Eh? Did those two even get together, finally? I’ve been out of the loop for awhile.
I’m supposed to give a damn about this?
The Andorians, Vulcans, Humans, and Tellarites are the founders of the Federation and all TOS species.
That was in reply to Ellis Dee.
I’ve still not got this quick reply thing down yet.
I thought Whatsername’s brother’s name was Carob the whole time.
Liked the Aenar; Hair and Makeup did a nice job with them. But if they’re blind, wouldn’t their eyes be more filmy looking?
Those ice bores looked…umm, I don’t want to say what they looked like.
I don’t Shran is over her. I think they’ll have a few little blue and white kids running around slashing each other with ice shavers.
I don’t think the pointy-eared baby will even be real, or at least it won’t be permanent. It’s probably somebody’s experiment involving stolen DNA or something.
Shran is the Man. He’s a Blue Man Group unto himself.
At the end, I kept wishing Trip would have said to Archer, “Whuddya mean, ‘as a friend’? You’re an ass.”
Aes, I’ll have four tapes for you this week. Shall I send them to our contact?
Yeah, probably. I still need to send the seven I have too.
By the way, for anyone that cares, I saw the Doctor today and he told me I should be able to return to work sometime in May, presumably sometime around the time ENT has its last episode. Will be a bittersweet month,
The universe is a cruel and crazy place, Aes.
Gotcha Joan, though.
Our Contact?
Okay, I’m burning VHS to DVD, but Viva doesn’t have cable…this is why you guys talked over the SDMB instead of email.
The hell are you sending this guy w/o cable?
“Our Contact”. Holy shit, they are going to burn me like the Rosenbergs.
Mostly *Enterprise *and Joan of Arcadia, which is on network television, not cable. The rest is pretty much filler that I just pick at at random. That’s how I discovered Jake 2.0. And you were “our contact” 'cause we didn’t want to make our cogenitor jealous. Or out you in case you didn’t want to let everyone know you were doing this for me. Either/or. Or both.
Now that they know though, I can’t wait to get the *BSG *DVDs. Thanks, buddy.
Sounds like plantman has a cool set up. That’s the only thing I’m jealous about.
I really liked Jake 2.0. UPN, like FOX, has no idea how to promote and nourish sci-fi-TV.
It was an okay episode.
Although at the end I commented “if I didn’t know the show was ending I’d be really pissed right now”
Tripp is my favorite character. Not that I believe he will actually leave, of course.
He will, but he’ll come back.
Yes, 'plant, you are our contact. I also have spies everywhere acting in various capacities as my human satellites. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Some problems with the Andorians and Aenar: If these people evolved on an ice planet, shouldn’t they be a lot hairier? yet it’s the Tellarites with all the hair and they crave heat and mud baths.
What do the blind Aenar need with windows and lights?
Earth has been temperate for the past forty millennia or so but the majority of human history was spent in our own Ice Age and we aren’t especially hairy.
They are insectoid, are they not?
Ostensibly.
They have hair though.
I’m not sure it’s to keep him warm, though.
Spiders aren’t insects either.
And even discounting hair, Andorian females still have mammaries.
But they control their body temperature in the same way.
And she’s cute.
How could I have missed that?
You only missed it (them) because you haven’t yet seen Talas in her fuschia hootchie-wear.
BATS AREN’T BUGS!
Re the ep:
Meh. Jeffrey Combs should play every single role on the show, but otherwise, meh.
One nitpick that I was going to mention last week but that happened again this week, that reinforces what I went on and on about last time about how the writers aren’t writing the characters well, and haven’t been able to take the characters’ viewpoints:
The Andorian female who died last week (don’t remember her name) was talking to Shran from her bed in sickbay. She said something like, “I’ve seen what phase-pulse infection can do to Andorians.”
Disregarding for a moment the dopiness of the phaser infection, why didn’t she say, “…what it can do to us”? She’s Andorian, she’s talking to another Andorian, there’s no reason to particularize the species. Now, if she were talking to Phlox, maybe she’d say that (or just “our kind”), but when she’s talking to an Andorian, she wouldn’t say it like that. It’s another example of how the writers fail to put themselves actually in the skins of their characters and write from their points of view; this causes the crappy exposition problem I griped about at length ep before last, and it causes little hiccups like this. And it happened again in this episode, but for the life of me I can’t remember exactly where. I just know it tripped my alarm and I made a mental note to mention it.
I know it’s a tiny little thing, a stupid insignificant nitpick, but to me it’s all of a piece. This isn’t an isolated nitpick of one word; it’s one more piece of evidence about how the writers are getting the show wrong.
Anyway. Otherwise, like I said: meh.