Damage

So the captain becomes a terrorist.

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter .

Stopped watching the show after this episode. The writing took a downward turn . They sentenced a ship to death st save them selfs and with that leaving their humanity behind.

An excellent episode. I wish we'd have seen more like this in Voyager.

From other reviews I've seen people mentioned that this isn't Star Trek because it's supposed to be a perfect world. Well as Sisko said once: "It's easy to be an a Saint in Paradise".

His ship is broken, his crew battered and bruised and the fate of Earth hangs in the balance if Archer doesn't get to the planned meeting with the Xindi scientist to stop the planet killing weapon.

This is set 100 years before Kirk remember, no Federation, no Prime Directive. This is the deepest Humans have ever been out into space and they're at the brink of extinction. Archer did what he had to do. "The good of the many out way the good of the one" in this case.

An excellent episode that pushes every character to the brink including the Captain.

When the episode begins, Enterprise is a total mess. It's crippled and unable to move, crew members are dead and yet the Reptilians called off their attack because the Xindi Council want to discuss the humans and the possibility that they and not the humans are the villains. However, Archer is still being held--but now it's with the Aquatics. Oddly, he's knocked out and when he awakens, he's being welcomed back aboard Enterprise. Apparently the Aquatics put him in a tiny capsule and launched him back to his ship. Why did they releases Archer?

At the same time a battered Archer is brought aboard and he's planning a raiding party to steal a Xindi warp coil, T'Pol is starting to fall apart. She is an emotional mess and argues, very emotionally, with the Captain about his plan to steal the device. After all, it's a slippery moral slope and his disregard for ethics is scary.

This is a very good and exciting episode...no doubt about it. The show is full of action, plot twists and ethical dilemmas. But it also brings up a few minor questions. First, why is the space suit that T'Pol uses so crappily made? It is the 23nd century after all! Also, whenever you see the Aquatics, they're in water that is kinda yellowish. Is this Aquatics pee? And finally, showing naked folks would seem to indicate that the producers of the show are willing to try ANYTHING to get folks to watch the show. Am I right? I am just curious and want to know about all three of these things.

This is so far away from Gene's vision of the future that Braga & Berman should have been permanently exiled from Star Trek! A horrible show, and certainly not one that shows that the future is any better than what we have now: selfishness, turning our backs on those in need, and basically being A-holes! This doesn't even deserve one star!

Ole salt Archer no longer wants t' be jus' an explorer 'n the worst cap'n in Star Trek history 'n has therefore found his new callin' as a freebooter. As a fan o' big booty, he commandeers the first ship he comes across t' plunder its warp coil.

While Janeway strictly refused t' use captured technology on her ship (S7E14 "The Void"), Archer doesn't hesitate fer long. The ole swashbuckler doesn't wants t' go down in history like lily-livered Janeway. In doin' so, he once again betrays the ideals 'n values o' Star Trek. But we've been used t' that since season 3. Season 3 seems t' be the season in which the end justifies the means 'n Archer doesn't reckon twice about whether thar are other alternatives t' solvin' conflicts 'n problems. This season, the Enterprise crew be portrayed as a bunch o' cutthroats 'n thugs, which doesn't make 'em any more likeable t' me.