I always liked the end of Starship Mine (TNG season 6), where Picard foiled the terrorists. He knew what the result would be when he removed the control rod from the trilithium container. Kablewie! no more bad guys. A good episode over all.
Are TPTB at Paramount waiting for several seasons to go by before we get a truly good show?
I saw it, and then I saw it again, and for some reason I’m watching it now… What a piece of crap. Yes lets knock out some Klingons and leave them fully armed. Crappy fight scenes with crappy dramatic poses. Ack…
“Marauders” has to be the single most unoriginal episode of the series so far. Even Battlestar Galactica handled this tired-out plotline better. And Galactica sucked giant donkey kahuna!
That being said:
Yes, but – only about 1 out of every 6000 naturally-occuring hydrogen atoms is an atom of deuterium. It takes a considerable effort and a lot of patience to extract useable amounts of deuterium from, say, lake water. The current (early-21st-century) going price for deuterium is about a thousand U.S. dollars per liter of heavy-water (D[sub]2[/sub]O, water molecules where both hydrogen atoms are deuterium).
It is likely that an underground lake, left undisturbed for a long enough time, will have most of its naturally-occuring D[sub]2[/sub]O and DHO sink to the bottom due to its slightly higher molecular weight. Thus, drilling deep underground to get to the bottom of an underground lake will likely provide the most deuterium-rich water, vastly simplifying the deuterium extraction process.
Only thing I didn’t care for was the fact that they measured commercial deuterium in “liters”. What, are these liters of D[sub]2[/sub] gas? At what temperature? Did they cool it down to 20 degrees Kelvin and turn it into liquid heavy-hydrogen? Do they just sell it in the form of D[sub]2[/sub]O – in which case, why not call it “heavy water” instead of “deuterium”? The mind boggles.
I think youse guys are over-thinking the episode. It’s called an ALLEGORY! You’re supposed to dwell on the humanistic elements, not just the logical/physical/chemical elements. Good triumphs over evil! A man learns HOW to fish, not just how to EAT a fish! Criminy!
And besides, T’Pol looks KILLER in that white jumpsuit. I’ll give them a pass any day as long as she keeps the Booty on Duty…Timmy
I thought teaching a man how to fish taught him how to drink beer for a lifetime or something. 
I didn’t hate this one, just didn’t find it all that fascinating. They had some pretty good eps last season. T’Pol gets emotional next week, so that looks more promising.
A few comments:
–the kid was okay, not irritating.
–Wasn’t one of those colonists the guy who played Kenny Banya on Seinfeld ?
–The set reminded me of the one from The Road Warrior, though it didn’t have near as much desperation going on.
–I found it odd that the Klingon fellow embraced his “old friend,” whom he certainly hasn’t been treating well. Was this supposed to be ironic?
–The Vulcans have martial arts? Must be a leftover from their savage days, because the Vulcans that come later don’t do such things. Sarek deflects a Tellarite’s attack in “Journey to Babel” with a mere flick of his hands.
–Trip is my favorite character, but he is getting to be a real liability as an officer. Archer has to physically restrain him from joining the fight when the Klingons first arrive. Add this to the ever growing list of Trip’s offenses, impulses and unauthorized actions:
not getting the scratch on the hull painted after a whole damn year;
not fixing the squeak in the deck properly;
his escapade with Malcolm at the repair station;
shooting his mouth off at the Vulcans during a very sensitive moment in “Shockwave part 2” when they were considering whether or not to scrap the mission (all he got for this from Archer was a dirty look);
openly challenging T’Pol’s authority on several occasions.
(The blame for much of this I would lay on Archer, who lets his old pal get away with a lot.)
The flaws make Trip interesting, though.
