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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] This would've been much better as a one-part "ohmigod look what I have to write my way out of" episode. As it stands, the first part was all setup for this, and while there was some amount of payoff it wasn't that engrossing. Silik, having been thrown into the bulkhead with Archer's hand around his neck, points out that Archer's changed. Silik also has the lines about humanity not being as pacifist as he previously believed. In other words, Silik seemed to get all the good, important, not-necessarily-the-plot lines. But, overall, there wasn't really a "bottom" to the show. It was never personal . . . just another day at the office in the Trek universe, and one that didn't come out all that interesting. On the one hand, everyone took the situation too seriously . . . I mean, you've just saved Earth, and now you're up against Nazis. It would've been a perfect opportunity to bleep out a Trip "what the fuck?!?" One can also imagine additional eye- or brain-candy . . . say, in the first part, Archer thinking for some reason that America needed Enterprise's assistance, so Archer takes out the Bismarck, or kills Hitler just to do it, or what-have-you, before focusing on the aliens. But, more to the point of the bottom of the show, this would've been a prime opportunity for Archer to be forced to examine himself and his actions against the Xindi or the guys from "Damage" in the context of the Nazis. Not to say he's been gassing Jews or something, but there's still a lot that could've been done with that concept. As for the flight over New York . . . yeah, that was just helluva cool, no doubt about it. I think the shot of the mobster seeing the planes overhead would've been better had it been a shot of the guy seeing Enterprise soar overhead, though of course it wasn't written for the right moment. The ship dropping into the atmosphere, though doable thanks to the precedent of gas giants, is still quite jarring. The other examples can be though of as mere rocketry, but in this case the ship, with warp engines and maneuvering thrusters already described as damaged and without the ability to use shields as any sort of aerodynamic surface, was simply flying at low-speed. The ship is most assuredly not a lifting-body design, and given that her mass ought to be somewhere above half a million metric tons, the whole idea is just a bit wonky. Other errata: 1. The ship survived re-entry . . . er, entry . . . with all those holes in the hull. While there are certainly ways to offset the need of ballistic re-entry that modern spacecraft have to use, most would take more time. There wasn't much time available, so it would be interesting to try to figure out what sort of heat and stress the ship faced. 2. There was no reason to use torpedoes against the facility. Given the sub-kiloton blast, the weapons had to have been set for tickle. And it's worse that two were used. 2a. Now that Enterprise has returned to Earth, it should be a simple thing to count the number of torpedoes used after her departure from Earth. I bet it's more than Voyager supposedly had in the Delta Quadrant when she got there. One thing that might also be interesting would be to see how many were 'wasted' in low-yield endeavours. 2b. A torpedo on a higher yield detonated anywhere near the fighters would've knocked the lot of them out of the sky. 3. Though the targeting sensors being offline was just an excuse for the New York flight, there's still little excuse for the 50/50 or so missing of the fighters. There's gotta be some sort of backup system, because otherwise the targeting sensors being out leaves the ship a sitting duck against any spaceborne adversary worth his salt. Then again, Voyager did something similar on the Vaadwuar homeworld, so whatever. More to come. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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