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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Mark Nguyen</b> <br /><small>Member # 469</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,3,30,23,28,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 30, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:28 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Tonight I'm writing this on the fly, as I watch the episode. More to come probably later, during the second watching.<br /><br />-Hoshi has fun with the languages thing.<br /><br />-As of this epsiode they're still having prime rib for supper. I'm guessing it's all synthesized, but I'm getting curious as to how good it really is...<br /><br />-Porthos can detect aliens in the ducts!<br /><br />-The alien is this wierd frothy white stuff, akin to the human messentery (i.e. the white tissue that holds your lower GI tract in place). It's got a sort of blob mentality, going around absorbing things and people. Anyone ever see "Leviathan" with Peter Weller? Like that.<br /><br />-One engineer off inspecting stuff carries a communicator. Odd, since they tend not to be carried around except on away missions. It's odd only in that it seemed to be convenient to the plot that he contacted someone before getting glooped by the alien.<br /><br />-I think this is the first time we've seen the cargo bay set. Nothing too special, though as usual nothing seems to be secured. We also see a CG Jeffries tube set as the air duct, which is pretty much like any other we've seen in the past ten years, save for some lit power conduits.<br /><br />-The plasma rifles are seen firing phase blasts, complete with improper sound effect. Oops!<br /><br />-Starfleet *has* been working on forcefields, thought they're nowhere near reliable. Malcom has been fiddling with a rudimentary version whose specs are in the database, that can absorb a phase pistol shot 60% of the time. By the end he gets it to work somewhat, setting up portable emitters on the walls. <br /><br />-Vaughn's back, as yet another alien species - that's three roles in the space of a season, probably a Trek record.<br /><br />-And on the subject of records, does anyone know which Trek series has gone the longest without the death of a crew member of the titular ship or station? For all the danger Enterprise faces, it's almost surprising that no one has died yet. TNG, TOS and VOY have all had deaths in their first season. What about DS9 - anyone know?<br /><br />Mark<br /> <br /> <small>[ May 01, 2002, 14:33: Message edited by: Mark Nguyen ]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>koy'peled Oy'tio</b> <br /><small>Member # 796</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,13,59,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:59 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Well I guess this means that if someone dies in the next episode, it means that death in the first season is just an occupational hazard for the background characters (excluding Tasha). Isn't it Vox Sola?<br /> <br /> <small>[ May 01, 2002, 14:00: Message edited by: koy'peled Oy'tio ]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Topher</b> <br /><small>Member # 71</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,14,7,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:07 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> You weren't paying much attention, were you, Mark? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> Crewman Kelly tells Rastof (sp?) that the comm's out when she tosses him the communicator. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Mark Nguyen</b> <br /><small>Member # 469</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,14,32,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:32 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Why yes. Yes he does. Watching and typing simultaneously at midnight after a day's work isn't conducive to accurate reports. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> <br /><br />Mark <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Dukhat</b> <br /><small>Member # 341</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,15,2,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:02 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">death in the first season is just an occupational hazard for the background characters</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where have you been for the last 35 years? Death has <i>always</i> been an occupational hazard for background characters in Star Trek. That's why they have background characters. Somebody has to die, & it's not gonna be Archer or Tucker. It's gonna be some redshirt they introduce in the episode for the sole purpose of killing him later. It's always been nice, clean death in Star Trek. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> <br /><br />BTW, the only reason Tasha died was because she left the show. TPTB didn't just go to her one day and say "Good news! Your character is going to be killed off today!" <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>MinutiaeMan</b> <br /><small>Member # 444</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,18,6,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:06 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> It was nice to see a flubbed First Contact encounter for a change. Although this being "Star Trek," we pretty much had to Set The Record Straight by the end of the hour.<br /><br />I suppose I can't complain too much given that these forcefields are very definitely in the early stages of development, but did anyone think that those four puny hand-held emitters were too small for such a powerful and experimental technology? I'd think that to generate a projected EM field like that, you'd need much bigger equipment, at least in the early years that it's put in use. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TheF0rce</b> <br /><small>Member # 533</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,20,5,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:05 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Cochrane was mentioned. