Tom's magical mystery tour of experimentation with wildfeed mpegs continues with a few notes on DC...
Firstly, I was kinda disappointed in the episode... to be honest not a whole lot happened, and a lot of the territory was retread from earlier shows. Just seemed a bit boring. I imagine some more opinions will show up in two and a half hours.
On the flip side, Clancy Brown was a decent guest star. Quite the voice. And Velton Ray Bunch continues to turn out asskickingly good scores. Different is good!
In we-thought-so-but-now-its-said-outright news, according to Hoshi, the Vulcans landed at Bozeman, MT. She also implies that the area was still considered part of the United States at the time, although I'd leave a bit of interpretive leeway as she was making an analogy to the situation on the planet they were at.
In now-you-see-it-now-you-don't news, the shuttlepod has pulse weapons again this week.
In look-ma!-a-visual-effect! news, our first CGI ship pays a visit to the launch bay. Composite city. Less than impressed.
In hey-more-continuity-than-a-year-of-Voyager news, several references to the events of "Detained." Looks like they've had an impact on local affairs.
(On the subject of Voyager, we may also have our first ditching of a shuttlepod. At least, I think they didn't get it back at the end)
In equal-opportunity-eyecandy news, watch for some shirtless Gungan lacrosse.
And, finally, we have Trek's first encounter with alien prairie oysters. Yummers.
[ May 08, 2002, 16:36: Message edited by: The_Tom ]
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Oh yeah, they ditched that shuttlepod.
I sure hope that there weren't any spare phase pistols in there, or other useful military technology that would undoubtedly be traced back to Enterprise, and piss the alien government off...
Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I was very pleased with this episode, mainly because of the excellent continuity. It goes to show that you CAN make detailed follow-up plots without either leaving people confused or insulting the viewers.
Also, I liked how the desert gang was fairly obviously branded a terrorist, which he later freely admitted -- but they were portrayed relatively sympathetically. A nearly-subtle way of reminding us that one man's villain is another man's hero.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Err.. where the heck did you get an MPG of it so fast?
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
eDonkey probably.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
#TrekStuff on dalnet. Hurray for wildfeeds.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Enterprise has two shuttlepods, no? I don't suppose it's possible that only one has phase cannons while the other has the classic plasma weapons? Or was it the same pod? I didn't catch the number.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
Doug Drexler said she has two shuttlepods ready to go, and two more in storage.
Re: The United States. "The Royale" establishes that the US was in existence at least through 2079, so there's no reason it wouldn't be around in 2063 (albeit with 52 states). In one of those interviews either Berman or Braga said that they thought there were still nation-states on Earth despite a world government in the 2150s, so there's not really any reason to think the US isn't around in one form or another at the time of Enterprise.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Besides, the US has a single government, but the states are still referred to separately, too. The same way, the former countries making up the world government would still be called by their old names, to distinguish betwenn specific places.
And, if the world gov't is more like the EU, or something, it makes even more sense.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Another tidbit.. T'Pol still can't sit on the Captain's Chair normally. She always hangs forward in an awkward way. Just like Archer is always screwing around with the buttons on his arm-rest.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
That might have something to do with the chair being fairly high off the ground to fit Bakula. Blalock's considerably shorter... if she were to sit with her back up against the back of the chair, her feet would dangle above the ground in a most un-Vulcan manner.