Monday, January 31, 2011

Star Trek: The Enterprise Incident

Season 3's second episode is a big improvement over its first. The Enterprise Incident finds Captain Kirk getting a bit testy and for no apparent reason violating Romulan space. Three Romulan ships decloak and surround the Enterprise, and threaten to destroy it. Kirk and Spock beam over, but Kirk is not acting quite rational and Spock betrays him to the hottie Romulan commander. Who says gals with pointed ears and bad eyebrows can't be sexy? Of course we know it's all a big trick to grab the cloaking device and Mr. Spock isn't really a big Doofus.

This is one of the few Fontana episodes I like, but it doesn't make a lot of sense if you stop to think about it for too long and it's not particularly believable. Kirk gets his ears done, though, and Mr. Spock gets jiggy with the commander, so what more could you ask for? Enhanced effects on ships are nice. I must be getting used to the enhancements because I actually have to remember to look for them.

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