Return to Tomorrow is Sargon and the “we all live in a big street lamp globe people”.
Aaaack! Tomorrow is Yesterday, that’s it! One of my favorites, but I keep getting those time travel ones confused. They return to present-day (1960’s) earth and a fighter pilot sees them and reports a UFO; Kirk puts a tracter beam on the plane but it breaks up and they beam the pilot aboard – fun and mayhem ensue. They go down to the military base to retrieve tapes and end up beaming a military security guy aboard - they don’t want to let him out of the transporter room (so he doesn’t learn any more about the future); the transporter guy asks him if he’d like something to eat, and he says chicken soup. The transporter guy gets the chicken soup from the replicator or whatever it is right there in the tranporter room, and amazes the military guy. So there! I get something for knowing the episode, right? 
P.S. Capt. Christoper was the pilot.
If I win the cookie I will share.
Will you reciprocate?
I’ve nver figured out how they sent him back before the F-104 broke up and there weren’t two of him. Maybe you can try for extra points.
^:)^
Of course I’ll share. I’m a sharing, caring kinda person.
My take on returning the Capt. was that there WERE two of him. (The security guy was returned to himself in a similar fashion as he was walking down the hall and about to enter the room.) But how does one physical body get transported to (into?) another physical body? I’ll have to sleep on it.
I never puzzled much over the technicalities.
I enjoyed this latest episode. I like T’Pol (the fact that I think she is a total fox doesn’t hurt). Spock was 1/2 human; so her character has to be a little different! I did wonder why that ship needed the help of the Enterprise’s engineer, since they are advanced enough to have a holodeck. I also thought that the whole Klingon encounter was solved too easily, but that’s TV biz. Despite the nitpicks I enjoyed it, and I suppose that’s the most important thing.
Their engineer had, er, hormonal problems.
I don’t get it…she was right there working with him so she wasn’t exactly incapacitated. If the Enterprise transferred or supplied some energy to the ship it would have made sense to me. And there is still something about the whole Klingon encounter that just didn’t sit right…
They are doing this while traveling faster than light, so I just give up on the how-does-it-come-to-pass-that aspect.
Maybe it’s a racist thing. Maybe smooth skinned people are smarter than scaly people even if they do have holo deck stuff. Hell, these dumb “scalies” don’t even have water like Smooth people!
The fact that they are highly advanced in some aspects of their technology (the holodeck being a prime example) doesn’t mean that they automatically have equally advanced propulsion technology. Maybe their warp system was similar to an earlier (purely experimental) model that humans had tried, and Trip had learned about the problems with it in a history-of-errors course (always a good class for engineers). That would account for the drive’s repeated failures and Trip’s ability to make temporary repairs. The ship’s engineers would be at a disadvantage because they had never considered the problem before. One might also guess that Trip used stuff from the Enterprise to repressurize the coils–we never saw or heard much of what he actually did to fix the problem.
You get our undying respect. But can you remember the name of “the transporter guy” AND his nationality? Cick here to see the original promo for this episode. You can see the transporter room food slots in two different scenes.
BTW: The one question no one answered: The reason there were food slots in the transporter room to begin with is because the show didn’t have the budget to allow the AF guard to be taken from the TR to the mess hall so he could get his soup. It was justified on the grounds that Kirk would not have wanted this man to see any more of the future than was absolutely necessary. It was cheaper to put food slots in the wall for this episode and they were never seen again. (But in another episode, “Assignment: Earth,” there was a video monitor where the food slots once were! Kirk kept Scotty busy, didn’t he?)
Personally, I if this piggy back on a ship, and then meet the new aliens and impregnate them is their typical modus operandi.
lee - your post makes no sense. jab - don’t remember the tranporter guy’s name; sounded Australian. Wasn’t he also the helmsman in other episodes?
Just saw the second episode this afternoon. So I’m a little late on the uptake, sue me.
Reading through the begining of this thread, there’s one thing you guys failed to mention that I’m really surprised about given the nitpickiness of trekkers around these parts.
T’Pol said that the alien ship was at a complete stop. Now, given that they’re all in STARfleet and vulcans, in particular, are known to be exact, this is just wrong wrong wrong. Nothing is ever at a complete stop. The ship is stopped…compared to what?
Granted, this is a problem that’s popped up from time to time on the series, but coming from a Vulcan just made it stand out.
Compared to their co-ordinate system.
Einstein says that in a constantly accelerating co ordinate system, there is no experiment that you may perform to show that you are moving. I reckon the ship is stopped in relation to whatever they measure movement against.
But again, they say this while traveling FTL, so what the heck.
I just saw the first three episodes last night and found them really entertaining.They somehow got rid of the overly “staged” atmosphere, and brought back in a much needed sense of adventure.I´m a huge fan
of next-generation (mostly due to patrick stewart as captain picard) but the new shows gave me a feeling of discovering star trek again for the first time.
And Sycorax,
…come on,cut her some slack,it´s after all her FIRST TIME IN SPACE.
I’m having to tape episodes Saturdays and watch them when I get the chance, so I’m a bit behind the thread. Some of this may have already been covered, sorry if I repeat excessively.
The theme song is, heaven help me, beginning to grow on me, but only the instrumental. If they cut that horrid whiskey-voiced-trying-to-hard-to-be-Joe-Cocker singer it’d be almost passable.
“This is the closest we could get to water”?!? You are technologically advanced enough to travel faster than the speed of light but you can’t figure out how to slap together two hydrogens and an oxygen?
Does anyone else think maybe “Jonathon Archer” is a play on “Jeffrey Hunter”?
The universal translator concept is just getting dumber and dumber. It makes absolutely no sense that it would be able to figure out a language from a sample of words as small as what it works off of. Yes, I know they have to have some explanation for how these species are able to understand each other but this is just ridiculous.
Does anyone else not believe that the Klingons would hand over to an alien ship it perceives as hostile a topographical representation of any portion of its homeworld detailed enough to create a holodeck (sorry, “holochamer”)-quality re-creation?
This show is just getting worse and worse. The sad thing is I probably won’t miss a minute of it.
I think I’ve figured it out. I THINK she(?)'s saying:
Amazing how much that one word can do.
Kyle… English
[self slap]I’m such a geek[/self slap]
Does anyone else think Capt. Archer does not conduct himself with sufficient, um, military authority? He strikes me as just a little bit too informal across the board. Has there been an instance yet where he insisted on military protocol, or put a subordinate in his/her place?
Point 2 - was rewatching the most recent episode (2 of my kids had not seen it when originally aired. Plus, I was bolstered by a large glass of gin.) And my 13 year old daughter said, “Don’t you just love the new theme song?” Just in case that sheds any light on their target audience.