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This episode gets two stars only because it didn't bore me. There are, however, many flaws. The most glaring being that there is too much going on - aliens altering WWII, Sillik and Daniels reappearing, Archer and the resistance, Trip and Mayweather...and the entire summary is given in a brief deathbed utterance from Daniels - the temporal cold war is now at the brink of "destroying all time". I rolled my eyes at this. This feels like the writers and producers trying to wrap things up in a few episodes. I don't think it will work. What in the world is Schirripa doing on Enterprise? He was an actor for the freakin' Sopranos...and now he's acting as a two-bit criminal written for Star Trek? |
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After the rather unpromising cliffhanger (Alien Nazis) this came as rather a pleasant surprise. It was a decent episode, and a lot more believable than I thought. Archer on Earth created some interest, and Alicia Travers seemed fairly convincing. The general feel was right for any city under occupation. Up in orbit, it seemed that everyone was on the verge of giving up, but they managed to press on. Introducing Silik seemed like a red herring, which I suppose it what it might turn out to be. The biggest faults were that the Germans seemed like caricatures and the idea of incorporating Nazi Germany at all. They could have used many other different systems, Napoleonic France or the USSR for instance, which would have generated a lot more ambiguity. However, they had to send out an 'evil' signal, and making the enemy the Nazis did that. Personally, I would have preferred ambiguity. I'm also not sure about the Nakhul, who turn out to be a one-shot enemy. Maybe it's OK, but if they really had been Remens (or Romulans, or even the Krenim) then we might have seen something we understood. Still, they kept the tension going and produced something fairly watchable. Overall, not bad, but not brilliant either. |
