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I liked this episode well enough when I first watched it, but recapping it was like in-SANE-ly boring. I don't know why. I really don't. Maybe it was all the repetition of not just stuff we learned from other episodes, but stuff we learned in THIS VERY EPISODE! As if we'd forget in less than an hour. Maybe I just couldn't emotionally commit myself to this episode because Bermaga stupidly saw fit to interrupt what could be a nice, suspenseful flow with SIX WEEKS OF RERUNS. Idiots. My god. With the shabby treatment they're giving this series, I've long stopped believing they want to save it.
After the announcement that Enterprise is moving to the nine o'clock timeslot next week -- which will be RERUNS FOR SIX WEEKS -- we jump right into the episode without any previouslies. The ship approaches a glowing red dot. It's a planet. A giant. A red giant, which sparks me to sing, "Yo-ho-ho, Red Giant!" because my mother had a deep and abiding belief in the secret power of frozen vegetables. Here's what we learn: a traffic jam of Xindi ships holds up the beltway between the two interior planets, and there's a detection grid generated by a mess o' satellites. Quantum puts on his Exposition Furrow to say that Degra mentioned Azati Prime would have a security net. They hide behind a planetoid. Ships approach the detection grid, and we get a close-up of a few ships heading toward an Earth-like planet. Quantum wants the lead ship magnified and the warp signature displayed. Two small squares with spirals in them appear in the lower left corner of the viewscreen. I assume that's the warp signature, but we've never seen that feature on the viewscreen before. It's pretty cool. Quantum smiles grimly, "Degra."
That naturally means we need to see the man that makes Quantum smile so very grimly, so we bop on over to Degra's ship, where it's cocktail hour. Degra pours the drinks from this cool glass bottle that has a pewter dragonfly hanging from a chain draped around the bottle's neck. The drinkers receive their cocktail reverently as Degra explains the occasion for such celebration. "It may seem odd to celebrate the completion of a weapon. Particularly one designed to destroy an entire planet. But recall the words of Enarchis, written some fifty years into the Great Diaspora: 'Without a world of our own we are but children lost in the wilderness.'" Yeah, yeah, you have a conscience about this whole thing because you're the Primate Xindi. We got that seventeen episodes ago, you freak. Degra goes on to say that the Xindi will soon emerge from their wilderness, and their work on the weapon will ensure that the Xindi will never be lost again. He toasts the new Xindi era.
We have this cheese at Cowgirl Creamery called "Stinking Bishop" that oozes, runs, and can basically walk out of the store on its own. Five scalding hand-washings does nothing to edge out the aroma. This song stinks more.