Say what?
And I stay on topic.
Well, there was that phaser cutting phaser thing, but Wearia started it.
^:dubious: ^
Yes! And let’s keep it a secret who the truth teller is.
Nope. Forget it. That’s what we do now.
For Estellicon:
For the most part, two people, Wearia and CarniverousPlant, are fairly forthright at the beginnings of threads. They see it on Tuesday.
The rest of us are guessing/playing/hijacking until Wednesday evening. Then, the discussion begins in earnest. Sometimes lasts a whole page or two. Then, it’s all hijacking again, sometimes close to topic, other times…, well, you’ve seen it.
So the basic way to figure it out is, except for Wea and Carni, the real discussion begins about halfway through the first page and continues till near the end of the second.
Nothing Carni or Wearia posts is all that great anyways, so figure that in, also.
Hope this helps the reads.
I didn’t want you to think that I missed that; it will take me some time to come up with something really ugly and nasty, like boiling oil or melted lead. Maybe offering NCB Voodoo dolls for sale on the net. Anyway, the appropiate response might take a while.
You’ve got to sleep sometime, NC.
:eek:
…can’t sleep, clown will eat me…
I hope he takes off his wig and reveals the giant penis monster that protrudes from the top of his head.
And Jesus, of course, drives a Christler.
Don’t tell what happens, Cervaise. Most of those people haven’t seen it yet.
We all know NCB is just jealous of carni and my godlike physiques. Poor 800lbs NCB… With diet and exercise you can acheive this too!
Upcoming Spoilers!!!
(there are spoilers there)
Here’s hoping I can manage the spoiler tag thingies, since this is the first time I’ve tried to do them. Please, be gentle. 
First, no need to put this in a spoiler: Travis SPEAKS! :eek: Who knew?
Now then.
The Panda and Porthos become “better aquainted” thanks to an extended stay in the decon chamber, during which Porthos shreds some of Trip’s blue skivies. Since his undies are now in shreds, Trip is forced to high-tail it back to his quarters using only a few strategicly placed tricorders to preserve his modesty. T’Pol and Hoshi try to fix the shower in T’Pol’s quarters in THEIR undies since, dontchaknow, they wouldn’t want to get their nice uniforms messed up. Travis tries to say more than two sentences and is shoved out an airlock.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself! 
[spoiler] Travis and Malcom’s conversation at the start of the show had me falling off the couch with laughter. Paraphrased: “They should put families on starships.” “Well, they’d better put a psychologist on board, too, if they do that.” Gods, I’m such a geek! 
T’Pol goes to the movies at Archer and Trip’s insistance, lays the smackdown on Phlox for talking too much, and decides that “Frankenstein” is the perfect metaphor for Human/Alien first contact.
Travis goes home, actually gets some dialogue other than “Aye Captain,” laughs, cries, fights with his brother, everything comes out all lovey-dovey. Awww.
I liked the episode, if only because it’s taken so dang long for them to give Travis something to do other than sit at the helm. Here we got to see a little bit of what he’s capable of. He would make a great freighter captain and has learned a lot in his time on Enterprise that would be invaluable on a less-advanced ship. I understand why he would downplay the dangers he and his crew have faced when he’s talking to his mother, but why did he lie to Archer? It’s not like the Captain has a personal stake in what happens on a cargo vessel when no one from his crew is onboard. <shrug>
I didn’t really think the B & C plots (the movie and the volcano planet) were necessary, and I would have liked the episode a lot more if we JUST concentrated on Travis and his homecoming. It just felt like the writers were so unused to writing for Travis that they had to come up with some filler to make the episode last a whole hour. “Well, guys, he’s already said “Aye, Captain” about three times…what else should we have him say?” :rolleyes: That, or everyone has contract stipulations that they must be in a certain number of episodes and it’s getting late in the season.
So, WAY more Travis than ever before (like that would be difficult), no Trip in his yummy blue undies, no Porthos, and no Panda.
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And now back to your regularly-scheduled hijack.
