Look! A pointy-eared baby. Such a threat to humanity, at least to an ominous monotonous bad guy speaking to an odd-looking doctor. (Ah! The guy with the eyebrows in Mulholland Drive.) After the cut, Tam Elbrun delivers a rousing speech to a disinterested group of extraterrestrials as the similarly spirited NX-01 crew looks on, ignored. They chat briefly afterwards so the plot can split two ways: Travis cannot shake a reporter desperately working her way into his pants, and a nice woman staggers in and dies after providing T'Pol with a test tube full of hair (off a bald baby?).

Phlox tells them the DNA belongs to Trip and T'Pol's baby, that the baby is doing OK, and the accused mother tells the accused father she can tell it's true because she's Vulcan. Right. Tam comes aboard to drink lots of coffee in Archer's new secret room and inform him of a xenophobic cult on earth, Terra Prime. The reporter (apparently Mayweather's ex, female) finally nails him down in the shpod before more hammering in his quarters. Archer's investigation leads them to suspect Terra Prime operates on the moon, and Trip and T'Pol surreptitiously go looking for their unbirthed baby (did you know the moon is covered in caves?).

Robotonous watches old Colonel Green speeches for inspiration (selling that character short, quite deserving of his own story). Not so stupid moon miners ("Commander Tucker!") who work in earth normal gravity easily pick off the new interlopers and turn them over. The moon base lifts itself up off the surface and quickly warps (!) its way over to Mars, where a Ravashol pulsar has been installed for Earth's protection (oh the irony). Robotonous threatens to target Earth to show it how much he cares (highlighting the inane logic of loving so much you must hate).

Superb (yet wasted) actor Peter Weller brings John Frederick Paxton alive even if he seems to be phoning in his performance. In true "Enterprise" form it looked marvelous, particularly the magnificent lunar views (and of blue earth hanging in its un-sky). And I liked Tam's speech, even if Trip did not. But overall this was kinda weak, too over the top for a serious episode, even though it had plenty of character development: Travis is all over (except on the bridge, when his senior officers are at risk), Hoshi gets a prop for the universal translator, Phlox is Phlox, and Reed gets shafted as superfluous with his dark gay dockside Daniels-lite meetings. Too little, too late.