Episode Title: Fight or Flight
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer(s): Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Wikipedia Synopsis: Hoshi faces her fears on an alien ship whose crew was murdered, while Malcolm tries to upgrade the ship's defense system.
Guest Stars of Note: None
Impressions: Hoshi's unhappiness and fear is paralleled with the health of a slug they have removed from it's native habitat. So there's that. A slug they then release onto a similar yet different planet in a completely different star system so... you know... fuck native ecology.
Trip wants to go and explore but can't and that makes him antsy because he's a man of action or something.
Archer, T'Pol, and Trip have the beginnings of a very awkward dinner and I found myself wishing that they would do an episode of just that, just three people uncomfortably eating salad in space... just half conversations and barely contained resentment.
Archer ignores perfectly sound advice from T'Pol and gets nosy almost leading to his crew being harvested for their brain juices. I understand that he's the defiant adventurer type but when you're boredom almost gets people killed maybe you should re-think command.
Why does Archer always leave the ship? He's the damn captain. Hey, Archer, DO YOUR JOB!
I like that Phlox seems sort of disgusted that he has to constantly point out the Hoshi/slug parallel. Also, why hasn't there been some sort of Phlox spin-off. If the do decide to do the Worf spin-off show then Phlox better somehow be worked into it.
So Hoshi has come to terms with her space fear issues already? Well that was pretty quick arc.
Try as I might, I will never be able to take Reed seriously as some sort of badass. He looks like a math teacher. This is a fault in my character and I accept that.
Trip wants to go and explore but can't and that makes him antsy because he's a man of action or something.
Archer, T'Pol, and Trip have the beginnings of a very awkward dinner and I found myself wishing that they would do an episode of just that, just three people uncomfortably eating salad in space... just half conversations and barely contained resentment.
Archer ignores perfectly sound advice from T'Pol and gets nosy almost leading to his crew being harvested for their brain juices. I understand that he's the defiant adventurer type but when you're boredom almost gets people killed maybe you should re-think command.
Why does Archer always leave the ship? He's the damn captain. Hey, Archer, DO YOUR JOB!
I like that Phlox seems sort of disgusted that he has to constantly point out the Hoshi/slug parallel. Also, why hasn't there been some sort of Phlox spin-off. If the do decide to do the Worf spin-off show then Phlox better somehow be worked into it.
So Hoshi has come to terms with her space fear issues already? Well that was pretty quick arc.
Try as I might, I will never be able to take Reed seriously as some sort of badass. He looks like a math teacher. This is a fault in my character and I accept that.
Score: 1 out of 4.
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