Engel
The subplots sound lame. I hate it when the writers feel the need to have two or three stories going on in one episode. Just focus on the main one for once, already.
Oh, and Re: Hijacking Hijinx - I like the goofiness in these threads and obviously contribute to it as much as anyone else but it does get to be a bit much sometimes. For instance, by the time I finally see the episodes and have something to share that’s on-topic, it’s… well… no longer on-topic.
We could probably tone it down a bit and still have just as much fun.
Just getting some stuff out of the way first:
NCB: Do you know that God’s name is Andy? There’s even a hymn about it: “And he walks with me, and he talks with me, and he tells me I’m his own…”
There’s also a song sung in church about a bear. A bear named Gladly. He’s cross-eyed. “Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear.”
Oh, yeah–Enterprise: Horizon:
I disliked big bro Paul for a while, but he finally extricated his head from his ass for a few minutes and then I liked him a tad.
Grammar nitpick: Archer says “They try and scare you.” It’s try to, writers. “Try to scare you.” Sheesh!
I liked the way T’Pol accepted the popcorn as if it were a snack from hell.
I also liked Travis’ mom a lot, though I think it would be hard to serve on a ship where you had ranks among your own family. “Yes, ma’am–uh, mom. No, dad–I mean, sir–uh, old man–er, big pain-in-the-ass brother.”
I don’t think Trip was flirting with T’Pol. He was just trying to get her to appreciate human culture and have some fun teasing her in the process. I’m sure she felt ganged up on by Trip and Captain Quantum, however.
Did anyone else hear an echo when Bakula was talking on the bridge? Does he have his own personal echo chamber or what?
RE: the OP, I also fail to understand why Mayweather didn’t tell Quantum what had really happened to the cargo ship.
Carry on…
There weren’t any phaser-cutting phasers in Scandanavia, either. (Grumble grumble)
Why, it happened with this episode, of course!
That way, the advertising blurbs got to say “EVENT - HORIZON”.
Get it? Har!
I didn’t see it.
I recorded the wrong channel and now I have 62 minutes of Home Shopping Network. I have also maxxed out my credit cards. But, my skin looks wonderfully youthful.
Oh well…
Okay, if I may be serious here for a moment:
Travis’s family has been running an interstellar freighter for 3 generations. Do you mean to tell me that in all that time, no one had ever developed commercially viable warp engines that could exceed warp 2? And that the Enterprise represented this sudden quantum leap (if you’ll pardon the expression) of warp technology where, overnight, they could now travel at warp 5?
And what kind of serious interstellar freight hauling could you do at warp 2, anyway? That’s only about 10 times the speed of light! (Only 8 times the speed of light, if you use the unofficial ST:TOS warp scale.) It would take you over 5 months just to travel from the Solar system to the Alpha Centauri system, our stellar next-door neighbor!
You think too much to watch Star Trek.
Go read an encyclopedia or something, genius.
Addendum to the above: I know their freighter was supposed to be 50 years old, and this would explain why it was only capable of warp 2 (8 times the speed of light on the ST:TOS warp scale).
However, if newer designs in the intervening 50 years were capable of warp 3 (27 times light speed) or warp 4 (64 times light speed), those newer, faster designs should have completely out-competed the older freighters. The owners of outdated warp 2 freighters should have been forced to either upgrade to faster engines or scrap their old hulls. How can these ships still be commercially viable after 50 years of warp technology improvements? Unless, there hadn’t been any warp technology improvements in the mean while! (Which was the point I was trying to make in the first paragraph of my last post.)
Good idea!
<tracer hauls out his copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia>
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Hey! The NX-01 isn’t even mentioned in the Star Trek Encyclopedia ! (Probably has something to do with the fact that it’s the 1994 edition, but still.)
Did you at least remember to order the 10-in-1 combination Swiss Army Knife/manicure set/emergency floor cleaning portable kit I had asked you for and didn’t get for Christmas? They only had 192 of them left at the low-low price of $29.95 each. Ain’t I worth at least that much?