I was so close to not watching this episode at all due to the trailer. The trailer was very misleading and the episode turned out to be much different than I had anticipated. However, I did have several points to pick with the writers...

1) Bridge Crew: Here we go again with sending the main bridge crew down to an unknown planet without any enviornmental protection. What, is the captain retarded? How about sending one officer and a few marines? In environmental suits? Hello? Anyone home in the writing department?

2) Medical: On another note, the doctor would have DNA samples for the entire crew. Period, end of story. I wouldn't doubt that the doctor would also have in stasis blood and tisue samples as well.

3)Transporter: Hate it, love it. All right, you trust it enough for non living things. I can deal with that. But they shouldn't rely on it to get the main characters out of trouble.

Low Point

The ending was a little lame. The ship's been in service for how long and they never think to use the transporter?

I thought they mentioned that they couldn't risk the transporter? It sounded like they haven't invented "biofilters" yet (or direct point-to-point transfers to Isolation). Or were you referring to another point in the show?

Anyway, my low point was the rapid transformation of the team. There's no way a virus could rearrange their bone structure that fast.

Anyway, my low point was the rapid transformation of the team. There's no way a virus could rearrange their bone structure that fast.

I agree, I'm getting tired of this sort of thing. While superficially similar to Inner Light, this was far far FAR from being anywhere near as good (Inner Light, in fact, is probably my favorite Trek episode of all the series). I will admit to not giving enough credit to the reason for the virus, but I was probably blinded by the monkey acts, which was just silly.

(Inner Light, in fact, is probably my favorite Trek episode of all the series).

Inner light is almost one of my favorite episodes of any television show that has aired on the light box we call television. Absolutely amazing to me. Had me sold on Patrick Stewart as an actor too. can't slobber enough with my praise on that single episode.

(Inner Light, in fact, is probably my favorite Trek episode of all the series).

Inner light is almost one of my favorite episodes of any television show that has aired on the light box we call television. Absolutely amazing to me. Had me sold on Patrick Stewart as an actor too. can't slobber enough with my praise on that single episode.

Refresh my college addled mind, which epp is that?

Here is a review of it.

Anyway, my low point was the rapid transformation of the team. There's no way a virus could rearrange their bone structure that fast.

Hey, if they're going to keep continuity with TOS, Archer is going to have to hook up with the alien women sooner or later. Kirk couldn't have pulled it off without at least some tradition to fall on.

Tz'aa-Clunk: "How was your date?"
Zk-sss-Click: "How could I know humans male sex organs don't produce acid resistant mucous? Who ever heard of such a thing?!"

Further proof we should be writing Enterprise!

I thought, from the trailer, that this episode found some stranded weird looking race that was actually some offshoot of enterprise that had crash landed their years ago. Some type of time-warp a la DS9 but with psycho mutations.

It wasn't a terrible episode, but it wasn't good either. Smallville gets recorded first Wednesday and the Saturday re-run takes second. TiVo #2 will record that 70s show for a while unless it's suddenly started sucking.

The trailer for this episode was such a piece of crap compared to what it was really about.

I thought, from the trailer, that this episode found some stranded weird looking race that was actually some offshoot of enterprise that had crash landed their years ago. Some type of time-warp a la DS9 but with psycho mutations.

- Acting by the two of the three landing party was interesting. The makeup made them all but unrecognizable. The manerisms they utilized were... deferent. Bakula really surprised me in this role, who knew he had more range?

- No shoot em ups with a new race; instead they tried to avoid a fight.

- The reasoning of a race with a militant view and the inference as to why they have taken this view with regards to the virus.

On the down side I was dissapointed with other aspects of the story such as...

- Archer does not destroy the virus for the sake of propiety; even though it ravaged his system. What does he expect to do with it if it is stored? Put it in a museum?

- Doctor Flox must be a wiz kid in genetics even before Dr. McCoy. It takes him a few hours to come up with an answer to eradicating the viral transformation? Would it not have been more interesting to know that the virus will remain dormant instead of eradicated by the hours of intense effort? Disease in this timeline must be nonexistant!

- Wow the good Captain sure has alot of treasures he is collecting. I wonder if this will ever boomerang on him in a future episode. We now have a small invisible vehicle, time travel data and equipment locked in a cabin, enhansed sensors ala the star fairing race that took him near the sun, a virus that can mutate humanoids. What next?

- Wow the good Captain sure has alot of treasures he is collecting. ... a virus that can mutate humanoids. What next?