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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] This also featured Enterprise's first mention of the Tellarites. I liked it, all things considered. I was rather apprehensive about this one, before hand, for reasons that seem, in retrospect, odd. The descriptions available for this episode made it sound very...TNG-esque. Now, of course, that isn't a bad thing, necessarily. Everyone loves TNG, after all. (At least, everyone who matters. ;) ) But there seems to be this expectation regarding Enterprise that every story will somehow be inseperable from the premise. Or, in other words, that they should be stories untellable in previous shows. This expectation is a bit unfair, considering how wide-ranging Star Trek tends to be with its stories. But nevertheless, as described, "Civilization" didn't seem to be a story that TNG couldn't have done. Of course, in practice, the episode didn't quite follow the TNG pattern. For one thing, they couldn't instantly read the local signage. Anyway, things I liked: I was expecting the search for the intruding aliens to take a lot longer. Instead: "Hey, you're an alien!" "Yes. So are you." "Oh, yeah. So..." A nice twist. The Enterprise, with T'Pol in command, gets to beat up on a ship for once. It took cunning over brute force, too. So they can be undergunned and still win. Nice. Now don't forget! Things which troubled me a bit: Lucky for Archer that the one native who was also looking into this was completely nonplussed by...well, everything. Flying metal beast sucks up crates into its gaping maw? No problem. Man's skin comes off, revealing scaly weirdness? Cool. Your hometown is being fought over by two groups of aliens from outer space? Nifty. Audio hookups? Er, how? I could see such data being gathered by dropping probes near the area they plan to land. No mention of such, though. It's either that or they were dragging a microphone on a very long tether. Not necessarily a complaint, but: T'Pol gives orders. Tucker doesn't like said orders. Tucker threatens to shut down engines rather than leave orbit. (Without having heard any other details of T'Pol's plan. Not that she volunteered any.) I can buy this. It seems like a pretty serious and potentially dangerous conflict, but a believable one. Having said that, when did T'Pol become a part of the chain of command? Well, I know when. Not long into "Broken Bow." But I can't recall anyone actually saying "T'Pol will be your second in command." Strange. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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