Well that fellated with the utmost allacrity.
Really, really, sucked.
Big time.
Phew glad I missed it. However it will of course be replayed several times tommorow. Canadian Tv rocks eh?
Oh yeah, it does.
At least I got this episode over with in 44 minutes.
^:)^
Uh oh! maybe i should have an accident with the VCR program…
So, like, is there a lot of marauding going on?
(PS to all, SPOILERS will appear soon)
Ooh, I can’t wait. What the hell, I’ll spoil it for you all now, with my latest Weird-Ass Prediction ™
Crash! * Enterprise * collides with God! All earthly religions disproved! God is actually a five-headed chicken with purple tail feathers! And S/He passes the time by singing showtunes (off-key). This episode ends with a big Broadway-style production number. There’s tapdancing. And pyrotechnics. It’ll be great.
Kn(was I close?)ckers
As someone pointed out, the Black Spoiler Box of Doom doesn’t work with Opera so beware, spoilers ahead.
Like, right now.
Twelve Klingons terrorize a mining establishment. They are not affiliated with the Klingon Government (hence marauders, get it?) The good guys have that stupid Voyager Alien Makeup Silly Putty on Face thing.
The Klingons have offed some of the miners, but for some reason the Enterprise guys won’t kill the Klingons. There is some Seven Samurai “protect the village” (aka “Guns of the Magnificent Seven”) non-fatal stuff. T’Pol has her clothes painted on (watch her butt crack at distance shots from behind) and teaches the iners/villagers some martial arts crap in three days. The Klingons stop stealing lunch money, call them dukey butts, pout and go home.
Oh it sucks, Tars, it sucks!
Hell, Janeway would have killed these guys. Mother Thereasa and Ghandi would have argued who got to kill them first like Maryland and Virginia over the snipers.
Dammit Kn(*)ckers, why do I bother with Canadian TV when you know everything that happens?
Shuckins.
Lol - yeah. I’m psychic. I didn’t read your spoiler, ** cp ** , but then, I didn’t have to. Because I know the future.
It’s a blessing AND a curse.
Kn*ckers
But if you knew the future, then you wouldn’t LOL because it wouldn’t be funny if you already knew it! HA!
Unless…it is a clever ruse to lull us into a false sense of security about your knowledge of the future…my head hurts.
Yes, um, that’s it. I was lulling you all.
Kn(Whew! That one was close!)ckers
Spoilers! I just saw it…
Klingons use Zeiss binoculars? Looked like 40’s vintage 7 X 50’s
Hoshi can shoot! Cool!
While I must say I liked T’Pol’s pants, I have a nit to pick. That isn’t standard issue, is it? And those shoes/boots… While they try to hide them with over long pant legs, I can clearly see that they are very high. Sure, not spikes, but rather club heels, still, they must be 3 1/2 to 4 inches! I liked her pants.
Is it just me, or do black actors make more convincing Klingons?
Yeah.
It was like The seven Samurai or The Magnifixent Seven, but without all that nasty drama, social commentary, and action that made those films so damned cluttered and considered among the best movies ever made.
Those miners are so toast. They pissed off Klingons, an letthem live! Idiots.
Ensign T’Pol Vazquez of the Colonial Marines reporting for duty!
Very weak Magnificient Seven ripoff.
What’s next? The Hills of Sierra Madre?
I feel sorry for those poor colonists. They are so very very dead. I mean, really dead. I hope they don’t come up in a later episode because they died right after Enterprise left. Horrific external bleeding for all 76 of those colonists. Babies on spikes would cry less than the punishment they’re in for.
ALL that friggin’ work, just to surround the Klingons with a ring of fire?!?
A ring of fire?!
“Beam me up, [Klingon equivalent of] Scotty. Then beam me back down 50 yards to the west so I can kill these stupid miners and their idiot human friends.”
Come to think of it…Isn’t it a creed of sorts for Klingons? “Death Before Dishonor!”
Why is Enterprise taking the Barnaby Jones route with regard to bloodshed? If CSI can show what it does, then Archer and crew can actually fight, with all the real world consequences. Anyways, whatever Paramount…
There’s no prime directive. The Klingons were not acting with the authority of their government. Hell, toast 'em.
In “reality”, if one can speak of reality with FTL travel, the Klingons would of course drink a few dozen litres of blood wine (apiece) and come back and off the miners. Poetic License provides that they just run away and not come back
“We can get deutronium anywhere! Yours isn’t fit for a garbage scow!” Did they steal that from Shakeaspeare?
Good gad, what writing!
A grest episode woud be to return and find them all dead, whereup Archer hunts all the Klngons down and whacks them. That could be stolen from the Steve McQueen movie “Nevada Smith”.
Ok, I rarely nitpick, but I’m feeling bloodthirsty (Mmm Halloween):
What I came up with, watching that episode, was an idiot-simple way to kill the Klingons: simply wait to see where they materilize, and put a long metal pole in the place where their heads will be. Presto! Crab-head-on-a-stick! They can’t shoot from orbit, or they blow up the stuff they need. Or put mines at their beam-down point. Klingons appear? Boom! Klingons disappear!
If they have flown down before, why did they keep beaming down?
If the Klingons beamed down to the new site, wouldn’t someone say “Hey, these coordinates are diffirent?” And why didn’t they just shoot that leader through the flames? Or throw a knife at him?
Pretty stupid colonists to live so far from their home world and not be able to defend themselves. Who do they trade with? Do they just depend on passing ships to give them stuff? Are we really to expect that the Klingons are the first ones to try to take advantage of a bunch of helpless miners who control a valuable substance? If they are getting the stuff for their home planet, how do they ship it? When this planet is drained, how do they move on? (Granted, I did miss the very beginning, so if they explained some of this I apoligize.)
Plus, why all the fuss over a little deuterium? Are the people who write this show (and Voyager) aware that deuterium is just an isotope of hydrogen? As far as I know, it isn’t found in ore deep beneath the surface of desert planets. There’s plenty of it around anywhere you find hydrogen, or water for that matter. It would be nice if science fiction writers knew a little science.
This episode made me sad. So very sad.
There was an episode of ST:TNG on TNN (the one with the cardassian and the renegade star fleet ship- the Phoenix) at the same time, and the quality difference was startling. The end shot were Picard tells the Cardy captain that “we’ll be watching” and turns his back.
I won’t bother to join the chorus poining out the huge gaping ploy holes. I just agree with you.
Horrible episode.