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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J: [QB] Why has everyone seemed to neglect how much this episode sucks? I mean, the fact that the used the wrong technobabble totally screwed up the rest of the episode. If you lose a single warp field coil, even the first one in the nacelle [presumably the primary?] you just shut off the first one in the other nacelle and continue on. There is nothing drastic about that. Now, as it should have been, they would have said the Warp Core is beyond repair, "we don't have enough material to repair the cracks in it." And then we can say that the alien's warp core could have been melted easily to fill in those. But this doesn't make much sense either unless they needed top speed. Trip could have easily run Power Conduit through the corridors from the Impulse Generator. Then to a point where they could connect with the Power Transfer Conduits and powered the nacelles that way. It would have been easy and would have given them 3.2 at least maybe even 4. There would have been no need to show the aliens unless they wanted to give Archer some conflict. Offering that option to Archer would have made him consider compromising himself. But in the end, he would have not stolen their warp drive's interior lining stranding the aliens and returning ENT to "normal"... and they would have to deal with this in the future, meaning repairing their warp core. The episode also sucks because of T'Pol's little B-plot, at least Mayweather and Hoshi had more than two lines! But, the fact that they used the wrong plot device [Warp Coils instead of Warp Core] and that they totally went about fixing that wrong plot device in the wrong way [stealing another "coil" from aliens instead of shutting off the corresponding mate in that pair!], it's the kind of thing that ticks me off--- It's not bad Trek, it's bad story telling. Know your medium before writing a story. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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