Picard was tripping through time, so it came from a future after the manual. After all, FTL was once believed to be impossible. It sure kicked ass, though.
The acknowledgment that space has (gosh!) three dimensions just highlights how stupidly and lazily the previous seven seasons had relentlessly stayed in two.
Not to defend the writers but I thought you “willed” your way out of the Nexus to anywhere and anytime, whether it be on foot, horseback or motionless.
The catch was no one really wanted to do that once they were inside enjoying their own private heaven.
True, but, 3 nacells represents such a change in the understanding of warp fields presented in the Tech Manual that the use of nacells at all is iffy. (Actually, thinking about it, the problem wasn’t that it was IMPOSSIBLE, but rather that it was pointless and wasteful - a third nacell would add nothing, due to how warp fields work.)
Like I implied, if it had been a better episode, I’d have been perfectly willing to believe the Tech Manual were wrong, or warp technology had advanced, but I’ll go with the Tech Manual on this since it’s an extra excuse to disregard the episode entirely.
:: steps into cloakroom, dons body armor ::
:: steps into arsenal, returns with shotgun ::
:: takes deep breath ::
I liked Enterprise’s opening credits. Both montage and song. It was, in fact, my favorite of the Trek series.
:: works action on shotgun ::
Bring it!
Actually, in the TNG era I’m pretty sure it’s all recycled back through the replicators. I don’t feel like looking it up right this minute, but I remember the replicator section of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual explained it all. The replicators draw material from a tank of molecules (yes, I suppose that sounds silly) which it then reassembles into the desired food/object/whatever. This tank of molecules can be replenished at a starbase, but there is also a system in place that collects all waste materials, breaks them down into their component molecules, and sends them back to the main tank to be reused.
“Laundry” works basically the same way - it’s why uniforms are never wrinkled. At the end of the day a crew member drops his uniform into a waste receptacle and in the morning replicates a fresh one.
ETA: And now I see somebody already mentioned how the waste recycling works.
Right now on Spike is the Voyager (shudder) episode where the Doctor is transmitted through the alien array to the alpa quadrant.
Paris and Kim are attempting to construct a replacement.
Now this always bugged the shit out of me. He’s a computer program. Unlimited copies could be made from one hard copy. They could have five Doctors in operation at one time if they had the processing and memory power to do so. They could trade copies off to others as a commodity and still keep the original. Sending him to the AQ does not in any way delete him from their own storage.
Oh sure, it’s all about the drama and the suspense. The idea that they’re at risk of losing the Doctor. But anyone who knows anything about computers - and in this day and age that’s everyone, knows that this is bullshit.
They do actually - in one episode of DS9 at the end of a party one of the crew stumbles on Kira and Odo having a chat in the toilet compartment. It’s recessed into the wall but when you hit a button it emerges.
Speaking of losing the Doctor, what the fuck was that episode about where they encounter a race that has never heard music and the Doctor wants to leave to go and be the 24th equivalent of a rock star? First off - you’re trying to tell me that a species has achieved interstellar travel (and presumably made contact with other species) AND HAS NEVER HEARD MUSIC??? My disbelief is suspended so far it has actually attained low earth orbit. Then, the Doctor gives into his attention whore ways and decides he wants to leave the crew and become a music star. Janeway’s response? “Well, if you’re sure.”
WHAT. THE. FUCK???
You’re 70,000 light years from home with one, repeat ONE, Doctor for the entire crew and you’re just going to let him leave to pursue some asinine pipe dream? Oh, sorry, I forgot, you’ve still got Tom Paris who does part time work as a nurse.
I think my brain fell out of my nostrils when I watched that episode.
That episode (“Virtuoso”), also has one of the more irritating moments of stunt casting - one of the aliens was played by Paul Williams. I despised the Doctor character, myself, and how too many episodes ran along the lines of:
-The Doctor has a <technobabble> problem!
-We may lose him!
-What will we do without him?
-Soul search, soul search, soul search…
-Here’s a <technobable> solution!
-The <technobabble> solution isn’t working!
-Soul search, soul search, soul search…
-Here’s another <technobabble> solution!
-Phew! Saved the day!
Those episodes and identical ones based on Seven of Nine comprise, near as I can figure, about 50% of the series.
Could the doctor have downloaded a copy of himself to this planet?
I think most of the Enterprise hatred is displaced Voyager hatred.
I liked Enterprise before the producers gave up on it & it turned into Land of the Trekkie Fanwanks in the last season.
I believe the “mobile emitter” is a unique device and they cannot build another.
Ethics would forbid me from making a copy of a sentient intelligence just as it would prevent me from cloning people in the transporter.
Except Janeway, murderous bitch that she was, didn’t believe the Doctor was a person for quite a while; she simply tolerated the crew’s treating him that way.
My explanation is that, in the Trekverse, copyright violation was so reviled that it came to be regarded as being as heinous as our worst sexual taboos. To Voyager’s crew, solving the problem of lacking a medical staff by making a copy of the Doctor seemed like having sex with the corpses of adolescent German Shepherds: so unnatural and repellent no one even suggested it. 
There was a STNG episode about that.
Actually, you’ve caught me out. My post was pure band-wagon jumping. I don’t think that, for the most part, anything about Enterprise was noticably worse than any other Star Trek series.
Because they all sucked in equal measure.
:: smiles the serene smile of a man who knows he is about to die ::
I really don’t get the Enterprise hate. It was a Star Trek show. Scott Bakula is cute.
I never really expected great things.
Perhaps I was exaggerating on “silent” but that song was a bit much for me. Any version of it.
And I really enjoy watching Trip run around the ship in his underwear.
Why yes, I am shallow.
You won’t know when they’re coming, but they’re coming.
Mrs. Plant is a Quantum Leap fan. I am not, but I’ve seen parts of it. It always seemed to me that Bakula had leapt into a Star Fleet captain and was at a loss as to how to behave.