Enterprise 02-25-04

[Mark]

Enterprise - "Hatchery"

The discovery of unhatched Xindi eggs inside a crashed vessel brings out the paternal side of Archer, who alarms the crew with his obsessive determination to save the embryos.

Cast: Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, John Billingsley.

Guest(s): Steven Culp as Major Hayes, Sean McGowan as Corporal Hawkins, & Daniel Dae Kim as Corporal Chang.

Are they trying to soften the Archer image?

 

[Wolf72]

hey is Enterprise going to be on at 8 or does it switch to 9?


nevermind ... I'll just check the local listing

 

[robaustin]

hey is Enterprise going to be on at 8 or does it switch to 9?


nevermind ... I'll just check the local listing

Switches to 9 after this week when it goes into reruns for March...then back to 8 into April and May as it ends the season...

--*Rob

 

[LightPhoenix]

Maybe I'm just being overly critical, but whatever happened to knowing where the Xindi base was? You know, that whole episode they wrote where Archer and the crew play that Xindi like a violin? The super-weapon that was going to destroy Earth and all that?

It just seems to me like they decided a bunch of mostly filler episodes right smack dab in what should be a major part of the story. Not to mention, right in the middle of sweeps, which I guess I do understand the motivation for. I mean, you want as many people as possible this is the same boring, dull Trek as Voyager was during a major ratings period, right? Oh, you mean ratings have been dropping steadily? Silly me.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but I think that this season shows at least a little promise for a little more depth of storyline at least. Why not showcase that instead of falling back on the Voyager-esque bland stuff?

 

[Wolf72]

Switches to 9 after this week when it goes into reruns for March...then back to 8 into April and May as it ends the season...

--*Rob

wait a sec ... so for all of march it's repeats?

bleh!

 

[DMScott]

Maybe I'm just being overly critical, but whatever happened to knowing where the Xindi base was? You know, that whole episode they wrote where Archer and the crew play that Xindi like a violin? The super-weapon that was going to destroy Earth and all that?

They mentioned during that episode that the secret base was something like three weeks away. At the time I thought that was just a throwaway line to explain why they couldn't quickly check out their captive's story, but it seems the writers and producers actually believe it's a good idea to drop filler into the middle of sweeps and are using the length of the trip as justification for that.

Or perhaps they just couldn't think of a good way to get T'Pol naked during a fight with the Xindi.

 

[Silver Moon]

It just seems to me like they decided a bunch of mostly filler episodes right smack dab in what should be a major part of the story.

Actually, that's been an ongoing problem with all of the Trek series since way back in TNG days. They would have several scripts in ongoing development from several different writers, so that when something significant happened it wouldn't be referenced again for another 5 or 6 episodes. The lone exception to this was DS9, with interrelated episode arcs, especally during the final two seasons.

 

[Iron_Chef]

Tonight was another time wasting filler episode that made the captain look like a complete weeny and moron, plus it continued the pointless and uninteresting struggle between the British tactical guy and that Space Marine major (neither of whom have much onscreen chemistry or charisma to speak of).

Enterprise mostly bores me as a series (but it's better than the Voyager---at least until Seven of Nine appeared), and all the reruns are killing my attention span. The temporal cold war is so lame. Time travel is so Next Generation it hurts! All I want from Archer is James T. Kirk-esque womanizing, alien-bashing racist remarks and plenty of setting his phaser to kill. Instead, we get this sanitized "PC" crap that makes me puke. "Save the Xindi babies! Boo-hoo!" Please. Deep Space Nine was the best Trek since the original.

Didn't the network cancel Enterprise? Isn't this the last season? The only thing going for the series this season is T'Pol's sexy new hair and wardrobe and a slight increase in the level of scary aliens and combat. It's driving me crazy!!!

 

[jasper]

quote from my wife LAME! I did at least get some cross stitch done.

 

[CCamfield]

Maybe I'm just being overly critical, but whatever happened to knowing where the Xindi base was? You know, that whole episode they wrote where Archer and the crew play that Xindi like a violin? The super-weapon that was going to destroy Earth and all that?

Well, I thought the episode was good for this tension exactly. I guess there have been other episodes (one in TOS?) in which the crew decided they had to mutiny to deal with the captain's irrational behavior, but I don't think any of them were recent. I figured out what was happening before the crew did, but I think we were supposed to.