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Enterprise 2-26-03 (spoilers)
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Posted by: tonyoci

I find myself only watching this show these days so I can come debate it here afterwards.

Once again I thought this was an acceptable show, IMHO this is because it focused on Captain, Trip and a little T'Pal who are the only interesting characters in the show (Doc is OK but he's too "comic relief" for my taste). There was some action and the Captain was a hero. Cap was a little stiff as usual of course.

I did not see any major messing with the timeline, showing a Norsican should not be a problem. One thing that irritates me is how every single alien looks different, on a ship of prisoners you would have thought you would get two of the same race.

Nothing stunning but it was a watchable hour with no FF required.

T

Edit to fix Vulcan name brain fart

Posted by: vertigo235

Man but what did you think of the preview for next week's show!!!

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)

I'm just kidding, I didn't even see it :)

Posted by: tonyoci

You might be missing my point. Enterprise has no ongoing story so I do watch the next week preview. The only one's I do not watch are 24 and The Shield.

PS. There was no preview for next week, reruns are back.

T

Posted by: Fustanella

quote:
Originally posted by tonyoci
and a little Topol

The guy from "For Your Eyes Only" is in it? ;)

Posted by: gchance

Next week's episode is a rerun of the one where the armory guy (whatever the heck his name is, the british guy) leaves his phaser on the planet and they have to go back for it... hilarity ensues.

Posted by: jerobi

Good ep this week. Nothing overblown, just a plausable, simple story in an alternate location. I didn't FFW either, which is pretty rare...usually you can watch them start talking and skip 3 minutes ahead without missing much.

Posted by: JYoung

(wobbles hand)
not bad. Certainly better than John Shiban's last outing (the highly contrived Dawn) but rather derivative of Con Air. (Notice a pattern, Shiban borrows heavily from Enemy Dawn then Con Air?)

Some notes:

Although the teaser teased how did Archer and Trip get into this situation? We don't know that they're innocent. What if the shuttle contained something we thought was innocent but was contraband to the aliens?
Boy those ship guards were dumb. Just walk right into the line of fire.
How can they talk without the UT?
How did Archer figure out those controls without the UT?
Why let the prisoners out of their restraints when rescuing them?
They don't show the transport ship exploding? Was that decision made before or after the Columbia disaster?

The episode gains points for Archer acting somewhat intelligently and having some semblance of a spine (although his tirade at the end was a bit over the top, IMO). It looses points though for being rather predictable and not showing the ship exploding.
I also didn't care for the fact Archer and Trip didn't quite get out of it before Reed arrives. I would have like to have seen Archer and Tucker subdue the two aliens, then Reed arrives, looks around and says "I assumed you needed help?".
Then annoying gummi worm alien could distract nameless Ensign or Travis and one bad alien grabs a weapon and then starts the firefight.
However, not showing the transport blowing up at the end was a cheat. We see the bad guy getting upset and then we cut to Archer on the Enterprise??? I'm going "WTF?".

Grade C, nothing special here...

Posted by: tonyoci

The Universal Translator thing did bother me. If they want to talk to aliens in English then I am OK with that, but why have the translator and Joshi and it's handheld etc. and make a big deal of it then forget about it.

T

Posted by: DanT

I'm definitely no Star Trek apologist, but I'm gonna answer your questions anyway, because I don't want to go to bed yet. :) (And for the record, when I say I'm not an ST apologist, I mean it. I almost deleted my SP for Enterprise because I had 5 eps stacked up that I hadn't watched, but then was really bored on Wednesday night, so I watched them all. And I never liked TNG or any of the other spinoffs, although Enterprise is just barely keeping me watching.)

quote:
Originally posted by JYoung
How did Archer figure out those controls without the UT?

I assumed it was by looking at the layout. The pictograph shows something that looks like a directional thruster pad, so that must be what it is.

quote:
Why let the prisoners out of their restraints when rescuing them?

I can actually answer this one. It was definitely not very clear, but those restraints (in at least one shot) were also tied to the floor.

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Grade C, nothing special here...

Ditto. I might even go as high as a C+. Definitely better than the Enemy Mine ripoff, but that's not saying much.

Posted by: ronsch

At least we get the month of March off to recover although I wouldn't mind watching "Precious Cargo" again.

Posted by: Skittles

quote:
Originally posted by JYoung
Boy those ship guards were dumb. Just walk right into the line of fire.

I agree. But what you missed was the Behind the Scenes featurette, which showed that the alien guards were wearing Red undershirts.

:D

I found it to be an enjoyable episode, particularly since they focused on the important characters, and left the boring ones in the background where they belong.