Enterprise 04-09-03

[Mark]

Enterprise - Judgment

Archer (Scott Bakula) is put on trial by the Klingons and accused by a disgraced Klingon officer of having his battle-cruiser crippled by the Enterprise in a firefight, and of aiding rebels of the Empire, but he finds a friend in his defender, Kolos.

Looks like a nice way to get more active in building relationships among future Federation members, while at the same time sowing the seeds for a war with the Klingons.

 

[Orius]

Enterprise - Judgment

Archer (Scott Bakula) is put on trial by the Klingons and accused by a disgraced Klingon officer of having his battle-cruiser crippled by the Enterprise in a firefight, and of aiding rebels of the Empire, but he finds a friend in his defender, Kolos.

Looks like a nice way to get more active in building relationships among future Federation members, while at the same time sowing the seeds for a war with the Klingons.

Yeah, I saw the preview for the episode. My impression is that it will probably be reminiscent of Star Trek VI. I won't get to see it until Saturday, though.

Also, I believe Kolos is played by J. G. Hertzler, who played Martok on DS9.

 

[Mr Fidgit]

Re: Re: Enterprise 04-09-03

Also, I believe Kolos is played by J. G. Hertzler, who played Martok on DS9.

indeed it was (i love when they actors back to Trek)

not a bad episode, although it did resolve itself rather quickly IMO.

 

[Wolf72]

DOH! *wolf fails geek check!* ...

I didn't catch the Durass connection from STNG!!!

sheesh, his family's gonna have a might big chip on their shoulders

 

[Hand of Evil]

Last night was my favorite episode. Never in Star Trek history have they revealed so much about the Klingon Empire. Never.

This is from the Making of Star Trek by Gene came out in the late 60/early 70s.

The Klingons were a warrior/slave race to an unknown race that disappearred. The Klingons took over their worlds which had other races (also slaves) that performed task for them. Klingon ships were template ships, no new tech for a long period of time (that was one of the reasons for working with the Romalans in ST:OS.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I heard of it (part of this is used in trek novels), but I am not sure if it is "still true" - there are no indications for it in TNG or DS9, and the klingon culture has been explored very deeply there. Well, maybe not deeply enough...

Mustrum Ridcully

 

[John Crichton]

This one was very Trek VI, my favorite of the Trek films. Not as good as the movie, of course but it did make me smile.

I got the Durass reference right away. I'm not a big Worf fan, but the Klingon stuff was related to the whole crew (mostly Picard) not just him. Just giving the former Klingon Captain that surname lets anyone watching who knows it, know that they are notorious liars and generally not very smart. I'm pretty sure this isn't the first mention of a Klingon caste system of some sort. I could have sworn it was someone in either TNG or DS9 (in addition to what Hand of Evil said about TOS).

While not perfect, I really enjoyed this ep. I didn't really dig the look of Rura Penthe because of all the white, really. I can understand that because this is before they dug deeper that there were less caverns and the like but it only was Rura Penthe in name, to me. They could have at least made it look cold. Maybe some Titanic-esque cold breath FX would have worked. But that is a really minor complaint. If the show had better ratings I'm sure they could have upped the budget and gotten a bigger set, but no big.

The trial seemed a little enclosed as well, but I attribute that to being a smaller tribunal than the one Kirk & Bones were subject to. But of all my complaining, I did like that they showed those scenes at all. It did work for me, but because I'm such a huge fan of Trek VI, those locales stood out like a sore thumb to me. But it's all good.

Enterprise is following the EXACT pattern as season 1 for this season: Saving all the solid and fast-moving eps for the second half of the year. The rest should be good from here on out.

 

[DanMcS]

I enjoyed the sliding in of Durass' character--Mogh's enemy from the past. I assume that this Durass will be the predecessor to the one that dishonors Mogh's family and forces Worf to be adopted by humans.

It could be the same character. Enterprise takes place in what, 2150ish? TNG was around 2360. How long does a klingon live?

 

[John Crichton]

My nitpick was the lack of communicators. What, all the Klingons know English? Where were the walkie-talkie-style communicators that Kirk and McCoy had?

That bugged me, too.

As for Klingon lifespan, they live about twice as long as humans (150-200 years). I don't think it's the same Durass from TNG. Probably not even his dad but more like a grandfather or uncle (if that's the way it works). But I could be wrong.

:: edited to make more sense ::

 

[jasper]

The things I learn from the episode
Spoilers

















Dilithium crystals harder that diamonds in TOS can be pick axed out the wall.
All Klingons know English the translators from the later shows are just a sham.

No one carries a camera or will memorize a star chart. Or it will get lost in federation archives. Rura Penthe location is unknown in Kirk's time requireing a piece of velco to give the Spooky the Elf the location. But Archer crewman is smuggled to and from the prison.

Pain sticks with be minaturize to palm size(tos) until the worfs time where the old ones come back.

The smell of human sweat is unbearable otherwise what drove off the two guards guarding archer and the long hair hippie klingon.

Show trials are called Survior Klingon

A cute female vulcan whispering sweet hurtings in Klingon ears will make Klingons weak in the knees and cause them to help elf ladies. That it vulcans are not a higher species they elves. Look at all the episodes They can go with out sleep, immune to most charm/mind spells,High int, prideful, have long lives, don't talk about sex. Come in assorted colors, (wood, high,drow = white, black, oriental).

All together a nice talking episode. But once again redefines what canon is.

Oh my rule if not shown on film the support books (tech manuals, making of, etc) only count when it agrees with other support books. So while Robberberry may say Klingons had bumps, when DS9 did trouble with tribbles 2 Klingons now come in two flavors one lumps or no lumps.