I will give this show credit for one thing that really impressed me tonight.
Hoshi is having problems touching things. She can’t get the computer to recognize her and can’t get the the turbolift to acknowledge her button pressing. She waits for a crewman to come by and then we cut to Sickbay. The doors open for Hoshi and she walks in.
At this point I think why did the doors open for Hoshi? A moment ago she couldn’t get anything to work.
So Hoshi and Phlox talk for a minute or two and Phlox says, in dismissal, “I can see you. The doors open when you walked in.”
At that I said “Yes!” out loud. Someone noticed.
I’ll bet dollars to donuts the line was added in at the very last second but someone on the set noticed the flaw and had enough gumption to say “excuse me, but with just a simple piece of dialogue we can get rid of a minor discrepency.”
I liked that. It gives me a warm fuzzy.
Oh wait…that’s the panda taking a shower with Hoshi.
Rather than “Vanishing Point,” they should have named it “An Occurance at The Owl Creek Bridge Brand Transporter Room.” I am rather glad they didn’t break Hoshi’s neck at the end of it, a la Fahrquhar. But they should have known that the panda was too heavy for that rope.
I almost laughed when Phlox and Trip found the bit of residue and Phlox said that Hoshi’s parents would want to have it [in remembrance of their lost daughter].
Can you imagine? Archer: “I’m so sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Sato. Here are Hoshi’s remains–A LITTLE GREEN GLOWING GOB OF GOO.”
I was getting into the tension, the angles, Hoshi’s being creeped out and feeling ignored and pushed aside, the music…and the ending blew chunks all over the rest.
Are we back to reruns now? No promo for next week. And UPN is running Trek movies 2, 3, 4 and The One After 4 Which Is Not To Be Named…on Fridays. You know what that means.
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That was a minor nit.
Major nit:
Ah, Viva, you did know me before. I was your cabana boy in the late 80’s. You knew me as Julio, which always made you laugh, because I have blonde hair. How is Snickers, your Norwegian Elk Hound? **[/QUOTE]
I see that I taught you well, young one. You must have taken one of my comp. classes. But it’s the end of the semester, almost, and my mind is nearly done Fur.
Ah, Julio…Snickers is no more, having departed this earthly realm. But I have the cutest little beagle now.
My wife and I sat in silence as the credits started to roll, and then, after a few seconds, we said in unison:
“Lame!”
Horrible. Awful. Unspeakably bad. A complete waste of spending a whole hour with Hoshi, which is otherwise A Good Thing. (And the shower scene – rowr!) Oh, and we got to see Mayweather actually smile! A legitimate emotion from the pilot!
Hoshi the whining simpering waste of skin returns but luckily it was just “Transporter Psychosis” Perhaps it is actually continuity? Remember that stupid Barclay episode where he fears going into the transporter. He keeps talking about an affliction called “Transporter Psychosis” caused by earlier versions of the machine. Perhaps that is what happenede to Hoshi. (I doubt it but something has to save this crapo episode.
The Archer papa Hoshi scene was lame ass enough. He gets a call from his daughter’s Captain saying he has bad news and he doesn’t jump to the conclusion every parent would make but goes into a lame assed comedy routine (PHEH?)
Phlox left too much goo behind I’m sure my parents would want all of my goo not a superficial scraping from the pile.
That scene also had the give away that it was a faux reality. You can hear Reeds voice shouting “We’ve almost got her,” in the background during the alien mumbo jumbo.
A poor episode that had some effort to be creepy. At least the question of why she doesn’t also pass through the floors if she can pass through walls, was answered easily.
I give it one ooo, three shrugs, a Pheh, and one thrown remote out of a possible five wows.
“Captain Archer, what seems to be the matter?”
“I…I…”
“You’ve never once called us before and yet, here you are, bright and early in the morning, using valuable ships resources on interstellar communication. Well, best not to think of that right now.”
“You see, sir, I have some bad news.”
