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MIB
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I'm surprised that no one has made a review post about this episode yet. One usually pops up 5 minutes after an episode ends. Here are my thoughts.

Liked:
The 1000 yard football throws.

The designs for the Nausicaan ships. I'm definetly using some of those design elements in my future lego starfighter designs. One of the smaller Nausicaan ships had kind of a Steamrunner class look to it. The warp engines were attached right on top of the main hull with the bridge between them, but there wasn't a deflector dish hanging off the back ends of the engines.

The story was good.

The transporter was NOT used to save the day.

Dislikes:

Archer suddenly becoming a flower boy and deciding to let the Nausicanns go without so much as a scolding really pissed me off. For god's sake, those people are running around and killing frighter crews and stealing their cargo! If it had been me, I would have laid waste to as much of the Nausicaan base as I could and then I would have given Starfleet the location of the pirate cartel's base so that the can send in a few ships and finish the job. That whole, "Lets not piss off the Nausicaans or they will CONTINUE (notice I didn't use the word, 'start') to kill our people and steal their cargo." message that we got from Maywether and Archer was absolutly idiotic in my humble opinion. They didn't seem to relize that even if they DON'T piss them off, which is something they failed to do for the most part, the Nausicanns will still be killing and stealing. Other than that, I thought it was a good episode.

I swear, if Bernd gives this episode an unfair rating of a 1 or a 2 like he did with the Andorian Incedent.......

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Beware: I'm trying to download it tomorrow.

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Harry
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As usual, I'll wait till Tuesday until it has spread to enough fast users on Morpheus/KaZaA...

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Anyone legitimate want to give us a review, so we know whether MIB's telling the truth or not?
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MIB
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This little review is ligit. I'm not pulling it out of my ass this time.
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The Ep definitely had some great information stuff in there about the human culture of boomers (Space-Boom-ers: I didn't realize that before). Got to see Nausicaans with an explanation of the origins of their strained relationship w/ humanity. Got to see some old style weapons and as The_Tom put it, some great continuity porn with the freight vessel classing structure. There were some pretty fantastic CG shots and a couple brief high energy firefights.

Unfortunately I think they missed a couple of chances for some really interesting drama. The most obvious of which would be for Archer to get conflicted about what to do with the Nausicaans. I thought his gut reaction when he sees the human ship under attack by the Nausicaans would be to open up on the Nausicaans, and sort it all out later. I mean, he wouldn't do that, but maybe he "belays that order" or something and instead has Hoshi try to raise the ships on coms instead.

I also felt the backstory of the Boomer first officer was a bit much. It reminded me of MIB's false spoilers about the USS Indianpolis scene from Jaws with Robert Shaw (except far less interesting). On the other hand I liked the way the scene was handled where Ryan and Mayweather are sharing Boomer stories. Where Ryan tells him that his parents were on the North Star and it isn't overtly explained what happened right away. I also liked the line "You know that's not what we're saying." where Archer confronts Ryan about the Nausicaan captive. Ryan seemed to consent a bit too easily here and as MIB brought up, I thought he capitulated far too easily at the climax (I think he'd need to be wounded or his buddy would have to be killed before he saw the light). So, I didn't buy a couple of things about Ryan's character, but I thought it was a pretty good episode over all...

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My big like: These humans are definitely NOT the same type of humans seen in TNG. They are much more contemporary and believable than the touchy-feely 24th century man. I liked how they portrayed freight runs as a life-or-death, generational, family experience, with the long distances attributed with warp one travel through potentially hostile territory.
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Yeah, I don't know if I buy Ryan's dislike of anything better then the Warp 1.8 engine. Isn't that sort of like a cross-country 18-wheeler driver saying "I don't need a new improved power source that would cut my gas cost to zero!"

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Whatwhatwhat? Old-style weapons?

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They're an "energy" based weapon, but I think the implication is that they're akin to the "rifle" we saw in "Broken Bow" -- they're not the most modern ...

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I don't really understand the term "space boomer". Why would people start having a bunch of kids just because they were in space?
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I don't think it's supposed to be like a baby-boomer thing. More like a Miner Fourty-Niner, unsw. Like the parents would be boomers and then so would their kids; getting in on all that space freight booty. No, no, I meant... nevermind...

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As a whole I like the ep. It furthers my opinion that Enterprise will be one of the best ST: Series.

Likes:

T'Pol finally works WITH the crew - not against. We get to see her interact with the young'uns on the freighter .. she's loosening up a bit now... that's good to see.

I loved the Nausican's ships .. they really looked cool.

I liked the history lessons on the Boomers - it was good to see that side of humanity. Real 'Caravan/Gypsy' type stuff ...

Cool facts about more NX-Class ships coming out.. Wonder when they're gonna start announcing deep-space stations.. Starbases.. So that if maintenance is required for the Enterprise they don't have to double-back so far.

Anyone have any idea how far they've gone so far? And in which direction?

Dislikes:

I think that the scenes between Ryan and Mayweather could have been better! The acting was a little iffy and strained - on both of them ... I'll chalk that up to - first season syndrome... but Mayweather seemed to struggle thru all the high-drama scenes.

When it comes to playing the ensign, wide-eyed in the heat of danger .. he's good.. High-Drama .. I felt he struggled thru it all, a little. <-- this is not a major issue for me .. just a little observation.

I agree with Balaam - Ryan gave up too easily at the end. One minute.. he wants to kill them; Mayweather says - their gonna kill you all - he gives up..

And is it just me - or does archer always fight with Torpedoes?? Do they not have a plasma weapon? I'm a little unsure on that!

On the whole, it was an entertaining episode. Not enough Phlox - I love his character.. but his ep is coming. WE learn more about Mayweather. We haven't seen much of him .. so this was a good spotlight for him.


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Dukhat
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Mayweather's acting came off on me as the same type of thing we saw with Geordi LaForge in the first season of TNG (although at least Travis doesn't yell things like "Yippee"). But in all fairness, he did have some good moments.
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Agreed Dukhat .. That's what I was suggesting is .. his 'overacting' etc... is part of 'first-season syndrome'.

I have no doubt it will get better.


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