2.07: The Seventh

[Dave]

2.07: ??

Episode reportedly called 'The Seventh' -- but maybe it is untitled as yet, and it is just episode #7?

Archer, Mayweather and T'Pol travel to an arctic world to aprehend a fugitive, when T'Pol is contacted by Vulcan High Command. The mission takes a dangerous turn when T'Pol begins having flashbacks that suggest the events she remembers about a former mission may not accurately relate to what happened.

 

[Dave]

via SCIFI WIRE -- Rick Berman: "I've just been working on 'The Seventh,' which just happens to be the seventh episode. That's coincidental. That's a show in which T'Pol takes Archer and Mayweather on a secret mission to capture a dangerous Vulcan, who's played by Bruce Davison. And Bruce is just spectacular."

 

[Dave]

Promos for this episode are now available to download on the web.

Scott Bakula: "We're shooting [The Seventh] today that we just started, and Bruce Davison is going to be the guest star in, and we find out that T'Pol has had a previous career before the Science Directorate."

 

[Neo]

I thought this was a good episode.. Gave us more info on T'pol and her history. Archer again being the wise man he is is there to offer extra support tpol.

In all i liked this one.

 

[skoon]

hmm, I seem to have missed this one. Anyone sum it up for me? pleez (insert inocent grin here)

 

[Dave]

We haven't had it in the UK yet. TrekToday says it is on UPN next week...

from TrekToday
T'Pol brings Archer with her on a top-secret mission when she is dispatched by the Vulcan High Command to capture a fugitive that has eluded their authorities for nearly two decades. Meanwhile, T'Pol reveals to Archer a dark and violent secret that she repressed, and Trip, who fills in for Archer while he is away, finds the weight of being the Captain hard to bear.

The secret must be her previous career..... :blush:

 

[skoon]

then how did Neo see it? anyhoo, just checked the TV times. We get it in Vancouver on Wednesday

 

[Dave]

Originally posted by skoon
then how did Neo see it?

Neo has seen everything.

 

[skoon]

ah...premenitions & all?

 

[skoon]

OK I like it but I had a bit of a problem with it. It's acid snow or something & the first time T'Pol runs out side she covers her shoes for protection & you even see smoke coming off her feet as she runs...howcome at the end everyone is running around in the snow without any extra protection...& wouldn't the snow falling from the sky be burning their upper part? confused... if they could run after the fugative in the snow, why didn't they bother to chance getting back to their shuttle pod at the beginning before it had snowed so much?

 

[Dave]

Originally posted by skoon
the first time T'Pol runs out side she covers her shoes for protection & you even see smoke coming off her feet as she runs...howcome at the end everyone is running around in the snow without any extra protection...& wouldn't the snow falling from the sky be burning their upper part.

I'd have to watch again, but I don't think the snow itself was acid. [paraphrasing] The official said they were carrying out some process to harden the landing deck using acid. I assume that the effects wear off progressively over time. They were supposed to wait x number of hours, but I guess he was just being on the safe side there.

I thought this was an OK episode. At first it looked like being a standard 'prisoner and escort', 'he's not really guilty' type story but I was surprised that he

Spoiler

turned out to be guilty after all.

It did give some more background on T'Pol and how Vulcans deal with traumatic memories.

The bar scenes were good. We don't often get those multipul alien species scenes in Trek (not even in DS9). Not like Star Wars or B5.

 

[ray gower]

As a single episode this was as good as Enterprise gets, if predictable and convenient.

And yes it does give a little more background to T'Pot. But it is becoming just a tad too common. If there is an emotional problem, it will be with T'Pol and she will go to pieces and Captain Leap does the Wisdom of Solomon bit?
Surely travelling in space is the equivalent of taking the bus to town for a member of the Vulcan Navy. Yet it always seems to be her that suffers the most surprise and difficulty with coping. What would Spock think of her?
I am beginning to question her competence!

As for the acid on the decking. If it was a strong acid, as they inferred, I would have thought the surface would be boiling with the snow falling on it. I remember from school days the teachers enforcing the rule of adding acid to water, not the other way around (usually with a ruler).