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Reviews Ex Deus: "The Andorian Incident" Puts Archer's Characterization In Crisis and Squanders Appearance of Classic Aliens |
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07:33:14 on November 02 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: ENTERPRISE Reviews | www.stenterprise.com
Reviews Ex Deus
Written for TrekWeb by O. Deus, edited by Steve Krutzler
"The Andorian Incident"
Summary: Enterprise does Hogan's Heroes and Archer channels the spirit of
Janeway.
Quite a few Star Trek fans became excited at the news that Enterprise
was going to bring back the Andorians, but they might as well have not
bothered since their appearance contained little more material and depth
than the average Voyager alien of the week. The entire plotline pitting
Vulcan non-violence and logic against Andorian arrogance and paranoia and
human pragmatism and ruthlessness might have made for an interesting
exploration of three races and three cultures; but instead we are given a
Hogan's Heroes plot in which Trip sneaks around looking for hidden radios
under the noses of his captors. The Andorian culture is not explored, nor
is their identity expanded on in any way. In fact, eliminate the Trek
pre-history and the Andorians would just be another weird-looking Voyager
alien of the week. Their only function in Andorian Incident is to play
Colonel Klink to Archer's Hogan, be violent and threatening and then
suddenly passive. They have no depth or complexity, they simply exist and
act to move the plot along.
We learn little about the Vulcans either, except for more awful 'smell'
jokes. Considering that Vulcans have the discipline to suppress emotion,
it's doubtfull that they would really be bothered by smells. Nor is this
particular joke actually amusing in the first place. The final revelation is
not expanded on in any way and the scene of the Vulcan monk being punched
out is dubious at best, especially after we see an Andorian beat Archer and
Trip at the same time, and we know that Vulcans are stronger than humans.
This episode's entire appeal is to the knowledge of Trek
history but seems to be completely uniformed by it.
Produced from the pen of Fred Dekker, formerly the director of Robocop 3
and a veteran of Tales from the Crypt, Andorian Incident is a long journey
to nowhere, of which every minute feels as agonizing as Scott Bakula's
torture at the hands of Jeffrey Combs, who seems to have become Star Trek's
filler alien actor. And Combs is allowed to do nothing to make his
character stand out in any way, which essentially makes his role that of
Andorian #2. This essentially disposes of the Andorian aspect of the
Andorian Incident, which might as well not be there.
This leaves us with what is essentially a story about a hostage
situation, that has been done a very nearly infinite amount of times on
virtually every action series on television. The only thing original about
this take on the material, is Archer's transformation into Janeway as he
fumbles for something to do, most of which consists of being beaten into a
bloody pulp. His final decision to hand over the information to the
Andorians smacks of Janeway's arrogant and mindless interventionism in other
people's affairs and is downright bizarre in a universe where the humans are
outgunned by superior races and their only putative allies are those same
Vulcans Archer dislikes so much.
Archer's first problem begins with the fact that he had no real role in
intervening in the situation in the first place, especially if the monks did
not want him to. His second problem is that his intervention was disastrous
at best. As in Terra Nova, he seems borderline ignorant of elementary
military tactics. For example, it is mind boggling to see Archer and Trip
realize that the monks are being held hostage and so direct all their
attention to one attacker, never even taking into account the possibility of
other attackers or bothering to retrieve the downed Andorian's weapon;
almost as mind boggling as Archer leaving Reed behind in the tunnels on
Terra Nova. The exact same organization we see on the part of Malcolm Reed,
when dealing with the crisis, is the same kind of organization so thoroughly
and bafflingly lacking in Archer's actions. At times it seems as if the
wrong man is in command here.
Archer's final problem is the notion that he has any right to tell
either side what to do. It's not clear why he thinks this, but it seems a
legacy of Janeway's Voyager-era rampages in which she ordered around people
on alien worlds, e.g. Natural Law. Except that Janeway at least had a
powerful starship while Archer's is vastly out-of-date.
Nevertheless, Archer has insisted on involving himself in situations where
he's vastly outgunned. In Broken Bow and Fight or Flight, he at least took
the right side and had some justification for his actions. In Unexpected
however, he unnecesarily annoys the Klingons and squanders their debt to him
and in Andorian Incident, he intervenes in the conflict of two races, either
of whom could crush Earth without barely trying.
Indeed, Andorian Incident could easily have been a Voyager episode. It
offers no insight into the races it depicts; its plot and the actions of its
characters make little sense and the only joy in it comes from seeing Reed
take command and nearly take care of business. Not only has Enterprise's
take on the Vulcans grown tiresome after a handful of episodes, but the
series really needs to inject a certain amount of competence into the
portrayal of its Captain and look for episodes based on material more
original, than Hogan's heroes.
Next week: Revenge is a dish best served cold and it's very cold on an
ice comet.
About the Authors
Steve Perry is not the former lead singer of Journey. He is, however, a long time fan of all Trek, yes, even Voyager. He is currently in law school.O. Deus has been a TrekWeb visitor since the site's 1996 inception. Along with being an ardent poster, he is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Deus has written reviews for TrekWeb for over a year and shares the duties with Steve Perry.
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