Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series) Rajiin (2003) User Reviews

Tension Builds in the Xindi Arc

[mstomaso · 7/10 · 2 August 2007]

Like most of the Season 3 Xindi episodes, Rajin is fast-moving and interestingly plotted - successfully producing a sense of urgency. This is a well-directed and well-shot episode. The acting is mostly fairly good. Nikita Ager plays Rajiin and does a passable job.

The story picks up within the Xindi story arc. The crew continues to work on a way to adapt the ship to the anomalies of the expanse, and Archer's nerves are on the ragged edge. While away on a shopping trip, Archer encounters a female slave who seems hell-bent on accompanying him back to Enterprise. She escapes her bonds, runs to Archer for protection, and the away team defends her.

Once Rajin is on board, it seems as if the episode is going to be yet another Enterprise exploitation of an attractive female, but the plot eventually takes surprisingly interesting turn which I won't spoil here.

Recommended, but only if you've seen the earlier parts of Season 3.

This is the season that sealed Enterprise's fate. The franchise decided to begin a complex DS9-length story-arc at the end of Season 2, which would span most of season 3. While not unprecedented among ST shows, this was certainly unprecedented in Enterprise. Trekkies became disturbed by the distant departure from the canon which was required by the Delphic Expanse and the Xindi episodes, and the show's dwindling audience, many of whom began their ST interests with Enterprise, didn't know what to make of it. Despite the fact that the quality of drama on the show was steadily improving, it's ratings steadily declined.

The Sexy Slave Rajiin

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 2 February 2008]

While in a trading planet buying a formula for synthesizing the volatile Trellium-D to insulate the hull and protect the Enterprise against anomalies in the Delphic Expanse, Archer, Reed and Trip seek information about the Xindis with a trader of female slaves. The sexy humanoid Rajiin asks for help to Archer and he rescues her from the alien merchant and brings the woman to the Enterprise. Rajiin uses her mysterious power to seduce men and women in Enterprise with a secret objective.

In this new sequel of the saga of the Enterprise in the Delphic Expanse, the sex slave Rajiin has a great participation in the story and gives information about the objectives of the mysterious alien council. As most of the episodes of the Third Season, this episode is also full of action. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Rajiin"

The overarching plot is developing well but a fairly mediocre episode

[snoozejonc · 6/10 · 1 October 2020]

Archer rescues Rajiin a slave girl who might have information about the Xindi.

This episode has some good moments as Archer obtains some badly needed information about the Xindi. I liked the Trellium-D scenes and the action sequence when the Enterprise is attacked.

I struggled with the main concept of the sexy alien girl. This again (from Enterprise) could have been a plot device for a porn film and feels like the show is try to be sexy for the sake of viewer gratification.

I was neither here nor there with the Xindi council scenes. I like how these characters are developing, but images of baddies sitting round a big table plotting just feels a bit naff in twenty-first century storytelling.

Scott Bakula is getting a lot more forceful and commanding in his portrayal of Archer in the Delphic Expanse and it works well in this one.

The Xindi Are At The Doorstep!

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 23 March 2017]

I guess if I tried to eliminate sexuality from every TV show, there wouldn't be much left. It's a part of our world. This set of episodes is so much more entertaining than what we've seen and if there is a little skin, so what. I notice no one is launching complaints about Trip taking off his shirt. I guess we have a double standard. The young prostitute was effective because of her looks. Her eyes and her appearance affected Archer and the others. They used some bad judgment for sure, but it was a natural thing for a compassionate man to try to rescue her. Do people think that another alien who was in fear for his or her life wouldn't have received that compassion? The Xindi know human nature. The fact is that she had special powers that were utilized by an amoral race.

The Enterprise Harbors a Spy

[Samuel-Shovel · 6/10 · 8 January 2018]

The Enterprise heads to a trading post in the hopes of finding some trellium-D. While there, they end up rescuing a sex worker and taking her back to Enterprise with them. But this girl isn't what she appears. Meanwhile the Xindi continue their plans to create a weapon to neutralize the Human race.

