Enterprise 05-26-04
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I did indeed watch Enterprise instead of go to my game, though as soon as it ended I hopped in my car and sped over to catch the last half of the game.
It is obvious to me now that Enterprise is about the temporal cold war, not the first ship named Enterprise, but that is fine with me.
Edit: totally forgot the cool use of limpet mines.
As with 24, this episode climaxed 45 minutes into the show with the explosion of the sphere, but the end twist got me interested in the next season.
I loved seeing the Andoran ship appear to help, that was cool. I also knew something was up when they said, "Finally 3 ships are coming to greet us" and then you hear the 'pink pink pink' of bullets off the shuttles hull, (though I agree they should have realized everything was not alright simply by pulling into orbit).
And I have no problem with Nazi's being the bad guys, alien Nazi's work just as well. Somebody on another board pointed out that alien might be a Remus, (Romulan) so they could be the next cold war species involved.
I loved seeing the Andoran ship appear to help, that was cool. I also knew something was up when they said, "Finally 3 ships are coming to greet us" and then you hear the 'pink pink pink' of bullets off the shuttles hull, (though I agree they should have realized everything was not alright simply by pulling into orbit).
And I have no problem with Nazi's being the bad guys, alien Nazi's work just as well. Somebody on another board pointed out that alien might be a Remus, (Romulan) so they could be the next cold war species involved.
It is obvious to me now that Enterprise is about the temporal cold war, not the first ship named Enterprise, but that is fine with me.
Edit: totally forgot the cool use of limpet mines.
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Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
So, once again I ask for some spoilers. How about a plot synopsis ?
Mustrum Ridcully
Mustrum Ridcully
Mustrum_Ridcully said:
The Enterprise remains in the expanse to disable the spheres while Dezgra's ship chases after the weapon.
The Enterprise must navigate through a huge distortion caused by the transdimensional aliens and they only have 15 minutes to survive in the warped space thanks to a neural stimulant developed by the doctor.
Degra's ship follows the sphere which exits warp space far from earth, but not far enough to blow up a space station. Suddenly the Andoran ship with the guy from previous episodes shows up to help. With the Andoran ship, Degra's smaller ship can get close to the weapon to transport an away team onboard, so Hoshi, still suffering from brain washing, can destroy the weapon.
The transdimensional aliens have warped space around the sphere enough that they can manifest on the Enterprise and they start going around mucking with the power systems so that the deflector can't shoot the ray at the sphere to destroy them.
Hoshi, Captain, Malcolm and Maco's get on board and fight off all the reptile aliens, so Archer can use Hoshi's instructions to invert the power and blow up the weapon. The Andoran ship destoys the single reptile ship and Weyoun, (can't recall his Andoran name) tells them that now Archer owes him one.
The aliens almost stop the Enterprise from destroying the sphere, but don't and a backlash ends up firing through the whole sphere network and they all implode.
Archer gets into a fight with the reptile cheif who transported on board the weapon. Archer blows him up with a limpet mine. Totally cool.
The weapon blows up, but Archer is still on board.
This is 45 minutes into the show.
The Enterprise arrives at Earth and wonders why everything is silent.
A shuttle goes to Star Fleet headquarters but is greated with gun fire. GUN FIRE. From P-51 mustangs. Then we flash to a tent and see soldiers and finally Nazi's. Then an alien in a Nazi uniform standing over a burned and unconscious Archer.
The Enterprise must navigate through a huge distortion caused by the transdimensional aliens and they only have 15 minutes to survive in the warped space thanks to a neural stimulant developed by the doctor.
Degra's ship follows the sphere which exits warp space far from earth, but not far enough to blow up a space station. Suddenly the Andoran ship with the guy from previous episodes shows up to help. With the Andoran ship, Degra's smaller ship can get close to the weapon to transport an away team onboard, so Hoshi, still suffering from brain washing, can destroy the weapon.
The transdimensional aliens have warped space around the sphere enough that they can manifest on the Enterprise and they start going around mucking with the power systems so that the deflector can't shoot the ray at the sphere to destroy them.
