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4x20 - "Demons" It makes sense that any first steps at creating cross-species alliances would be fraught with dissension from isolationists, especially given the recent attack on Earth by the Xindi, so I'm glad the show chose to explore it. And as far as villains go for a story arc, you can do a...

4x18/4x19 - "In a Mirror, Darkly" I'm just so sick of the Mirror Universe at this point. To be fair to "Enterprise", it hadn't been quite so overdone when this two-parter aired. I did enjoy the way this story threaded itself in and out of continuity, starting with an alternate first contact...

4x17 - "Bound" I don't think I'm a fan of the retcon with Orion women emitting potent pheromones to bend all of the men in their vicinity to their will. It seemed like they wanted to do an old school sexy TOS-style episode, but needed a reason why our characters with early twenty-first century...

4x14 - "The Aenar" Given the important role an Aenar, Hemmer, played in the first season of "Strange New Worlds", it was fascinating to see their introduction here. I think this is the most we've ever seen of the civilian side of Andorian civilizations, too. The fact that Andoria is an icy moon...

4x11 - "Observer Effect" This was a more effective stand alone episode. The story was interesting and compelling, even though the aliens' mechanism of observation -- through body snatching -- was deeply creepy. When "Malcolm" and "Travis" were talking in the cold open, my first unsettling...

4x10 - "Daedalus" This stand alone episode, after a few multi-episode story arcs, highlighted the limitations of a prequel series. We knew that the 24th century Federation didn't have interplanetary transporters, so there was no way it would be successfully achieved here. I still think it was a...

4x08 - "Awakening" One of the brilliant things about this story arc is that it highlights the fact that the road to the founding of the Federation isn't just a coming of age story for humanity, it's a coming of age story for the Vulcans and Andorians as well. There's a nice parallel here...

4x07 - "The Forge" I knew I would enjoy this episode when Ambassador Soval explained why the Vulcans fear humanity: "We had our wars, Admiral, just as humans did. Our planet was devastated, our civilization nearly destroyed. Logic saved us. But it took almost fifteen hundred years for us to...

4x06 - "The Augments" I appreciated that this story was over and done with in three episodes. Once Malik crossed the lines he did in the previous episode, it was clear that Earth would never allow Soong's Augments to fade off into the sunset. So I'm glad they didn't drag out the consequences for...

4x05 - "Cold Station 12" As Soong aims to "liberate" the other Augment embryos kept in cold storage since the Eugenic Wars, his "children" begin to chafe at taking orders from a mere human, even the one who raised them. It was cool to meet Doctor Lucas after being referenced for so long as the...

I got derailed from this when I shifted the focus of my limited viewing time to the October Scary Movie Challenge, but I got the "Enterprise" complete series Blu-ray super-cheap as a Black Friday deal on Amazon, so now I'm getting back to it. As a side note: I don't know if it's a better...

4x03 - "Home" With the detour of the Nazi two-parter behind them, Enterprise returns to a hero's welcome back on Earth and her senior officers must deal with the aftermath of their actions in the Delphic Expanse. While the digital matte paintings featured in this episode are laughably...

Season Thoughts/Opinions/Observations 1 Episodes 1-5, Episodes 6-8, Episodes 9-14, Episodes 15 & 16, Episodes 17 & 18, Episode 19, Episodes 20 & 21, Episodes 22-26 2 Episode 1, Episodes 2-5, Episodes 6 & 7, Episodes 8-10, Episodes 11 & 12, Episodes 13-15, Episodes 16 & 17, Episodes 18-21...