This is a plot-heavy season with multi-episode arcs all over the place. Its weakest episodes are the monster- or villain-of-the-week plots that are probably recycled from earlier series like TNG or TOS. Who knows how many Phase II scripts are still lying around, unproduced, waiting for a good doctoring? This could be any episode of any series of Trek, which is interesting given its place at the tail end of ENT. We've spent 2 seasons watching things develop toward the utopian future of the 23rd and 24th centuries. The Andorians, Vulcans, and Tellarites are canonically the founding species of the Federation so it's gratifying to see their progression toward unification.
Then we get this episode and the Orion slave girls show up. There's really not enough space on the television screen for all the T&A that wants to be on display here. In another format--maybe a differently exploitative one, like pornography or '70s grindhouse cinema--they might have been less intrusive. Plus, we saw T'Pol's bum and have heard people talk about it for 4 seasons now. There's enough skin on display here to give any Puritan whiplash.
Then we get this episode and the Orion slave girls show up. There's really not enough space on the television screen for all the T&A that wants to be on display here. In another format--maybe a differently exploitative one, like pornography or '70s grindhouse cinema--they might have been less intrusive. Plus, we saw T'Pol's bum and have heard people talk about it for 4 seasons now. There's enough skin on display here to give any Puritan whiplash.