The teasing of a relationship between Trip and T'Pol has been going on for a while now and I just don't need it. Romance does not need to be added between the two of them.

Overall thus episode is pretty average for this season. It's better than a lot of the episodes from the first 2 seasons though. It's got good pacing, a story arc, and it develops the season's overall plot forward.

Trek as Cliffhanger Serial

[AnnieLola · 6/10 · 30 September 2021]

I lost interest in "Enterprise" not long after it first aired, but have lately been picking it up in reruns and find much of it quite good. But it steadily drifted into a dark and brutal cycle of endless war, and instead of occasional two-parters, we get a cliffhanger serial that goes on and on, under what seems to be the premise that war is exciting, so let's have lots of it. One can get tired of it all, especially of the darned Xindi.

This episode depends heavily on the presumed personal magnetism of Rajiin, who, while attractive, doesn't quite convey that haunting "you could fall into her eyes" quality. However, we can go along with the idea, and thus Rajiin is so appealing that she gets herself 'rescued' from sex slavery and sets about a very hands-on absorption of the info required by the Xindi for their nefarious purposes.

Once she reveals herself as an enemy and this agenda becomes known, she's thrown into the brig, where she represents an immense liability, since the Xindi want to retrieve her findings and will come for her. In the grim context of war, the only sensible course would be to eliminate her usefulness as a spy, the simplest way of accomplishing this being to execute her. That's war. But aw, gee, she's such a pretty girl and really just a victim of circumstance... and Archer is such a nice guy no matter what-- sheesh!

That Zjod guy

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 14 August 2022]

Had one high forehead!

What the frell!?!

What was that all about? It was probably just the Westmore family having fun with Trek-makeup again. But usually when they have a characteristic like that, it represents something like a huge brain, or telepathy, or some other genetic trait. The character Zjod here, didn't really have any traits where he would need a huge brain, a giant forehead, or telepathy.

Now this girl, Raijin, she was magnificent. They could have and should have developed that character much more.

She should have been the one with the high forehead, she had some interesting brain powers.

They did this "huge head" thing with some characters from season four that were relatives of the Andorians, the Aenir.

But in those episodes, the characters that were Aenir were actually telepathic, and blind.

It is interesting that they took one of those Aenir and made them a character in the new strange new worlds show, I thought that was interesting. It took me a few episodes to realize, "Hey! That guy is an Aenir!"

But Zjod ain't no Aenir...

This is merely a filler storyline that they ended in the episode "Carpenter Street".

The Poor Man's "The Perfect Mate"

[codyeriksenpsychologist · 6/10 · 6 April 2024]

Again, Berman attempts to recapture the magic of TNG, but falls short. Rajin's seduction is forced and comes off as unnatural, which also gives the episode a feeling of rushing the plot.

Not to mention, there are several plot points that didn't make sense to me:

1. How did the Xindi board the ship when Enterprise wasn't disabled? Are you telling me the pilot couldn't outmaneuver another ship trying to dock with it?

2. While the ship was docked, why not continue firing on the second ship and disable it?

3. The sensors can detect the Xindi bio-signs, so...why not beam them off the ship?

Rushed and lazy ending. If this is Enterprise's best season, I am starting to see why it was cancelled.

Don't think about it too much.

[wwcanoer-tech · 5/10 · 28 November 2021]

If you were an alien who wanted to build a bio weapon to kill humans, how would you gain biological information about them?

Ignore that you can send a ship to their planet.

Ignore that if you can attack the ship to rescue another alien, you could easily capture the crew and then you would have humans to test your weapon on.

Instead, have a trader lure them to a planet to get a substance they need (well, that part is ok), then assume that in a crowded market they would find and be interested in an alien slave girl, and hope that they buy the one that you planted... because that would be easier than simply abducting them from the market at scanning them there?

