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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Well, the spoilers are out now for the first act (and snippets of act 2) of "Acquisition" - check out TrekWeb. Doesn't seem as if there's anything objectionable there as far as contiuity goes, nor anything dramatically unsound. Of course, whether the episode is enjoyable or not won't be revealed on the basis of the first act alone. Some observations, though. We're apparently going to get un-subtitled alienspeak here, which I like a lot. But the script also seems to have moments where we'd need subtitles to understand what's really going on. I wonder how the final version will turn out. Also, the Ferengi may be old hats in this space piracy business, but they are still impressed by the propulsion technology of the NX-01. Which may cause a few eyebrows to rise among those of us who think the Ferengi got their own warp drive by buying it ("Little Green Men"). Did they buy upgrades, or how did their warp tech keep apace with Earth's later on? Or were the Ferengi actually capable of improving on the tech once they had bought it, dispelling yet another stereotype about them? There's some dialogue about how the Ferengi find the humans alien-looking, but since that's not subtitled we can probably ignore it (some of the "translations" provided in the script are obviously faulty anyway, as if a different person wrote the Ferengispeak and the supposed translations). Since about 99% of the galaxy's humanoid species look pretty much like humans and unlike Ferengi, that piece of dialogue isn't very plausible. Or is NX-01 really the first alien ship to be plundered by the Ferengi? No mention of the "Last Outpost" style energy whips in the script, which I don't consider a big loss. I wonder if the "rifle" mentioned there will be the one the Ferengi used in "The Magnificent Ferengi" (also seen in Romulan hands in "Improbable Cause"/"The Die is Cast", however)? The ship we're going to see will not be a Marauder, that much is sure - there's only a four-man crew there. It could be the TNG-era Ferengi pod, though. That would minimize the continuity problems, since Picard would not have seen such a pod in the Battle of Maxia nor in "The Last Outpost", and thus couldn't connect the ships he did see with the Ferengi EVEN if he had had some dusty 200-yr-old reports for bedtime reading recently. And I have no problem with the Ferengi using the same ship designs for several centuries - it just supports the idea that they bought the tech in the first place and aren't too interested in upgrades unless they bring profit. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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