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Post by Mr. Atoz on Jun 7, 2010 7:51:12 GMT -6
They stretched it out to cover the entire season, if I remember correctly.
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Post by Niemz on Jun 10, 2010 19:04:05 GMT -6
Yup, just finished Season 3, now I need #4....
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Post by Mr. Atoz on Jun 11, 2010 8:35:49 GMT -6
Refresh my memory. Does season three end with "Stormfront" -- Archer dropped into the middle of World War II and the shuttlepod being attacked by Stukas?
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Post by Capt Kat on Aug 14, 2010 22:28:47 GMT -6
I only saw the first season of ENT, and I did not like it very much. It just didn't seem like Star Trek to me. Thought I'd follow up with what Thallassa said in the favorite captain thread as not to spam. I have to say I agree. Though the last season I think was their best. However I was not an avid watcher and I as a person don't exactly consider Enterprise as cannon (and if they plan on making the JJ movie connon-which I hate and is a diff topic-then that means TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT would not be cannon anymore. Time travel; a cornucopia of disturbing concepts) The episode with the Borg kinda made me angry, but I don't exactly remember why. Been quite a while. When I did watch Enterprise I kept expecting Al to pop up next to Archer (as Scott was Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap and Al was his buddy in the form of a hologram that helped him out when bouncing around time.) |
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Post by Mr. Atoz on Aug 17, 2010 9:36:15 GMT -6
First impressions are often like that. I didn't like it at first either. But watching it through the second time, I started to see what they were doing. They were telling the story of how the Federation came to be. At first, Humans and Andorians were very nearly enemies. Humans and Vulcans didn't trust one another. It was basically "every race for itself." But by the time the fourth season came around, things were improving.
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Post by Thallassa on Aug 19, 2010 11:06:08 GMT -6
At the very beginning they had some problems communicating with other races, which I thought made a great deal of sense. That at least goes along with what we learned in "Balance of Terror". But the idea was very quickly dropped -- for a good reason, I know. It would have slowed their stories down too much to take communications into account with every new race they met.
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Post by Mr. Atoz on Aug 25, 2010 7:29:59 GMT -6
I suppose it would have. And that brings up another complaint, that some of the details were somewhat at odds with what had been established in the Original Series. You mentioned "Balance of Terror", where it said that visual communications between ships was not possible in this era. But on ENT they do it all the time.
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Post by Thallassa on Aug 26, 2010 13:00:26 GMT -6
Yes, I think that was also one of the reasons I was cool towards it. Of course I can understand their dilemma. People are so used to visual communications now, they didn't want the show to look too "primitive". And to throw in communications problems would have slowed things down.
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Post by Mr. Atoz on Sept 1, 2010 12:09:12 GMT -6
As far as the Romulans go, they had just introduced the Romulans in the final season of ENT, and the implication was that the war was about to start. Then the series was cancelled, quite abruptly. Too bad. That might have been interesting.
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Post by Niemz on Sept 1, 2010 18:22:59 GMT -6
They should have kept it going, maybe with a movie.
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Post by Thallassa on Jul 30, 2011 8:33:02 GMT -6
This past week I happened to catch an episode called "Observer Effect". In that story, Reed and Mayweather were inhabitted by incorporeal observer aliens who eventually said they were Organians! That doesn't make a lick of sense, considering the way the Organians behaved on "Errand of Mercy", doesn't it?
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Post by Niemz on Jul 30, 2011 12:27:53 GMT -6
No it doesn't!
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Post by Mr. Atoz on Aug 3, 2011 11:37:58 GMT -6
I don't remember the episode off hand, but it sounds fishy. The Organians in "Errand of Mercy" didn't seem to care very much about observing Humans. And they found the very presence of material beings unpleasant. You said they were inhabitted?
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Post by Thallassa on Aug 6, 2011 8:21:41 GMT -6
Oh yes! The "Organians" just possessed them like evil spirits. It didn't seem to take any effort, because they were able to move at will from Reed and Mayweather to Phlox, to Tucker and Sato, and then to Archer and T'Pol.
See, what happened was Tucker and Sato had contracted a deadly disease while exploring a Klingon garbage dump on some planet. They began to show symptoms in the shuttlepod, so they were place in the isolation chamber. The aliens had apparently been doing this for centuries, watching how different races responded to the crisis. Supposesly if a species passed the "test" they would contact them. But it was pretty obvious from the way they talked that they really didn't care if anyone ever passed. It was really a pretty sorry excuse for a story.
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Post by Mr. Atoz on Aug 8, 2011 7:52:06 GMT -6
That is starting to sound familiar. I may have seen this one. It was a silicon based virus, or something right?
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