Bound
The first of the last six episodes ever!
This will have all tied up in knots.
Perhaps you’ll leap at the chance to watch it.
Anyways, it comes on in 30 minutes.
Damn…! Thanks, NCB. I’m way behind on this seaon’s episodes, but I’ve still been taping them so that I can catch them eventually. Almost forgot that they started back up again tonight – glad I saw your thread in time (10 minutes to spare, to start the tape).
Thanks! 
Oddly, there was no real teaser, it just melted into the 1st act.
The Orion Slave Girls, henceforth referred to as AT&A (Alien Tits and Ass) are indeed hot. And the Panda factor is very high, due to their nicely apportioned outfits and their overt sexuality.
They pose a slight problem for me, tho. One of them looks very much like my younger cousin, without the green skin that is. So, my lust factor gets tempered by a familial feel.
Hmmm…, that sounded really dirty.
Manny Coto is listed as both the executive producer and writer of this episode.
The self referencing came on pretty heavy at the start, but it hasn’t repeated. Both Gorn and Deltans are mentioned.
One nice touch was that the Orions exhibited several different skin tones. All green, but not quite the same green overall, even among the sisters. There were also a couple of different facial types among the males. So, we finally get to see some racial differences in an alien race other than Klingons.
The womens seem to exert some sort of mental control over the crewman. Perhaps like Elaayan of Troyas, or that Famke Jensen character from TNG, they have pheremone control or something similar.
We’ll see if this gets silly or not.
Yipper, the AT&As have pheremone issues. Way to easy to see that coming. But, I’ll let it pass as a nit.
An annoying thing happened in a space shot of the ship. When the warp coil shut down, there was an electrical sparking noise, AND… the ship slowed down in its orbit. Come on, Writers of TV Sci-Fi! Even little children know more about real space than that. Gah!
A very TOS ending. Cute.
Well, not quite ended…
The T’Pol-Trip shippers will have a field day with this ep.
Not sure about my rating. It was enjoyable enough, but had some gliches and weaknesses.
Maybe a 7 on the ENT scale.
Haven’t read a word here yet. The damned Dodgers vs. Padres game on UPN will be running for hours, and ENT won’t be on till 12:30am on 4/16.
Thank goodness for VCRs.
It still blows, though.
The end was a little too pat. “Okay, I’ve seen through your ruse. I’m not going to destroy you, or your leaders (the AT&A), or capture you to take home. I’m also not going to worry about those two big ships you said were in the area. No, I’m just going to let you go. Hope you don’t cause anymore trouble. Bye now.”
Nope. Bad idea.
T’Pol was quite the little sassy one in this episode. Does that mean she and Trip are gonna be doin’ it a lot more?
Man, I thought this sucked.
Yeah, the women were hot, but that story… Okay, here’s the thing: In my opinion, episodes where some or all of the crew is under some kind of controlling influence are only half a notch above those episodes where some or all of the crew is outright possessed on the scale of horribly cheesy overplayed Trek cliches. There’s no character, there’s no meaningful conflict, if the protagonists aren’t responsible for their actions. The plot is reduced to a windup toy, moving by convenience at the whim of the writer instead of being driven by the choices of the characters.
The five seconds where who we think is the male slaver reveals his actual relationship with the women was kind of cool, but that’s an awful waste of a television hour just for that. Even the Trip-T’Pol stuff felt perfunctory somehow.
Now, to be fair, local baseball messed up the TiVo schedule, so I missed the teaser and the first couple of minutes of act one. I suppose it’s possible that this would have made all the difference, and transformed this mediocre installment into watchable television. Even though I doubt it, I’d appreciate a recap of the beginning.
I know they’d committed to this episode before they found out they were cancelled. Still I’m frustrated that one of the final six hours was devoted to this… turgid lump of nothing.
Go on, tell them how you really feel… 
I thought this was a great episode. The interaction between Tripp and T’Pol was funny as hell.
The very beginning (Teaser and Act I together, no break), opened with Quantum (Archer for those not familiar with my bastard ways) and the Orion Guy having a Mexican Standoff. Then Quantum convinces him to be a peaceful chap about things and let’s both put our guns back in their holsters at the same time, what you say?
