Great Googly Moogly is from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
Seems like they could have beamed him out, but since the mine exploded when they cut the leg, I reckon it would have exploded if they beamed part of the leg away.
Wearia: Are you in Canada? When do you see Enterprise?
Liked the big kabooms, so on that count I preferred it to last week’s yawn-fest. Generally, though, it was pretty freaking boring. And the aquaphobic bit was unbelievably stupid. Also - why didn’t Reed die when his suit got punctured? It should have equalized with the vacuum. Or maybe there’s some safety-thing that resealed it, I don’t know.
And the defusing was boring as all hell. If I had to watch one more freaking thing get meaninglessly rotated counterclockwise, I was going to go mad (oops, already have).
Question: I noticed the writer was John Shiban. Didn’t he used to write for the X-Files, or am I thinking of someone else?
All in all - I’ll be generous and give it a C+. The + is because they let Tucker get dirty (yeah, baby!). The C is because the plot was poor, writing was dull, and the Romulans took a REALLY long time to power up their weapons.
Love, Kn*ckers
This white gooey stuff oozed out and sealed the puncture.
…wait a minute…
Talk about your double meanings. . . .
And for the last time- I like the theme- so it says.
Oh, nice design on the Romulan ships.
Others have used it since then. For example, Frank Cho borrowed it for “Liberty Meadows”. FTR, I had no idea it originated with Zappa.
Yeah, it’s a quote from, of all things, a Snickers commercial. A few years ago, there was this old guy who would say “great googly moogly” when he did something wrong. He spelled the word “Chiefs” at the endzone of the stadium “Chefs” and when it was pointed out to him, shook his head and sighed “great googly moogly.”
Then the announcer said “not going anywhere for awhile?”
As for this episode, I found it convenient that the captain and Malcolm could maneuver that deftly in the 0G of space. Seriously, they turned around on a dime and just stopped as their shields faced the mine. That’s talent!
Also, I’m glad that the captain decided to completely ignore the initial hails of the Romulans. Yes, they couldn’t communicate, but not responding sends a message loud and clear.
Any explanation as to why our Vulcan compatriot couldn’t talk to the Romulans?
She said the Vulcan high command “knew of them”, but just as they aren’t supposed to have a cloak, it isn’t until “Balance of Terror” that Spock sees a Romulan and realizes that they are related to Vulcans.
You would think that the language would be similair, wouldn’t you? Especially to Hoshi, who can say catty things to T’Pol in Vulcan.
We really need Gene to rise from the dead and tell us all “It’s just a TV show. Just a TV show.”
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Wasn’t there some other show that had a running gag of a major character always unsuccessfully trying to get himself killed?
This theme of Malcolm’s deathwish (Oh pleeeease let me die a noble death!) could get played over the top for some black humor if nothing else. So far he’s just a depressed whiney git. I sure wouldn’t want to be in a car that he was driving on a wet rainy night (ala Annie Hall).
I don’t think many of the current writers even watched many of TOS episodes. Even a casual fan like me gets annoyed by the inconsistencies … if you are going to do a prequel series at least respect the major bits of what you are a preqel to.
I’m fairly sure that when the passionate, warlike Vulcans were kicked off Planet Vulcan and settled on planet Romulus, hundreds if not thousands of years passed; linguistic shifts occurred, thus contemporary romulan sounds different than contemporary vulcan.
Also, the Vulcan High Command seems to be unaware that this “Romulan Star Empire” are distant relatives. Only the fact that they are a war-like race.
Throughout the upcomming Romulan War and peace treaty afterwards, no visual communication was established. Not until the TOS episode where the Romulans make their first appearance did we know what they look like!
The thing I didn’t like is that the hull armor cannot deflect this blast, but a shuttle pod door seems to do just fine. I would have had Malcom cut himself free then get beamed aboard, rather than the silly thing they actually did.
He was willing to die, so the chance was worth it.
Any physics people here?
In a vacumn there is no ‘blast’ because there is no air or water for a wave to propogate through, right? There is just radiation that would microwave you.
If the device is sitting on the hull, there is an equal and opposite reaction that rips the hull open.
The phrase Great Googly Moogly appears in the Howlin’ Wolf recording of Goin’ Down Slow recorded in 1961.
This pre-dates Frank Zappa’s recording of Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, released in 1974.
Let’s try that again with a different link…
The phrase Great Googly Moogly appears in the Howlin’ Wolf’s recording of Goin’ Down Slow recorded in 1961 (scroll down to see the lyrics).
This pre-dates Frank Zappa’s recording of Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, released in 1974.
Close up there’d be a “blast” just from whatever solid in the mine gets vaporized. But this would dissipate rapidly. Unless it’s directed someway.
And how dumb is it to have such an involved de-activation sequence? Although it does give you plenty of time to get chatty and build the dramatic tension. A big yellow switch on top would make sense. You flick it to “On” and the mine is activated. You flick it to “Off” and the mine… explodes unless you flick it just right.
And it was kinda neat how a mine built by an alien race unmet yet is remarkable similar to a torpedo Malcolm has seen (and deactivated half a dozen times) before. (It’s just TV… it’s just TV…)
Is T’Pol Vulcan High Command’s dupe or is she just lying alot? The VHC doesn’t know about the Romulans? Their long-lost brothers? Does she really not know, or is she just playing along?
And maybe they can play the cloaking device in TOS off by saying the Romulans HAD a cloaking device, but we came up with a counter measure that made them useless. Then the pesky Romulans came up with one that worked again (on completely different principles) and Kirk had to deal with it. (Sure. Why not?)
-Rue.
As to the blast from a distance…
Any shrapnel from the blast would hit them at full speed whether they are up close or 50 metres away … what would change is the amount of shrapnel that would hit per sq m. It would drop off rapidly with increasing distance - decreasing proportionate to the cube of radius of the sphere from the center of the blast - thus the total impact absorbed by the shuttlepod door would be significantly lessened.
British bomb defusing during the Battle of Britain: which this is an obvious reference to. Weren’t they not “turning it off” but actually dissasembling the bomb in such a manner that it would not explode? I wouldn’t want to defuse my mine and take it somewhere else; that would increase my life insurance rates. If I had to remove it, I’d just blow the damn thing up. I don’t want my foes to be able to turn it off either.
Hmmm…maybe i DON’T want to see this episode…
I assume the environmental suit has a self-sealing compound which protects the weared in case od micro-meteorite puncture or sum such.
Hell, some car tires have this technology NOW to protect against nail punctures.
You can also by a product called Slime which you squirt into the valve stem of bicycle tires…same idea.
I was thinking, why not go ahead and detach the hull plating, and then bring the whole thing into the shuttle bay and defuse it there, as you warp away? Or as a last resort, cut his damn leg off, rather than just letting him get blown up.
Anyway, was anybody else a little creeped out at first by that breakfast meeting between Malcolm and the Captain? In context of the whole episode, it was obviously just setting up the conflict between the Captain’s command style and the way Malcolm thought he should behave.
But I swear, at the time, it looked like the Captain was hitting on Malcolm! I was sure the Captain was going to try to kiss him or something, and then Malcolm would wake up in a cold sweat, and it would be revealed as Malcolm’s dream, a foreshadowing to his coming out.
Actually, that would have been a lot more interesting.
(And before anyone gets on my case, no, the creepiness factor was not because it would be two men, but simply the whole “abuse of authority” angle. It would be the same if Cap had acted that way towards a female crewmember, and it didn’t turn out to just be plain friendliness, as it did.)