The episode "Precious Cargo"

[James T Kirk]

That lucky devil Trip. Oh man when the Monarch took off most of her dress and exposed most of her legs I about lost it. Sexy sexy.

Other than that, I thought this was a fairly decent episode. The universal translator is a remarkable invention Id like to add. It can decipher any language simply by hearing a few words. What an invention!

 

[eyeresist]

Mediocre episode. Horrible actor. The low point of ENT for me.

 

[auntiehill]

As much as I love the character of Trip (therefore love any Trip-centric episode), this one was kind of a stinker. It was a poorly written, cliche-ridden plot and the guest actress was, er....not so great.

I've seen Padma Lakshmi on various news and chat-show programs; she seems like a lovely person. However, there's a reason she doesn't do much acting anymore---she's just not that good at it. Instead of coming off as some mysterious, feisty woman, the character in Precious Cargo was whiny, annoying and childish. The actress was much too over-the-top; perhaps the director deserves a little blame there for not reeling her in more. Either way, the episode is one giant eye-roll.

 

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Yeah, bad episode. Padma Lakshmi is a gorgeous woman but that's certainly not enough. I give it a grade of 2 out of 10. My review can be read here.

 

[Michael]

Never had a problem with “Precious Cargo” and never quite got the hate it gets among fans. It was a harmless little episode with some funny moments and I quite enjoyed Padma Lakshmi.

 

[eyeresist]

I really wish they had got Nicole de Boer to play the princess. You may know her as Ezri Dax from DS9. She can act, and she's as cute as a bunny.

http://www.startrek.com/database_article/dax-ez

 

[Reanok]

I never really cared for Precious Cargo except for the scene where T'Pol dresses in Vulcan robes as a Judge with Archer to try and force the smuggler to tell them who was in the frozen pod. I remember Connor Trinneer saying in a interview he was tired of filming a fight scene in the swamp with the smugglers and didn't want to film it one more time.

 

[Long Syntax]

I agree, Padma Lakshmi is gorgeous. However, beside this one high point, the episode is somewhat unremarkable.

 

[James T Kirk]

I just liked looking at her legs.

 

[DonIago]

One of the ENT episodes I've never seen in its entirety. And from the reviews, it doesn't have much to offer to a gay man.

 

[donners22]

Oh, that was one painful episode. Cliche after cliche.

I was loving Enterprise up to that point, but it hit a really rough patch around that episode.

 

[eyeresist]

One of the ENT episodes I've never seen in its entirety. And from the reviews, it doesn't have much to offer to a gay man.

Not much joy for straights either...

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

One of the ENT episodes I've never seen in its entirety. And from the reviews, it doesn't have much to offer to a gay man.

Nope, it doesn't have much to offer anybody. EXCEPT that scene mentioned by Reanok upthread, T'Pol posing as the Adjudicator or whatever it was, and Archer bowing and scraping to her as she scared the bejeebus out of that smuggler. I loved that.

 

[LoyaulteMeLie]

Nope, it doesn't have much to offer anybody. EXCEPT that scene mentioned by Reanok upthread, T'Pol posing as the Adjudicator or whatever it was, and Archer bowing and scraping to her as she scared the bejeebus out of that smuggler. I loved that.

I've always thought that scene was one of the gems of the entire series. For some reason, to me it seemed to hark back to the sense of mischief that TOS had in some of its very best moments.

 

[eyeresist]

I've always thought that scene was one of the gems of the entire series. For some reason, to me it seemed to hark back to the sense of mischief that TOS had in some of its very best moments.

You can imagine Kirk and Spock playing the same scene in the original series.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

^^ Exactly! Like the whimsy of "I, Mudd" and "A Piece of the Action."

I can't help thinking, if ENT had reached its 6th season, when a show has the relaxed assurance of long life and well-established characters, what glorious flights of fancy it could have made. Movie Night marathons, or a talent show with Archer singing. More goofing around like the beginning of the Andorian arc, when Hoshi was teaching Archer to be as rude as a Tellarite. Good times, woulda been.

 

[t_smitts]

The trope about the sophisticated woman stuck in the wilderness with the rugged guy, annoying him with her complaining until they finally hook up has been done a million times: Temple of Doom, Six Days and Seven Nights, Spaceballs, Jurassic World, and even Empire Strikes Back a bit (though Leia is far more likeable and capable).

There was no way this was ever going to be a great episode but if they'd cast someone who actually had some chemistry with Connor, it might've at least been an average episode. I always liked writer David Goodman's "defense" which was "the piece of crap that they shot is not the piece of crap that I wrote".

 

[eyeresist]

I don't think the fact that it's been done before is the reason it failed. We see plenty of story ideas repeated in movies, TV, etc, and the crucial factor is the execution, not originality (though it helps to add a twist to freshen it).

 

[t_smitts]

I don't think the fact that it's been done before is the reason it failed. We see plenty of story ideas repeated in movies, TV, etc, and the crucial factor is the execution, not originality (though it helps to add a twist to freshen it).

I wasn't saying that was the reason it failed. I was saying the total lack of chemistry was the reason it failed.

 

[Spot261]

One of the ENT episodes I've never seen in its entirety. And from the reviews, it doesn't have much to offer to a gay man.

Not much joy for straights either...

Given it isn't porn, should it be judged on either? It was a badly made and scripted episode based on a cheap hackneyed idea and deserved the hate it got on those terms, not on it's titillation value.