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The Xindi/Abyss arc continues to build in this strong character development story featuring Linda Park as Hoshi Sato. T'Pol has discovered a new wrinkle in the Abyss - and can now predict the location of the spheres that appear to cause the time-space distortions. To test her hypothesis, the ship heads toward one of the predicted locations. As they approach it, Hoshi is contacted by a telepathic alien who can cast his consciousness dozens of light years from his physical location. It appears that this alien wants to help the Enterprise learn about the Xindi in exchange for a few days alone with Hoshi. Most of the episode centers on Hoshi's relationship with this exiled, ancient, telepath.

The episode is well-written and conceived, and very nicely directed by Roxanne Dawson. It exhibits a rare emotional and psychological sensitivity for the franchise. Recommended - but won't make a lot of sense unless you've already been introduced to the arc of which it is a part.

Hoshi is contacted by a telepathic life form and Enterprise investigates.

This is a hit and miss episode that develops the series 3 narrative pretty well. There is some pretty interesting information revealed relating to the spheres and the nature of the expanse, but this is a sub-plot to a Star Trek version of what some other reviewers described as Beauty And The Beast.

Homage or not, I found the scenes with Hoshi and Tarquin to be too much like the Disney animation. We have a castle with candlesticks, books and a crystal ball in place of the mirror. In one scene Belle... sorry Hoshi, goes outside and looks at something she shouldn't be looking at and then he comes out and tells her off.

That being said, I found it a well made episode with solid performances from all cast, particularly the guest actor. My favourite scene is when Archer and Tucker almost lose the shuttle and have to be creative to stop it from floating away.

In Enterprise, Hoshi has the sensation of being observed, and when an alien entity contacts her, she calls Reed that does not locate any stranger on board. Hoshi asks Dr. Phlox to examine her, but then she finds that a telepathic alien is inviting her to visit his planet. In return, he would use his abilities to seek the Xindis and where they are building their weapon. Hoshi meets Tarquin, who is four hundred year-old, and lives in exile because his society does not accept his telepathic power, and finds his real intentions in contacting her. Meanwhile T'Pol discovers that there is a second sphere, and she tries to map its position to foresee the location of the anomalies generated by the devices.

"Exile" is an episode centered in Hoshi Sato, with an alien being outcast by his society and forced to live in exile due to his abilities. The idea is not original and the motives of the lonely Tarquin are predictable, and in the end "Exile" is only a reasonable episode. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Exílio" ("Exile")

Hoshi is finding life very difficult on the ship. She keeps seeing and hearing things and she insists it is VERY real...but there's no evidence anything is really there. However, eventually a being named Tarquin appears and explains himself. He is not really there- -he's a projection that would like to meet her since she is super- uber cool and would make a nice friend. He also promises to try to help the ship locate the Xindi and learn more about them. However, it turns out that Tarquin is such a pathetic wienie!! Regardless, he doesn't look like he'll let her leave--as he's very lonely and Dr. Who-like, as he wants a companion.

This is a mildly interesting and pathetic episode. While you feel sorry for Tarquin, he's a creepy guy as well. I certainly wouldn't want to visit him!

Not a must-see but worth your time.

By the way, perhaps I missed something. I understand that Tarquin's people exiled him to the planet he lives on--but why couldn't he just leave and have Enterprise take him away from this lonely place?

OKI have not written a review but I am in a rewatch of star trek enterprise right now and the is it right now and I understand there has to be a suspension of Disbelief for certain things to happen within any story but as I'm watching Archer and Bing Archer and trip try to disable the disable the shuttle pod I saw them shoot out a thruster and for some unknown reason it decided to fall back to the sphere and I just can't handle it. I really do wish that enterprise had been given more seasons especially with the atrocious way they decided to end the series but this episode just made me want to write my 1st review because I just couldn't handle it.

I have always liked this episode. It has clear sci fi elements, bordering to fantasy. The lonely creature resides in a mountainous castle on planet all alone, wind swept and snowy, being exiled from his home planet for his mind reading abilities. He has a crystal orb allowing him to extend his mind reading so that he can contact minds far away. This allows him to find a partner to stay with him. He is 400 years old and very lonely, and grave stones in the forever windy and snowy garden implies he has outlived several companions.

So the question is will Hoshi be his next one? He reads her mind and knows she is lonely, too. He offers to help the ship learn about the Xindi, but on the condition Hoshi stays with him as he extends his mind outwards to get information.

The problem is that Hoshi might not want to, plus the solitude and isolation has made the mind reader kind of desperate.

The other story line involves the ship trying to find and access to a moon sized alien orb they just discovered, only to end up realising there are maybe 50 more in that area of space. There are a few nice scenes here, for example one where the shuttle mal functions as they examine the orb's surface.

Basically for me Exile is about loneliness, and I like it a lot.

Basically a Beauty and the Beast episode.

And once again the women of the crew are particularly highlighted in order to boost the poor ratings. Hoshi brings short dresses and high heels with her on her trip to the planet and doesn't walk around in uniform. When was the last time Archer, Reed or Tucker wore shorts and shirts at away missions? When I look at the episodes of the third season, I am not surprised why this series was canceled early. Somehow every episode of this season seems like a hopeless attempt to save the ratings - for example by putting T'Pol in tight new colored jump suits or giving Tucker massage lessons late at night in her skimpy PJs. Or that market for sex slaves in the second to last episode. In principle, the third season can be described as "More skin and more pointless action".

The most laughable thing in this episode: Archer and Tucker land on the sphere in a shuttle. The shuttle then takes off on its own because a thruster malfunctions. Although the shuttle also rotates on its own axis, it continues to rise higher and higher. The two then engage in target practice with their phasers to destroy the thruster. And then the shuttle falls back onto the sphere like a stone! If the gravitational pull of this sphere had been so great, the shuttle would never have taken off thanks to a small thruster.

And I find it quite boring with Star Trek now that the bridge crews are always the focus of every action. The spaceships in all series have between 70 crew members or well over 100. Scientists of every discipline, specialists in their fields. But no matter what it's about, the captain, the chief engineer, the tactical officer, the science officer... everything is taken care of by the bridge crew. Just imagine an accident happens. Then the ship suddenly loses all of its senior officers! And why do the ships actually have a crew of dozens of officers if they never have anything to do anyway? No matter what it is about: cartography, synthesizing a new alloy, metallurgy, geology and deposit investigation, genetic analyzes (the doctor is not only a doctor but also a geneticist, immunologist, virologist...), archaeology, xenobiology... there is never a need for a crew specialist to be consulted.