Enterprise 05-21-03 (Season Finale)

[S'mon]

The density of the entire universe is decreasing as an average, but of course the density of the Galaxy, Solar System, or my PC are not decreasing. You could theorise some kind of Absolute Cosmic Clock for the Trekverse, held within atomic structure presumably, giving a measure for Absolute Time (implying Einstein was wrong, time is not just another dimension, etc) but I'm not sure why the universe's average density would affect this, since within an atom gravity isn't an important force - especially the gravity of faraway galaxies!

 

[Orius]

The episode aired in the UK on Monday. I thought it was functional - setting up a new threat, moving on the timeline - though not particularly well done. The probe attack seemed poorly handled and made little sense - attacking a populated but not strategically important part of Earth as a 'test fire' - annoying the humans but not impeding their ability to fight back. In reality attacks are either to 'send a message' or 'damage the enemy', or both - the intent of this seemed neither. They were just checking if it worked?!

Actually IIRC, the probe malfuntioned and exploded before it was finished with the attack. That's probably why it seems kind of pointless. Also I think the Xindi didn't really know anything about humans, so maybe they just picked any old spot to start blasting away.

 

[Griswold]

Enterprise season ender was pretty good, really looking forward to next season!

alittle OT, but am I the only person that liked Voyager? Now I will admit that the first season was beyond bad and the second season wasn't much better, but I thought the show really improved once DS9 writers started to drift over.

-G.

 

[S'mon]

Actually IIRC, the probe malfuntioned and exploded before it was finished with the attack. That's probably why it seems kind of pointless. Also I think the Xindi didn't really know anything about humans, so maybe they just picked any old spot to start blasting away.

Malfunction - I don't remember that in the episode, Future Guy said it was a weapons test AIR.

Not knowing about humans - surely it wouldn't take very complex programming to detect major population centres? Unless Florida is a major population centre (fully urbanised) in 22nd century - but then, the straight line across land-sea-land-sea-land is never going to maximise damage, surely. Of course maybe the Xindi just aren't very smart and don't have much experience attacking planets.

 

[S'mon]

Enterprise season ender was pretty good, really looking forward to next season!

alittle OT, but am I the only person that liked Voyager? Now I will admit that the first season was beyond bad and the second season wasn't much better, but I thought the show really improved once DS9 writers started to drift over.

-G.

I thought the later Voyager seasons were ok, I watched it much more than DS9. Basically I quite liked it.

 

[Mark]

And they'll be using last season's finale, of course, to end the summer reruns...

 

[Kesh]

Naturally! So, now we're all caught up on the suckage.

I'm semi-anticipating the new season. The few clips they showed after the episode ended... were not encouraging.

 

[Mark]

The few clips they showed after the episode ended... were not encouraging.

Are you talking about the rapid-fire shots/montage from last season, or were there actually a group of clips from the new season?

 

[Kesh]

The montage. A few scenes in there caught my eye, and I wasn't too happy. One appears to be, "Archer and T'Pol on an alien planet, where Archer 'de-evolves' and forgets his ship."