Anyone remember this episode?

[Melakon]

There was an episode where Enterprise had detained some suspicious type alien, perhaps an Yridian or a smuggler, where Archer and T'Pol scammed him into believing she was some vicious high court judge in order to gain information. I can't remember the title, but it may have been in the first two seasons. Anyone remember?

What prompted this vague memory was a line in TOS: The Doomsday Machine, where Spock tells Decker, "Vulcans never bluff."

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Oh never mind. It's "Precious Cargo". I don't want to watch that again, but it is a funny scene. Sorry.

 

[Willow]

There was an episode where Enterprise had detained some suspicious type alien, perhaps an Yridian or a smuggler, where Archer and T'Pol scammed him into believing she was some vicious high court judge in order to gain information. I can't remember the title, but it may have been in the first two seasons. Anyone remember?

What prompted this vague memory was a line in TOS: The Doomsday Machine, where Spock tells Decker, "Vulcans never bluff."

edit
Oh never mind. It's "Precious Cargo". I don't want to watch that again, but it is a funny scene. Sorry.

I was worried because it didn't ring a bell, and I thought I knew ALL the episodes! But, this is one ep I barely got through the one time!

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

Maybe y'all can make a "memorable scenes" list or somesuch with the chapter to jump to, and spare yourselves the rest of an ep you don't want to slog through again.

Because that scene in Precious Cargo with T'Pol as the "judicial administrator," with Archer bowing and scraping and "ma'am"-ing her, is a scream.

 

[Melakon]

I even reviewed it here a few years ago after buying the series set and seeing them all. During the network run, I wasn't able to see most of Season 3 and none of Season 4 due to poor tv reception. My reviews didn't get past Season 2 after getting the disks. I must have burned out because I was watching episodes about 5 times before each review.

 

[Willow]

Maybe y'all can make a "memorable scenes" list or somesuch with the chapter to jump to, and spare yourselves the rest of an ep you don't want to slog through again.

Because that scene in Precious Cargo with T'Pol as the "judicial administrator," with Archer bowing and scraping and "ma'am"-ing her, is a scream.

Good idea. And based on what you've just said, I'm going to make a point of rewatching the entire episode this weekend. I've found that I can pick out things here and there on subsequent rematches that I didn't see the first time...and since i only gave this episode one shot, I'll try it again.

 

[Melakon]

Here's my take on it from 2 years ago.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=8453539&postcount=202

 

[Willow]

Here's my take on it from 2 years ago.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=8453539&postcount=202

Nice review! And I just watched it again...and I appreciated it more the second time around. It could be that I didn't give it a fair shake the first time, because I was binge watching the entire series and found other episodes to be much better.

Interesting idea about switching up the character with Malcolm...

 

[Melakon]

Malcolm was my favorite character initially, because he was the mystery man. But I wasn't too keen about the Season 4 revelation about him.

 

[Willow]

Malcolm was my favorite character initially, because he was the mystery man. But I wasn't too keen about the Season 4 revelation about him.

Agreed. Malcolm was my favorite character in part because his personality is so similar to mine and I could totally identify with him. I didn't like the S4 arch about his past either. I could buy it that he was in the intelligence field, but it seemed out of character to me , for him to not go straight to Archer from the beginning.

But, then, that would probably mess with the writers' ideas for that storyline.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

Here's my take on it from 2 years ago.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=8453539&postcount=202

I totally agree with the screwball comedy feel of Precious Cargo. It struck me as an homage to the Cary Grant-Katherine Hepburn "Bringing Up Baby" type movies, and it worked fine for me on that level.

 

[eyeresist]

I found the whole thing painfully unfunny.

 

[dregj]

wow that ep sucked the bigun
almost as much as space cowboys

 

[dregj]

north star i think it was called
what is the obsession with space cowboys?

 

[Avro Arrow]

what is the obsession with space cowboys?

Space cowboys are awesome.

 

[dregj]

im sure there fun
but i just find it truly bizarre these two things being put together.
why not "under water greek philosophers conquer the Marianas trench"
it makes about as much sense to me

 

[eyeresist]

It's a bit of a tribute to TOS, which had wacky episodes involving gangsters, Nazis and Romans.
In the case of North Star, it's also interesting to consider what might happen if a group of primitive humans were transplanted to an alien planet.

 

[Richard Baker]

I am trying to remember which episode it was where the Enterprise used it's shuttle pod grapplers to rip off a Klingon ships engine nacelle.
It's just a real cool scene but I can't recall the context

 

[dstyer]

I think you may be thinking of the episode "The Augments" Season 4, episode 6?

 

[Yanks]

'Twilight' I think.

 

[eyeresist]

No Klingons in Twilight. Sounds like the Augments arc to me.