And speaking of which:
What the heck are spider webs doing on Vulcan?!
Did the 4 billion year genetic program that forced every planet to evolve a species of humanoids also accidentally contain a program for spiders, or something?
There are more things than Surak in Archer’s roomy dome, and some of them fall out.
I would imagine they evolved on Vulcan as they did on Earth. They probably have pointy ears and raise eight eyebrows, though.
We’ve been camping in our pop-up in the Hot Springs area since Thursday. A fun B&B campsite at Bartee Meadows; feet in the hot springs; the Science museum; kids biking and playing with tennis balls; some hiking. Up til 1:30am finishing cleaning up (steaming cleaning the van, washing, etc.) I’ll post when I can watch (hopefully tonight).
Berman & Braga have campsites?! :eek:
Oh, and speaking of how different humans and Vulcans ought to be:
When T’Pol’s mom was arguing with T’Pau as to whether they should do a Koh-Li-Nar to transfer Surak’s Katra out of Captain Archer, T’Pol’s mom asked, “And if he dies?”
I was hoping T’Pau would reply, “I hear they taste like chicken.” 
Top Ten Reasons Berman & Braga should not run campsites …[ul][]10. You’re never able to check in because it would always be tomorrow or yesterday.[]9. The kids get all of the dialogue, all of the time, say nothing important, and you have no lines.[]8. You are never able to enjoy your campfire because you are constantly on the lookout for Evil Alien Nazi boy scouts.[]…[/ul]
- Security is run by klingons.
That sounds quite secure, as long as they are on your side. I thought you were going to say the Klingons ran the cookout. Gagghhh.
- Campers are awakened each morning with Klingon arias
- Management and food concesion provided by Ferenghi.
That’s the kicker, Pal. Try complaining about the wake up music.
Klingons don’t ask, “Is there a problem here?”, they look over the bodies and ask, “Was there a problem here?”
Okay, I watched it again.
Yep, on my TiVo. Because I have TiVo, I can watch the TiVo’d episode as many times as I want and TiVo will give it to me. TiVo is a marvelous thing.
Heh. Sorry.
I still had a few tiny, tiny nitpicks. How tiny? When the obsessive Administrator Vulcan dude said, with reference to the bombing, “Blanket the area,” he had a weird little hand gesture that was about a quarter-second late. A momentary distraction. (Like I said, tiny.)
T’Pau’s hair bugged me a little bit, also. I kept wondering if she was trying to get a gig as the new lead singer for The Pretenders.
Another minor gripe: I thought it was odd how Archer had to carry both the artifact and the torch while they were fleeing the bombardment. The torch makes sense; he knows where he’s going and has to lead the way. But he can offload the big heavy stone pyramid to a much-stronger Vulcan, and distribute the work in the group, rather than stumble along himself risking this intensely valuable object. They’ll make better time and the thing will be safer. Otherwise it’s “TV hero” syndrome, where the main guy has to do everything because, well, he’s the main guy, and the actresses tail along behind him just worried about not messing up their hair and outfits while they climb up and over the fake rocks on the set trying not to look too girly.
Otherwise: solid. I liked a lot that T’Pol called T’Pau on the similarity of her methods to those of the High Command, that she was willing to do wrong in service to what she considered a larger good, and force Archer to undergo the procedure. This could be exactly why a Vulcan couldn’t be sent to find the artifact; even those in the new intellectual movement aren’t perfectly rational and may commit errors of moral judgement. T’Pau makes a mistake, and is slapped back, but it’s a huge learning experience.
(Oh, and speaking of making mistakes, I really appreciated that the mission Mayweather and Reed tried to pursue to the surface wound up not panning out. How many times on Trek do we see a failed plan? Almost invariably, we get some variation on technobabble with a conclusion, “It just might work.” And it always does. This time, it didn’t. They got outstrategized and walloped, and they had to turn around and give up. I can’t remember the last time we saw that on Trek. It’s a subtle thing, certainly, but it’s hugely appreciated.)
I dug it. I’m digging it. I can’t wait until next week. And if you told me a year ago that I’d be saying that now, I wouldn’t have believed you.
I’ve had a modified Christmas song stuck in my head since Friday night: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Star Trek…”
Meant to say something else: How ballsy is it that the show is drawing an explicit political parallel with the High Command seeking pre-emptive war with the Andorians based on intelligence rumors about some mysterious new weapon? It could be awfully precious if they stick too close to the metaphor, and they could fall on their ass if they regurgitate known platitudes and fail to say something new, but it says a lot that they’re willing to take the risk. This is what Trek should be about: not the minutiae of quantum mechanics and Suliban time-tinkering, but us. When the show is good, it’s about us. When it’s not good, it’s about cracks in the event horizon and shit we can’t relate to. I regard this as a major gamble that could pay off tremendously, and my hopes about the show are truly soaring. Yay!
Looked OK on my analog C Band. Must be a digital artifact of TiVo.
I haven’t commented on that lest a political discussion raise it’s ugly head in one of our Trek threads, and I call somebody a Dukey butt and get cut off by the modes in med sen
Well, it wasn’t the first time Enterprise tried to cloak a contemporary issue in 22nd century garb. Remember the episode where mind-melders were treated exactly like gay people?
That’s what I was getting at with the comment about regurgitating platitudes and falling on their ass. A metaphor allows an alternate perspective on a known issue, a different and therefore potentially valuable angle from which to consider a theme or idea or event, but it’s a waste of effort if the new angle doesn’t provide any new thoughts beyond what we already know and think. In this latest show, all they’ve done is make the initial reference; they’re leaving the payoff for later. In the previous shows, they’ve made the reference and tried to draw lessons and meaning all in the same hour, but they never managed to say anything new or unpredictable about the topic. So like I said, there’s still plenty of room to trip over clichés, but it’s nice that they apparently recognize this and are taking their time, not rushing toward whatever grand (or not) statement they’ve got in mind. Or to put it another way, they’ve merely drawn back the hammer; we’ll see what happens when they pull the trigger.
They have been going off half cocked these past seasons. Maybe now they’re fully cocked and ready for action.
[Data]Actually, you can’t go off half cocked. That’s why there is a half cock position for the lock so that the weapon can be primed but will not fire.[/Data]
Good greif, doesn’t anyone actually read other people’s posts?
:dubious:
Exactly. B&B have been half cocked. They had the show primed and it didn’t fire. Now we’re fully cocked and loaded with our special purpose. We just don’t want them to go off prematurely, in clichéd directions. But we have the Pep Boy, Garfield the Cat, and Superman so we’re ready to have some quality injected into this … enterprise.