Rate The Episode Returns! "The Crossing"

Okay, Rate The Episode is back in action as of tonight now that the March reruns have ended. So let's get rolling, gang!

I gave "The Crossing" a 6. Mostly I found this one pretty boring... just a standard non-corporeal beings plot for the most part. I did, however, enjoy seeing Dr. Phlox, one of the most underused characters, get a good role to play in the conclusion of this episode.

Moving the whole crew into the catwalk was a repeat of what they did in the episode "The Catwalk" earlier this season... and that was one of my favorite episodes. I can see Archer's repeatedly moving the crew into the catwalk in emergencies and rerouting control there as justification at Starfleet Command for incorporation of the Battle Bridge and saucer separation.

Next week's episode looks good though... MORE KLINGONS! YES!

So it got a 6 from me. How about you, gang?

Haven't seen it yet, if I can remember to watch it on Sun. I'll give my rating. What I've seen in the ads doesn't impress me, looks like any other body snatcher scenario.

More Klingons in the next ep, eh. We've been beat over the heads with all stuff klingons so many times we'll all have the bumps to look like them.

3. Simply boring and... awkward. (I would have given a 2, but there's still some eps left.. and I'm not very hopeful.)

There were a few things that bugged me.

1) Apparently Archer can rely on hunches and divine insight in deciding when an alien is hostile and when it is not. For an explorer he seemed rather defensive and conservative in his approach to alien beings. He was of course proven right later on... good thing he had script-writers on his side.

2) Something about locking up people who act differently just rubs me the wrong way. Especially when this difference in behaviour has yet to prove itself harmful to anybody.

3) Travis acting like an idiot, when he doesn't realize Trip has been possessed again. He doesn't respond when talked to, makes a run when you get closer... tries to escape from the catwalk. What other signs do you need? Trip to turn his neck 180 and start puking on you?

At least we got to see some more faces of the crew. And that's about it.

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Originally posted by Joe Dizzy
3. Simply boring and... awkward. (I would have given a 2, but there's still some eps left.. and I'm not very hopeful.)

There were a few things that bugged me.

1) Apparently Archer can rely on hunches and divine insight in deciding when an alien is hostile and when it is not. For an explorer he seemed rather defensive and conservative in his approach to alien beings. He was of course proven right later on... good thing he had script-writers on his side.

Commentary: There is still perfectly normal human paranoia, which El Capitian seems to have finally developed.

2) Something about locking up people who act differently just rubs me the wrong way. Especially when this difference in behaviour has yet to prove itself harmful to anybody.

Commentary: Ah....a lack of survival instinct so profoundly stated. I had forgotten what it was like.

3) Travis acting like an idiot, when he doesn't realize Trip has been possessed again. He doesn't respond when talked to, makes a run when you get closer... tries to escape from the catwalk. What other signs do you need? Trip to turn his neck 180 and start puking on you?

Commentary: Agreed. But then Starfleet officers tend to have the 'Babe-in-the-woods-no-brain effect'. What I would give for a officer with a brain.

At least we got to see some more faces of the crew. And that's about it.

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Originally posted by Phantom
Haven't seen it yet, if I can remember to watch it on Sun. I'll give my rating. What I've seen in the ads doesn't impress me, looks like any other body snatcher scenario.

More Klingons in the next ep, eh. We've been beat over the heads with all stuff klingons so many times we'll all have the bumps to look like them.

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You can probably skip this one, Phantom. If it didn't impress people like me who really like ENT, it certainly won't do much for you, no offense intended.

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Originally posted by BouncyCaitian
2) Something about locking up people who act differently just rubs me the wrong way. Especially when this difference in behaviour has yet to prove itself harmful to anybody.

Commentary: Ah....a lack of survival instinct so profoundly stated. I had forgotten what it was like.

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So it's paranoia above and survival instinct now? And when has paranoia ever been a good thing?

But of course, you're Right.
Let's lock up everything we don't understand, shoot at everything that dares to be different and teach whoever we have't killed some good ole' Kristian values.

For a moment I thought I was watching Trek there.. good thing that's been dealt with.

ignoring the bait above

The episode actually was not that bad in my opinion, it had a lot of TOS in it and the stock character of the plot was decently executed. Lets admit it here non corporal life taking over corporal is a well used tool in the trek writters tool kit it should always be judged on execution not originality.

With that said I did not like the near cold dead stop of the episode, B&B have no sense of closure which trek has always had in tyese single shot episodes, nope, hey problem solved so lets warp out of here.