It almost doesn't work, but the slave girl is able to improvise and convince the humans to rescue her. Then Archer is so trusting that this unknown alien has the run of the ship. Instead of covertly scanning any convenient crewmember, let's seduce the captain so that we can scan him. And then to scan the Vulcan, rather than showing interest in her work, break into her in her quarters and hope that she doesn't immediately call security.

Why does the fight between starships stop for the hand-to hand fighting inside Enterprise? Oh, because we need the main characters involved in the hand-to-hand fighting. Wouldn't it be more dramatic if both were happening at once?

It's Sci-Fi, so we willingly accept that there's no way to protect a docking port other than a door. No force fields (ok, they're relatively new but created in an earlier episode), can't turn off the gravity plating, or the life support, or have any automated defenses.

It was nice to see some new weapons but implemented strangely. A weapon throws a blob at a door, the crew just stares at it, and then it radiates hundreds of tiny darts? Does it need to be so slow because they think that the audience is slow? Can't have a grenade-like device that they dive away from yet get stabbed? I.e. Sci-fi yet plausible.

If you're trying to find your enemy's home and then they appear, how would you track them? We've had aliens who use tracking devices. Why can't humans? You can have them try and fail or have the signal lost when they jump wherever they jumped.

In TV and movies the hero and villain both have to make basic mistakes in order to advance the plot, but good writers will minimize them as much as they can.

Yet another tiresome sex episode

[zombiemockingbird · 1/10 · 7 June 2023]

Obviously, the writers think the only audience for ST:Enterprise are horny teenage boys.

We still have T'Pol and Tripp doing their nightly half naked massage sessions, with obligatory dim lighting and candles. Sorry, but I've had enough of that story line to nowhere.

In this episode, we also have a sex slave who comes on board to gather information for the Xindi. She slinks around half naked, slithering all over Archer, Hoshi, T'Pol and anyone else she encounters. Apparently, you can't be a woman on this show unless you're half naked or in a skin-tight body suit, exuding sex all the time.

Archer, on the other hand, has become aggressive, angry and mean. I really prefer the old Archer; he might have been a little soft, but he was much more likable than this version.

I'm still hanging in there hoping this season gets better, but it's looking iffy.

The series furthers its appeal to horny boys...

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 30 March 2015]

Season three of "Star Trek: Enterprise" brought some obvious changes to the show. With low ratings, the producers decided to try sexing up the series. They feminized T'Pol much more (with changes to her makeup and hair), had her run around in VERY little clothing for no particular reason and then introduced this particular episode--a show about a prostitute! All in all, while I enjoyed the show, their attempts to garner ratings through sex sure seemed superficial and obvious...and a bit embarrassing.

When the show begins, Archer is walking about some sleazy market on another planet. He wants information about the Xindi as well as learn how to make Trellium-D. Suddenly, a prostitute runs away and seeks sanctuary with the humans. Now considering that the purpose of Enterprise being in this part of space is meet the Xindi and convince them NOT to destroy the Earth, common sense would tell you that they'd leave her...but they inexplicably don't. Then, surprise, surprise, she turns out to be an evil Xindi spy!!! Duh...

All in all, this is a pretty crappy episode. Full of lots of sexual innuendo (so much that it looked more like a Showtime or HBO series) instead of intelligent writing.

Terrible writing

[alphahaunt · 2/10 · 20 December 2022]

I like the crew, I love the concept, I even enjoy watching them meet old familiar concepts as the first contact for the whole Trekverse. Still, there is sadly, duds like this episode. This one pulls out some very intrinsic questions.

How did the crew survive this?

When you are so totally and completely outgunned by everything you encounter what is the point?

Why stage a alien rescue mission when you can simply wipe everyone on the Enterprise out?

The demonstration of how totally and completely outclassed and outmatched on every level the human race is is so staggering that there is no real premise for anything else in the series. Horrid writing fails to convey how terrible this episode is.