I liked it – it was amusing and this show needs humor…but I’m surprised no one caught what I thought was an obvious problem: they left the wrecked ship lying there the whole time they were on Earth and no attempt to hide it. When they were rescued, I thought okay they’ll disintegrate the wreck or something, but no, they leave it. I still don’t like T’Pol, or rather Jolene – I think she’s still overdoing the unemotional, stoic bit with the monotone voice and stiff body posture. It sounds like she’s trying to talk without moving her lips, and those lips - yikes, they bug me. Her plastic surgeon went beserk with the collagen. And why do all Vulcans have to have the same hair style? I thought the purse at the end was a nice touch. I didn’t like not knowing if she just made up the story.
I like the song
Wait, Wait !
What I meant to say was I like the opening sequence, with the montage of space travel images. And well sort of, I like the “idea” of a simple song with simple guitar (I am slowly learning guitar), simple as opposed to the symphony and choirs of angels the other shows use. As everyone knows, symphonic opening credits were not used until the Treaty Of Orangutang in 2196.
So please Mr Plant, let me stay, I Got Nowhere Else To Go ™.
Well…OK, but watch your ass.
^:)^
Hey, what popular rock song would y’all prefer to be the Enterprise theme? I’d go with It’s my life by Bon Jovi just because i can’t think of anything better offhand…
Carmina Burana, or perhaps something by Wagner.
“Come Sail Away” by Styx?
Elton John’s “Rocket Man”?
All I can picture is a modification of an old cartoon: Deanna Troi sitting on Pinnochio’s face, yelling “Lie, dammit, lie!”
I wasn’t crazy about the episode, but I also didn’t hate it. But I’m preparing to hate the next one.
In the teaser for it, I clearly saw a Romulan Bird of Prey cloaking. I’m glad they seem to be using a ship similar to the TOS Bird (though there’s no reason the ship should look that similar–if the ships changed between TOS and TNG, they should change between Enterprise and TOS), but we all know that the cloaking device was a big surprise in the TOS episode “Balance of Terror”. So its existence more than a century earlier can only be another Berman/Braga continuity assassination.
If they show a visual of a Romulan, I’ll really lose my mind, I tell you. I’m starting to think that the only way to save the continuity is for the last episode of Enterprise to include Archer going back in time and blowing up the ship before the first episode.
Grrr!
I too thought that the cloak in “Balance of Terror” was a new device.
Let us hope things are not as they seem in the preview.
CaptMurdock, thanks for the link to all those Very Secret Diaries. I actually was laughing out loud - "Mr. Frodo far too hot to die.
Did I say that out loud?"
Oh, the off-camera antics of our bunch of stoic heroes. I’m never going to be able to watch LOTR the same way again.
Not William Shatner’s rendition of “Rocket Man” ?
{ducks phaser fire while running away…}
I just saw it this evening, and found it to be amusing, though a touch silly at times. Are Vulcan’s uptight about nudity? Is that logical? C’mon, ya cheaters, Jolene’s already posed for Maxim Magazine and you’re clearly aiming for a more adult audience than Voyager.
It’s about time someone made a “Lucy” refererence, considering the connection between the original series and Desilu studios.
Incidentally, the first contact between humans and Vulcans is arguably a time-tossed Spock running around 1930 in “City on the Edge of Forever”.
If you really want to get anal, Spock and McCoy were once shipped back 5000 years, but that’s enough geekery for one day.
Oh, very good!
You win a bowl of plomeek soup, if I can figure out how to spell it.
^:)^
Basically, I enjoyed the episode. I liked the humor, esp. the Lucy reference. But at the same time, it was not very believable. I agree that they should have worked to hid the ship while they were there, and it should have been disposed of somehow when they were rescued.
At the end, I was expecting the Captain to look the kid up in the database (the kid who was enabled to go to college by the $$$ great-grandma provided) and see if he did anything important, perhaps something he probably would not have been able to do without a college education.
Leaving that one crew member behind was kind of hard to believe. Since he was staying secretly, he’d be stuck there for life, and his wife or bondmate and relatives back on Vulcun left to think him dead. Not a nice way to treat wife, family, etc. Surely this was not only highly improper, but also not logical?
He’d have to have a wife or bondmate back home, wouldn’t he? My impression is that all adult Vulcans are bonded or married, so as to be sure that any and all males going into Pon Farr have a wife available. As far as his own Pon Farrs (Pons Farr?) go, I guess he could be assuming that it would not be hard to find human wives or girlfriends, and hence, he was not worried about “what will I when THAT time comes?” – but he was surprisingly willing to leave Vulcan society, his mate, and his relatives behind forever.
Now that they’ve established that this is supposed to have happend, however, it would be cool if they followed it up in another episode. If they ever time travel, on Earth, to any time when that guy’d be around, maybe they’ll meet up. He could assist them in some way, then hitch a ride home.
Re continuity, I, too, am bugged by the lack of it. In one episode last year, they went to the vacation paradise planet, Risa. But no one in the Kirk era knew about Risa; it was a Next Gen thing. Are we to believe that they forgot about the place for a few decades?
Well, there was Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet, so maybe Risa had a corporate sponser for the 23rd century…
Excellent point.
- Maybe their computers are not that sophistocated. (Maybe their spell checkers are.)
- Maybe the authors thought it too contrived, or that having the Vulcans control human development even to that extent would be odious to the viewers.
As I briefly mentioned above, the Vulcans didn’t seem to try and force him to their will. I don’t know if it was Vulcan logic, 21st century Political Correctness or B&B storytelling.
Of course you realize that the money earned off the patent of Velcro will eventually fund the Men in Black.
Velcro was invented in the 1940s. It was inspired by cockleburrs.
Aha! Vulcans are vegetarians! Cockleburrs are the seeds of a plant. What more proof do you need?
I’ve been lobbying unsuccessfully for “Safety Dance” since the very beginning 