Its like Gilligan’s Island in space- with the Xindi rather then getting off the island being the goal which always get snatched away at the last second due to some writer’s implausible machination.
What’s with the Enterprise constantly getting taken over- do they have a punch card good for a free ship the tenth time it happens?
:rolleyes:
Is that why the board keeps asking me “Pawn to Queen’s level 3” whenever I try to post?
I thought they would mention they had backed up the data. I too hope it is mentioned in later episodes.
Yeah, I lied about the titties. Khan had bigger.
;j
Yeah - el capitan’s express orders to effect super duper security on the visitors apparently means let them wander wherever they want. I wonder what they do when security is relaxed? Probably involves decontamination…
My paintball commander was disappointed when 2 good guys spied 2 baddies in the corridor, and immediately dove for cover before trying to snap off a first shot.
But my fave line from the show came from my son, the aforementioned pb commander. When someone refered to the chief hijacker by name, he said, "Did they call him Digimon? Cause the guy who blew himself up looked more like a Pokemon!"
Go Porthos. And lay off the cheese!
Viva: sadly, no ENT mug yet! 
The USPS for my area has me on their *hit list, I think! I’m still looking, though. Ever hopeful.
I actually need to have a few more of the action figures to really play along with the show I think. Definitely a Phlox and probably T’Pol and Trip (…it’s not what you’re thinking, really!). I’m seriously awaiting the episode that will feature Phlox and Porthos. 
Due to those m@#^@% f^@^!%@ c@^^^@% at my local UPN, they put on a “Living Single”, a “Maveriks Pregame”, a “Maveriks Game”, and a “Maveriks Post-Game” that ran until at least midnight. I set a recording going but I have no idea if I got anything. Hopefully the Saturday night rerun will occur.
So no “Top-Ten[sub]Thousand[/sub]” list from me - yet. 
That’s because you’re thinking of … other things. Perhaps they are protraying the religion of the ‘Holy Mother’!
Checking … Denebian Slime Devil repellant, check; Cordrazine, check; Anabolic Protoplaser, check; VERSED(R), double-check; Swedish-made Penis Enlarger, ch-heh, that’s not mine, I swear!
(paraphrased)Grand Moff Tarkin says to Vader, “Your ancient religion is all but gone,” whereupon Vader chokes him to death telekinetically. Oops, that’s the opposite, where the fundamentalists win. And it seems I can find 27 lapses of continuity just reading these posts 
[sub]NB: VERSED(R) is a drug often used to make patients forget the last minutes of a particularly painful procedure.[/sub]
BLOOPER ALERT!!!
This comes from evay at Triphammered:
If you taped it, run the tape forward about 51-52 minutes into the show, to the final battle scene on the bridge. Watch for T’Pol as she takes a weapon from the hand of an alien who is supposed to be unconscious. You can clearly see that the actor’s eyes are open and he is making sure she’s got the thing before he withdraws his hand, puts his head down and pretends to be unconscious again.
Onward…
I am shocked, I say, shocked at Cervaise’s post. It’s so…out of character. [joke]
elf6c: Yes, when they get attacked and damaged for the 10th time, they get a free Starbucks Expanse Latte and a piece of cheese.
tarragon: Aaarrrrghhh!!! I shall make another attempt 'roundabout V-day.
Happy January Birthdays to NoClueBoy, Aesiron, Wearia and Tars Tarkas!
Speaking of bloopers:
In one of the scenes where Malcom is scrambling down a hallway with the MACOs, they duck behind cover as about 3 religious-zealot-enemies sidestep past at the end of the corridor. I’m pretty sure the director intended for the religious-zealot-enemies to fire a couple of phaser blasts at Malcom and the MACOs, to give their ducking for cover more “urgency”, but instead they just marched on past like a chorus line without firing a shot. Apparently, the special-effects department forgot to insert the phaser blasts in that shot.
I’d also like to point out that “Malcom and the MACOs” would be a great name for a jazz band.
I imagine after this episode ended Archer immediately sent off a sternly worded memo to the Starfleet IT department (located in Bangalore, rather than San Francisco, naturally) asking them to making sure the next starship has a hard drive backup system.
