We have a win.... uh, LOSER! That does indeed appear to be the worst ENT DVD of all. Even the last disc bearing This Ain't The Valentine is elevated by Terra Prime.
A Night in Sickbay:
We were finally! seeing Archer behave like a grown-up (Shockwave, Minefield and Dead Stop) when this disaster came along and set him back 40 years. Petulant, whiny, crabby -- right back where we were in Broken Bow (except now we have Phlox manipulating him into developing a sexual fixation on his first officer's boobs). Thank you, Bermaga.
Marauders:
You know what we needed here? We needed Trip to ask Archer if he had ever seen "The Magnificent Seven" or "The Seven Samuri." It would have made swallowing Archer's plan palatable. And I think it would have been even more credible if the crew hadn't lucked out by coming across the galaxy's only wussy Klingons.
The Seventh:
With all the crap TIIC threw at T'Pol throughout the series -- The Decon Scene, Fusion, The Boob Plunge, sexual inuendos in ANIS, possessed Malcolm coming on to her in her quarters while she's in her two-sizes-too-small PJs, her two-sizes-too-small PJs, topless neuropressure (I don't care who it was with), Bounty, assault by Rajiin, close-call sale into sexual slavery in Borderland -- I have to say, seeing her lean on Archer for moral support during a difficult mission is a walk in the park. A boring walk in the park, but nowhere near as offensive as the aforementioned scenes.
The Communicator:
1. Malcolm leaves his cellphone on a planet.
2. Archer decides they have to go back and get it so the natives won't try to develop cellphone technology.
3. He and Malcolm wisely decide to bring phasers and more communicators with them, never imagining that the natives may not be technologically advanced, but they are paranoid.
4. They get captured.
5. They don't want to scare the natives by admitting they're from another planet, so they tell the natives they are indestructible enemy super-soldiers!
6. Meanwhile, T'Pol -- who is committed to not interfering in the development of a less-advanced species -- has Trip and Travis work on getting the cloak to work on the Suliban cell-ship they acquired. She doesn't want to scare the natives by showing up in a shuttlepod. Because people armed with phasers popping out of an invisible ship is less scary.
7. T'Pol -- ironically -- congratulates Archer on being willing to die -- and take Malcolm with him -- to avoid contamination of a technologically less-advanced species. Is she kidding?!
