S3.E11

Carpenter Street

Episode aired Nov 26, 2003
TV-14
43m

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to Detroit in 2004 to stop three Xindi-Reptilians from constructing a bioweapon.Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to Detroit in 2004 to stop three Xindi-Reptilians from constructing a bioweapon.Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to Detroit in 2004 to stop three Xindi-Reptilians from constructing a bioweapon.

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7.4/10

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Trivia
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Damron, Xindi reptilian) said in an interview that the character makeup process required for the role nearly convinced him to quit acting altogether.

Goofs
The final shot shows mountains in the background. There are no mountains in or near Detroit, but there are mountains in California where the episode was filmed.

Quotes
Sub-Commander T'Pol: [referring to Loomis] In one individual we've managed to find the worst qualities of this era: greed, violence, moral corruption.

Connections
References Psycho (1960)

Soundtracks
Where My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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Featured review

9/10

Back to the Present

Carpenter Street is one of the most entertaining, well-performed and well-written episodes of Season 3. Archer and T'Pol are the featured characters and Leland Orser gives a memorable guest appearance.

Temporal Agent Daniels sends Archer and T'Pol from the Expanse back to 21st century earth on a search and destroy mission possibly related to the Xindi bio-weapon. Leland Orser plays a nurse who works in blood bank and, on the side, supplies the Xindi with victims for their experiments. The story is presented straightforwardly and achieves the feeling and atmosphere of a 1990s detective show.

Carpenter Street is uncharacteristically well-written, directed and edited. The script explores the differences between ST's vision of the future and the present as well or better than episodes of previous series in the franchise treating this same theme, but does not lose sight of the story in these ruminations. The story is also well-acted - Blalock and Orser stood out for me.

Finally - Carpenter Street stands out as one of the few Xindi/Daniels plots which could function as a stand-alone episode and does not require much previous exposure to Enterprise's time travel and Xindi arcs.

Recommended.