Biggest Complaint: The only nudity in this episode was Travis without a shirt on. Let me just say that no one, no one, watches Star Trek to see the guys. No one.
Other than that it was better than the last two episodes. At first the station seemed like a good thing. I was actually hoping there was no downside to it. Wouldn’t it be great if everything worked out for the crew? If they made some new friends and got repairs done for a good price. But no… They have to be evil.
Something that bugged me was the arm they blew off the station. Why didn’t they keep it? There was a replicator on it! A big one! Geez…
Overall I liked it, 7/10.
And why did they kill those peple having their brains sucked on?
Dr. Falstaff said “most of them” were brain dead, but that means not all. Well, there is no prime directive yet.
I think they had little choice to whup on the station (a Trip term) until it let them go or was destroyed. It was [trip]fixin’[/trip] itself as the credits rolled.
So, we had a “Spock’s Brain” episode, although a lot better. And they didn’t say a gunpowder weapon needs oxygen to fire.
I wish Mayweather’s changling had been identified through some non technobabble way.
I liked it, even if I had to see it in USA vision with commercials.
I really enjoyed this episode. Nice continuity in many ways, both blatant and subtle. For example, did you notice the somewhat disgusted look T’Pol, a vegetarian, gave to Trip as he ate his salmon?
I liked how the story built, rather than just throwing it out there by the first commercial break and plodding along until the finale.
A few nitpicks.
I find it hard to believe a computer that sophisticated has such a poor interface. Touch screens? Barely any voice recognition commands? I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on the voice recognition in that the less information supplied, the better (for the aliens). But touch screens would be a tad archaic. What if you pressed the wrong button?
T’Pol and Archer went through an elaborate dance to get inside the core of the ship. How did they get out though? Found a convenient wall and blasted their way through. So I’m guessing that a hole in wall only makes for good exits, not entrances.
That grapling arm that held on until the very very end of the episode fell off the ship and went downwards as the credits started to roll. It went down. In space. I’ll leave this nitpick as an excercise for the gentle reader.
So are we looking at the initial formation of the Borg? If so, that would be cool, though blasphamous as all hell. The one thing I don’t understand either way is who created that station? Machinery doesn’t build itself and if the creators aren’t still around, what purpose does it serve? What benefit do the creators get through this setup?
The whole thing was as stupid as can be but enjoyable. The writing is as clunky and the plots are as silly as ever. The stories are obviously being written by science retards.
OK picture this- There is this uber sophisticated fixit station that can understand English, gobble up the entire database of the Enterprise and replicate a frigging catfish diner on command and yet it needs to swipe one of the least efficient sources of computational efficiency in the universe to use as a computer.
Even someone who writes with a crayon would realize that several hundred years from now we’re likely to have quantum computers with individual elements on the atomic scale. But no, not in the Star Trek universe. The Enterprise’s computer takes up three decks and the human brain is the best that an incredibly sophisticated automated station that repairs starships can hope for. It was just stupid/silly/asinine beyond belief. The Vulcan’s rack and the FX are the only thing that makes it worth watching.
I’ve been watching it for the shirtless guys all along, truth be told. Every once in a while my cravings are satisfied. But I would have liked this one even without shirtless Mayweather.
Speaking of carnal matters, get a load of the teaser for next week's ep!
I loved the evil music at the end as the station was rebuilding itself. My mind flashed back to an old Marvel Transformers comic that I hadn’t thought of in years: The Car Wash of DOOM!!!
Um, I like looking at shirtless guys, too. If I were a slashfic writer, Trip/Archer would be my duo of choice–those guys could be the bread in a Gobear sandwich anyday!
Holy SPACE:1999 endings. Meet Alien/super computer that seems to want to help, turns out to be evil, Destroy bad machine.
That said I still enjoyed figuring out what happened before the Doc did. QveenPengvin thinks I watch too much TV as I have an uncanny ability to figure out the mystery in many movie or TV shows. She assumed the computer killed Travis so it could demand more to fix it.
I said no it kidnapped him and replaced him with a replica, and that was the scene just after they found the body.
By the way what the hell is Phlox thinking by allowing crew members in the sickbay during an autopsy?!?! I know he says some nonsense about it being disturbing but wouldn’t his findings be contaminated by others coming and going during his work.
