Enterprise 11-13-02

[Mark]

Enterprise - The Communicator

Archer and Reed go undercover on a preatomic-era alien world to retrieve a communicator Reed left behind on a previous visit and they're captured and held as spies.



Uh oh... Contaminating a culture again!

 

[Crothian]

Aren't the supposed to leave something behind, then go back years later to retrieve it and find the planet is all gangsters?

 

[uv23]

Maybe Oxmix will make a cameo.

 

[Mark]

Always good for the budget when they can dig through the old costumes...

 

[Wolf72]

you're at least suppossed to wait until the episode airs!!!

yah, so far the aliens are people with bumps on their heads again ... although wasn't it Harlan Ellison who theorized that many of the alien cultures would be hominid types?

 

[Wolf72]

bah! stoopid thesis! ... I missed most of the intro tonight! ... all I know is that Malcom lost his comm!

back to enterprise (at least I caught the theme song+ )\


commercial break: um ... pretty gnirob title ...

how come they couldn't transport the communicator up? ... big deal if someone see's it ... there'd be no more proof.

okay that's my last interruption ... back to tv!

 

[Crothian]

Not too shappy. It just wasn't enough of, I don't know, but something felt tlike it was missing. It seemed a little flat to me.

 

[Mark]

Yup, they contaminated them, all right. They contaminated the crap out of them...

 

[orbitalfreak]

Well, at first you had a simple communicator that was lost. Now, you have knowledge of advanced technology, other humanoid species, and thinking that a rival political organization is centuries more advanced than thought possible.

I think the crew of Enterprise deserves a big

!

 

[John Crichton]

Y'all know this ep is simply fodder for the whole Prime Directive thing that is bound to happen sooner or later. I liked tonight's ep only because it wasn't bad. However, it was one of the season's weakest so I'll just call it average.

I did like Trip's whole cloaking tech mishap. He and the doctor are starting to make a pretty entertaining comedic duo for the short amount of screen time they have together. This was also a decent Malcom ep.

I was thinking about the whole "why not just use the transporter" thing when I happened as well but they explained it: Enterprise's orbit was too high to use it.

I think the episode lacked some punch because I never really cared about the contamination of that world. We never really saw what they were like and had to assume that they were like us similar to how we are now. We never got to see the other side or really what their culture was like.

Or maybe it was just the writing. Not really sure....