Vox Sola

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Hoshi thinks she is to blame for a series of misunderstandings that sent a group of visiting aliens off the Enterprise in a huff. As the Kreetassans depart, a strange, symbiotic alien creature boards Enterprise capturing a few crew members, including Archer and Trip. This unidentifiable parasite cocoons them in its web, feeding off their bodies to survive. With the captured crewmembers’ lives in jeopardy, an insecure Hoshi, under T’Pol’s command, faces her biggest challenge by finding a way to communicate with the lifeform and persuade it to return to its home planet.

Our Take

A decent midseason episode carried almost entirely by Linda Park, who finally gets material worthy of her. The creature itself is a gloopy nonentity and the cocoon scenes drag, but the first act’s diplomatic screw-up is genuinely fun, and Hoshi working through the alien’s language under pressure gives the hour real tension. Nothing special, but solid and watchable.