Reed and
Trip are stranded in a shuttlepod with no foreseeable help arriving before life
support runs out - Wikipedia
The good:
Hmmm…this
was a very middle of the road episode for me. I feel like the shuttle pod
episodes (I have a vague memory of two or three from TNG) are always like that.
Don’t get me wrong, I can totally appreciate minimalist sets to focus on
character, but frankly, the script and the acting have to be top notch to pull
it off. I did liked more as it went on, but basically that meant I went from
active dislike to bland detachment.
This was
the first character building episode for Malcolm where I actually felt a bit of
a connection.
The end
scene “Am I still dreaming” thing between Malcom and T’Pol was decent (but in
no way balanced out the painful set up – see below)
Basically,
there was some payoff in this episode, but there was a lot of crap to wade
through. Just watch the last ten minutes or so and call it a night.
The bad:
Mashed
potatoes to seal a pressure leak? Nope.
How
convenient that Archer had a bottle of liquor stowed in the shuttlepod.
The dream
rescue sequence between T’Pol and Malcolm was physically painful to watch.
Stinky? STINKY? Seriously, I totally appreciate what they were going for, but a
swing and miss.
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