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Star Trek Ent - Season 2 - Episode 11

Star Trek Ent - 2x11 - Precious Cargo

Originally Aired: 2002-12-11

Synopsis:
Trip rescues an exotic alien woman from her kidnappers, but ends up on an unexpected romantic adventure. [DVD]

My Rating - 4

Fan Rating Average - 3.28

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Problems
- Archer suggests that the Retellians should dock in Enterprise's launch bay so that Enterprise can take them to their destination quite a bit faster. But how exactly was the alien ship supposed to at all fit in Enterpise's launch bay? It was almost as big as Enterprise herself!

Factoids
- Kaitaama is a Kriosian. Her race was last featured in TNG: The Perfect Mate.
- Trip once owned a car.

Remarkable Scenes
- Trip trying to get the Universal Translator to work.
- The evil Archer and evil T'Pol scene.
- Trip's fight with Goff.

My Review
Remember TNG: The Perfect Mate? It's likely Kaitaama in this episode is one of those very rare empathic Kriosian females. But it seems Kaitaama was already married. It's interesting to see that while Trip finds her attractive, he doesn't at all fall for her immediately, like he would with an unbonded equivalent. Eventually, they start to hit it off though. Still, you've got to wonder why the Retellians stole her if she's already married. Not that they seemed very bright, though. Anyway, this episode is your rather generic abduction / hostage situation plot. It's rather annoying that there's a handy M class planet immediately available for Trip and Kaitaama to land on when they steal the escape pod. Other than that, the episode is another improvement over the not so good episodes season 2 has been serving up lately.

The following are comments submitted by my readers.

  • From Abigail on 2009-02-25 at 10:02pm:
    The plot was a mediocre, but I can handle that. What I cannot take is all the stereotyping. Why is “Enterprise” incapable of giving us a respectable female character? We have Hoshi, who is brilliant, yet constantly panics and second-guesses herself. [Interesting that she’s the linguist. Apparently even in the distant future, the math and sciences will continue to be male-dominated.] Apart from Hoshi, all we have is T’Pol, whom I cannot really classify or define. The episode “Precious Cargo” adds to my outrage by giving us the rich, spoiled brat who looks down upon the “lower class” male, yet depends upon him 100% for her own survival. The two bicker constantly but then somehow discover their deep passion for each other. All feminist rage aside, it is, at the very least, an old cliché.

    On a side note, what was with Trip having to remove his uniform due to a wound? This is not TOS; the shirt need not get ripped.
  • From Inga on 2015-01-30 at 2:45pm:
    I also found Kaitaama's personality a bit annoying. Also, another civilisation that developed high heels :D
  • From Zorak on 2016-10-01 at 2:38pm:
    Despite this being a rather cliché story we've all seen done before, I found the episode pretty charming. The actress who played Kaitaama did a good job portraying her character. Although this commoner/princess dynamic has been done many times, it reminded me most specifically of Lonestar and Princess Vespa from Spaceballs.

    All in all an enjoyable episode, though not a great one. The Archer/T'pol stuff was a bit ridiculous. As it was played off as humor though, Archers antics didn't bother me quite as much as they usually do.

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