6.1 "Good Try, We Don't Like It"
Star Trek Enterprise Season 1 Retrospective I hold in my hands a lede. Fetch me not a shovel, but a spotlight. This is not a season of...
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6.1.25 "...All Your Desperate Displays"
Shockwave, Part 1 Our creation had strode out into the world. Which is to say both that it had legs, and that it lived. But much can live...
6.1.24 Court Martial, J Archer, Cpt, 18-19-22, 1.8.2152 - Expert Testimony (Bonus Post)
Summary We present below copies of the expert mathematical testimonies from Professors Field and T'Mont, submitted to the court martial...
6.1.24 The Weekenders
Two Days And Two Nights Today I tutor you in Trek's taxonomy of travel. Its list of leisure labels. The holiday-makers guide to the...
6.1.23 "...Our Feathers In The Wings Of The Final Songs"
Desert Crossing So here’s a fun little paradox. A story that’s fascinating in the ways by which it fails to be interesting. Trade Secrets...
6.1.22 Sad Ambassador
Fallen Hero Well, this is nice. To Reiterate... “Fallen Hero” continues an approach Enterprise introduced with “Vox Sola” last episode...
6.1.21 Unlike Steve McQueen
Vox Sola “Vox Sola” feels somewhat modest in its ambitions, especially after watching “Return Of The Archons”, which rewrote the book on...
6.1.20 All Hail West Texas
Detained This is the episode in which Enterprise does the inevitable, and references Quantum Leap. It does so in three ways. It casts...
6.1.19 Double Dipping
Oasis One of the guiding principles of IDFC is that there exists almost no value in judging an episode by how similar it is to those that...
6.1.18 Old Friends Are Gold-Pressed Latinum
Acquisition “Acquisition” really didn’t work for me the first couple of times I watched it. Having sat down and had a think, though, I...
6.1.17 "...In The Forests Of The Night"
Rogue Planet I guess technically this is our second rogue planet of the cycle. And like Kirk before/after him, Archer is going to find...
6.1.16 Anger Mismanagement
Fusion (Content warning: references to sexual assault.) OK, so. This one wasn’t much fun to write about at all. The Rage Mirage I think...
6.1.15 Trapped In A Leaky Boat
Shuttlepod One “Shuttlepod One” is an episode that gets a reasonable amount of love – comparatively speaking, at least, given season and...
6.1.14 Too Much Of A Bad Thing
Shadows Of P'Jem Given it was the stated intent of this series when I began it, it’s been rather a long time since I last really compared...
6.1.13 Before They Were Famous
Sleeping Dogs This is a tale of conditions that have no cure. Of infections you can’t fight, and so must wait for them to flare out....
6.1.12 Primarily, Do No Harm
Dear Doctor Things are going from bad to worse in the 22nd century. From bad to grotesquely appalling, actually. I can’t remember a...
6.1.11 Cake Or Death
Silent Enemy Silent but deadly, this one. Get it? Because it blows right past you, stinking of shit. "How English; Everything Stops For...
6.1.10 "Remember A Trash Can"
Cold Front One of the earliest conclusions we came to regarding our fifth generation was that it could not follow on directly from its...
6.1.9 "Star-Spangled Eyes"
Fortunate Son This is quite the turnaround. “Fortunate Son” isn’t just significantly better than “Civilization”, it expertly targets and...
6.1.8 Second Contact
Civilization Let’s lead with the conclusion: “Civilization” doesn’t really work. Perhaps appropriately for a story about the meeting of...
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