Early Review Calls 'Carpenter Street' Routine

See Also: 'Carpenter Street' Episode Guide

An early review of tonight's episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Carpenter Street", said fans are likely to respond to the episode "with a collective shrug."

Hercules of Ain't It Cool News notes that "A rare time-hopping mission...might have presented an opportunity to further our understanding of the Xindi�s role in the temporal cold war", but complained that instead, "our big thrill is watching T�Pol roughing up some Hummer-era lowlife."

In the episode, Reptilian Xindi travel into the past to create their secret weapon. Time-traveling Crewman Daniels explains to Archer that they are hiding from someone in Archer's era, and "the past seems like a pretty good place to hide."

Though T'Pol professes to have lingering doubts about the viability of time travel, she travels to 2004 with Archer, where they must deal with drive-through fast food and other 21st century conundrums.

"Remember how, toward the end of the 'Deep Space Nine', trips to the 'Mirror Mirror' universe grew almost disconcertingly routine? That�s pretty much how 'Enterprise' is treating commutes to far-flung eras these days," protested Hercules, who gave the episode two and a half stars.

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