Enterprise 05-12-04

[Napftor]

That was AWESOME!! I've been very impressed with this entire story arc.

...and did you happen to notice that they called it a "Season Finale" instead of a "Series Finale"?

They did call it that, but the final decision won't be known until May 20.

 

[Richards]

I was also pretty impressed when

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that MACO was disintegrated by the defense mechanism inside the Sphere. Sure, he wasn't one of the main characters, but he was higher up in the Star Trek hierarchy than "red shirt."

Johnathan

 

[Napftor]

I was also pretty impressed when

Spoiler

that MACO was disintegrated by the defense mechanism inside the Sphere. Sure, he wasn't one of the main characters, but he was higher up in the Star Trek hierarchy than "red shirt."

Johnathan

That scene may have packed more of an emotional punch if it had not been shown in the promo clip.

 

[Basin?]

This was a good episode and I like this series so I hate to nitpick but....

I think its super-dumb how you can just transport stuff/people off a ship in the middle of combat. Why even use weapons?

Archer: Ok, forget the phase cannons, dump all that power into hull plating. Now, transport everyone on their bridge into the brig. Now transport all their engineers into the brig. Next, transport anyone else on that ship into the brig. Finally, transport T'pol and Trip over onto their bridge.

There's got to be some limitation on this technology that I'm missing right?

 

[Mark]

This was a good episode and I like this series so I hate to nitpick but....

I think its super-dumb how you can just transport stuff/people off a ship in the middle of combat. Why even use weapons?

Archer: Ok, forget the phase cannons, dump all that power into hull plating. Now, transport everyone on their bridge into the brig. Now transport all their engineers into the brig. Next, transport anyone else on that ship into the brig. Finally, transport T'pol and Trip over onto their bridge.

There's got to be some limitation on this technology that I'm missing right?

No shields yet? Just armor, perhaps, is the reason? Confirmation, anyone?

 

[Envel]

supposedly you can't transport through shields, but you can through hull plating.

you bring up an excellent point Basin?, but for the good of the plot, lets pretend they can't.

 

[Orius]

Now in typical Enterprise tradition, the good episode will be followed up by a bad episode (or mediocre at best).

That's not an Enterprise tradition, that's a Star Trek tradition. Sucky second-parters have always been part of the modern Trek series.

 

[Trainz]

No shields yet? Just armor, perhaps, is the reason? Confirmation, anyone?

Indeed, you cannot use transporters through shields, which Enterprise doesn't have yet.

I infer that Xindii do have shields, so they can drop them for a millisecond, beam someone, raise them back. Of course, Archer cannot beam Xindii, as they are thusly protected by their shields.

All speculation of course, but IIRC, it is standard Star Trek physics that you can't beam through shields. And it would make sense for what we've seen of that Ep.

Assuming all this, it begs to be asked why Xindii just didn't beam the whole Enterprise crew into space (I beleive reptilians could be considered Chaotic Evil from that episode), but I would say that they just had time for Yoshi because A) they were fired upon from their new Xindii hostiles and B) they were hyper-spacing right after that.

So Yoshi is gone. When considering that 23 crewmen are already dead (almost all red shirts), I hope they won't risk a lot in order to retreive her. Risking the mission for a single person would go against the grain of the current storyline, as we've seen that Archer would steep down quite low for the mission's sake.

That Ep. was a blast. Just finished watching it. I can't wait for the next one.

 

[Trainz]

Enterprise - "The Council"

Degra's fleet ushers the Enterprise to a tense conference with Xindi council as T'Pol and Reed embark on a desperate mission to gather data on the doomsday weapon.

Not to nitpick, but they got that description wrong. They went to gather data on the spheres, NOT the super weapon.

The sphere could be considered weapons, as they render Xindi space inhabitable to anyone but the Sphere makers, but we know they are basically "terra"-forming machines for the "Guardians". I am quite sure though that when they say doomsday weapon, they mean the Xindii Death-Star thingy