Daedalus
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Finally, we get a new ENT ep to watch.
Emory’s a “longtime family friend” of Archer’s? How many brilliant scientists does this guy know?
The teaser had the barest whiff of the Alexander Courage Trek theme! Right at the beginning, for mabe a second or two. Did I imagine it? Those three notes…
What does Bill Cosbey need with a starship?
Who directed this?* The conversation camera shots are atypical for Trek.
Ah… One of the things I always wondered about: stellar distance transporters.
Definitely shot by someone new. The cuts, the lighting, the angles.
Bill Cobbs is the actor playing Emory. Is he part Klingon? Or is that his condition? (spine)
We have a new character? Or is he a redshirt? …Yeah, he’s a redshirt.
*David Stratton. His name’s not hyperlinked, so I’ll assume this is his first Trek. After the show, I’ll decide if this ‘style’ is good or not.
Great, the bus driver from The Drew Carey Show invented the transporter.
The ironing is delicious.
Doesn’t Battlestar Galactica also premiere later tonight?
Trekkie response: THERE ARE NO OTHER SHOWS! 
Cool!
Okay, I have to already admit, I don’t like the style this is filmed in. The low angle shots, the 1/4 lighting, the odd cuts… blech! Not that it’s a bad style in of itself, just that it’s not Trek. Kind of like watching an NFL game with the cameras placed at field level. Okay for a little bit, but annoying as hell if done for an extended period.
Not sure I like how the story is unfolding, either. Too many holes.
I know, I know… wait til it’s all done.
I’m waiting.
PORTHOS!
Irrational Quantum and Angry Tripp are back.
Saw that Duracell commercial again. You know, the one with that 10 yr old gilr singing “glory hole.” Always makes my day.
Man, this episode sucks AND blows! I doubt the last 11 minutes will make any appreciable difference to my opinion.
Bad writing, bad acting, annoying directing.
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My rectum hurts.
I’m going out to play pool and drink beer. Discuss whatever you want. I declare this to be an open thread.
Man, did this fellate with great allacrity, or what?
At least they found a worse actor than Backula.
Per usual, Porthos gets more screen time that Travis and Hoshi combined.
(sings): Can you feel the hate tonight…
Okay, the photography sucked and Archer sucks more than ever, but at least we finally got to see Trip blow up at him. Too bad they were pals again at the end. Why can’t Trip just stay pissed at the bastard for a while? At least he was ballsy enough to tell him he has a mean streak.
Aes: No Hoshi! Sucks, don’t it?
I’ll have to come back on Monday or so due to a Shuttlepod trip down south, so you kids have fun while I’m gone. Fight nice.
None at all?
I’m suddenly grateful for my leg.
Didn’t like it.
More later.
I had a good couple of games and an even better couple of beers.
Bill Cobbs mave have been the single worst actor ever to appear on a modern Trek episode. His range of emotions ran the gamut from stilted delivery to loud, stilted delivery.
Leslie Silva was as wooden an actress as Cobbs was incompetant. Her performance next to his made her look like Sir Lawrance Olivier. Even at that, she made me want to pound her face into a bulkhead while shouting, “EMOTE! Emote, damn you!”
Plot holes and other nits: A quantum bubble in macro space where no energetic particle could pass? “That’s why we can’t see any stars here.” How did NX-01 get there? Magic? Just adding the word ‘quantum’ to a phrase doesn’t make it mysterious anymore, guys. If it ever did. And, they figured out that the odd event which killed the blue-jumpered red shirt coincided perfectly with the transporter experiment, yet they went right on with the next phase anyways. (Quantum: “Cain’t hurt. We’s here anyhow, yup.”) Can you say reckless endangerment? Also, it seems farfetched that any orginisation would waste the flagship of its military arm with such piddling shit. Or is that just me?
And how about those camera shots, huh? If done once or twice at the opportune time for an increased dramatic effect, fine. I applaud you. This work of fart looked like a 2nd year film student’s mid term thought exercise. And a failing student at that.
Even the dialogue between Trip and Tits T’Pau came across as extremely forced and wooden.
Rating this ep on a scale of 1 to 10, I give it the finger.
I keep seeing these great sig ideas, but I must keep mine for four more years.
As much as I hate to say this, I’ve got to agree with everyone else - this episode pretty well sucked. 
I was only partially watching so missed how the son had gotten “trapped” or whatever, and why did contact with his energy (or whatever) cause people’s skin to buckle (it did look like Klingon ridges, whoever made that observation! LOL)? And might I add that was a HUGE needle that Danica used to inject in the father’s back!!! :eek:
The promos for the upcoming episode -look- promising. Let’s hope that they follow through!
Is this thing dead? Anyone here? Hello?
Is this the end of the Enterprise threads as we know them?
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The episode made me think that the writers had a lot of good dialogue and interactions that never got through the director and actors onto the screen.