“They cancelled Quantum Leap?”
“No, bad news about Enterprise.”
“Did Chef quit? Did Mayweather go back to his cargo ships?”
“No, you don’t understand. It’s about your daughter.”
“My daughter? daughter…daughter…oh that’s right! I have one of those. Plum forgot about her for a second. What’s up?”
“There’s been an accident.”
“You have insurance right?”
“No, an accident with your daughter.”
“Nonsense! She’s been potty trained for years.”
“Look, your daughter was torn apart, piece by piece at the molecular level, screaming in agony and cursing like a Klingon sailor.”
“I see. Well then, can you send me part of her goo? It would look great on our mantle.”
I am liking, too, also the one with father of her. Captain man is laming with father of her for not to tell him her is dead. Sad so seeming in inability for Captain for to explain to the man who father of the girl is. (sorry for my speaking, I am to English new)
Is not Captain already know to how is to say these bad things or what military is he on, anyways?
However, but it did allow for time for Hoshi (way major hot for ensign babe) to SOS the man and the girl with large breasts.
I like Enterprise threads to be practice my language of English on you.
The conversation between Captain Archer and Hoshi’s father was cringe-inducingly bad. Is anyone actually writing these episodes? Does no one proofread the scripts?
HEY! What does he have to bitch about? That was the most incredible performance on the series!
Think about it:
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[li] He was a no-name security guard.[/li] [li] He wore a red shirt.[/li] [li] He was in the landing party at the start of the episode. [/li] [li] There was violence at the start.[/li][/ul]
Carbon Creek
T’Pol disputes accepted accounts, telling Archer and Trip a story about her great-grandmother and three other Vulcans crash-landing in Pennsylvania in the 1950s.
Cast: Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, John Billingsley Director(s): James Contner Executive Producer(s): Rick Berman, Brannon Braga
Original Air Date: Sep 25, 2002
Just looking to see what is next. The Cow Headed Vegas Girl is right, reruns…
In the meantime, allow me to entertain you with some noseflute adaptations of my favorite battle scenes from previous Star Treks:
Well, I enjoyed the episode emensly, for reasons you all can probably guess. Now, did anyone else wonder why Phlox picked up some of the toothpaste that used to be Hoshi, and put it in an envelope, but didn’t take all of it? And they matched the DNA with about 5 basepairs! Come on! (sorry, biologist speaking here. Please note how i have no problems with Hoshi not phasing out and falling through the floor and not breathing because air shouldn’t be staying in her lungs…). And Hodad has got to be the dumbest lump on Planet Earth. How the freak did he get such a smart daughter? I think Homama was fooling around! (either that, or since this was all in Hoshi’s mind, she just thinks her dad is an idiot, therefore he is when he shows up. And her mom not being home is psychologically indicative of her mother working all hours and not being there for BabyHoshi when she was a kid.
But they blew the wad halfway through the episode when we heard Reed in ghost voice form. I thought it was fake at first, but then it kept going, so i thought maybe it wasn’t, but then they through that back in, so i knew it was, which ruined all suspence. I agree there should have been real bombs. And the coolest ending should have been when they were leaving sickbay, and Hoshi tries the door, and it doesn’t work! (because it is malfunctioning, see…)
Gorn huh? i guess “fee fi [sniff]” means “I won’t kill the lizard, Guy dressed as pansy greek god”
There were a couple of things that I did like about the episode. As was mentioned above, the cinematography was quite good. You certainly don’t need quick flashy editing all of the time. So I like the slow pans or when Archer spoke with his back to the group while at the transporter. I felt these were well done.
I also like the fact that Paramount (or whoever is producing the show) is spending a lot of money on the sets to try to give it high production values. I appreciate that.
However, I think I’ve seen this episode at least twice before on various other Star Trek series. Enough! Can’t the producers spend money on good writers?!?!?!?
::shudder::
I give it a 4 out of 10.
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