What was it? Spoiler box if you must.
As they unmoor from space dock to begin the mission, he looks about the bridge and says, “Here we are again. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Kind of classy, I thought.
Hey, I’m just glad we finally got the Panda back.
Big welcome back for Pander the Panda!!!
BTW, I am now 2 years old on the SDMB. Worship me.
Worship? Heck, I’ll even place bids on you.
I liked the civilian duds they were wearing early on. Too bad they all had to change back to the jumpsuits.
Brent Spiner is still as watchable as ever.
Yeah, I think “Persis” is a reference to the late Khambatta.
But why does Rakeen’s name have to be so similar to Joachin’s (ST2)?
Lots of good wholesome violence in this one.
Example: T’Skinnybutt kicked Shrek in the balls!
And there’s an actor in the ep. named Big Show. Really.
Great line from Phlox: “I can read.”
His name’s Paul Wight, actually. Big Show’s his WWE stage name.
Ah, thanks for the info. They don’t mention that.
Spiner/Soong has some wonderfully nasty little digs at various people in the show. He gets the lion’s share of good dialogue.
BTW, I could have picked up T’Pol just as easily as Green Ogre did–with one knee.
There’s a Turkish ENT site under construction. I just have to see what it looks like when it’s ready.
I’m thinking T’Pol is a little sensitive about last week’s adventure.
She sounded just a little hysterical when she said “I’m not for sale” before being beamed out.
Rumor has it that Archer’s voiceover is going to go like this:
“The Enterprise project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed.”
<Insert shots of battles from previous seasons>
“But in the year of the Romulan War, it became something greater:
Our last, best hope for victory.
The year is 2157.
The place: NX-01.”
<Cue music, variant of Requiem for the Battle of the Expanse)
Okay, I saw the episode last night. Brent Spiner’s character was definitely a joy to watch.
There were two things about the episode that kinda failed the Reality Check for me:
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The Orion slave market. Yes, I know that in the Trek universe, the words “Orion” and “slave” go together like “Hoshi” and “naked.” But. Why is there a market for slave labor at all? In order to get to the place where these slaves are being sold, you have to travel to, what was the name of that planet? Vicodin 3 or something? Anyway, you have to travel all the way to another star system to get slaves. If your species can build machines that can cross interstellar distances, your species can build machines that do manual labor much more cheaply than slaves do.
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At the end, Brent Spiner tells his darling little genetically-enhanced children to let the Enterprise and her crew go, since their ship is damaged and they’re no longer an immediate threat to the kids’ Klingon Bird of Prey. Fair enough. But shouldn’t they have made sure that the Enterprise wasn’t going to dust itself off and come after them? Shouldn’t they have swung around behind the NX-01 before they left and blasted one (or both) of their warp nacelles into space debris? Reduce the crew to just sitting there and sending out a distress signal, and maybe get “picked up” by the Orions. That’s what I’d do if I had a genetically superior intellect. As it stands, now, you just know that Trip is going to get the warp engines back online, at their full Warp 5 capacity, in a matter of hours.
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And speaking of a Klingon Bird of Prey … what’s a Klingon Bird of Prey doing in the 22nd century?! Had they been shown in earlier episodes of Enterprise? How did they retcon the fact that these ships, which were only first seen in ST3:TSfS and seemed like a later design than the conventional Klingon D7 Battlecruiser, are suddenly around a hundred years before ST:TOS?
Three. There were three things that failed the Reality Check for me. Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency.
I enjoyed it once again overall. Mua’Dib’s asskicking sequence in the begining was a nice change from the regular Star Trek fighting style. Spiner was excellent and believable. Archer is coming along nicely as a captain.
I think Malcom took the right course of action putting his gun down. He sized up the situation and realized Muadib was more than likely capable of taking Archer out just as he said he would. We also saw when the Augments came aboard Enterprise, they are able to take fire without much damage, so even if Malcom shot Paul, Archer would have one less voicebox to worry about.
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Okay, I saw the episode last night. Brent Spiner’s character was definitely a joy to watch.
There were two things about the episode that kinda failed the Reality Check for me:
- The Orion slave market. Yes, I know that in the Trek universe, the words “Orion” and “slave” go together like “Hoshi” and “naked.” But. Why is there a market for slave labor at all? In order to get to the place where these slaves are being sold, you have to travel to, what was the name of that planet? Vicodin 3 or something? Anyway, you have to travel all the way to another star system to get slaves. If your species can build machines that can cross interstellar distances, your species can build machines that do manual labor much more cheaply than slaves do.
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Not to put too fine a point on this, but…we can send crafts and people to the moon, crafts to Mars, research stem cells, and do all sorts of other things, yet there is still slave trafficking going on in many parts of the world, as well as stoning and other primitive actions and behaviors.
Anybody notice Soong’s dig at Trip just before he beamed down with Archer? He says something about Trip’s “Vulcan friend,” as if he has knowledge of their relationship. Archer still has absolutely no clue (no surprise).
Reminds me of Hannibal Lecter. The restraints, the smart ass remarks, the callowness, the knowledge of intimate details.
If you notice how well the Orion girl and T’pal sold, being attractive women and all, compare that with the Stronger more physically capable slave worker Jeffrey Pierce the new Enterprise crewman, who had one bid. (His own captain.)
what i’m getting at is that the main customers of the slave market were in it for sexual reasons, not manual labor.
While it’s obviously for sexual purposes, I don’t believe you can say the (presumably) human crewmembers were more physically capable as both Orions and Vulcans are both stronger.
I admit that Orions are stronger in fanon (fan canon) and not necessarily canon though.
As Pee Wee Herman could tell you, sexual reasons sometimes include manual labor.
(Okay, I’ll stop now.)
Alright, back to Enterprise then. 
I think that what you’re attempting to believe is exactly what Malik would have done, just to show his strength if nothing else.
Belief is a powerful thing.
Am I the only one who flinched when Archer congratulated T’Pol on her commission?
Or have we absolutely abandoned canon and nobody told me?