Astro I’m not sure the Human brain is the least efficient device for computation. The Brain processes quite a great deal of information to keep you alive. It process the five senses, regulate the temperature of your body, keeps the circulatory and respiratory system going, thinks, allows you instant recall of memory, maintains balance, allows you to voluntarily move parts of your body, and can react involuntarily when it detects pain. All of this is happening in the few second it takes you to read this, hardly inefficient.
Also the neural pathways are pretty damned quick. Think about what happens when you step on something sharp. Your foot sends your brain the impulse that you feel pain, locates the point of pain, and sends an impulse to quickly lift your foot from the item that cause the pain. That happens all with in a second. All without a conscious decision on your part. Hardly inefficient.
That said, the destruction of the station was over the top. Mind you Kirk would have talked the computer into self destruction by that point.
hey, ** gobear ** - can I have a bite of that sandwich? Oh, that came out wrong. It sounded clever in my head… Anyway. You know what I mean.
Another vote for shirtless men. And next week’s looking extremely naughty. I’m all for naughtiness.
So, I liked this episode. It was stupid, and foolish and bass-ackwards, but I liked it. The stupid bitchy computer and the letting the other poor bastards die was worth it for the bit at the end where the station started repairing itself. Yes, the whole Travis replicant bit was dumb, because maybe there was some OTHER reason his microbes died - my first guess wouldn’t be that he was a dummy. Well, he is kind of a dummy, but not in that way. BUT, overall, it was a fun way to waste an hour of my life, and that’s all I really expect.
Mind you, I was a bit disappointed that my prediction of toe-fusion and tightropes proved incorrect, but I guess that would have been silly. Sillier. Actually, maybe not, given how silly it was anyway.
For a while I thought they had actually killed off a member of the crew with a speaking part. I was pleased. Even better it was seemingly done in retailation for the dunce-tastic duo’s hairbrained scheme, which thet actually got punished for (for once). Alien ethics and a sly dig on the corporate approach- I was digging it.
But of course, the writers didn’t dare hold true to something this daring. Security measures that got selectively stupid, a goofy reason for getting the bodies in the first place, a oh so convenient way of escape, and a uber powerful station which forgot how to fight (umm all those transporters could have beamed the crew into space, beamed poison gas into the ship, beamed a bomb into the engine room, ect. . . ). The end seemed tacked on, and the fact they got Merryweather back a cop out.
Enterprise is turning into the A-Team in space- lots of weapon fire and dangerous situations overcome by stupid villians with poor aim and improbable schemes.
Oh wait-- we will just have someone take off their shirt again. :rolleyes: Next week-- more pandering!! Oh boy.
Needless to say, a disappointing episode after a promising start. Also, year 2 has not been very impressive so far. Come on guys, keep your clothes on and come up with a decent plotline. I can watch Cinimax if I want skin.
I don’t think it was the start of the Borg, because Guianan mentioned that they messed with her people much longer ago.
Part of the car wash from hell looked kinda like Nomad, though.
Salmon ain’t catfish. Ya’ll ain’t from around here, are you?
One wonders how much of this skin stuff is in competition with Andromeda for our hearts and hormones.
hey, ** gobear ** - can I have a bite of that sandwich? Oh, that came out wrong. It sounded clever in my head… Anyway. You know what I mean.
Another vote for shirtless men. And next week’s looking extremely naughty. I’m all for naughtiness.
So, I liked this episode. It was stupid, and foolish and bass-ackwards, but I liked it. The stupid bitchy computer and the letting the other poor bastards die was worth it for the bit at the end where the station started repairing itself. Yes, the whole Travis replicant bit was dumb, because maybe there was some OTHER reason his microbes died - my first guess wouldn’t be that he was a dummy. Well, he is kind of a dummy, but not in that way. BUT, overall, it was a fun way to waste an hour of my life, and that’s all I really expect.
Mind you, I was a bit disappointed that my prediction of toe-fusion and tightropes proved incorrect, but I guess that would have been silly. Sillier. Actually, maybe not, given how silly it was anyway.
In one of the books (possibly one by shatner - not sure - also not sure if it’s considered ‘canon’) it is revealed that the borg originated much longer ago - it was them that converted Voyager into V’ger and sent it back to earth in the first movie
There was definitely a Klingon in the ‘computer core’ thing. Hell, just photographing the bodies would have expanded human knowledge.
I’m just disappointed that the writers felt a need to explain everything at the end for the foolish and short attention span set. I had the plot figured out early on and thought it a little insulting that Phlox needed to define every little thing so people would ‘get’ it.
