well, wasn’t so bad last time](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/04/trekathon-174-captains-holiday-tng/). A straight up omnibus show, with no major plot. It’s a mixed bag – Trip and Tucker turn out to be really sleazy, and pay the price for it. Hoshi picks up a foreign tongue. And Archer gets into…

Trip and Archer are trapped in a desert civil war. So, apparently Trip and Archer did a very very bad survival course. Because Rule 1 of desert survival is very simple: do not leave your vehicle. OK, fine, there was an attack going on – but you could have waited it out a few hundred…