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Scott Bakula grabs himself an Andorian (Jeffery Combs) on Enterprise.
If this season of Enterprise has been successful at anything, it has been its three-part arcs. Each have generally been outstanding, and this latest Andorian-themed arc started off to be another great outing.
And its second episode proved a slightly uneven but entertaining follow-up to “Babel One”.
Once more Jeffery Combs is dead-on as the ill-tempered Andorian, Shran. His relationship with Archer is still one of the best parts of this series, and it is used here terrifically.
Following up from “Babel One”, Archer struggles to convince the Andorians and Tellarites to cooperate in order to find the remote-controlled Romulan marauder that has been provoking a war between the two hostile races. But when Talas, Shran’s lover, dies as a result of her wounds suffered when she was shot by a Tellarite, the Andorian wants revenge. Shran challenges the Tellarite ambassador to a duel. But Archer steps in order to prevent any further bloodshed and protect his tentative alliance.
Meanwhile, Reed and Trip are still stuck on the unmanned Romulan ship. They are discovered by the Romulans, who attempt to kill them before they can damage their starship.
Overall, I liked the episode. I thought the fight scene between Archer and Shran worked well, and the death of Talas was surprising and sad. But for some reason, the sequence with Shran attacking the Tellarite ambassador seemed a little melodramatic. And while I thought Archer’s victory over Shran in the battle by cutting off one of his antenna was funny, it seemed a little goofy.
I don’t know, perhaps I’m being a little too critical here. The episode was good, and the latest twist ending of having the person controlling the remote fighter be Andorian was good. I was not so much surprised by its race, but by how it’ll fit into the storyline. I also thought the scenes with Reed and Trip on the Romulan marauder were the episode’s best. It’s just that some of the scenes back on the Enterprise felt a little off.
With the end of Enterprise coming at the close of this season now confirmed, watching the series has taken on new meaning. Perhaps that is why I watched last Friday’s episode differently. I really want to see the show go out with a home run, and not watch it stumble through any of its last few first-run airings.
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