TV: Star Trek Enterprise

The Forge

When Earth’s embassy on Vulcan is bombed, Enterprise is called in to investigate. Has a breakaway religious sect started a campaign of violence or does the High Command know more than it is willing to say?

This episode proves that the Vulcans are less logical than they care to make out. We found that they’re willing to lie about their hidden monitoring station in season one’s The Andorian Incident, but their capacity for murder is a new twist. This theme plays throughout the episode and there’s a very human moment when Soval (Gary Graham) waits for Trip to stop looking over his shoulder.

In the secondary plot, Archer and T’Pol’s desert trek marks the first moment Enterprise's newly reduced budget has shown itself. The CGI creature that chases them is only seen fleetingly onscreen.

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