Book: Voyager: Full Circlle by Kristen Beyer

This book follows the lives of the Voyager's crew following the Borg Invasion detailed in the Destiny series. With the Enterprise shattered, the Federation had an audacious plan to determine if the Borg threat are really gone. What members of the shattered Voyager crew will be a part of this mission? How can the Federatio, and it's individual citizens, recover from such loss. Is Miral Paris really the Kuvagh'Mah, and what does this mean for her?

ENT: Two Days and Two Nights and TOS:Shore Leave

Happy coincidence had us watching these back to back. Both carry the same common theme: Shore leave is rarely as relaxing as it is supposed to be. (Of course, if it were, it would not be worthy of an episode and we would simply have a Captain's Log saying, "after an uneventful shore leave, we are on route to excitement".) Shore Leave is one of the classic episodes. It shows the different sides of the crew- we see the romantic in McCoy, and we even see a Spock that is not in control enough of his thoughts to keep himself from thinking of danger when merely doing so causes it to be. Two Days and Two Nights was one of the funniest episodes of Enterprise I have seen so far. It gives us a glimpse into why "what happens on Risa, stays on Risa".

ENT: Desert Crossing

The Enterprise answers a distress call, and when they accept the hospitality of the captain they rendered aid to it has unexpected consequences. Yet another episode which makes mention of the need for earth ships to have a directive about interactions with alien cultures.

TOS: Blanace of Terror

Simply put, Star Trek just does not get better than this. Action, drama, love, loss, strategy and a worthy foe. And Mark Lenard.

Ent: Fallen Hero

The Enterprises Shore leave is sidetracked when the Vulcan High command asks them to detour to Mazar retrieve the Vulcan Ambassador V'Lar, and then rendezvous with the Vulcan ship Sh'Raan for transfer. When they find themselves persued by Mazar ships , Archer realises there is more to Ambassador V'Lar's presence there than meets the eye. V'Lar, portrayed flawlessly by Fionulla Flanagan has got to be one of my favorite Vulcan characters, in all the series.

Enterprise: Detained, Vox Sola

Detained started out with two strikes against it in my eyes. I don't like "prison" episodes, and I don't like the Suliban. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this episode. It did a nice job a drawing a parallel with the Japenese internment camps of WWII, and was surprisingly open about the historical lesson it was trying to teach instead of being coy.

Vox Sola concerns an alien presence which takes over cargo Bay 2, and 5 of the crew. there is also the matter of a misunderstanding between the Kreetassans and the Enterprise crew, concerning the human's shameful mating like behaviour of eating in public ( makes you wonder...) surprisingly, all the red shirts survive.

Enterprise:Oasis

IN search of engineering supplies, Archer negotiates with an alien trader. The trader cannot get them supplies, but knows of a derelict ship where they may claim "rights of salvage". Of course, the ship is haunted. The away team discovers that indeed, the ship is not empty, despite the lack of biosigns. A dampening field seems to explain this- but what it cannot explain is what the Enterprise finds in a life pod orbiting the planet. Rene Auberjonois guest stars in this episode.