Orion Guy says, yeah, what the frell, why not. Then he invites Quantum over saying he has something very important to discuss him with. Everyone says Do do it, CappyMan, remember what happened the last time an Orion got hold of you by the short and curlies! Quantum says that it is so god damned important to him to make fucking friends in space, that he will take any chance, do anything, to make that happen. Even if it means hot sex with beautiful and fully trained alien wimmins. (Well, that last bit was implied by all the promos from the last week, yes, BOTH of them.)
So, Quantum and Malcolm in the Mizzle go over to Orion Guy’s ship and he tells them he will sell/trade/give them some location of some ore that the Federation usually creams all over themselves about. Quantum starts right away to dis cuss business and Orion Guy says to hold on a minute, first, the pleasure!
That’s when my little cousin and her friends (sisters in the script) come out and do a little dance routine that resembled the Solid Gold Dancers except they actually had rythym and they came damn near close to spanking each other during the act.
Quantum goes back to NX-01 and tells T’Pol, Look what followed me home!
You should be able to pick up from there.
Mostly pointless, yet amusing.
Some nice touches: Mayweather’s yummy muscles and some dialogue for a change; Hoshi’s scene with Phlox; Phlox doping himself so he can stay awake; nice Sickbay moment towards the end (although for Archer to say that Trip’s jokes indicate bad habits is just insulting); Kelby and Trip fighting; Reed’s refusal of Archer’s order.
LorieSmurf: Well…There is supposed to be a Vulcan-Human baby showing up in a few weeks.
Oooh, next two weeks: The Mirror Universe! Archer gots Hoshi, Forrest ain’t his friend, Phlox is a mean bastard, Tripppppppp is deformed, T’Pol has an exposed belly, and Porthos is a rabid beastie.
(Okay, I’m not sure about the rabid beastie part.)
Well this was the first episode that I’ve watched in a long time and it basically confirmed for my why I’m not watching.
Did anyone else noticed how one of the AT&A didn’t speak or do anything at all? You chould have had just two.
Anyone else think it was an incredibly bad idea to let MALE guards in charge of the AT&A?
Gee, did you notice how engineering when from 50% female to all male later? Or how easy it is to damage the ship with just a few button touchs?
Why didn’t T’Pol nerve the pinch the AT&A when they came on the bridge?
And of course, the deflector dish, saves the day but re-routing something through it.
Amen, Brother.
Where the heck is Aesiron?
I grumbled all the way through - up til the last five minutes.
The scene at the end in sick bay very nearly made up for the suckiness of the rest of the show.
And because I’m just a big softie at heart - I like the T’Pol-Tripp thing.
So - YAY.
You know, when the slaves were in the brig (different looking brig, too - no white hexagon thingies in the glass) and they were saying how they were really innocent and so on…I thought it would be really cool if it turned out that they were telling the truth. Now that could have made a decent episode, with all those moral questions about keeping them in confinement even though they have no control of their effect over the crewmen. The way it was was just sad.
Oops, gotta correct what I said about the Mirror folks—it’s apparently Forrest who’s got Hoshi and Sato, not Archer.
Does Mirror Chef attempt to food-poison at least one crewmember per meal?
While I applaud the extreme panda of the episode, I must admit it was quite goofy.
In our ongoing series of TOS threads, I’ve been complaining regularly about something I called SCS (Stupid Crew Syndrome). Well, it’s rampant in this episode. Everyone, male and female, human or otherwise in that crew (yes, Phlox, I’m looking at you) took way too long to notice that something was affecting the behaviour of the crew. The whole thing was transparent, and should never have approached anything close to crisis level.
But, man, those chicks were hot.
thwartme
I think. The sites make it very confusing to read about.
A couple of nitpicks for “Bound”: Trip says to T’Pol, “Try and reverse…”
It’s “Try TO,” people. Try TO!!! Gad, why do they keep getting this wrong?!
Trip also remarks that he could stand to lose a couple of pounds. But back in season 2’s “Bounty,” he talked of weight in terms of kilos. Minor, but still sloppy.