Enterprise 11-19-04

[Eridanis]

Saw this episode last night; I really enjoyed it. I've been avoiding this series as much as I avoided VOYAGER and most of DS9, but the eps I've seen this season have made me want to start paying attention again. I'm glad the change in creative direction has reaped such immediate benefits (IMO).

 

[James Heard]

I think what would be cool was if by the end of this season they had:

1. Added Vulcan and the Andorians to the Federation in a meaningful way.
2. Began the First Klingon war.

That way, even if this is the last season you can more or less know what's going to go on in the future. Plus, if they actually decide to pick up an Enterprise movie deal after the series is cancelled they'll have a tried and true formula (Klingons) to put forth as the premise. If they could actually work in more Orions into the deal though it would be even cooler. What I don't want to see:

1. Another major arc dealing with the temporal cold war, if they want to talk about the TCW then they should start looking to start it as a series in 2010.
2. Whales.

I'd love to have at least one more episode of "Crew on Leave" bits on it. The Enterprise are Earth's heroes. Unless something serious draws them away they should doing what they're doing right now - chilling in a more or less diplomatic capacity. No more new worlds for Archer, no more boldly going - the prize of extreme success is a desk job.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

The way I understand, TVs in the really big markets like NY, LA, etc. automatically record the ratings data. In smaller markets though, they rely on people who keep diaries of their TV watching patterns.

Don't know how it works in other states, but I have a friend in Huntington Beach whose family is a Nielsen family, and they have a box on their tv that records the data on the programs they watch. I assume its the same everywhere, but I can't say that for sure.

 

[Staffan]

I think what would be cool was if by the end of this season they had:

1. Added Vulcan and the Andorians to the Federation in a meaningful way.

Assuming they stick to the standard 1 season = 1 year, that's probably going a bit too far - there is no Federation yet.. I think the best one can hope for in that regard is the joint operations they talked about, and easing tensions between Vulcans and Andorians.

 

[TDRandall]

Keep hoping: http://www.trektoday.com/news/201104_01.shtml

Pfft... for our viewing area it's going to be the local station itself that is going to kill it.

Out of the last four or five episodes, two have been preempted / delayed / disappeared because of sports (local, I believe, but I don't give a rip for them). They likely moved it to some other time, but we couldn't find out when so missed them completely.

Missing one of a multi-episode story severely diminishes my desire to stake out for the remaining ones. I'd rather hope to catch the arc as a whole when they replay. But since that will likely fall into the basketball March-madness stuff, we'll be looking to catch it after that in syndication somewhere.

I realize I'm probably in quite the minority, but what I wouldn't give to just once hear "We're sorry viewers, but we're going to have to cut the game here. You can catch the rest at 2am Sunday night. And now for your regularly scheduled Sci Fi show....."

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Pfft... for our viewing area it's going to be the local station itself that is going to kill it.

Out of the last four or five episodes, two have been preempted / delayed / disappeared because of sports (local, I believe, but I don't give a rip for them). They likely moved it to some other time, but we couldn't find out when so missed them completely.

Missing one of a multi-episode story severely diminishes my desire to stake out for the remaining ones. I'd rather hope to catch the arc as a whole when they replay. But since that will likely fall into the basketball March-madness stuff, we'll be looking to catch it after that in syndication somewhere.

I realize I'm probably in quite the minority, but what I wouldn't give to just once hear "We're sorry viewers, but we're going to have to cut the game here. You can catch the rest at 2am Sunday night. And now for your regularly scheduled Sci Fi show....."

It´s the reason why I learned to hate sports. My father was big into soccer, and would have been glad if I shared the interest. But with all the tennis, soccer or whatever else that came on TV that stole the time slots of MY series (and if you only recieve 3-5 TV stations, that happened a lot), it was impossible to like it.

 

[John Crichton]

Anyone catch this?

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/568/568260p1.html

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/567/567260p1.html

She does not sound happy, not one bit. And what talk show are they referring to? Either way, not good.

 

[David Howery]

hmm.. the site mentioned ST movies.. are any more in the works? If so, which series are they dealing with? Hopefully, they'll be better than the last two atrocious films....

 

[myrdden]

Anyone catch this?

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/568/568260p1.html

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/567/567260p1.html

She does not sound happy, not one bit. And what talk show are they referring to? Either way, not good.

Hmmmm...very interesting. I'm not sure which talk shows the article refers to either.

 

[John Crichton]

hmm.. the site mentioned ST movies.. are any more in the works? If so, which series are they dealing with? Hopefully, they'll be better than the last two atrocious films....

I'd say last 4. Couldn't be much worse.

Meh.