The Long Road

06/16/2003 Archived Entry: "Enterprise 2x25: Bounty"

Remember Canamar? It was one of Enterprise's better episodes and aired maybe 10 episodes before this one. Remember how Archer was taken prisoner aboard an alien ship and had to peddle his piloting skills to make friends with his captors so that he could either sabotage the ship or talk the captors out of whatever they were planning to do? Well, the exact same thing happens this episode except for some Klingons and a subplot involving T'Pol in heat, trying to seduce the good Doctor.

For a supposedly honorable race of warriors the Klingons really come off as sleazy cheats.

Like the Borg, T’Pol going through Ponfar just feels like an incredibly cheap way of trying to attract attention to the show. What’s worse is though T’Pol is incredibly sexy, the camera just doesn’t seem to be able to convey that convincingly. Scenes that are supposed to be titillating are shot worse than a if a teenage boy had a video camera and a peep hole to the girls’ changeroom.

The best parts of this episode are the ones where Phlox tries to maintain some form of professional integrity with T’Pol slinking around trying to seduce him. It’s great seeing him holding on to his remaining composure while trying to swat her away. I’m certain we lesser mortals would have just caved in.

Have we ever seen forcefields yet in this show, or did this episode introduce them?

For being repetitive, this episode gets 6/10