English in sew, and…uh…maybe something else. That’s the only one i know.
Oh. I thought E was the vowel in sew. Now I’m even MORE confused. I think maybe Hoshi could help us out with this one…
It’s in the Archives, guys! Sheesh!
All your Trek belongs to me
Boy! I’m gonna use this line alot!
“Maybe if you vomit on it, it’ll fix itself!”
Argh, I like a good basketball game myself, but not in place of Enterprise! LOL I’m hoping that UPN 20 is going to show it on Saturday at 8 PM (the usual weekly re-run time slot, although it too has been pre-empted for a Univ. of MD basketball game recently!)
I always thought the “" stood for "Knckers.”
That way you can create an infinite series just by trying to determine the full SN.
I wouldn’t consider this episode to be good…but it was a long loooooong way from bad. I suppose that makes it good by default. I dunno.
So what if it had been a Firefly episode?
Reynolds would have shot the alien guy right off the bat (except he’d have been a rustler or a reiver or an alliance guy) and drunk his blood whilst awaiting rescue.
Meanwhile, Jayne would shoot anyone saying “whilst” believing them to be a sissy.
River would have had a vision about the sun being hot. The Doctor would have avoided whats-her-name’s advances.
And there is no dog.
Spoiler-gripe about this episode:
Okay, it gets 170 degrees Celsius during the day. Sunlight bad. We got it. So why, for goodness sake, were the two of them hanging out on the sunlit side of that rock outcropping?! Has no one discovered the concept of “shade” in the 22nd century?!!
Oh, and:
Trip didn’t want to abandon his new buddy on the surface, so he was unwilling to use the transporter. What, they couldn’t beam down some ice water and heat shelter tents? Pah. Barry Longyear did it better.
so-so episode. They should have ripped off Enemy Mine completely and had Trip have another baby. That man has Alien Fever!!
We need more spitting bad dudes. Nice to meet another alien race that is suppossedly a major player that we have never heard of. Will they freakin’ buy their own Trek encyclopedia and reuse names mentioned only in passing for all new races now? It would make me less likely to vomit horribly. (maybe if i spit on the episode tape, it will get better!!! ::Ptui!:: Oh, great, shorted out my vcr!)
I know what you mean, but it’s not like Enterprise doesn’t have this in common with, oh, every other Trek series. They’re just being consistent.
Alien Dude even had the same laugh as Enemy Mine’s Louis Gossett Jr. Alien Dude.
Quite predictable, this one, though not terrible. Phlox was thrown in as an afterthought.
Quasi-jack: My Star Trek watch went off unexpectedly in my classroom when I reached into my bag for something and hit the button. It started playing the TOS theme while the students were writing a diagnostic essay for their new (and red-faced) instructor.
Good grief.
I was just waiting for this exchange to happen
Trip: We (pointing to both of them) need to get the phase discriminators (points to equipment) in allignment (more hand movement) and communicate (flaps arms wildly ) through the differential flux and quantum static (does somersault).
Alien (in alien language): Dude, do you see a universal translator around anywhere? I can’t understand what you say normally, what in the hell makes you think I can understand your illogical technobabble?
And if they had just shouted louder, their respective languages would have started making sense.
Was there Good Alien Vomit and Bad Alien Vomit? Or was it just: Vomit on the arm = Good, and Vomit in the eyes = Bad?
It was pretty considerate of the non-sweating alien to leave his uniform on. That way the make-up girls could take off early. Tripp, on the other hand, takes his shirt off more than Kirk ever did. (But Kirk’s shirt was bigger, so it ballances out.)
And they couldn’t just sit on the other side of the rocks tracer. See, the selenium ions defracted the trans-glintal radiation doubling the thermal effect on the non-directional surfaces. You’re so stupid.
Erm… Yeah, okay, I guess. Slowish, but okay. No dumb princess bitches, no pyrophobic Klingons, and plenty of Miraculous Alien Vomit (as seen on TV - have your credit card ready, and call 1-800-VOMITEK to order!).
Rue - I was wondering about that good/bad vomit thing, too… Maybe it’s good on wounds but bad elsewhere - like the way most of the things we put on cuts (alcohol, peroxide, etc.) probably wouldn’t feel so great in our eyes. Or would they? I don’t know - I’ve never tried it. If anyone wants to, do let me know how it works out.
It was cute that the alien thought Trip’s name was “Dammit!” cause he said it so much… 'Cept, I don’t quite follow the logic. When I pound my thumb with a hammer, would you expect me to shout “Kn*ckers!”? I guess I’ll justify it as a cultural difference. Maybe in Alienland, it’s normal to say one’s own name a lot, when working on something frustrating.
I liked the Tourette’s head jerking thing, instead of nodding. What I want to know is, assuming the Universal Translator can’t make him nod when he means ‘yes,’ how come we haven’t seen other species with unfamiliar body language? Or have we, and I just didn’t notice when Glarbok from the planet Zirglub Prime slapped his kneecaps to mean ‘goodbye’?
I figgered after he spit in Trip’s eyes, he would exclaim, “I can see!”
One moment I loved - the alien accidentally sets of his own perimeter alarm, and throws his hands up and head back in a perfect “DAMMIT!” gesture! I’m even willing to let this slide as a coincidence that their body language and ours intersect in that one gesture…it was fun to see something that seemed that spontaneous in an otherwise predictable, plodding episode that rehashes everyone else’s work.
%*& college basketball game pre-empted my Enterprise! Oh, well, I would have missed most of it anyway because I forgot to change the channel at 8.
Jeff: Do you get the reruns on the weekend?
In lieu of that, you can borry my tapes any time. I tape 'em all.
Watch out, everyone: “A Night in SickBay” is coming back next week. Ya been warned!
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