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Malnurtured Snayer</b> <br /><small>Member # 411</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,20,12,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:12 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> DS9 had a casualty the first season -- one of O'Brien's ensigns was murdered by Vedek Winn's conspirator/assassin on the station staff. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Mark Nguyen</b> <br /><small>Member # 469</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,23,33,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:33 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ah, indeedy. I'm just hoping that when this does happen on Enterprise, that there will be a big deal made of it...<br /><br />Makes you think a bit of other things too... I mean, shouldn't there be a guy walking around the ship with bits of rock and plant sticking out of him? Would they have turned back to drop him off somewhere? At the the time, they weren't too far out, and may have rendezvoused with a slower ship to transfer the guy off...<br /><br />Mark<br /> <br /> <small>[ May 01, 2002, 23:35: Message edited by: Mark Nguyen ]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TSN</b> <br /><small>Member # 31</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,1,23,40,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:40 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> What's "vox sola" supposed to mean? For some reason, I thought it was "vox solis" ("voice of the sun"), which doesn't make a lot of sense in context, but at least it means something. Unless it just isn't in my dictionary, "sola" doesn't seem to be a word... <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The_Tom</b> <br /><small>Member # 38</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,0,1,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:01 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> "Lone voice," I believe.<br /><br />Obscure fact of the day: US Water Polo National Team coach Richard Corso was credited as a consultant. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>MinutiaeMan</b> <br /><small>Member # 444</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,7,3,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:03 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> That's another thing I liked -- showing a "different" sport for a change. Rather than some of the mainstream games like baseball or football or soccer or whatever, we get to see something that's a bit more unique. (I've never watched any water polo games myself, anyway.) <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Mark Nguyen</b> <br /><small>Member # 469</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,7,32,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:32 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> More interesting bits:<br /><br />-We see a nice detail on the starboard side docking port; it seems that various alien ships tend to have the extentable collar that mates to and the other side, which has an open, smooth surface to latch onto. I'm guessing that the port side hatch is used for standard docking procedures "at port", per tradition.<br /><br />-There's a pool table aboard ship somewhere. I wonder where? We've not yet seen a rec deck or any sort of real recreation facility save for the mess hall, which is also used for the movies.<br /><br />-Notice that Archer and Tucker are sipping away at schooners of beer as they watch the match. With the exception of Star Trek IV and possibly other time-travel episodes, is beer ever casually seen in an episode? In the VOY "Memorial" they make a small deal out of it, but otherwise?<br /><br />-Starfleet had been working on forcefields for five years; given the urgency of the situation, if T'pol could have helped on that, she probably would have. Since she didn't, this suggests that Vulcans don't have advanced forcefield technology either.<br /><br />-At one point Phlox summons a "Medical Team". So there *are* other medical technicians aboard! Unto the present the sickbay has been the sole refuge of Phlox and his menagerie.<br /><br />-Notice that the other security guy that gets glooped by the alien essentially disappears afterwards? He's mentioned as being unconscious, which is pretty danged convenient for an ND.<br /><br />-In a MacGuffin to get Travis more lines this week, he happens to be alone on the bridge when the aliens phone back (T'Pol & Hoshi are in the mess hall; Reed's in the armory). Isn't it some sort of breech of protocol to answer the phone instead of calling whoever's suposed to be in charge? He even looks around to see if anyone's there.<br /><br />-What was the alien feeding on to grow so big? It could have simply been distending itself to increase in volume while trading off density, but this seems impractical given the tendrils' yanking power and glooping ability. Also, when they delievered it back home, it was small again...<br /><br />Mark<br /> <br /> <small>[ May 02, 2002, 07:36: Message edited by: Mark Nguyen ]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TSN</b> <br /><small>Member # 31</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,9,9,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:09 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <blockquote>"'Lone voice,' I believe."</blockquote><br />Ah. Indeed. Had to look under "solus" to find it...<br /><br /><blockquote>"Isn't it some sort of breech of protocol to answer the phone instead of calling whoever's suposed to be in charge?"</blockquote><br />Well, if he wasn't in charge, who was? Was he only on the bridge by random chance? Isn't it a breach of protocol to leave the bridge completely unmanned? