Oooh, gotta remember… the barbs go on the outside…
So, that’s why Troi and Jadzia put up with the rest of Worf’s Klingon BS.
I’m surprised it took Ezri so long to get some of that.
Ah, heck, why not? If we can have Mary and Baby Jesus dildos, we can have Klingon condoms.
So just what IS the most effective method of Klingon birth control anyways?
Probably a bat’leth… 
I can’t tell you without a note from your parents, but it involves tribbles.
And then she starts throwing things…
Hey, guys. There’s a real contest concerning this ep on NIFSTD. Real prizes! And no one has even come close to a right answer.
Go look!
Probably a *mek’leth * or d’k’tagh. *Bat’leths * are way too big to be doing that unless that **other ** rumor is true too.
Tell ya something else: The camera really does add pounds. Trinneer often looks chunky to me on the show, but I came within a few feet of him in late May at the Grand slam convention in Pasadena, and he is not one bit overweight. Same for Bakula, who often appears to have a hugh jass on the show, but some folks at the con who had gotten to visit the set said that he is much taller and thinner than one would think.
I think the dog makes him look fat. 
Close enough to catch a whiff of his manly Trip scent?
Time tripping again, Billy Pilgrim?
Now now, viva didn’t say what year this “late May” takes place in.
Perhaps she meant late May in 1637.
Past, present and future blur. I was with Daniels at the con. I spent most of yesterday mapping out my Metrolink/Amtrak plan for late May. I still had CT on the brain from LATE MARCH 2004. Hence, all of these elements are together. Did you not see 21 Grams or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Where is the confusion? It’s all in your mind.
Or in mine.
My smeller doesn’t work too well anymore, so I can’t say if he had a scent of any kind. I was concentrating on moving my crap out of the aisle so I wouldn’t Trip§ him as he went on his way.
They did a CT scan of your brain? I thought they usually did MRIs these days.
No. Miri dies as soon as she hits puberty.
Just in case tracer wasn’t joking…
CT = Connor Trinneer or Charles Tucker
Brain and brain, where is brain?
The athelas late review
In brief: I liked it. A lot.
I really enjoyed “Azati Prime” six weeks ago. It had good plotting, interesting ideas, and lots of ‘sploshuns. But its main drawback was that parts of it were rather shallow; it was largely a matter of the Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys. “Damage”, on the other hand, has hard moral choices and also is obviously a part of a larger plot.
The Xindi stop attacking Enterprise just after Reed says that “we can’t take much more of this”. Contrived? Maybe, but the explanation makes a bit of sense. Degra and Co. obviously conspired with the Aquatics to pretend that the entire Council ruled against the ReptoGuy (which is what I said in an earlier post, but I had only seen the first act by then). This is confirmed when they, not the entire council, were talking with the transimensionalalien (Trannie). I’m still unconvinced that Degra and Co. would believe Archer so easily, but I’m willing to give B&B some slack for now. Next week’s episode looks like it may have some rationalizations.
Nice work on the damaged Enterprise throughout, inside and CGI’d outside. I especially like the static on the comm. It’s a nicely pervasive reminder of the ships condition. The casualty count seems a bit low, though. If E-deck were depressurized, wouldn’t that have killed off 20% of the crew right there? OK, it’s a small deck. Let’s say 15%=12 crewmen. Reed mentioned hull breaches on decks C, D, and E. Let us say two people killed per deck. That makes 18. Add the seven or so people we saw flying into space and we have a total of 25, not counting those who died because of getting hit on the head by falling rafters, etc. (And how did they recover the corpses of those seven people if only three people were missing?)
The Trannie did look a lot like the female changeling (Oda, feminine form of Odo). Again, I find Degra’s belief in Archer in that scene odd, but I’ll wait for next week.
T’pol’s emotionalism was nicely done, but I think that her heavy breathing was too overdone. Just like with Dukat’s masquerade as a Bajoran, I guess we’ll never be free of the Shakespearean All-Convincing Masquerade that’s So Darned Obvious. And I find her motive for taking T-D bad “I wanted to explore emotion!”. If I wrote this episode, I’d make her motive, or at least her initial motive, to be attempting to develop resistance to Trellium D so that the ship could be coated with it and be protected from anomalies.
I think that the plot is better than most people give it credit for. In their initial rendezvous with the V-heads, Archer wants the warp coil, yes, but since they wouldn’t sell and they hadn’t discovered that message yet, he doesn’t yet have a reason to steal it. And why would he want to borrow the coil then? He doesn’t know of any rendezvous point yet, and no matter how far he goes in the few days he borrows it, the Xindi will still be able to come after him. Afterwards, as he says, any negotiation that comes off as too insistent would get their suspicions up, and he couldn’t risk it.
There was some nice agonizing over the decision. Archer’s conversation with Phlox was great, as mentioned. The rectangle-table discussion was good as well, and Archer’s final scene with Trip provided a strong ending.
Anyone notice that when Enterprise swoops in for the kill, it is shown coming down from the top of the screen? The only other time the ship was shown like that (at least, in a significant sense) was in “The Xindi”, and that was a different shot with a very different context. This way gives Enterprise a menacing quality; it’s actually quite a chilling shot.
Good obligatory firefight scene, although the ship looked a bit undamaged. Nice to see one of the Good Guys (although that label is obviously a bit simplistic now) get shot. And they used the transporter! I also liked how Damar was too nice (“mercy is not a quality that will serve you well in the Expanse”!) to shoot Archer before he beamed away.
The only complaint I have with this episode, besides the nitpicks above, is that there’s too much going on. Degra’s change of heart, Archer’s return, the V-heads, T’pol’s emotionalism, repairs to the ship…this leaves shortchanged some scenes that I would like to have seen. More debate on Archer’s decision, a longer negotiating scene with the V-heads, more about the Trannie (though that would probably spoil the mysteriousness, so never mind). The plus side is that the threads indicate an ongoing story arc, and the main story was wonderfully crafted. Why on earth didn’t they do this in all of season 3?
Final rating: 4/4 spheres.
(Others for scaling: AP: 3.5 Hat: 1.5 DO: 3 Har: 3 Strat: 4 ProGro: 3.5 CR: 2.5 CS: 2 Sim: 4)
(Daniels mentioned Ithanites, not Illyrians, so there goes my theory. Damn)
(Darn you, Aesiron, for summarizing your dream out of context! You’re as bad as the UPN trailers!)
(Yay, I’m an Andorian! I love Andorians! (twirls around his antennae))
(One bottle of Andorian ale to whoever can place T’pol’s quote of Archer: “We cannot save humanity…what makes us human”)
Is somebody going to start the thread for “The Forgotten”?
I think we’re all still used to not having anything to talk about from the six week hiatus we took. I know I am and I still won’t see anything for another two weeks, at least.
Sweet. We got Spock back!
^:dubious:^
I don’t start one untill I see it.
There are clips at vidiot.com, though.