8. I enjoyed it. Only major beef I have is the ending... it's not very trek-y to destroy an entire species in despiration.

i gave it a 7. It held my attention. Thought it was weak in spots, but i judge it by my attention span when watching it as i put my book down. Yes, Dr Phlox was nice to see given a role.

Pretty standard Trek fare: energy beings taking people over's been done at least once a series.

I also thought Archer pretty close minded right off the bat, but then again -- just about every alien they run into has ultimately been hostile...

Locking people in their rooms while 'possessed': makes sense to me. Don't want them wandering about doing who knows what...especially as they aren't asking permission to do these crossings. The first one or two, you take their workd for things; when it starts happening ship-wide...

This Starfleet is still military-oriented. The CO of a ship is going to react to avoid trouble before it happens, when he can.

Nice big honkin ship but

What do ....Energy Creatures......Need....with a .....Starship?

Karg...it's a place to keep all their stuff! :p

Apparantly these creatures can't survive in space, so they have this ship to keep them alive :P

Err had, before Archer gave 'em the old torpedo.

I liked the episode, but agree Archer was kind of close minded. On the other hand, how are you supposed to react to energy creatures taking control of you're friends, and crewmates without their consent? We've seen this before in Trek, but this crew hasn't. It may be completely beyond the experience of humanity at this point. (Playing Devil's advocate here. I think Trek should try for a solution short of genocide. Maybe give them directions to that spooky automated body snatching ship repair facility.)

Saw the Sunday encore.Gave it a 6.The first half did have a strong TOS feel but it kind of stalled.Phlox shined ,one of the best alien crewmembers in a Trek series.Next week's ep looks pretty damn cool.Despite this weeks shortcomings,I was entertained for an hour.

While I regularly watch (and enjoy) "Enterprise", this episode´s ending was a low point. I expected much more; the aliens were there just for bogeyman value.

Finally saw it. Got to agree with the majority here: I rather liked it, but the end was a big disappointment. Overall, except a few poorly thought out scenes, the whole episode rather kept my attention ... and then came the end. Not only is the solution chosen by Archer very Untrek(TM) ... be he could at least have shown remorse about it! As suggested, there could have been the automated repair facility, only the crew thinks it's been destroyed completely. A Real Star Trek Engineer or Science Officer (TM again) would have found a way to help repair the ship. A Real Star Trek Captain (TM of course) would have found a way to come to a moral dilemna and make the good but painful choice. A Real Star Trek Scenarist (?) would have found something the audience could have connected with. Oh, well, the episode was still fun to wath up until the end :).

By the way, has anyone else noticed? When Picard or Sisko or even Kirk says the dreaded "You have the bridge!", the way the happy chosen one acknoledges and acts leaves no doubt about the honour and responsibility being passed onto him. Nothing like this in Enterprise. Pity ... somehow, I liked the way Riker walks to the captain's chair with a satisfied look on his face, or Kira's solemn nod, or how some less experienced/lower ranking gingerly accept the priviledge.

Did they say the other ship was only 500 meters? And Enterprise is 200? It didn't look like it.

I thought I heard 600 ... which seems a bit small compared to what we saw on screen.

I also think the Xyrilian ship was much bigger on the inside than the outside.

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8. I enjoyed it. Only major beef I have is the ending... it's not very trek-y to destroy an entire species in despiration.

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I think that is my point of view exactly. I couldn't really believe what I was being offered as the ending point of that episode. That wasn't Star Trek, that was Star Wars.

That said, there where some moments I enjoyed dispite the criticism: The Catwalk as a sort of Bunker is a nice idea. I didn't mind it being re-used during the same season and even thought it was smart to keep the bunks and the command area stuff in there, although most of that stuff would suffer in the heat while ENT is at warp: how warm was it supposed to get 300 degrees or something? Too hot for my monitor and my blankets. ;)

I liked the idea and the use of the non-corporeal lifeforms. Given these things are common features in any given SciFi series, but this time there was a nice twist to it. But how could our heroes travel to other places and time frames, when the beings couldn't even live in space. I thought they dwellt in subspace? That was bad writting IMO.

The locking away of crewmembers that clearly showed to be taken over into their quarters seemed okay to me, alone to make sure none of them would be asking the other crewmember of opposite sex to disrobe :)

Anyway, with a descent Trek-like ending (finding some way to leave them behind or even help them out) this would have been a good episode in my eyes.

So I don't care for it much and dispise the ending. Gave it a 4 or something.

There where so good episodes in the second season like "Carbon Creek" "Stigma" and "Crossfire" etc., that I had expected more of this.

My impression of the Episode was.....Meh. They really missed the point of Trek