3.15: Harbinger

[Dave]

Enterprise rescues a dying alien from a colossal spatial anomaly, and he refuses to reveal why he was there. Meanwhile, tensions between Reed and Hayes heat up as new training drills begin.

The alien comes from another dimension. In STM Rick Berman likens it's presence in the sphere to that on a miner's canary. "An alien test subject."

Romance is in the air aboard ship as Trip gets closer to MACO Corporal Amanda Cole, to the chagrin of T'Pol, who is confused by her feelings for the ship's engineer.

 

[Mariel]

this one had a bunch of stuff happening
Reed and Hayes duke it out and come to an understanding. And Trip and T'Pol sleep together. After T'Pol blows if of and says she just wanted to know what human sex was like. But I wonder, she was acting pretty jealous of Trip and Amanda Cole.
:blpaw:

 

[KatDonovan]

The fight between Reed and Hayes was GREAT!! I was LMAO. And the scene where they are getting chewed out, and Archer was called away, I loved it when Reed said 'So, do you think we're dismissed. I could just see them still there when Archer got back.

As to the Trip/T'pol thing, I don't even want to think of that.:disgust: :dead:

 

[ray gower]

Ever notice how episodes are like buses?

Nothing, for hours then three arrive together, all going to the same place.

In Enterprise we get the same story played three or four weeks on the trot.

We had our weeks of sending T'Pot mad, a couple of weeks making Archer mad. Now we have the month of capturing an alien for Archer to beat up.

Archer has changed quite drastically over the last fortnight. Have they replaced him?

And of course they've brought all the shippers back on line again with Trip and T'Pot's kiss, cut to sounds of waves on sunlit sandy beaches.

 

[Dave]

Archer has become a bit of a bully recently. The spoilers tell me that we will learn why T'Pol has been acting so strangely, but not why Archer has.

Also Archer's historical information on Canaries was in error. Archer said miners used them and if they died then they knew there was gas. Actually, according to the guide at Beamish Museum, the gas they tested for with a Canary was Carbon Dioxide. It's a heavy gas and lies on the floor of the tunnel, but since the miners had to crawl into the narrow coal seam to dig still dangerous. They put the Canary cage on the floor and if the Canary passed out they left the mine. The Canary almost always recovered, one is on record of pssing out 20 times.

Makes me wonder if the rest of Starfleets historical record survived WWIII intact. Did Harmon 'Buck' Bokai really beat Joe DiMaggio's baseball records? Did Television really die out as a significant form of entertainment in 2040, or just Star Trek series?

I liked this episode though. I liked the Reed/Hayes interaction which was done well. I liked learning more about Amanda Cole and Hayes. They should have done this about 10 episodes earlier though.

There was a lot of humour. I liked the 'So, do you think we're dismissed', and they fact that they aren't taking it too seriously. I thought that Reed's 'Reverse the Polarity' of the Warp Engine was taking it too far though. I don't want to watch a Star Trek spoof. I want to watch the real thing, and this series could easily become a spoof of TOS, if it hasn't already!