By saying the black spoiler box doesn’t work, I presume they meant highlighting the text doesn’t allow you to read the black on black text. There is a way around this problem. To the left side of the screen, immediatley above the webpage being viewed (by default), there are four icons; a lock, a camera, a page, and a printer. The third one from the left (the page looking button) will override background and font types specified by the webpage. Text will become 12 point black Times New Roman and the background will be plain old white, thus the test in the spoiler box is readable at all times, not only when you highlight it.
Opera has some nifty little features. Spread the word.
I really hate the lengths Enterprise goes to to avoid death. Here are marauding Klingons looking to kill a few extra people to teach the miners a lesson, yet Archer and the head miner don’t kill a one.
Three blood thirsty Klingons knocked to the ground and were easy pickings, yet the good guys resort to an overly elaborate yet easily escapable trap. Just finish off those three Klingons and they’re down almost half their forces. I think the miners could handle it from there.
Archer’s too much of a pansy. I understand that he doesn’t want to go about angering every race he comes across, but you have to bloody the bully once in a while. Even Picard, who was downright soft when compared to Kirk, knew when it was time to break out the phasers.
First off, the whole “move the town 50 yards thataway” worked better in Blazing Saddles.
Second, I am sick and tired of the Klingons being such pushovers. Lemme see, they are a warrior race, spend year after year training with their weapons, yet… They can’t hit a defenseless miner because he had a few hours of training. They get their asses kicked by skinny little Vulcan women. They fail to keep their defenses up when exploring the town. They bring a knife to a gunfight. They walk around a dangerous area in a tiny little group, instead of spreading out and using cover.
In short, they are a warrior race that knows nothing of war. If I was the Klingons, I’d come back in a week, transport in at the dead of night, and slaughter their asses. That’s just me, though.
Maybe they were stunned by T’Pol’s outfit. I know I’d be defenseless. Woof.
Besides…
The man does have a point.
Again I return here to defend Enterprise from the nitpickers. I can think of at least 5 reasons why this was a good show :
1] T’pols new catsuit
2] No Wesley Crusher
3] umm
4] ummm
5] Tpol’s new catsuit
So there !
Also, did you see the disclaimer during the end credits -
No Klingons were harmed in the making of this episode
“Sell a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, you lose a steady customer.”
-Ferenghi Rule of Aquisition 1492
Enterprise-- from the writers of The A Team.
:rolleyes:
[chortle]
Actually, I did think “Blazing Saddles” more than “Magnificent Seven.”
It was pretty awfull, I think. And as much as I hate to say it, ST is just going too far with the “one hot chick in a catsuit” schtick. I found the bright white entirely unflattering on her, and it’s just getting to the point where I want to smack the wordrobe folks.
And I’m tired of the Kilingons being useless as well.
But I will agree that next week’s looks better.
If I were the Klingons, I would have beamed out of the circle of fire, beamed back in upslope immediately and shot their asses off.
Of course if I were the miners, I would have let the Klingons beam down into the town square and then shot their asses off after the first time they put the squeeze on us.
The whole episode was sort of like Bug’s Lifeonly different. Only not different at all. Did you see the ants building the giant leaf bird in the background?
-Rue. (who liked the ep’ much more since he hasn’t slept the past two nights)
Oh yeah! Hoshi can shoot! Right there in the armory. (Or “armoury” since it’s Malcolm’s room.) With all those bombs and explodey things on the walls. Good thing she hit the floaty target every time. Unlike the miners.
Sheesh. No more target practice in the armory when there’s a whole planet of desert real close. OK?
Rue: I believe in a previous episode where Malcom taught her to shoot in the armory her pointed out that the weapon was on some reduced power setting.
A small, tarnished silver lining to an otherwise very dark weekly cloud.
Some dummies actually *liked[/] it.
Go kick their ass.
When the episode started, I was wondering why T’Pol was wearing a different, and oh so nice, suit… then after the 3 day efford to light campfires around the Klingons, I knew. The story was lame, and only her bum could pull that episode out of the hole it dug itself.
Speaking of “eating fish” and the skimpy butt-exposing pants T’Pol was wearing…