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>CaptainMike</b> <br /><small>Member # 709</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,9,26,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:26 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Death in Star Trek:<br /><br />Pre-TOS: No one died in "The Cage"<br /><br />TOS season 1: Got off to a rolling start.. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" had 9 unseen crewmembers killed before the opening credits rolled (i think, and none of them were redshirts since there were no red uniforms at the time, [redshirts=beigeshirts]), followed by Kelso, Mitchell and Dehner at the end of the ep. Going by the first aired episode, "The Man Trap" killed Darnell before the credits rolled also, followed by about a half dozen others (none wearing red though, but i suspect that the man in the hazard vest [Barnhart] normally wore a redshirt). Subsequent crewmen died in "The Naked Time" and "Balance of Terror" but Star Trek inaugurated its first official redshirt deaths in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", Matthews and Rayburn.<br /><br />TOS season 2: "Catspaw" also kicked off with Jackson dying before the opening credits rolled. No redshirts bought it until two episodes later in "Friday's Child" however, followed by redshirt massacres in "The Changeling" "The Apple" and "Obsession"<br /><br />TOS, season 3: By now the first death was naturally a redshirt, in "Elaan of Troyius" one episode in.<br /><br />TNG: the first crewman to die was Mr. Singh, and in these more modern times all redshirts wore yellow. Light first season casualties in "Heart of Glory" and then the Tasha killing in "Skin of Evil"<br /><br />Season two: one episode in saw the twitching awfuls received by Haskell, in red, on the bridge (which i still imitate at parties when the topic of redshirts comes up)<br /><br />DS9 was completely Starfleet-bloodless until the finale, when Ensign Whatsisface got stir-fried in a wok-conduit by Neela, with the chief's tool. Its the longest without a crew casualty Star Trek has ever done.. we'll see whether Enterprise waits til season 2 or not. (oh.. or do we count the battle of Wolf 359 from emissary? if so, DS9 had 11,000 deaths before the opening credits, another record...)<br /><br />Voyager of course killed everybody before the second commercial.<br /><br />[edit] i normally decry the value of 'filk' (its yucky to even say it).. but check this <a href="http://www.khaosworks.org/filk/redshirt.html" target="_blank">http://www.khaosworks.org/filk/redshirt.html</a><br /> <br /> <small>[ May 02, 2002, 09:34: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Mark Nguyen</b> <br /><small>Member # 469</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,9,41,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:41 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Actually, I just did an episode count, and it turns out that Enterprise already holds the record. The first season of DS9 was only 19 epsiodes long, counting "Emissary" as one story. Counting "Broken Bow" as one story, "Vox Sola" is the 21st episode out of 25 this season. We have a winner!<br /><br />Mark <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The359</b> <br /><small>Member # 37</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,11,29,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:29 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I'm surprised no one pointed out the blooper at the end.<br /><br />When Archer and Trip fall out of the goo, they have their uniforms on. When they walked into the cargo bay, they were still wearing their casual clothes (Archer in tan, Trip in red) from when they were watching Water Polo.<br /><br />So somehow the creature gave them uniforms... <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Mark Nguyen</b> <br /><small>Member # 469</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,11,57,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:57 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Did not.<br /><br />Mark <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The_Tom</b> <br /><small>Member # 38</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,15,59,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:59 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I've seen screencaps... it looks pretty obvious to me that under all that slime they were in the same civvies as before.<br /><br />IMHO the writers have been keeping the shot/mangled/injured redshirts from dying thus far simply to keep the option open of making a decent plot point out of the first real casualty on the mission and how our deep-space first-timers react. Spoilers seem to indicate there's some serious carnage in the finale. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>David Templar</b> <br /><small>Member # 580</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,2,19,2,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:02 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Goodness, if they killed someone, they'd have to go back to Earth for replacement. Can you imagine the effect that would have on the story? <br /><br />Phase cannon on the shuttle, now "phase" rifles. *shakes head* Just call them bloody phasers and get it over with already. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Sol System</b> <br /><small>Member # 30</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,4,4,11,55,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 04, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:55 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Except, of course, that they very obviously aren't phasers, and this episode was really the first (and only one) to point out a difference. Namely, that your average phaser can be used to put out any kind of radiation under the sun, while the phase pistols are apparently only good for killing and/or knocking things out. Er, or cutting through them. So, uh, general breaking of things. Yeah. <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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