I believe in time fans will regard the front porch of ENT episodes with special affection. After a season and a half of TNG I felt that way and it went on to do great things. I hope that example resounds as we huddle now against the cold gap till the series resumes.

The production team deserves another round of applause. The scenes they produce - irrespective of content conveyed - are breathtakingly refreshing and consistently of award caliber. The acting and direction this week rivaled the quality of the pilot.

The reward hungry alien captain was a hoot! And the gutsiness of frying a sympathetic opponent in cold blood needs to remain in the series. The launch bay decompression scene was exciting, but so similar to "Aliens" that I began humming Horner's score.

The "Night of the Killer Androids" interplay with Reed, Sato, and Mayweather was fun but grew subtly serious after Malcolm returned from the loo. (Are all islanders incontinent?) Porthos needs to be better trained - growl then bite! And sorry, but Phlox leading the mumbo-jumbo cheer left me grateful the Great Plume of Agasoria occurs only every eleven years.

I liked it that Silik and Daniels confront Archer with the same plea: "Save your ship, help me find him." Speaking of, where exactly is the docking port on NX-01? It's not fair to neglect an exterior view! Thanks for the great views of Tucker's desk and Engineering's upper area though.

Vulcan scientists should not outright dismiss time-travel as impossible. Going forward is "relatively" simple. Going backwards would be simply uninteresting even if it was mathematically defensible, which it currently isn't. From the standpoint of entertainment this is not a serious obstacle since by Clarke's Law time-trippers would be distinguishable from otherwise hi-tech contemporaries only by the technomage boxes they bear in their toy fight.

I still don't accept that Daniels - RIP? - "knows a great deal more" than Archer's scrambled egg order. His Omniscient HoloboxTM should already have internally pre-stored any NX-01 access codes he might conceivably need. And he could have used the Ghost GauntletTM to do any necessary cross-circuiting to (Plan) B. (Both presumed available soon as choking-hazard accessories to the DanielsTM action figure.)

Enough mysteries remain without any confusing temporal angle. Why did Silik spare Archer while wasting Daniels? What about the pointy ears I see in the time-booth?! As Archer's univeral timeclock ticks on, the contents of E14 remain unexplained and I frankly cannot care. But I'll be sticking around to see what's inside anyway.