Enterprise S1E10 - Cold Front

Archer finds out a crewman is helping to fight the Temporal Cold War against Silk and some of the Suliban – Wikipedia

The good:

Very solid episode from start to finish. Glad to finally have a definite story arc rather than another one-off, particularly since it referenced back to the pilot.

I liked the cloak and dagger game between Daniels and the Silik. Who should Archer trust? Silik saved the ship, but he’s already proven to be a “bad guy”. Daniels has a great story, but no reason why he couldn’t just be a very convincing sleeper agent. Even at the end, we don’t really know what happened, other than Enterprise is caught up in something big.

It was a little forced of course, but I like that the writers made sure that all of the advanced gadgets were destroyed or lost.

Great cliffhanger-ish ending…obviously more to come with the Temporal Cold War.

The bad:

It did seem a bit overgenerous to give the pilgrims a detailed tour of the warp core, easily one of the most critical areas of the ship. Only reason to do it at all was to allow Silik to save the ship.

I guess Star Fleet doesn’t follow HIPAA. What if that poor bastard trying out the medical scanner had cancer or space syphilis? Luckily he was “in perfect health”.

The melt through the walls gadget. On the positive side, it WAS cool, and a great way to essentially settle the matter on whether or not Daniels was from the future. However, it did fail on the “selective application of the special power” issue. You mean to tell me that every part of the person using it becomes incorporeal except for the soles of their shoes? That is both very specific and highly useful.

Silik infiltrates engineering. For some reason, Daniels orders everyone out…which makes no sense whatsoever. Tripp can’t call for security from engineering…he has to actually “go get help”? Literally the exact moment that as everyone leaves, Silik appears and kills Daniels. Tripp and T’Pol witness the murder, and then run away to find the captain. They NEVER call for security. They just leave the most sensitive area of the ship in control of Silik. Malcolm is never alerted to the security breach until after Archer is revived.

On that note, isn’t odd that Malcolm wasn’t kept in the loop about the Silik-Daniels issue? Like, hey dude we’ve got two spies from the future on board…we’re giving one of them command-level access to our systems…and the other one can turn invisible and contort his body to fit through tiny access spaces…just a heads up.