Originally posted by tanman
Yep, all three of us that still watch shall see.

Originally posted by Chew
Well, four so far

Originally posted by Chew
Given Original Trek called first contact with the Klingons to be "disastrous", I sure hope it starts going that route.

Now that I think about it, Archer isn't the best at first contact so it's only a matter of time.

Since the set in the preview looks exactly the same as STVI, will Archers legal counsel be yet another distant relative of Worf?

Originally posted by MvRojo
...and 1 really negative on the TrekBBS.

I shall now pass Judgment on:

Enterprise: The Undiscovered Depth.

I make no apologies. I hated the trailer for this ep. It was a re-hash of Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country, and once again I laughed at B&Bs insistence of stealing from well made Trek (I mean they don’t seem to plagiarize their own movies do they?) and I wondered what trek was coming to. I make no apologies either that I tired of grunting roaring Klingons and long for the smart, sophisticated Klingons of old.

So with that in mind, with all the odds stacked against it, how did it fair?

Grade: B+

What? Grade B+? Reno, have you taken to smoking crack?

The first question I asked was: How did Archer get here? How was he captured? This I’m afraid is what let the episode down – it was never answered. In fact, as is common with a Berman production, the question is never even asked, in the hope the audience won’t notice. Well I did, I always do. Answer the question.

But that is actually quite minor compared to the rest of the ep. The SFX were astonishingly terrific. Absolutely beautiful. Granted they were copies of shots from The Two Towers, and Attack of the Clones, if they weren’t The Undiscovered Country – but to see this stuff in a humble TV show? Blew me away.

I loved the structure of this episode, the fact that it wasn’t linear. We start with Archer on trial – it’s a straight lift of TUC – then cut to the embarrassing theme tune which immediately takes all the drama out of it.

Yes, my heart sank at this point. But immediately after, Act One gets you. Seeing Archer through Klingon eyes, spouting twisted propaganda was excellent. The battle in the planet rings was stunning. So beautiful. Like some of those Trek novel covers come to life.

The sound track is great, no wallpaper this week.

And then lines of dialogue start creeping – why it’s almost like the writer of this episode had hung out on a BBS and wanted to address the concerns of fans…

‘This human not only committed a crime. This Human has committed am act of War!’

Followed not long after by:

‘He (Archer) is guilty. Of being a self righteous nuisance. Yes, he is guilty of that.’

I’m thinking – he haven’t we been complaining about that? To address it in a direct way makes you suddenly like that quality about Archer. It works – and it works well.

Archer shares a drink with his advocate. It’s blood wine. Archer coughs ‘What’s it the blood of…?’

I’m rubbing my eyes. Is this Star Trek I’m watching? Why I think it is!

In Rura Pentha, Archer and his advocate argue.
‘You’re a fool.’
Archer: ‘You’re welcome’
‘Are all Humans like this?’
Archer: ‘What’s that? Fair?’
‘Stupid.’

I’m on the floor. This is how to deal with it.

But we get more than neat one liners here – we get a depth to Klingons, their society and we are faced with a very stark realization. Judgment is a tremendous book end to the Klingon question.

Where The Undiscovered Country saw the court as a judgment ending the old warrior way and bringing peace, Judgment is the beginning of the warrior way. We are witnessing the Klingon descent into darker times.

Archer’s advocate is a noble man. A man of high culture, and his noble sacrifice at the end is made all the more bitter because we know his actions will be in vain.

There’s a depth here. I enjoyed this Klingon episode more than I’ve enjoyed a Klingon episode in quite some time. I saw something new. An interesting facet. Even if it was wearing the clothes of past adventures there was more to it than that. Much more.

Kudos to Mr. Goodman. We got a story this week. An Actual story. No fluff.

Y’see, that’s all it takes to win over a cynic like me.

We open with a low rent version of the court from STVI including the same judge costume. Archer is led in and charged with interfering with the empire - sentence: death!
We come back with a standard court scene with the protagonists each telling a different version of Enterprise's encounter with a D-5 cruiser ( nice cross between a D-7 and a Bird of Prey ) the Klingons looking for some non-Klingon "rebels" who've fled an abandoned Klingon colony. Nice space battle in the rings of a Saturn-like planet. Archer convinces his counsul to buck the system and actually defend him - result: Archer gets life on Rura Penthe and his lawyer gets a year.
Now down in the mines, Reed unbelievably pops up stating he bribed his way in on a dilithium freighter, and they just waltz out, The lawyer idealisticly wants to stay.

The best way to describe this episode is thin.
The usual poor script with holes ( no explanation of how Archer ended up in Klingon custody ) and a slapped togeather quick end. ( wich is highly unbelievable )
Nice effects, decent acting, good D-5 cruiser design, cardboard characters ( the Klingon lawyer who Archer convinces to fight the system ) and big suprise, bad writing.
There was one interesting conversation about the classes of Klingon society, and a recent shift toward the warrior class and mindless violence.
Still I give it a D-

Originally posted by Wizdar

Bandoman doesn’t count.

Originally posted by Bandoman
This episode actually didn't completely suck donkey balls.

Kudos to Mr. Goodman. We got a story this week. An Actual story. No fluff.

Originally posted by MvRojo
The upcoming episode, "Bounty" stems from what happened in "Judgment". The Klingons are still hunting Archer down and hire bounty hunters to capture him. Then, the Klingons will be back in the season finale, so this was Part 1 of an at least 4 part arc.