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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Hot damn, a good episode! Charged with drama and character pieces, and loaded with the tech! -Not TREK tech, but in the production department, wasn't that big anomaly a VFX doozy? The huge wave going through the bridge blew me away! I loved the moving shot as Archer was blown back into his chair, and the shot moves behind him following the wave through the aft bulkhead. Sweet! -Ditto with the shot where Shran pops up on the viewer, and it looks like Archer had sprouted antennae. Heh. -This is the first time T'Pol has witnessed anomalies that literally seemed to GANG UP on the ship. Before, they just seemed to be random bubbles of differently-physicalized space. I'm hoping this gets adressed later. -Reed notes that the torpedoes happened to be in "safe mode", which presumably helped keep them from accidental detonation. Safe mode? What would be involved with this? Is he talking assembled, but inactive somehow? Most current supplementary material tends to indicate that torpedoes are loaded only shortly before being fired. -What IS it with Reed and alien tactical officer babes, eh? -This is obviously a very politically-charged episode, deepening the Andorian-Vulcan conflict we've seen. Enterprise needs an Andorian on the ship. Female, preferably, for some interesting catfights. :) Anyway, Andorians seem interested only in honoring agreements that suit them, suggesting that they tend to agree to things first, but then have no problem casting it aside if it doesn't go their way. I've had friends like that. :p -Reed is seen consuming lots of coffee to stay awake - the first real mention in Trek about caffeine. FYI, regular brewed coffee contains on average three times the amount of caffeine than tea. -In the same scene, Tucker is seen eating what looks like a ruffled potato chip. I don't think we've ever SEEN potato chips on Trek before... -Can anyone remember what the last timestamp was? I think this was the first one this season. -Andorian antimatter injectors use variable-compression nozzles. I'd say this helps fine tune the antimatter stream. -An unknown ENSIGN is escorting Shran around. On typical Trek we wouldn't blink, but Officers are rare these days. An Ensign under Reed's command would be fairly high-up in the chain of command in the security/armory department, no? -Hey, anyone notice that if you took an Andorian ship and combined it with an Earth ship, it'd look like a lot of Federation ships? Ditto with the bridge - the Andorians have twin forward consoles, outward-facing standing consoles, and a vaguely circular layout. I doubt it's intentional, but the melding of Earth and Andorian engineering techniques seems to be in the cards. It doesn't hurt that Andorian technology (injectors, shields, etc.) seem to be easily meshed with Earth tech. -Shran's command chair is a console chair from the old Defiant set with arms added. -Shran falls into character as the mining guy really easily. Given his first appearance as a special-forces guy (or so I think, anyway), I guess infiltration would be a useful skill. -I'm guessing they want to be able to destroy the planet outright so they can minimize the possibilty of survivors or counterattack. If the hints being dropped are true and the Temporal Cold War is a major factor here, I'd say that somewhere in the FUTURE humans are gonna do somethign that wrecks teh Xindi homeworld in the past. As such, they're being given the technology to wipe out humanity in the present, and prevent that person from being born. So, simply cutting the planet in half isn't enough. -Hey, the Command Centre has a secondary door that goes somewhere else - I'd never noticed it before, since most of the shots of the set were from that wall. Actually, the director was trying a lot of neat angles for this episode... Look at the off-centre master shot of Degra's control room, for example. -This is the first time we've seen live communication from outside the Expanse. Does Enterprise have live comms? I'd thought it was delayed at best. -Was that stock footage of Enterprise fighting the two Reptilian ships from "Twilight"? If so, it'd be the first major re-use of footage like that since the Enterprise launch sequence in "The Expanse". Good thing it was from an alternate future. ;) -I figured all this time they were always going DEEPER into the Expanse. The seem to have backtracked somewhat, since it didn't take them that much time to get back to the distortion field. I wonder if someone in production is making a map... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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