What I liked:[ul][li]I liked Trip and Archer talking about their heroes, though Trip’s was more heartfelt than Archers.[]T’Pol appeared calmer and more Vulcan.[]I felt good acting when Emory spoke about fighting the nonsense about transporting making copies of people.[]Like? Well, Trip defers easily to authority. He has deferred to Archer, he defers to Emory, and even defers to T’Pol. He pushes his case, but if someone else outranks him or has a great point, he defers. Archer slaps him down, he takes it. Emory insults him, he takes it. At least Trip is consistent. [sub]I’m more annoyed by that because I do it too IRL}[/sub][]I loved Phlox’s “Can you put that that thing down for 30 seconds.”[]I liked Trip’s, “Can’t you take a break eventually?” A life-long philosophy and a way of being is not something from which you “take a break” so the irony fit.[]Archer’s “Don’t fail” speech to Emory was cute, but he just didn’t deliver it with conviction.[]Just as I liked Phlox and T’Pol speaking about the widespread cure of Pa’Nar and the impact of the Kir’Shara - it shows Vulcan changing - I hate that everything pivots around Enterprise’s exploits.[/ul]What didn’t work:[ul][]Emory, throughout boarding and in the dining room, talked about how his new quantum-transporter could eliminate Starfleet. In the end he admits that the whole theory is wrong. Why would he go on about this great dream when he knows it’s impossible? Emory is an egotist, and if there were a glimmer that it was possible, I can see him proselytizing away; but when he said it’s just plain wrong, why was he harping away about it?[]Emory should have tried for years to beg Starfleet to go back after his son. Then there would be records that Archer (even as just a close friend) would have known about from the beginning. He should have also tried to fund-raise to get a comercial ship to get extra generators and go out there for a rescue. Maybe transporters are an exclusive secret of Starfleet, but there should be records of his previous attempts to get Quinn.[]Emory just says, “Starfleet would never authorize a rescue,” but gives no rationale. Emory is Top-Dog and if he says my son got trapped in a subspace field, then you gotta believe it. I don’t see why Starfleet wouldn’t have given a rescue a shot.[]The Barrens had no stars. This implies it must deflect/warp/etc starlight, not that it is empty. “The Barrens” is still a great/appropriate name, but since Emory knew it was a subspace bubble, and it wasn’t just empty space, Archer should not need to be told. And the ship should be on alert since traveling through a subspace bubble sounds dangerous and they should have researched the area before entering it.[]A strange phenomenon happens and Reed gets his gun but doesn’t bother calling the Bridge or calling for more Security? Archer leaves the bridge and presumably calls Security in the lift, but a captain should coordinate his troops, not rush in.[]Quinn-the-Transporter-Man always shimmers through the ship linearly and at human height from the deck. How very convenient.[]Phlox would have known that Reed’s crewman died from a transporter/subspace effect. There’s got to be transporter accident/testing medical recordsand Phlox could detect the pattern of cellular damage. This would mean that everyone would be on the alert for something having to do with the transporter from the beginning.[]Trip remarks how the test probe going 40km is the farthest known transport. Okay. But since Emory admitted his quantum theory won’t work, how did he get it to go that far? Maybe just because the Barrens is so devoid of matter that the beam can simply go farther, but I would have thought Trip would mention it.[]When Archer sends the guards off, alone!, to search for the anomally with the duh “Don’t let it touch you” we see T’Pol gets to keep a scanner but the guards don’t get any. Didn’t save their Green Stamps I guess.[]In sickbay, Archer says “enhance” for T’Pol’s recording and Trip complies. Then he says it again. 1. Just what does Archer want enhanced? Subspace distortion? Contrast? Tint? Vertical Hold? 2. Why did one generic enhance need another commanded enhance?[]The next time Quinn appeared it was just Archer and Emory in the shuttle bay. Why just them and no guards or extra scanners? And how were they in the right spot at the right time?[]On the final beam-in of Quinn, Emory should have been hovering over the console, not getting up to it.[]I hate psuedobabble like “recalibrate the confinement beam.” If it needs it then it should be automatic or done without prompting.[]Phlox said that Quinn would die within seconds if he was beamed in. Of course Quinn gets to live a half minute and make a death-speech.[]How did Emory get in his quarters when the door has this big lip? Trip would have put in a ramp!Odd that Phlox didn’t ask to examine Emory, but that could have happened off-screen.[/ul]I get the Emory is a loner and has been persecuted (i.e. his transporter copies people), but the acting just didn’t seem to fit - I think beacuse of the comments above. His obsession didn’t seem to fit with there being no records of any previous attempts by him to rescue Quinn. He didn’t seem paranoid enough after 15 years of trying to get a son back.[/li]
Trip’s been yelle at by Archer, slapped down by Emory, and dumped by T’Pol. The guy’s gonna say “screw people” and start humping his reactor core, or get a phase rifle and find the nearest tower.
Did anyone think they would hear the refrain “When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody’s gonna jump for joy”?
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Boring boring boring.
Boring boring boring.
And then some lousy thrown in for good measure.
What a horrible episode!