Does Hoshi get the goo treatment? please tell me she does!!
i can’t see it until saturday at 10pm
I have to admit that the song is growing on me. It’s still bad, mind you, and there shouldn’t be words to a ST theme, but it’s growing on me.
I think the reason T’Pol’s character isn’t as Vulcan as we’d like to see, is that if she delivered all of her lines monotone and measured, she’d look and sound too much like Seven, and we’d all be bitching about that.
It was good to see that the transporter is something to be feared now. But they really should have made that character a redshirt, and killed him - it would have improved the fear factor.
I noticed this too, but it makes sense. Archer said something like that Trip was restless after three weeks in space. Trip said something like their mission has been six weeks. Clearly, they’ve been in space a total of six weeks, but it’s been three since the last time they did anything cool.
I particularly liked the fact that camping technology has not changed in what - 150 years? It looks to me like they ran out of budget and sent someone down to the local REI and said “Buy the most space-ish looking stuff you can find, but don’t spend more than $700.” C’mon - MY tent looks better than that! And they apparantly couldn’t even afford real Therm-a-Rests - they all had those foam thingies. They do look more spacey than a thermarest, with their waffle design and all.
Overall, I thought the episode was OK. Damn stupid idea to go down on the planet without a full scan, but I can buy the idea of being sick of being on the ship, and willing to take a risk. Plus, I think they’re trying to push the idea that the crew is just learning how to explore space, and they’re bound to make mistakes. Works for me, at least.
Though for sure the new guys were gonna be fodder, though. I’m disappointed to see them sway from the long standing Trek tradition of “anyone new who shows up planetside will be dead before the end of the episode.”
Of course.
Which puts paid to the silly theory that series time = real time.
Seven years of time elapsed in a seven years series run, so they have something happen every Wednesday.
^:)^
No, no…THESE tents of da future, though they look like they’re made of simple 20th-century nylon and plastic, are capable of withstanding winds of (what’d they say?) eightysome kilometers, without blowing up into the sky and across the mountains! Pretty cool!
Uke, I think that is simply a testament to the stakes tying the tent down, not the material… Which reminds me - was it the scorpion-ish creature that popped the stake out? Seems very unlikely, but that’s what it first looked like.
The Onion’s view on the series. I liked this one:
The scorpion was likely a hallucination as well.
Bear in mind that 80 kph is what, 45 mph? Not a real problem for dome tents.
Would the weeklong scan have noticed the pollen? If not, it wouldn’t have helped.
I, for one, feel very, very cheated because, given the pollen, the OBVIOUSLY needed a gel treatment after return from the surface. All of them. Now THAT would be some good SF. You begin to see why they developed the biofilter–they got tired of all the harassment suits…
Munch, Ethilrist:
Well, lah dee dah. Next time I go camping, remind me to pack you guys along, with your blithe attitudes about tents not blowing down in gale-force winds.
Actually, I come with a handy lanyard hook, so you can just lash me to your daisy-chain.
Gee, I considered starting another thread titled “Enterprise #3 (let’s dissect every one),” but then thought, nah, maybe everyone’s getting sick of it. But, oh well, here we are! I still think each episode should have it’s own thread.
I liked #3 - more character development and suspenseful, but I really, really starting to hate T’pol. I like her LESS with each episode. She just comes across as snotty, and I’m sorry but I hate her lips. She doesn’t “suggest” or “recommend” as did Spock, et al; she states it (rather snottily) and it comes across to me as disrespectful of the captain – and he doesn’t seem to mind. I just wanted him to tell her to shut up and get the hell off the ship if she didn’t like the way he runs it.
Nothing much to add re: Episode #3, except that I think the writers should have killed off Ensign Whatsisname (if he was an ensign) instead of pressing the Big Reset Button at the end. I think it would have allowed for some major development of the doctor’s character, who was already feeling pretty crappy for not detecting the toxin sooner. Bab 5 had a moralistic speed freak for a doctor; why not give Doc Phlox some good ol’-fashioned Gnawing Guilt to carry around?
Actually, I liked that the cannonfodder didn’t die.
The reason he did not die was because he did not wear a red trim. A neat little thing I noticed was that the Colours from the original series exist on the the small trim on the jumpsuits. If you haven’t noticed look again, Comand had gold, Engineering Red adn Medical and sciences Blue.
The guy wore blue… I knew he wasn’t going to die.
Let’s get our terms straight. The reset button was widely criticized in Voyager. It is using time travel to drastically alter the situation at the lst minute.
We may very well see this is the Future Guy stuff continues, but the guy living due to medical care is not the “reset button”.
If Archer snuck into the time chamber and ordered the landing party to return to Enterprise before they were infected, that would be the reet button.
Well, i’d like to add my voice to those who think the theme song is crap. It sounds like a bad version of the Aerosmith song that was used for “Armageddon”.
Also, there was a pretty glaring inconsistency in the discussion of the Enterprise’s speed in the first episode. I’ve never paid too much attention before to exactly how fast Warp 5, 6, 7 etc. are supposed to be, except to note that they represent exponential increases. But in the first episode we learn the following things:
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The captain says that they expect the journey to the Klingon home-world, Chronos (sp?), to last 80 hours.
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When they increase the speed of the Enterprise to Warp 4.4, the captain describes their speed as “30 million kilometres per second”.
Now:
- Light travels at approximately 300,000km/sec, so 30 million km/sec is 100 times the speed of light.
2.Therefore Warp 4.4 is about 100 times the speed of light.
3.That means that a journey of 80 hours, or about 3.33 days, at Warp 4.4, would take 8000 hours, or 333.3 days, at the speed of light.
- If these calculations hold, then Chronos is less than one light year from Earth, and even we puny twenty-first century humans know that the nearest star is about four light years away, and that any possible inhabited systems would likely be orders of magnitude further still.
Have i got this right, or did i miss something? And if i am right, am i being too anal about the whole thing?
Worry about something important, like what happened to Shatner’s hair.
^:)^
I’m still thinking of the Starvin’ Marvin in Space song: “Soaring so high above the world! Never thought I could feel so free! I’m one with the birds and magic is all I see!”
Put another way, it would take this ship about 2 weeks to travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri, and longer to travel to any real planets (as opposed to fantasy planets, like Kronos). So no wonder Trip was getting bored. As T’Pol has pointed out in at least two episodes, “Space is big/vast, Captain.” Too bad Berman & Braga pegged warp speed to an actual velocity.