I was thinking the same thing. Anyone have a reason they couldn’t do either of these?
By the way, this was the first and only episode of Enterprise I’ve seen. If this is any indication of how the other episodes have been, then I guess I haven’t missed much. At turns it seemed boring, silly, and stupid.
As a general rule, they are not boring, silly and stupid.
But this one was.
Yep I’m in Canada. I see Enterprise Tuesday at 8:00 MST.
Sorry about the “thawing out the TV station” bit.
I hear you guys are good sports.
The Canadian satellite feed for Enterprise is without commercials and repests aren’t fed. I presume that Canadian TV shows different commercials. Do the stations keep tapes and show repeats at will?
Thanks for the cultural insight,
CP
Attention Tars: That means “Thank ya’ll for showing me how ya’ll do things differently up there.”
You’m talk’m smarty!!
No gratuitous nudity this time. Damn!
No sorrys necessary. And yes we are good sports, we’re quite humble about it too ;).
As I understand it the laws on commercials are different in Canada and the US. In Canada there is a maximum amount of time commercials can be on (8 minutes per half hour or something like that). In the US however there is no law to regulate commercial air time (IIRC). I’d assume the commercials change from affiliate to affiliate. Repeats are usually the decision of the network, so channels owned by the same company air repeats simutaniously. However the repeats are played usually in the same timeslot that the show would normally air. Its very rare that a Canadian channel airs something just for the heck of it.
Wow, I didn’t realize I knew so much about Tv…
As far as I’m concerned, the coolest thing in the episode was seeing Enterprise with a huge bite out of the saucer. (But no deaths? Yyyyyyyyyyeah.)
Of course, next week, the ship will be good as new. :rolleyes:
I’d say that this was one of the weakest episodes yet, but there was one thing I liked. They actually remembered a solution they came up with in a previous episode–last season, no less. The beacons they used to spot the cloaked mines were an improvised solution to a previous encounter with a cloaked vessel. The reset button didn’t get pressed, apparently. That’s a good thing.
Yeah, it was a yawnacious episode, but it still beats Voyager.
Balance, define “reset button”.
I think it was used in reference to Voyager using time travel to change what happened; reseting things to the start.
Ha!
Minor spoiler follows:
http://www.treknation.com/episodes/season2/dead_stop.shtml
I was referring to the magic end-of-episode reset button, which destroys all trace of new knowledge or equipment modification that arose in the episode. You know, the one that kept Geordie’s engine mods from accumulating until they either destroyed Enterprise-D or made it 50 times more efficient/faster/spiffier than any other ship in space.
They used an improvised instrument from an earlier episode in a new episode. This is a wonderment to me, as it’s the closest thing I’ve yet seen to continuity out of B&B. 
Thanks.
I’ve only heard it used in regard to time travel episodes; just want to keep what we are complaining about straight.
When it comes to Voyager, we need charts and graphs to keep straight which of the godzillions of problems we are panning!
Ferrous - I wouldn’t say I was creeped out, but it did strike me as very odd. I didn’t like the scene because Malcolm was so obviously uncomfortable, and Archer seemed so patronizing and unconcerned and even amused by Malcolm’s discomfort. In hindsight, I can see how you would get the impression you got. It was a poorly thought out scene. If they had to set up something for the later debate between the two, it should have been less contrived – like Archer spontaneously sitting down with Malcolm in the mess hall for lunch or something.
Does the Royal Navy tradition during the 19th century of inviting officers to dine in the Cpatain’s cabin still exist?
Interesting question, ** CP ** . The custom seems to continue on Enterprise, 'cept the only people I’ve seen Archer ask to eat with him are Tucker, T’Pol and Reed. Maybe next week’s Hoshi’s turn. Topless. 
I agree with the weird awkwardness of the breakfast scene… I think it was ** Ferrous ** who brought that up. It was oddly tense, given that I hadn’t noticed any friction between Reed and Archer before - it seemed to come out of thin air, in preparation for the defusing scene.
I for one was madly hoping one of them would make a move, and we’d (FINALLY) have Gay Pride In Space. Alas, no such luck. So much for the Sexual Revolution. Though, yeah I guess it would be an abuse of authority. I keep forgetting there’s a command structure… Does that mean Archer can never get laid?
The conversation while Archer was defusing was also very odd - they seemed to keep forgetting that Reed was in this unbelievably traumatic situation. Pain killer or no, I think I’d forget about my great uncle’s aquaphobia when I had a steel rod through my thigh.
Wow, I honestly don’t know if this post makes any sense. Blame it on exhaustion. I’m sorry, I’ll leave you all alone, now.
Kn(not much use today)ckers
Oh yeah, I forgot - I meant to add: Hooray for Canada!
I grew up on the border, and always enjoyed Canadian TV, politeness, poutine etc…
I’d emigrate, but it’s so freaking cold up there.
Kn(Improving International Relations, Since 1980)ckers
It’s warmer on the South side of the border?
Is this like the Mason-Dixon line? They seem to be such nice people…
Hehehe. Actually, I was on the West side of the border. And it was not warmer there. So I moved to Boston.
Maybe not the best choice…
Kn( )ckers