Silent Enemy (ENT S01E12)

January 20, 2017

The Enterprise encounters a ship that does not reply to any of their hails. The ship leaves then returns later and scans all of the Enterprise, attacks and leaves. The ship comes back, boards the Enterprise and does some crazy alien scan of two of the crewmen on the Enterprise and leaves behind a device to spy on the Enterprise crew. Trip and Reed work on getting two phaser cannons online. This is the main portion of the episode and it was quite good, I enjoyed this part.

Unfortunately, there was a minor storyline in this episode that pertains to Reed's birthday and Archer's questionable obsession with finding Reed's favorite food for his birthday. Archer takes Hoshi off her regular duties to focus on this as a priority one mission, which is just head scratching. Hoshi's attempts were inane and all the time spent on that storyline was wasted.

Random Notes

Natalie from Pensacola.

How does the comm system work on the Enterprise? The comm system seems to be able to route communication to the exact closest terminal to the person being paged.

Another episode using the X-Files style dark environment with only flashlight beams.

Maybe it is by design, but the Malcolm Reed character is pretty bland and uninteresting.

"Are your ears a little pointier than usual?" -Trip

The Trip and Archer relationship is good.