Acquisition
- Episode aired Mar 27, 2002
- TV-PG
- 45m
Almost the entire crew is left unconscious when four Ferengi pirates raid Enterprise. A still conscious Trip is the only one who can get rid of them.Almost the entire crew is left unconscious when four Ferengi pirates raid Enterprise. A still conscious Trip is the only one who can get rid of them.Almost the entire crew is left unconscious when four Ferengi pirates raid Enterprise. A still conscious Trip is the only one who can get rid of them.
- Female Crewmember
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Billy
- (uncredited)
- Crewman
- (uncredited)
- Engineer Alex
- (uncredited)
- Engineer
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise Crewman
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise Ensign
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Ferengi Muk asks "Do I look like a Menk to you?" The Menk were the lesser evolved species of the planet Valakia (the Valakians being the dominant species) seen in Dear Doctor (2002). In that same episode, the Valakians mention the Ferengi, but no one on Enterprise has ever heard of them.
- GoofsArcher asks Tucker to get some Phase Pistols. Tucker says the Ferengi cleaned out the armory; however, the Ferengi ship where the goods are being stored is not even 10 meters from them at this point (Krem is making Archer transfer stuff from Enterprise to the Ferengi ship).
- Quotes
Grish: [talking to someone off camera] Where is the vault? Do you understand me?
[next shot shows that he's talking to Porthos the dog, who barks back at him]
Grish: I can't lock onto its language.
Muk: It's a lower life form, you fool. Probably the captain's next meal.
Grish: Don't be so sure. Look at the size of its ears.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Enterprise: Two Days and Two Nights (2002)
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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This is episode has a pretty ridiculous premise but is played out as a comedy. Whether or not you'll find it funny depends on your own sense of humour. It has a similar tone to the original series episode 'A Piece Of The Action' where the protagonist plays along with the antagonist in order to outsmart them and give opportunities for actors to do comical character traits that we never usual see them doing.
My favourite sequence is at the start when we see the Ferengi exploring the Enterprise before the universal translators kick in. There are no words spoken except in the Ferengi language and this allows for some decent visual storytelling to be used.
'A Piece Of The Action' was funny, but this one is less so in my opinion. The charade Archer, Tucker are T'Pol play gets tiresome pretty quickly and you feel like any one of them could swat the Ferengi aside and take back control of the Enterprise.
There are massive continuity issues with the franchise that can be forgiven if an episode is entertaining, which this is mildly, but I suspect the hardcore Trek fanbase probably hate this with a passion. Out of interest though, Vulcans playing along with deceitfulness isn't anything new as Spock sometimes did when Kirk tried to lie his way out of trouble (Example - The City On The Edge Of Forever "Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child" to explain Spock's ears).
All performances are as good as they can be with the material given. It is fun to see Star Trek actors just playing it for laughs and I have to admit I was mildly amused seeing the Ethan Phillips, Jeffery Combs and Clint Howard as Ferengi. If the writing was a bit better this might have been hilarious but I found it moderately funny.
- snoozejonc
- Aug 26, 2020
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 1.78 : 1