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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] A fairly engaging epsiode on the dramatic front, though most of the tech is on the alien's side - and not likely to be touched on again. Ah well... It's enough that we get a Trip Screws Up episode. :) -We open with Enterprise studying a "hypergiant", which I presume to be a really really big star. T'pol notes that the star is losing mass at a really fast rate, and will go boom in 100-200 years. For some reason, I'm made to think of the TNG episode with Lwaxana and that guy from M*A*S*H. -T'pol also says that she may very wll be around when the hypergiant pops. -"Astrometrics" is mentioned. Has it been before? -When G'Kar/Tomalak's ship shows up and asks where Enterprise is from, Archer pulls a first and says they're from the Sol system. Unto the present, they've always said they're from Earth, no? -The aliens this week, Vissians, have a lot of neat tech allowing them to study stars a helluva lot closer than our heroes. They've been a warp-capable species for about a thousand years, but don't seem to have much desire to stray too far from home (25ly away) despite being explorers. Their ship is larger than Enterprise and bullet-shaped, not unlike the Cardassian dreadnought. -Fun with multigender species: Rigellians may have four or five sexes. Phlox speculates that the cogenitor gender in this case provides a facilitating enzyme-- and is interrupted by an uncomfy Trip, who's just happy to recieve an innoculation against omicron radiation, which will last him 12 years. T'pol says that tri-gender species are not uncommon. -The alien ship doesn't need magnetic confinement for their mostly-CGI engine room. -G'karmalok and Archer take a trip into the star's chronosphere in a nifty little "stratopod". Note that no metaphasics are involved; it's all because of their trinesium hull material. The pod set is that of the Enterprise inspection pod, flipped around and with the usual coverup greeblies applied. -Archer and G'karmalok take off on a three-day study of the star, which is the B-plot of the episode. The star's photosphere is conveniently blue to reinforce the whole Jaques Cousteau feeling of the plot. Doesn't make much sense, but it looks a lot like various false-colour images we've seen from NASA. -In an attempt to get laid, Reed puts together a selection of cheese and fruit to impress their female tactical officer who told him that human food smells pretty bland. They've been in space for two years now... How likely is it that they'll still have fresh fruit in storage? They have a "protein sequencer", but how far is it from the familiar replicator? Can they replicate fruit in its entirety? -To provide the principal plot, Trip decides to teach the cogenitor how to read. To do so, he uses a PADD (or whatever it is) that's like a Speak'n'Spell. Oddly, it's ready to teach the cogenitor its own language... -The aliens are surprised that Enterprise doesn't use "photonic" technology in their torpedoes - and Reed forgets again that he's run into that before. He manages to tell us that the phase pistols are charged by sarium microcells, but not much else as he finally gets his wish with the tactical babe - in the phase cannon storage well, no less! -Trip's education of the cogenitor includes a tour of Enterprise, including the transporter bay (which we've not seen for a while) and the engine room, where Trip drops their maximum achieved speed of warp 5.1 from last year. -Movie of the week: "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Klaatu barada nikto! -Porthos! Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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