The most exciting thing about this episode is Hoshi getting her hair mussed.
Yea, Tars.
To much character development. Boring, stupid character development.
The EVA stuff is much better than the “Off On A Comet” episode of last year.
Romulans; they never see them, the Vulcans “know off them”, but they have cloaking devices. The cloaking device is new in TOS Balance Of Terror. That’s why they go to the trouble to swipe it in The Enterprise Incident.
Well, I haven’t seen it yet, but fortunately in this forum it seems one is allowed to comment on Enterprise episodes without actually having seen them.
So :
I felt that Scott Bakula was much more interesting in Quantum Leap. Jolean Blalock is wooden (or plastic, I guess). The sets were much too dark. There were obvious continuity errors, has [Insert Writers Name Here] never seen the TOS episode [Insert Obscure Episode Here] ? And according to the Star Fleet Technical Manual there is no way bypassing the [Insert Technobable Here] could work as it wasn’t invented until [Insert Stardate Here]. The scene is the decon chamber was gratuitous. And I thought it was cruel for then to drag Wesley Crusher by the Grappler through that asteroid field. Hoshi was hot but she is not qualified to be an officer.
And man, I hate that theme song.
All in all, not one of their better episodes.
I will make sure to watch it tonight.
I watch the Canadian feed on Tuesday afternoons and am not nearly this rabid about stuff. This was like “Ponderosa” screwed up Little Joe’s Mommy from Bonanza.
Not that I care.
So, you have one of those devices from Crewman Daniels too ?
I always thought Canadian technology was about twenty years behind us, since they have to do everything in French too.
Tars, I’ve been getting in trouble ever since you gave me that Spanish phrase book entitled "Su Madre Means ‘Good Evening, Officer’ ".
Is this another Canadian thing like that?
It wasn’t the character development that was boring – it was the defusing of the mine. I guess it was supposed to be suspenseful, but really, after 10 minutes of THAT technobabble, I was hoping it would blow up. It was kinda cool the way they got out of it though. Speaking of Jolene, I’m glad one of you guys managed to focus on her portrayal (“wooden” - exactly), instead of her body parts. Overall, the show was disappointing.
The revelations about our armory officer were, well, just kind of dumb. Aquaphobic? Geeze.
I also wish the cloaking device hadn’t appeared yet. That’s impressive tech even by TNG standards. At least they didn’t appear on screen.
Still, it was suspensful, I wish B&B had some cajones and killed off a few crewmembers. That was some major damage, it’s hard to believe no one was in those sections.
I am kind of a casual Star Trek fan, and I am sure y’all will let me know if this is a stupid question, but here goes. Why couldn’t they just use the transporter to beam him away from the mine? Did they address this in the episode and I missed it? I know that this is one of the common criticisms of all of the Star Trek shows–that a large percentage of the problems they encounter could be solved simply by using their transporter technology. But then they wouldn’t have a show. But back to tonight’s episode–why not just beam him out of there? I know the transporter is new to them, but they did transport Archer off the Suliban ship, right?
Because the mine extended another “leg” to attach to the ship while Malcolm was working on it and the leg pierced HIS leg. He was trapped. If they had tranported him, the mine would’ve come along with him.
I don’t see how they could transport only part of the mine when it was still attached to the mine. I don’t know much about transporter technology, but if you transport a human, machine, whatever, doesn’t the entire thing get transported? I recall in a TOS episode someone grabbing hold of someone getting transported and both people get transported.
The transporters are really new. They are only supposed to be used on equpiment. Nothing too complex or else it gets put together wrong. Beaming the mine would probably cause it to explode before it had vanished completely. It isn’t advanced enough to take the spike out of Malcom’s leg without taking most of the leg with it.
I’ll get around to watching this tomorrow, but granted, i can’t keep away from these threads. I imagine i’ll give it a 7/10. Has anyone died besides Daniels from the crew?
Amputation and mutilation spoilers of the fall season below
Lt. Roberts got his leg blown off by a land mine on JAG ; Rocket Romano got his arm chopped off in a helicopter blade on ER , and now Reed gets impaled through the leg courtesy of a Romulan mine. (He will be repaired, but still.)
What’s next?
And I watch too damn much TV.
