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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I think this one's definitely among the best of the series to date, too. I've always had a soft spot for those self-contained temporal-reset-button shows, like "Yesterday's Enterprise." (There's a difference between the temporal reset button and the series reset button, of course... I'm talking about where they explicitly show that the entire episode never happened, not where they just ignore character changes from week to week.) That new Xindi Death Star kicks ass! Looks like it was around 500 to 600 meters across, when compared with the two accompanying Xindi-Reptilian cruisers. And the Xindi decided not to stop at Earth, but went after Mars, Alpha Centauri, Vega Colony -- those are the major Human colonies. There were barely 6,000 left after that. But what about Terra Nova? <font size="+4">[b][i]THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!!!!![/i][/b]</font> I think that the funniest part of the episode was the part that was left unsaid, although I'm sure that there was a line to the effect of "[i]Enterprise[/i] is leading a rag-tag fleet..." [i]Battlestar Enterprise[/i], anyone? :D Mutara System, too. It took the rag-t-- er, that is, the convoy -- a year to get to Ceti Alpha V. Assuming that they were only making Warp 2 (with the Y-class freighters in their group), that's not quite as far as it might sound. We see the [i]Intrepid[/i]! Dialogue bracketing some [b]awesome[/b] special effects confirmed that the [i]Intrepid[/i] was indeed the unique saucer-like ship seen in "The Expanse," while there was at least one of those other [i]Norway[/i]-esque ships flying around, too. I suppose we can't blame the production crew for trying to save money, but couldn't they at LEAST have tried to disguise that damn cryo-stasis unit from "Voyager" a bit better? I was getting flashbacks from "Before and After" and "Threshold"... not a pleasant experience! I somehow doubt that this was intended to be a red herring, but for a few minutes I was expecting that unidentified small ship to be from the future. The view from the underside with the wings and semi-spherical engine pods made me think of the [i]Aeon[/i]. Was that ship just a re-use of the model for the Axanar cargo ship, the one that we also saw on "Voyager" a few times? Also looks like the Xindi-Insectoids are using different ships from the Reptilians... that's an interesting touch. Nice to know that the Andorians were willing to give the Human remnant forcefield technology for defense, when the Vulcans obviously didn't... Tucker mentioned General Shran -- t'would be interesting to know how the Vulcans and Andorians got along without the Humans to mediate over the long run... (I find it odd that the Vulcans didn't even offer to loan a few combat cruisers to patrol the Sol System while the NX-01 was away... there's a very clear threat to a planetary population -- why wouldn't they help, even if they won't share technology? Afraid of becoming the next target?) And next week, the NX-01 meets the American Old West. Nice to know that UPN's keeping up its tendency to go from the sublime to the ridiculous... :rolleyes: [/QB][/QUOTE]

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