Shuttlepod One

Episode Name: Shuttlepod One
Series: Star Trek Enterprise
Rating: Four Spaceships

Mission Briefing:
Shuttlepod One, with Malcolm and Tripp aboard, head for a meeting with the Enterprise in an asteroid field early after their sensor array knocks out by something mysterious. But they discover pieces of a broken spaceship... and part of the Enterprise! Turns out that Enterprise (their landing-bay doors) broke when some visiting aliens' ship malfunctioned and crashed, and the Enterprise crew is getting the aliens to their home-planet.
But the two within Shuttlepod One don't know that, and presume the Enterprise destroyed. With only ten days air, the two head off to try and send a distress beacon so that someone can find their bodies. But the fictionious micro-anomolities (sp? on all last three words) that possibly caused the knock-out of the sensor array and the alien crashing, is still there, and may cause trouble... if Tripp and Malcolm don't cause problems themselves by bickering!

Mission Report:
This was a perfect characterization episode! Okay, not perfect, but very well-done! The characters were very well-done with Tripp and Malcolm, and we get to learn about both. We also see awesome acting! The duo were very good, and so was whoever played T'Pol (apologies to the actor, no offense meant at all, I just don't know your name)! Malcolm's dream sequence was almost believable, if I hadn't known that much about T'Pol (did I just say that?), and it was so obvious (due to her) that it was a dream sequence. But marvelous acting!
The story was pretty well-done, but it needs work at the beginning. I was confused a couple of times at the beginning. Like why the duo were out there alone, and whether or not that was safe! And I couldn't figure out until they left the asteroid belt that they thought the Enterprise destroyed! The rest was pretty well-done.
So, all in all, this was a pretty good episode overall, with wonderful acting and characterization and character-learning, just needs work at the beginning.