Enterprise Extinction Spoilers! -- fellate with too much alacrity here!

I jumped the gun because the title carnivorousplant inavertantly gave was too good to pass up.

Hoshi Hoshi Hoshi Hoshi Hoshi…

so i here something might go extinct in this episode…

Continuity, no doubt.

I await with anticipation, though… You never know, you know?

“Capt’in, she canna take anymore, she’s gonna fellate!” - “On my way!”

I thought the first teaser I saw was saying that the Enterprise crew encountered some primitive humanoids and then discovered that the humanoids appeared to be the Enterprise crew from some past/future distorted timeline. Glad to see that appears to be wrong. Since this “disease” mutates Archer/Reed/Hoshi, with luck, the episode will end with a bit of Trek-science about how the various Xindi species might have acquired some biology in common.

Nitpick - Why is it that alien DNA is 1) DNA, 2) humanly compatible, 3) mutatable instead of virulent, 4) reversible? I guess the alien DNA must have used the standard Alien Interface[sup]tm[/sup] to the ship’s database and decoded the Human Genome from there.

Who’s for mutated Hoshi Panda? {eww} The costumers do seem to be realizing that by putting T’Pol in brighter outfits that the light/dark shadow contrast is much more curvaceous. Maybe Archer can work out some of his Angst by being allowed to go Ape.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TNG/detail/68598.html

…the mysterious program is activated, and a humanoid hologram recorded billions of years ago appears before them. The hologram tells the surprised group that her race found itself alone in their travels of the galaxy . . . . . the humanoid tells the group [of Humans, Klingons, Cardassians, and Romulans] that they all come from this common seed, and implores them to remember this bond. The message fades, leaving Nu’Daq and Gul Ocett unbelieving, and repulsed at the mere thought of having anything in common. The groups return to their vessels.

I hope it doesn’t suck too bad, ok?
Damn panda mentality…
:slight_smile:

Klingon response:

“If she were still alive, I would kill her now!”
Dreadful show. And yet the first 12.125 minutes of it were pretty cool.

I always liked the show. Pretty hamfisted attempt to explain all the bipedal humanoids but a lame excuse is better than none, right?

Right?

The old old series said something about the “Preservers” who prerserved humans by ganking them and putting them on other planets. Although completely corny, i think it holds up better than the DNA program excuse.

“Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Fellatio.”

Amazon is selling a Panda Poo t-shirt.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmm…okay, back around 11pm My Time for comments, complaints, n’ stuff.

On a more serious note, it would seem like the show is now called Star Trek - Enterprise (It says so while the dreadful song is playing).

And the episode - meh! Needs more panda.

Yeah and that pretty much ends all the rabid fanboys’ hopes that this is some alternative timeline since Star Trek isn’t in the title.

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MSNBC no nothing tries to improve Enterprise.

except he’s not very good, and some of his ideas are already being done. Also time traveling Kirk is a terrible idea.

But alternate reality Kirk as a little girl reared by fundementalist thralls with Taoist leanings on a different planet looks cool.

If they cast Hillary Duff in the roll.

Oh that sucked.
I’d rather watch Spock’s Brain.
I’d rather watch Space: 1999.
I’d rather watch I Love Lucy.

Thats what I thought as well, glad it wasn’t. It began well, but the story did not hold my interest and it was obvious what was going to happen by the end. Although I did enjoy T’pol and Hoshi’s brief wrestling match and would love to see more of that. I think Tom Servo said it best in Racket Girls “I believe this is NOT gratuitous.”

After a few delays in getting to the SDMB (what is up with the lag lately?!), I finally got on to weigh in with my opinion on Extinction.

Wasn’t too bad, except for the part of them eating those grubworms or whatever they were (ok, I confess, I had to squeeze my eyes shut during those parts of the episode!). I knew someone was going to comment about the T’Pol/Hoshi tussle, though. :wink: Nice morphing graphics, btw, though another time that I closed my eyes briefly.

I -must- comment, however, on the previews for next week–MAJOR PANDA ahead! And it looks like just about all the major crew members will be involved. We can only hope that Mayweather gets his chance too.

On a somewhat related note, the episode was dedicated to their 1st Assistant Director, Jerry Fleck, who passed away unexpectedly last week. In looking him up on the IMDB, I realized that the guy who plays Gecko on Carnivale is also named Fleck (John), discovered that he is no relation to Jerry, -but- is one of only two people who have had roles in every modern incarnation of Star Trek! Just a few interesting tidbits to share.

Well, I went and helped my partner install his new whirlpool type jet tub in their tiny bathroom, so I’m just now rewinding the tape to see this gem of an ep.

Thank Og his wife is out of state visiting family, she would’ve had a wilderbeast over what we doing to the walls. Got it framed in and did the plumbing, tomorrow we put up new tile.

It was kind of a Dirk Gently project. No way would that tub fit through any opening in the house, ever. But, we did it. All that’s left is the finishing. And day-am, we are good at that! Woo hoo!

Oh yeah, Enterprise. Will report my findings in a sec…

Did anyone else think of the SeaLab 2021 ‘Chickmate’ episode opening when they showed the ‘Visible Archer’ scene.
At least in ‘Three Kings’ the visible guts scene had a purpose (showing the collapsed lung in the shot soldier).

Now, will they learn their lesson and require EV suits on all new-planet survey parties? – Nooooo… :smack:

I had no idea language could be wired into our DNA. One would think that a civilization so technologically advanced as to accomplish this task might also stand a reasonable chance at success in setting up a few fertility clinics.

I’m glad at least that it didn’t turn out to be distorted timeline plot, as I had also suspected. The unga-bunga caveman routine was a bit much – if they have been transformed into a species that was advanced enough to build cities and create an advanced virus, then why would members of that species be acting like primates and fighting over food found in a tree?

Or maybe the virus turned people into members of that species’ distant past… yeah, that’s it. “Hey, lets preserve our species with a virus that morphs people into our prehistoric ancestors.”

The look on the alien captain’s face was good when Trip told him “hey, remember that cure we mentioned? It works.”

“uhhhh… uhhh… Sorry we shot at you. Um… Ookflosten leaned on the phaser cutting phaser button. Our mistake. Can we have some of that antidote?”

Damn, those aliens were cold-hearted bastards, though. Okay, so they are killing infected people, even their own people. You think you could put them down with a bullet or something first, before opening the flamethrower on them??!!

“No, we must not only destroy you, our high council has sentenced you to TORTURE!”

[Tom Servo]
TOR-CHORE!!!
[/Tom Servo]