Which reminds me:
Did I miss the episode where it was explained where the MACOs came from?
All I’ve noticed is that there are suddenly a bunch of folks with different uniforms on who didn’t seem to be part of the origianl crew.
Last season’s finale had dialogue about the strike team being assigned to the ship, but didn’t show them. (Do you recall the inadvertently hilarious dialogue wherein uniformed Captain Archer argued with the uniformed admiral about whether it was appropriate to have military personnel on the ship?) Then this season’s premiere introduced the team, attempting (but not doing very well) to put them front-and-center in an operation to rescue Archer and Trip from a trellium mine. The thing everybody remembers is the nifty quick-zoom sniper scope on one soldier’s rifle. Oh, and that these supposedly super-tough troops are basically pansies, using the same dorky hands-clasped-together-forearm-smash move every other Trek character apparently learns at the Academy. The point is, the show skipped over the part where the team actually comes on board, which seems like an odd oversight until you think about how the story has been (mis-) structured, so it makes sense that you wouldn’t remember how they got here.
It also makes sense if you think about the show’s production schedule.
The Season 2 finale episode was filmed at the end of the season 2 production run, when there was a chance (as with any TV show) that UPN would not renew the show for another season. At that time, the actors who would play the MACOs hadn’t been hired yet. (You don’t want to go through the trouble and expense of hiring several actors for semi-regular roles if they’re only going to be in one episode and then get cancelled, after all.)
The Season 3 premiere episode was filmed at the beginning of the season 3 production run, several months after filming on the Season 2 finale was complete. By this time, the producers knew they’d been renewed for at least 1 more season, and so had gone ahead and hired actors to play the semi-regular MACO roles. Unfortunately, the season 2 finale ended with the Enterprise entering the Expanse, which meant the MACOs had to already have come aboard.
See?
I thought the Admiral asked his opinion.
See Patrick O’Brian stuff.
Note: Not the Admiral Jack cuckold (cuckolded?), the one he had served some time with.
I bet in the furture they outsource to Tellar or someplace. Just Imagine the bad accents pf the future!!!
Well, yeah, that’s what I was getting at with the “(mis-) structured” thing. Production requirements meant they had to introduce the idea of the characters without actually casting them, and fudge over the part where they’re introduced. Makes sense logistically from the point of view of running a show, but it’s damn unsatisfying storytelling.
In an odd way, it’s similar to how the first Batman movie skipped over the part where Vicki Vale figured out who Bruce Wayne really was. Seems like it should be one of the most dramatically interesting moments of the story (if not the most), and they didn’t even show it.
Heck viva, I hate to nitpick after your friendly birthday wishes, but as a Trek doper and a member of the SDMB I am obliged to.
In that scene, I think the guy handing the pistol to T’Pol was the one missionary dude that was helping them out. Thats the impression I got. I could quite possibly be wrong though. I think you’ll have to watch frame by frame a few times just to make sure.
No problem, W. I will take another look to see if it’s the turncoat, but by god, it sure does look funny. If it is him, then why does he have to feign unconsciousness? He’s no help that way.
UPN: What a bunch of backasswards dolts. They didn’t run a promo for next week’s new ep, nor did they run a promo last week, but they did run them on the Sunday night reruns. Sunday nights, when the ratings aren’t even counted. If they want viewers in the seats on Wednesdays, then they should be promoting it for that day. Duh.
Done now.
I knew i should have taped it…
You know, you’d think that they’d know by now that they can no longer take their Trek audience for granted.
Yes, because they have uniforms and rank and an academy and use some type of military code of justice (including courts-martial) but they’re not military. They’re just a civilian organization that uses all the trappings of the military. Maybe they’re the Salvation Space Navy (We can achive utopia! All praise to the Great Bird!)
So that’s what he was trying to say…
Joachim Singh: (Gasp) Yours are the superior… titties… (ack)
NCB, I don’t have it on tape so I can’t confirm this, but from what I remember, maybe you were just so excited to see a woman on television who is actually woman shaped (hips and a bust and larger than a size 1) that your brain just exagerated in its excitement.