It is obvious from the blurb that there will be some form of time travel cra…situation, although it issn’t quite that.
The arguement I heard most strongly with Voyager is that the efforts and character development of Our Heroes are all for naught because “everything chamges”.
It is just a damn waste of time, particularly since it doesn’t futher the arc.
Panda: Archer and T’Pol may or may not have done the deed.
It ain’t “City On The Edge Of Forever”, pal.
Don’t mince words, Bones, what do you really think?
Upon reflection, screw it, the sign says spoilers.
Earth is whacked by the Xindi weapon in the teaser. A pretty good indication that there will be a reset button, or as Mrs. Plant calls it, “A stupid dream thing”.
They do a very annoying thing, as in bad Star Trek novels. The author throws in numerous references to canon. I’m not sure if this is to show how cool the author is, or to make us think we are cool because we know it.
There is a human colony on Ceti-Alpha IV. There are flame gems from The Trouble With Tribbles.
Trip goes Kirk on the gem trader guy. A cool moment. Another Trip moment “We have eight Xindi prisoners, but the brig was only designed to hold two.”
Trip: “Throw them out the airlock”.
Cool.
When the Vulcan tries to get T’Pol to return, is that the DS9 theme playing in a minor key?
There is a shot of a “rag tag fleet” of fleeing human ships to said Ceti-Aplha IV. Sci Fi channel has a Battlestar Ponderosa remake this month. That us just too damn…Mama would say “tacky”.
Mrs. Plant pointed out quite correctly that Tucker makes a much better Captain than Archer.
Says I: “Do you mean that if Trip§ and Kirk were in the same room with baseball bats, who would come out alive?”
Says she: “No, they would be drinking beers and talking about girls.”
OK, I’m going to start the “Whack Archer and Promote Trip§” effort. I want to rent the Goodyear blimp to circle Paramount studios. Send your nickels, dimes and strips of gold pressed latinum now.
Because tripp is Starfleet. T’Pol is commissioned for Enterprise only, is my guess. She would thus be able to take over if Quantum implodes, but the perm new Capt would remain Starfleet for an Earth registry ship.
BigFuckinStarTrekResetButton™ for the wecord (Chekov’s for the record)
It’s cool 'cause it allows things to happen that otherwise wouldn’t. Like, in this episode, Earth getting bent over and taken from behind by the Xindi. I like that. This is the reason that the seventh season TNG episode, “Parallels”, is one of my favoritest episodes ever. You get to see what might’ve been.
“No! We won’t go back! You don’t know what it’s like there!”
2) It sucks. Nothing changes and it was all a dream. At least let there be some repercussions like there was in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” when Yar went back with the C and was captured and eventually birthed Sela. Instead, we get nothing other than a wink and a nudge.
Aesiron, The Man with Two Brains, “Get that cat out of here!”
I can see that people could like the episode because they see character development, but since it gets reset it isn’t really part of the characters anymore. We just get to know they-have-it-in-them.
I liked the Quantum Leap episode when Archer was JFK’s secret service agent on the motorcade. Afterwards Al told Archer that he hadn’t saved JFK “but at least they didn’t lose Jacqueline this time.” This is a twist on the reset button where you bring things in-line with canon/current-events from a line where things were worse/different. We’ll see tonight, but I don’t see any discussion suggesting this course.
Ah shit! The parasites in the interspatial flux exist outside of time, so the treatment of this one guy will reset history. Bah! Let’s see how they do it, I guess…
Not nearly the emotional impact of Year Of Hell or Parallels. BECAUSE OF THOSE SHOWS!!!
GAH!!! IF YOU’RE GONNA DO A RESET BUTTON EPISODE, DON’T MAKE IT WORK JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER RESET EPISODES DID!
Change it up a bit.
Even without those previous series’ eps, this one would still have fallen flat. Did not live up to the hype at all. Because of no imagination. No different take on the idea of cause and effect and cause loops.
Not a moving story, either. Why? No time to dwell on the emotional impact of no Earth, no memories, being a hunted species? It coulda had class. It coulda been a contender.
Next week, they use a transporter on a hoomahn again.
I thought this was, perhaps, the best Enterprise episode yet. The “There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape em off Jim!” manuever by T’Pol was awesome, as was the fight in Quantum’s cabin. And the reset button in this case was actually a damned cool idea.
Good Eppy. Still not past the copy other episodes schtick, and we didn’t get anything off this episode except some knowledge that T’Pol likes Archer (which I never saw coming 18 episodes ago.)
Overal 22 out of a possible 31 stars.