Saturday, May 23, 2009

Enterprise: Fortunate Son and Cold Front

Fortunate Son ( again, with this show and the song cues) has the crew of the Enterprise responding to a distress call from the freighter Fortunate. When they arrive, they are told by the XO that there is no need to help them-sending the distress call was a mistake. Archer insists they help with repairs anyway, and they soon discover the Fortunate's secret- a captured Nausicaan they have been interrogating. This episode left us wondering what happened to Nausicaan society in the time between Archer and Picard, as Archer era Naussicaans are cleaner, more articulate and better dressed.

Cold Front brings back the Suliban and the Temporal Cold War. Archer's new yoeman is n0t what he seems, and the same is true for one of the religious supplicant's on a ship the Enterprise comes upon in a stellar nursery they are studying. Which time traveler is telling the truth?

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