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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Holy FRACKING FRICK, this was a good show! I had to watch the opening bit three times before I could move on, it was so excellent. Just look at the reactions of everyone to Earth blowing up - even the extras behind Archer. Beautiful, as with the rest of the episode. On we go - note that I haven't read most of the other posts, so apologies in advance for any overlap. -Note that during the attack, the huge-ass sphere jumps in AFTER the Reptilian ships. This implies that the Reptilians were there to clear the way of Starfleet resistance and give the sphere nothing to do but shoot. There were only two ships flanking the sphere... I'd imgine the Xindi would attack with more. -Ahh, I think the whole Xindi probe thing makes more sense now, given the big weapon's intended effect (and result!). The probe's beam obviously didn't blow up the planet; it's likely that its purpose was to test the conditions of the Earth's crust, atmosphere such that the big one can do the job right. They didn't want to simply raze the planet - they wanted to destroy it outright. -The little green chair in Archer's room that he wakes up in is the most TOS-ish chair since... TOS, really. -The movie this week was "Rosemary's Baby". Yeesh, they seem to be getting more recent, no? Attendance is not mandatory for the senior officers. :) -While zoned, Archer comes up with a way of upgrading the antimatter inducers - increasing fuel efficiency. Given his condition, he came up with it in a matter of hours. Smart guy. -This is the first time they mentioned communicating with Starfleet via the buoys they left behind. -The Reptilians' armor seems to be less effective this time... It takes a single shot to take one down. -Did anyone else notice the imaginative use of the Zephram Cochrane statuette as an anti-intruder weapon? :) -The Enterprise brig was designed only for two people - in other words, the one we've seen is the only one they've got. -With one warp nacelle, they can manage a plodding warp 1.7. I think this is the first real evidence that starships CAN function with one nacelle lost, albeit at severely reduced speed. -T'Pol notes that by the time they found where the Xindi weapon was being built, it had already been deployed. I wonder how they got it to Earth? And more importantly, how could Enterprise have gotten back BEOFRE it, damaged for six months as she was? -People seem to be noting that the Vulcans and the Andorians may have been able to help avert the disaster. Indeed so - but with them hating each other so much, they may have been able to fare better. Hey, if they were working together, in a "Federation" of sorts, maybe so. Maybe so. -We see Ceti Alpha V... And Trip notes that it's barely M-class, with a definite lack of blue and green. Didn't Kirk's gang say something about the place being a "paradise" for Khan? -CETI EELS, man! Wouldn't this be a fricking PROBLEM here keeping people up at night? -The bosun's whistle is REAL on this ship. Stoopid ST6. -I think there were at least a couple ships that were new in the ragtag fleet, though the known freighters and research ship we've seen seem curiously absent. I'll have to take a closer look, but I think the ol' triangle ship was in the mix. The Yridian ship Enterprise disables was first seen as Ahab's vessel in "Voyager Vs. the Pitcher Plant", and has already been seen in this series in "Broken Bow" as the ship whose backwash knocked T'Pol halfway across the Rigelian landing deck. -Speaking of which, Rudy Ransom discovered the Yridians, eh? Hehe. -The new Xindi ship this time is the Insectoid ship... They seem to be less resilient to phase cannons than the Reptilian ships. -The other Starfleet ships left over were Intrepid and one of the smaller ships. They seemed in pretty good repair... Would they have gone to other systems to stay that way? Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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