Liam investigates the reappearance of a senator’s daughter, who is traumatized due to being used as a slave on a kriss farm. However, what he uncovers has important consequences for Da’an.

Gene Roddenberry probably would have been proud of this heavy-handed drugs story as Da’an becomes addicted to kriss, and it seems at the end that his dependency has opened up another chance for Sandoval to gain some leverage over his employers.

Sadly, this is the only real function this story serves. The relationship between the senator and his daughter is particularly tedious, with no emotions built up between them, Renee’ s investigation is hardly in-depth, with her chancing on exactly the things she needs to see, Street’s appearances are pretty non-essential except to remind people she’s around, Liam is extremely serious and becoming increasingly dull as time goes on and there’s a real lack of an kind of enthusiasm or fun about the whole thing. Where’s the thought-provoking drama? Last season’s The Fields really didn’t need a sequel, but Robin Burger, fresh from turning in some of Voyager’s worst episodes, has decided to try his hand on Earth: Final Conflict.

Four years in, this show should be making noticeable progress towards something, but it seems to be running on the spot and failing to provide anything interesting for any of its characters to do. This really can’t go on or this season will be the tragic end of what started off as a fine series.

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