Hoshi, Captain, Malcolm and Maco's get on board and fight off all the reptile aliens, so Archer can use Hoshi's instructions to invert the power and blow up the weapon. The Andoran ship destoys the single reptile ship and Weyoun, (can't recall his Andoran name) tells them that now Archer owes him one.
The aliens almost stop the Enterprise from destroying the sphere, but don't and a backlash ends up firing through the whole sphere network and they all implode.
Archer gets into a fight with the reptile cheif who transported on board the weapon. Archer blows him up with a limpet mine. Totally cool.
The weapon blows up, but Archer is still on board.
This is 45 minutes into the show.
The Enterprise arrives at Earth and wonders why everything is silent.
A shuttle goes to Star Fleet headquarters but is greated with gun fire. GUN FIRE. From P-51 mustangs. Then we flash to a tent and see soldiers and finally Nazi's. Then an alien in a Nazi uniform standing over a burned and unconscious Archer.
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
Thanks for the spoilers!
Hmm. Sounds a bit strange.. Well, in a few month, you will know more, and than certainly someone will tell me more
Hmm. Sounds a bit strange.. Well, in a few month, you will know more, and than certainly someone will tell me more
I feel like a lot of people here: I really liked the episode, but the ending had me going "huh?" 
Once the sphere blew up, and I saw there was still time left, I was looking forward to seeing Starfleet (and whatever Archer's superior's name is) and Archer giving the Vulcans a good "F*** you" for having survived the Expanse, showing they're capable of going it out in space, etc...
But now there's this Nazi crap? It actually wouldn't have been that bad for me if it weren't for the nazi thing. The going into the past is ok, I can live with that, maybe the superweapon created some sort of temporal anomily when it blew up (it is a superweapon, after all ). But the nazi's... blah. :\
Once the sphere blew up, and I saw there was still time left, I was looking forward to seeing Starfleet (and whatever Archer's superior's name is) and Archer giving the Vulcans a good "F*** you" for having survived the Expanse, showing they're capable of going it out in space, etc...
But now there's this Nazi crap? It actually wouldn't have been that bad for me if it weren't for the nazi thing. The going into the past is ok, I can live with that, maybe the superweapon created some sort of temporal anomily when it blew up (it is a superweapon, after all
). But the nazi's... blah. :\
Tom Cashel
First Post
I liked the ep, and I liked the ending.
It's impossible to tell whether they're in the past or in an alternate present, but I'm a sucker for time travel whenever and however it appears.
It's impossible to tell whether they're in the past or in an alternate present, but I'm a sucker for time travel whenever and however it appears.
I thought it was about an average Enterprise episode - which means some of the cast really tried to make it good, but they were saddled with a ridiculously poor script. Maybe they'll clean house over the summer, wrap up this godawful "time travel wrecks the Federation... again!" plot with as little fuss as possible, and try to get the series back on track. But somehow I doubt it - the new timeslot appears to indicate they'll be content to just mail in next season and call it a wrap for syndication.
Viking Bastard
Adventurer
Actually they dealt with this early this season. Hoshi translated the xindiCthulhudrew said:How come certain races, like the insectoids, speak in an obviously alien tongue, but everyone else (such as the reptilians) speaks english?
[snip] Unfortunately, this season, at least, they seem to have ignored that completely.)
'common' language early in the season. Into the translator grid it went and
that eliminated the problem (a definate cop out, but not one that defies the
rules they made early on). The Insectoid and Aquatic languages are harder,
being so much different, and they encountered them much later, so the
translation wasn't as perfect, needing Hoshi with him to translate vs. just the
translator.
Sarigar
First Post
I only caught the last half (of the season and this episode). Much better than the other seasons. Nice ending, after all this is a temporal cold war. Time travel/changes in the timeline are pretty much a given in this series. Now, did they go back in time, or has history already changed? I thought I caught the insignias on the Mustangs, but they were American, right?
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