3.05: Impulse

[Mariel]

3.05 Impulse

Enterprise picks up a distress signal from a Vulcan ship and goes to investigate. The Vulcan ship is traped in a asteroid field and is not responding to hails from Enterprise. Archer, Malcom, T'Pol and Hawkins go to investigate and find a ship full of zombie like Vulcans. The Vulcans were trying to put Terelium-D(sp?) on their hull. Archer sends scans of the Vulcans back to Phlox and learns that the Terelium-D is toxic to Vulcans and frying their brains. Phlox tells Archer that is to late for the Vulcans on the ship but T'Pol can still be saved if they get her back in time. While Archer and Co. are investigating the Vulcan ship, Trip and Mayweather take and shuttle and get some Terelium ore from the asteroids. Archer is able to get back in time to help T'Pol and distroys the Vulcan ship. While T'Pol is in sick bay she has a very creapy dream that the Vulcans from the ship are out to get her. *shudders* Very creapy.
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[Eway]

This episode was a bit creepy but I did enjoy seeing T'pol "lose it". The majority of it seemed to drag a bit. I'm not sure if it was because I've watched 6 epis in the past 2 days or if it was the episode itself.

 

[ray gower]

Just a glib thought from the series 3 ignorent:-

Isn't it unusual that T'Pol "loses it", or she should start thinking there are Vulcans after her?

 

[Eway]

I was under the impression that the ore or compound they were trying to procure affected their (vulcans) ability to control their emotions. Also didn't T'pol say their ancestors delusions contributed to the problems that precipitated vulcans disciplined nature that we are familiar with.

 

[ray gower]

Wouldn't know. I won't see this episode for a month or so.

Just observing that T'Pol seems to have a lot of mind losing incidents, leading even Hoshi the resident neurotic. Whether it is jazz, other Vulcans, insurgents or simply strange evil lumps of rock, T'Pot seems to suffer it!

 

[Eway]

Lest we forget there are many episodes in TOS where Spock "loses it" for one reason or another.

 

[Dave]

Hawkins asks T'Pol why the Vulcans could be so emotional when they have no emotions, and she replies that they do have emotions but "control" them (something 'Voyager' and 'Enterprise' have built up) so they must have lost control. She also repeated what Spock once said in TOS about Vulcans once being a violent race in the past. She said that they were "violent and homocidal". So it is only reinforcing what has already been established before.

When she finally "lost it" she says to Archer, "You have never trusted Vulcans. You never will!" If you remember in 'The Undiscovered Country', Kirk says "I have never trusted Klingons. I never will!"

It was very slow at the start of the episode, and I really thought that we were going to get another "The Naked Time" TOS/ "The Naked Now" TNG reworking. In the end it wasn't like that at all. But it's funny because before 'Enterprise' began, I joked with Neo here that we would get an episode called "The Naked Before" ENT.

I thought that it was way too conveinient for the Transporter to malfunction, but there would have been no episode at all otherwise.

 

[ray gower]

It was in the end more like the episode in Voyager where 7o9 loses her marbles, with a side order of Season 1 Breaking the Ice.

I think it was time they reminded us that Vulcans have a controlled side, partly because there may be a few people in the galaxy who haven't seen TOS, but mostly to remind us that Vulcans are not like T'Pol, who is becoming something of a liability. Now they are going to have to forget Trillium armour, simply because it sends their Science Officer off her rickerty perch.

At least she doesn't get a neck massage this week, perhaps making up for two of them last week?

Sincerely hope she is not back to normal next week. Okay they can possibly hammer out the dents in shuttle pod 2 and fix the engines on pod 1. But to weld T'Pol's mind together twice in a fortnight?