In less-sexy-than-pheromonally-rapey fashion, Rajiin seduces just about every member of the crew except T’Pol (she should have waited about 10 more episodes) and turns out to be, to no one’s surprise, allied with the Xindi. Rajiin – The Rajiin of the title is an alien slave girl of the sort much bandied about on The Original Series, except done up darkly. Think “Identity Crisis” or “Genesis” or “Threshold” or…*Ĥ. Extinction – Take it as a rule: Any Star Trek episode in which crew member(s) contract a space virus and morphs into another species is bad.

Upon first contact with the anomalies, the Enterprise shuts down and alien pirates board! ***ģ. Anomaly – The Enterprise enters the Delphic Expanse, a region of space in which tremendous physics-bending and f/x budget-stretching anomalies that will haunt the crew for much of the season. Reed grimly investigating a gritty mining facility in hopes of finding a single Xindi who was rumored to have visited recently. The Xindi – The grim ‘n’ grittiness commences with an episode set entirely behind a blue filter the storyline involves Captain Archer and Lt. As for much of the rest, however … yeeshġ. Watch Enterprise season 3 once through if you’re a completist otherwise, just skip to the good ones, which mostly work as standalone episodes – stuff like “Twilight” (episode #8), “North Star“ (#9) and “Proving Ground” (#13). Meanwhile, the bridge crew – even beyond (sigh) Sick Boy T’Pol – takes a like turn into darkness: Archer becomes Shouty Archer, nary a boyish grin crossing his face Trip morphs into Bad Trip, spending the entire year-long mission alternately moping about his dead sister or doing massage with druggie T’Pol and Tucker unfortunately doesn’t change at all.

It’s a bit like having three or four dozen Trois aboard.

Since every ST series prides itself on its topicality, the creative team apparently decided that the best way to address issues in the post-9/11 Star Trek was to turn Enterprise grim, gritty and humorless while placing a heavy accent on the militarism.Īnd they made T’Pol a futuristic drug addict.īeyond the actual inclusion of the space marine corps on the Enterprise, the scriptwriters and script editor clearly had no clue what to do with these troops when the “MaCos” could be useful, they’re not around when they are around, they’re useless. See, two years prior to the airing of the premiere episode of STE season 3, the attacks on the Twin Towers happened. O, Star Trek: Enterprise season 3 … you leave us speechless with the breathtakingly un-Star Trek feel of nearly every episode in this season, and in the tone of the overriding story arc.

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