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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] A nice understated episode, bloody well LOADED with tech, politics, and the background stuff we relish. Has Coto finally landed? I hope so. Let's get right to the on-the-fly notes! -Apparently the "Welcome Home" thing at the beginning happens RIGHT AWAY as soon as the crew got everything squared away on the ship, and is apparently the first physical contact they have with the brass, including Admiral Forrest. They even take a shuttle in, which still has battle damage, and some of the crew are still displaying bruises and such. -But how long is it after they return home that they're on their way to the ceremony? It's got to be at least a couple days - how else would you fill a stadium so quickly? -27 people died during their mission in the Expanse. That's nearly a third of the crew. -Captaincy is a boy's-only club, eh..? -It seems that TV, or at least theatre films, have NOT gone out of style here. While they were gone, another WWIII epic came and went, and "swept all the awards". -While everyone's been pretty freaked out because of worries about the Xindi coming back to finish the job, there have been a record number of marriages and childbirths. OTOH, there seems to have been no mention of a wholesale exodus from the planet... -Ooh boy! We get to see NX-02 in all her mostly-finished glory (including the lettering on her hull. The bridge is covered in plastic sheeting and people are welding stuff, and the aft table and railing is missing. Same Captain's chair, though apparently without lumbar support - a modification made to Archer's chair, and a sort of continuation of the running gag with the chair. Among Columbia's improvements over Enterprise: *Hull polarization improved by 12% *Ventral AND dorsal torpedo launchers *PULSED PHASE CANNONS (!!) - Archer's own recommendation -One of the NX class designers was Captain Jeffries - and Archer once argued that his ship wouldn't need a whole load of weapons for an exploratory mission. Archer now agrees with Jeffries... They need 'em now, and more. -I didn't see a clear view of the Columbia patch, but I'm sure we'll be due one in short order. -Hernandez wants Archer to look through her candidates list for senior crew, some of whom he's served with. -TOS hat tipping - there's a familiar tri-screened monitor in the briefing room! -The Vulcans are at the debriefing to grill Archer over the Seleya incident. Soval is unconvinced that Archer did anything to save the crew, nor the effects of Trellium. Archer rightfully blows his top at Soval, and is ORDERED to take some time off. He goes climbing, and Erika tags along. -Xindi attack = Xenophobia. An Andorian and a pair of Rigellians were attacked, and the Vulcans have been keeping to their compound. -Andorian and Rigellian - species with whom Enterprise made first contact (or at least first visited their planet / outpost, probably). New arrivals, of whom humans are suspicious? Interesting choice of aliens here... And I wonder what the Vulcans think of Andorians being present on Earth. -We see a Vulcan house, which has distinctly Oriental qualities to it. How often have we seen Vulcan houses before? TAS "Yesteryear", perhaps? -At no point do we see a moon around Vulcan. ;) -T'Pol's wardrobe in this episode is decidedly... Rose-hued. -Archer has had dozens of schools renamed after him, including Erika's brother's school. The continuous hero-worship and public appearances have already sickened him. -Archer would recommend a MACO as the Columbia Tactical Officer. Erika's a little wary of having military on board, but Archer recommends she talks to General Casey about getting a whole squad. I guess the MACOs are here to stay! -Still, if the MACOs are being kept, what's to replace the people they supposedly lost to accomodate them. Will the have a permenantly reduced complement of regular security or science officers, as we have suggested before? -Archer: "You'll spend a lot of time boldly going into battle". Only a few episodes ago he was telling his crew to go back to the exploration and contact thing. Guess he's had time enough to become more cynical about Gunboat Diplomacy. -T'pol's been offered a commission in Starfleet... SPOCK! -Instead of fridges, Vulcans use "stasis units" to keep things fresh. >.<;; -Reed is wearing a field jacket over his civvies to attract attention in a bar. I think it's yet another variant - it looks shorter and thinner than what we've seen before. -T'Pol's mom was dismissed from her job at the science academy because the Council blames T'Pol for what happened on P'Jem. Only the political marriage to Koss would save her at this point. T'Pol reluctantly agrees - she'll have to live on Vulcan for a time at some point, but is allowed to return to Enterprise for the time being - obstensibly in part to convalesce from her Trellium addiction. -Archer is tortured by nightmares of Xindi tossing him off cliffs. I wonder if this will continue to bug him later. -Trip says Vulcan is 16 light years away. Have any of our cartographers been keeping track? -Erika once served under Archer, um, in more ways than one. They stopped fraternizing because of them serving together, but this is no longer the case. They won't be seeing each other regularly, but that doesn't stop them from making whoopee while on the mountain... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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