Malcom
and Travis seek Eisilium on a comet while T’Pol considers marriage to Koss –
Wikipedia
The good:
Another
good character development episode for T’Pol. Her journey to the human darkside
is nearly complete.
The comet
was cool. Very reminiscent of "Armageddon" in a vanilla way.
I thought the scene talking to the school
children was great. It felt very realistic. This is the most famous human
exploration in history (at the time), of course they’d have to PR/feel good
stuff. Set up with just the right amount of awkwardness.
The bad:
The
Vulcan tag-along stuff was very weird. Seriously, why did Captain Vanik agree
to dinner with Archer if he was just going to be a dick the whole time? It’ll
only be OK if it resolves somehow later on. Hopefully it was more than just a
convenient plot device to deliver T’Pol’s mail and dues ex machina the shuttle
craft at the end.
Why didn’t
they just transport down to the surface? Seems pretty challenging to me to land
a shuttlecraft on an unstable rotating surface literally surrounded by space
debris. The only stated reason for not using the transporter was that they
wouldn’t be able to get a core sample with it.
The comet
was only 82 kilometers in diameter. There would barely be enough gravity to
keep them on the surface.
Why take
the core sample so far away from the shuttle craft, other than to create an
artificially long distance to race against the clock on the way back?
Why blast
a crater and then take a core sample? Do they want to ignore the most recent
layers for some reason? Of course, blasting did set up both the alteration of
comet’s rotation and Travis’s injury.
Once
Travis was injured, why didn’t they use the transporter to beam him out, given
that by that time the race against the clock had started?
The
shuttle craft has no capacity to hover? It only has thrusters on the aft to
take off like an airplane? I don’t buy it. I bet we see it hovering later on
when they aren’t trying to avoid falling into an ice cavern.
Doesn’t
the shuttle craft have seat belts? Sure seems like a handy thing to have on a shuttle
craft.
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