Impulse

Story is ok, but all there is to see are flashes. Barely watchable.

...seriously, no joke, it should have a seizure warning. I'm trying to understand the logic of what they were thinking.

Other than that, the story is alright, but seriously, if you suffer seizures don't watch this.

Well it could as well been one of the best star trek episodes, plot is decent, acting also, but those STROBING LIGHTS! Gosh was a catastrophe really, if you're epileptic chances are you'll have a seizure watching this episode, yeah sure the ship is in a bad shape, doesn't mean there has to be sparkles all over the place all the time, it simply ruined that episode for me, especially while watching it at night (which this episode should be watched at).

As for the rest like I said it's pretty decent, some more mysterious anomalies, the revealing of the event we saw on the Vulcan video before they lost contact with the high council, worth watching obviously

So yeah my vote 7, should have been more if it wasn't for that episode breaker realization

Just watched this one. I cannot help but to admit that the episode was quite impressive, almost intimidating. However, at first sight I felt like I was watching a live-action version of Resident Evil 4 lol. Does anybody share this sentiment? The Vulcan zombies are mad but seem still not QUITE there. I mean, they still have at least some of their consciousness and intelligence. This feature cannot be more in line with RE's Majinis and Ganados. And their appearance, that scrambled-yet-still-recognizable look also resembles a typical RE enemy unit of the 2000s. I always enjoyed the scenes where T'Pol's logical side and emotional side come to clash. T'Pol has already gained a lot of role development in that respect, but this is the very first time where she completely loses that facade and reveals the "paranoia, homicidal rage" facet of pre-Sarek Vulcans. This is not easily played, because shows involving strong emotions often make the worst awkward scenes, but Jolene Blalock played it well. The mental deterioration of T'Pol are seen to have clear steps, and when she blasts off, her craze looked genuine. The whole bridge crew(excluding poor Linda Park who hardly even get a technobabble line this time) performed quite well. In addition, Captain Archer shows his fully human side for the first time since the break of the Xindi crisis. However this episode has notable potholes. The medical and technological capacities of Seleya should be beyond the level of a single, obscure distress call when disaster impends. The fact that all Vulcan zombies uses primitive arms instead of guns(actually nothing but bent pipes) is visually impressive but unconvincing. Most importantly, while the ship apparently still retains most of its basic functions, it blew up without reason right after our hero crew escapes, it seems too good a coincidence: "too good to be real". My vote is seven.

The Enterprise receives a distress call from the Vulcan ship Seleya where T'Pol had served before going to Earth, but there are asteroids with random movements in her way. Archer, T'Pol, Reed and Corporal Hawkins get Shuttlepod One to reach Seleya, but they are attacked by the Vulcan survivors that act like zombies and seal the bulkheads, and the rescue team is not able to return to their docked vehicle. When T'Pol feels that she is being also affected in the Seleya, she transmits the data she had obtained to Dr. Phlox for analysis. Dr. Phlox finds that a toxin in the Trellium causes brain damage in the Vulcans and T'Pol has to immediately return to the Enterprise for treatment. However, Shuttlepod Two needs to be repaired after an unsuccessful trial of Trip and Travis of bringing Trellium ore from one asteroid to be refined.

"Impulse" is a tense episode with great performance of Jolene Blalock when her character becomes paranoid and incapable of controlling her emotions. The Vulcan survivors look like zombies, returning to the primitive status of violent race. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Impulso" ("Impulse")