Harbinger

Episode aired Feb 11, 2004
TV-PG
43m

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7.4/10

1.7K

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Thomas Kopache in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

With Reed and Hayes fighting over a training program and Trip seemingly making T'Pol jealous, Enterprise discovers a dying alien in a pod with technology similar to the Spheres.With Reed and Hayes fighting over a training program and Trip seemingly making T'Pol jealous, Enterprise discovers a dying alien in a pod with technology similar to the Spheres.With Reed and Hayes fighting over a training program and Trip seemingly making T'Pol jealous, Enterprise discovers a dying alien in a pod with technology similar to the Spheres.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This episode contains the first Star Trek female nude scene presented in a sexual context. Numerous episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) showed or implied nudity, but in strictly non-sexual contexts (e.g. art classes, nudist living, torture, streaking in protest, etc.), and Who Mourns for Morn? (1998) (which featured Quark being seduced by a lady in a bathtub) came as close as being sensual. This episode aired in the United States on 11 February 2004 during the height of controversy over Janet Jackson inadvertently exposing a breast during the Super Bowl halftime show, on a network owned by CBS (which was taking heat for the incident). As a result, the scene in which T'Pol's rear end is exposed was censored in the USA by zooming in on the scene, and keeping her buttocks just out of frame. Canadian broadcasts, however, were uncensored, as were later DVD and streaming editions.

Goofs
Jolene Blalock's real eyebrows can be seen curving down under T'Pol's make-up.

Quotes
[last lines]
Captain Jonathan Archer: You tried to destroy my ship. Why? Answer me!
The Alien: When the Xindi destroy Earth, my people will prevail.

Connections
References Star Trek: Enterprise: Similitude (2003)

Soundtracks
Where My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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Featured review

6/10

Good concept for the main series plot, but no great character moments

Enterprise comes across a pod with an Alien species.

I have mixed feelings about this episode. I liked the main plot regarding the new species encountered, which I won't go into at all for the sake of spoilers, and the scenes involving him make it worth watching. However, the two sub-plots involving Reed and Hayes' rivalry and a romance between two other characters were mostly forgettable.

Aside from the inevitable fight scene, which is pretty cool, the writers of Enterprise continue to assassinate Malcom Reed whenever they focus on him for any considerable length of time. This is unfortunate as he's had more positive moments in Series 3 than happened in either of the first two.

The romance scenes were pretty bland for me and feel like an excuse to show flesh. Personally, I only find romance compelling on screen if it develops out of the characters doing something meaningful or interesting together. In this case they do not. Much like some episodes of Voyager with B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris, they are attracted to each other because they just are and they consummate their attraction because they just do. Is it any anyway cinematic? To me, not in the slightest.

Others might feel differently, but for me this is an episode that needs to be seen for continuity and not much else.