as long as they decon, I’m happy.
I say “Man” to everyone. Even the trolls under my stairs.
Anyone got specs on Enterprise? Like max occupancy? Gross weight? I’m sure the geeks already made a site for it. But, I ain’ts seen it yet.
I hope they pan away from T’Pol for a while. She’s babe looking, but it’s Hoo-mahns running the ship, right?
So did I. Beginning in 1995. Got posted in Phil Farrand’s online newsletter a couple of times. Didn’t keep any links, tho. Several computers removed in time.
Nits are the best religion.
That isn’t anything new either. How many Trek episodes since TNG have had the formula, something weird is happening and is a complete mystery that gets solved between the last commercial break and credits? That is tired as well. I agree this isn’t a strong episode but does the same as any of the Trek’s the “crew starts acting freaky episodes” Allows us to see some of the inner
workings of the characters minds.
Those things they trivialized on were in some ways significant [forgive the semi oxymoron].
And if he made it how many people would bust a vessel in their brain on how someone with no experience in flying an advanced proto type ship can suddenly fly like an expert?
I have to agree. This show is a drama not an action adventure series. They can have episodes where the actual drama comes from character situations not just weird shit that happens.
You know what I realized? Just about every episode follows the exact same tired plotline!!! There’s a conflict that is presented to one or more of the characters, it’s developed over the course of the episode, and they resolve it in some sort of climax at the end!
Unimaginative bastards. Why can’t they have an episode where nothing happens? Just hanging out on the ship…
T’Pol: Captain, we are heading into a region of unusually high elctromagnetic activity. Would you like to explore it?
Archer: Hmm… Nah. I want to go take a nap.
Hoshi: I’ve finished translating Moby Dick into Klingon. Should I just sit here and do nothing?
Archer: Yep, that sounds like a good idea.
Next week on Enterprse:
Captain Archer sits in his underwear and scratches himself.
Next week on SDMB:
Carnivorousplant runs his spell checker.
Should I bother watching this ep on re-run Sunday night?
Yeah, it’s s dumb plot, but there is some good acting if nothing else.
Which would describe just about any show ever on TV.
Jerry Seinfeld could guest star.
Jerry: Crewman Seinfeld, reporting for duty.
Archer: Ah, good. You can go down to engineering and see if Commander Tucker needs you to do anything. It’s pretty quiet up here right now.
Jerry: Why is it, that when you’re out in deep space -
Archer: Dismissed.
Jerry: minding your own business -
Archer: I said, dismissed!
Jerry: -you always end up-
Archer: OH, MY GOD! SHUT UP YOU ANNOYING MAN AND GET OFF MY SHIP.
Hmm… maybe too much conflict…
Kn(not keepingup your end)ckers:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=145476
Well, damn, carni - how’d I miss that one?! On my way.
HAR HAR!
That is not what I was refering to. I’m talking about the fact the conflict is presented as a mystery that is resolved only by a technobable solution or the real villian is unmasked ala Scooby Doo. (Oh She wasn’t the Devil just a huckster/ Look everyone was acting weird because of the water just give them this shot and all is right/the ship was falling apart for the entire episode because of an alien transmition just recombobulate the Deux machina generator to block it/ Oh it wasn’t the future after all it was that weird alien kid/ The spooky dreams were caused by an alien trying to say hello etc.) I understand they must sometimes deal with the unknown but must it always follow the same plot line as a mystery?
The Best Trek Episodes were not Mysteries but human Drama where the choices made had ramifications either on a personal or large scale level aside from the usual “will the crew live or die.”
Think “City on the Edge of Forever” or “The Visitor” even “Inner light” (especially that one because they let you know Picard was being affected by a probe and though he didn’t know what was happening the story didn’t centre on his attempts to figure out the mystery)
Yes, I want to see episodes in which “something bad happens” is not followed by “and they all lived happily ever after (until next week, anyway).” Okay, given actors’ contracts I wouldn’t expect to see characters die or otherwise leave the show but there ought to be Real Consequences to the choices Archer & Co. make, and I think with the Suliban stories last season they had a grip on that concept.
I did like the episode with the “Cold War” military types mistaking Archer and Reed for members of an “Alliance.” That episode was finally about how “We bungled a first contact and we are responsible for the consequences.” It begs the question: Why don’t they have a protocol for that kind of situation anyway?
It is meant to explain why Kirk and Picard have protocols.
Here you go, Viva. 
Kiss ass
I just watched it again. Funny thing.
This repeat has a lot more full frontal nudity than I had remembered.
All Horta, though.