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We're eight episodes in to the new season, and I have to say I'm starting to enjoy the show a lot more than last year. Giving the show the Xindi storyline and making it more serial (as opposed to episodic) has focused it in a good way. I've particularly enjoyed the last two episodes, "The Shipment" and "Twilight". The guest character "Gralik" in "The Shipment" was one of just a few three-dimensional non-primary characters the show has had. John Cothran, Jr., the actor portraying Gralik, did a great job. "Twilight" was an enjoyable execution of the "alternate-reality" theme that has produced some of my favorite Trek episodes: TOS's "Mirror, Mirror", TNG's "The Inner Light" & "Parallels", and DS9's "The Visitor".

These and the other episodes this season (save for the season opener "The Xindi") have been written by writers other than Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, and I'm glad for it. I think the changes in the show this season are working.

Did anyone else notice that they decided to change the name of the show to Star Trek: Enterprise this season? They had previously called it just Enterprise and the first credit was "Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry". Also, they jazzed up the theme music this season. I thought it was more majestic the other way; the one saving grace of the prior song was the electric guitar work. (Particularly over the lyric "no one's gonna bend or break me".)

Is there any doubt that I'm at least a minor-order Trekkie? ;)