Well, you don’t HAVE to watch it. Me, I watch it because it keeps me company, and gives me something silly to waste time on. Not because I expect brilliant drama or in-depth character study.
Plus, what the hell else have I got to do on Wednesday nights?
Next week it’s an Enterprise Event: Alien Tentacle Prison Rape!
Thrill as Archer gets split in two by the prisoners of Rura Pente! With special guests Gary Coleman and the Bee Gees! Can Enterprise get their captain out before the eggs implanted in his colon hatch and devour him alive? Find out next week!
Trek is an addiction. They lace the airwaves with K-White or something. I watched Voyager for five seasons, I can surely make it through that many of Enterprise.
Come on, this is Star Trek – you should know better! All planets in the Trek universe have nitrogen-oxygen atmospheres thick enough to be breatheable by humans. And they all rotate with an exactly 24-hour period, and they all have 1.0 G’s of surface gravity, and they all exist somewhere in the temperature range where liquid water can form. And they’ve all miraculously gone through an evolutionary history that produces pine trees and grass.
No, just the planets they go to when on camera! behind the scenes they go to the cool worlds (like the ones the sheliak live on, or the one the budding guy is from, or where those fourlegged dudes Neelix was going to be ambassador of was from, or the Tholian homeworld).
either that, or them genetic seeder aliens also knew planetary manipulation.
Lame, lame, lame and oh yes … LAME! Only the most unabashed Trekkie apologist would claim otherwise. I fully expected Archer to don a Preacher’s collar so he could look more natural delivering his lines. There only two things that keep this show going and that’s the excellent (for a TV series) special effects and the Vulcan’s catsuited bod. They should play to their strengths.
Next week, on Enterprise - Archer takes an away team to make first contact with a species of large-breasted women who live on a world where the continents are so screwy that 90% of the planet’s surface is sandy beaches. Porthos gets eaten by a giant jellyfish.
Okay, so I’m one of the only ones who liked this episode. That’s fine. But could people please be a little more open-minded? Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean that anyone who did is deceiving themselves.
A character can’t say what they believe in without being called preachy. Whatever.
It’s my personal opinion that the entire television run of TOS is something best laughed at in a sort of “What were we thinking?” way, and then categorically ignored. But if you liked it, I’m not going to criticize you.
The best part about the episode is that even though the Klingons were seen as technologically superior to humans, it turned out that it was the simple, humble virus that brought them down and allowed Archer to escape.