Enterprise 10-30-02

[Mark]

Enterprise - Marauders

Archer and Trip visit an alien colony seeking deuterium fuel, but their suspicions are aroused when the planet's drillers prove reluctant to deal with them. Aboard Enterprise, Mayweather's sensors detect an approaching Klingon vessel.

From the previews I've seen, it looks like we'll be seeing lots of hand-to-hand combat with Klingons!

 

[Femerus the Gnecro]

Yup. T'pol kickin' some ass.

That oughtta put a damper on the naysayers who talk about T'pol as though she's only around for requisite alien/nipple action.

-F

 

[Crothian]

It won't, because that's the reason she is there. I didn't see the previews, but it does sound good.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Sounds like a good episode but it looks to me like we are only digging deeper into the Klingon stereotype from STNG and DS9. Basically the dangerous clever Klingons of TOS are a complete abberation of the ST world. They are completely overrun by waves of bat'lith wielding buffoons that act like drunk viking raiders.

 

[Crothian]

The change in apperance brought on a change in personality?

 

[fba827]

The change in apperance brought on a change in personality?

There was that DS9 episode where they timetraveled back to the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode. Well, when asked by Dax about the change in Klingon appearance Worf simply said "it is the result of something in our past that we do not like to talk about"

So, either that was just a meta joke or they hope (if not already) have some vague idea of what sort of thing actually caused it.



(just random things I remember.. 'course, I could be remembering wrong in which case these rambles of mine are all nullified )

 

[JacktheRabbit]

If I remember right it was more of a growl and a "Don't Ask" from Worf when asked by Dax.

How much does this really matter though? Klingons changed their appearance to the current one starting in Star Trek the Motion Picture. Yet it was not until the introduction of Worf on STNG before Klingons went from clever dangerous foes to drunken brawlers without brains.

There was that DS9 episode where they timetraveled back to the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode. Well, when asked by Dax about the change in Klingon appearance Worf simply said "it is the result of something in our past that we do not like to talk about"

So, either that was just a meta joke or they hope (if not already) have some vague idea of what sort of thing actually caused it.



(just random things I remember.. 'course, I could be remembering wrong in which case these rambles of mine are all nullified )

 

[orbitalfreak]

I actually prefer drunken brawling Klingons. For a sly, plotting, manipulative race, for me at least, I prefer Romulans.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

When was the last time a Romulan was actually sneaky or plotting?

I actually prefer drunken brawling Klingons. For a sly, plotting, manipulative race, for me at least, I prefer Romulans.

 

[Mark]

When was the last time a Romulan was actually sneaky or plotting?

Add paranoid/xenophobic in there and I can recall only a single time when they were not. The only time that I can recall an exchange that didn't embrace those traits was the final moments of the TNG episode where they follow Professor Galen's artifact trail to discover the DNA split and find out all of the known races descended from a single race. Aside from that I am at a loss.