- I'm very surprized that the terrorist in this episode weren't portrayed as villians. There are many paralles to how these desert people are portayed and people of the middle east. Their clothes and acents are similar and of course the odvious fact that they're dessert dwellers. I was delighted to see that this episode did not portay these people as "evil". Enterprise thankfully is not feeding into the american pro-war propiganda machine.
- I was also glad that Zobral didn't turn out to be a villian because it would be typical of Trek, for the crew to meet seemingly generous people that turn out to be bad guys.
- This episode was also very realistic in how they made an enemy, just by visting a seemingly generous man.
- The part with Archer and Tripp wandering through the desert trying to survive was quite boring, this episode could have done without it, but without it this episode would have been very short. Overall there wasn't really much to this episode.
- When Reed sets the record straight with Zobral on what really happend when the rescue the Suliban prisoners. He says that the prisoner guards didn't really put up much of a fight. Yes they did, Colonel Grar was furouis he was ready to blow Enterprise to high hell.
