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A lighthearted, and fairly tech-light but fun episodes. Cpatain Archer may go down in history as the only Starfleet Captain who has trouble getting laid.
-The decon chamber is seen again, as Archer, Porthos, T'Pol and Hoshi are rubbing each other down. Sigh... We see it later during a dream sequence, where we see that the decon gel now seems to descend from a little tray in the ceiling.
-They're begging the Kretassans ("Vox Sola") for a new plasma injector, since one of theirs is acting up. Enterprise carries five of them, but need four to run properly. Kretassan injectors are really compatible, and Trip really wants one - they're out of spares, presumably from all the fun they've had in the past year. Unfortunately, the Kretassans are still pissed at Archer and make 'em wait for five days and then twelve hours before tossing them back upstairs. While they were there, Porthos caught a pathogen. Why the hell was he coming along anyway?
-Enterprise sent the Kretassans the genomes of landing party, to ensure that there isn't anything on the planet that could harm them. The Kretassans apparently said no, but Porthos still got sick. But not before peeing on a sacred tree, which is what pissed the Kretassans off this time(pun not intended).
-Phlox is WIERD. Not only is his face still elastic ("Broken Bow"), but he's got fast-growing yellow toenails (which clash with his normal fingernails) which he cuts off with a saw, and a really long tongue. No wonder Cutie Cutler is after him. [duck]
-It's pretty obvious that Porthos is replaced by a fake pooch while unconscious/immersed/whatever, but he's still awful cute.
-New set this epsiode: the gym. In addition to some futuristic treadmills (which I'm sure are off the shelf IRL), there's one of those gyroscopic things you see at Spacecamp that twirls people around. I fail to see how this gets you fit, but it's there. Anyway, the gym was made from the usual cargo bay/armory set, with fairly obvious wall panels.
-This episode makes copious use of the sickbay's various curtained partitions. One wonders if they'd been deliberately keeping away from Sickbay when the ship is under attck to avoid haveing to simulate their being banged around.
-Among his achivements, Phlox also has a degree in psychiatry, which proves useful in dissecting Archer's frustrations over the episode. Archer didn't know this, which is fairly interesting. Here we have a bunch of Starfleet crew on the first mission of its kind, with an open-ended mission that could last years, and they DON'T have someone aboard trained in dealing with extended space duty? Perhaps there could be someone aboard specifically for that, but it's odd that Archer doesn't know Phlox's qualfications.
-Archer makes two Pillarian slips within 30 seconds. Pillarian? Is that not Freudian, or some alien thing?
-Porthos gets drowned in order to be operated on properly (he's okay afterwards, obviously). However, when told to fill up a tank to do so, Archer uses the comm panel to operate it. Huh? Or was he hitting a button just below it?
-The Kretassan apology they make Archer perform at the end of the show is pretty fun. I'll spare the details, but I will say that it involves a chainsaw.
Mark
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quote: The Kretassan apology they make Archer perform at the end of the show is pretty fun. I'll spare the details, but I will say that it involves a chainsaw
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An alien of the week that shows up a second week? Amazing...
Perhaps the gyroscope-type thingy is for the same thing it's for today. Since ENT's gravity all seems to come from one spot (rather than individual panels in the floor), I doubt they can turn off the gravity in a certain place in order to do zero-g training.
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i hope that recurring aliens happens more often, if only so that Enterprise distances itself from Voyager.
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Looks like someone forgot what the heck a plasma injector is. We see Tripp working on installing what is presumed to be the plasma injector, which were overly small... and located in engineering! Plasma injectors are responsible for shooting warp plasma into the nacelles and through the drive coil cavities, there's no reason no way they'd be located all the way back in engineering. Not to mention they looked awfully small and simple to to be powering nacelles the size of those on the ship.
The NX-01 also employs five injectors, four operating at warp (almost certainly 2 per nacelle), with one acting as backup.
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If the ship needs a minimum of 4 injectors with two per nacelle, wouldn't it be better to have TWO backups, one per nacelle?
Oh well -- it's obvious that the NX-01's idea of a plasma injector isn't the same as a TNG injector.
Medtech comment: Apparently, dermal regenerators and similar gadgets haven't been invented yet, since Phlox just used some fancy "autosuture" that could be seen stitching poor Porthos's skull back together.
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The plasma injection weirdness could be tied to these fancy "turbocharger" things on the horizontal booms. Perhaps plasma is first injected into this "plasma accelerator" doodad that takes up most of the space inside the booms? The nacelles could have some sort of "second-" or "third-stage" injectors that are different from the things central to "A Night in Sickbay".
We can apparently await more nacelle and plasma injection weirdness in "The Catwalk", spoilers for which are available at the usual places.
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Come to think of it, we haven't heard anything about Enterprise's backup/impulse power system, if any. Presumably she has one, since those sure look like rockets, and you can't really have rockets without something for them to exhaust.
Anyway, I don't know enough about fusion reactors (or more importantly, the sorts of ideal fusion reactors people like to think about but can't build yet, the kind that would actually find their way into spacecraft) to say whether they'd have such a device or not. The context ("atomic pile") is strongly suggestive of fission, and that hardly seems worth their time, considering the level of technology they have access to. (If you can regulate a matter/antimatter reaction, you should be able to build a fusion reactor, the basic principle being more or less the same, namely, don't let the incredibly hot/destructive stuff melt through the thing.)
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