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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] Great ep! Can't wait for the conclusion! -- We start out with a history lesson given by Soong to his "children," eleven years earlier on Trialas. He talks about how the Eugenics Wars "devastated Earth." And how no one is sure whether the Augments or the humans started it. He doesn't mention Khan and cohorts simultaneously seizing control of 40 nations. I suppose records of the period must be fragmentary. :) -- There was a protein resequencer at the Trialas facility. So they had those at least as far back as the 2130s, when Soong took the Augments there. Not all that new. -- I wonder where Udar ("Smike," in reference to Dickens' [i]Nicholas Nickleby[/i]) got that dangerous-looking knife he brandished at Archer and company. Did Raakin have them making weapons? I wouldn't haved thought Soong would encourage that. -- Persis is quite hot, I must say. -- The Denobulan medical shuttle [i]Barzai[/i] (a fairly cool new design) is lured into the clutches of the Augments' BoP by a false transmission in which they claim to be the cargo ship [i]Corsair[/i], suffering from a reactor leak causing ten crewmen to be exposed to delta radiation. (Is this the same stuff that got Pike?) -- They call the station C-12, not CS-12. And the exterior shots of it are really pretty. -- Did I mention that Persis was H-O-T??? -- The station had been on "hieghtened alert" before the arrival of Soong and the Augments, once they get there they go on "Code Black." (I might comment, but now that Bush has been re-elected I'd better not...) -- So apparently the Augments weren't engineered by direct DNA recombination or other entirely-artificial means like that. (Actually, this is in line with Spock's "selective breeding" line, though I'm not sure this actually qualifies as "genetic engineering.") They have mothers and fathers. Smike's were a geophysicist named Miklos Karlovassi and and an Olympic silver medalist named Irina. -- While 30 million was the official death toll for the Eugenics Wars, some historians say it was actually closer to 35 million. (No doubt that by the next century, it'll have been upped again to 37 million. ;) ) -- Henry Archer suffered from Clarke's sydrome, a degenerative brain disorder causing frequent pain, hallucinations, and trouble recognizing familiars in its later stages. He died of it when Jonathan was 12. (What do we figure that as, again?) Anyway, interesting and poignant footnote in the biography of the designer of the Warp Five Engine. -- Nice close view of the Klingon disrupter prop. Looks farily fitting as a precursor to the sonic pistols of the 2260s. -- I'm starting to appreciate the TOS-y "psychedelic" transporter makeover. (Mark: I think the only reason the TOS 'porter had a limit of six was because there were six individual pads. [ie, if there had been seven, you could have beamed seven.] There is just one big pad on the NX-01's, so you can beam as many as can fit on the pad.) -- The disease the C-12 doctor was exposed to was Symbalene blood burn, which causes the vascular lining to boil away. Sound (and looks) unpleasant. -- Soong's mother was a chemist. -- Smike does have one augmented ability, enhanced hearing. -- Archer pulls a classic Kirk maneuver (see TOS "A Taste of Armageddon") and gives T'Pol conditional orders beforehand to initiate the station's auto-destruct sequence on command, then hurriedly gives that command while Soong is on the comm with her. I really enjoyed that. <strike>Un</strike>fortunately, it didn't work. -- Nice view of the 1800 other embryos. -- Telurian plague, not Terellian. :p -- Malik says he's going to shut down all the stasis fields on the station. But if he shuts ALL of them down, won't that release both the pathogens AND the antipathogens, thus cancelling eachother out??? :confused: Not very genius-like of him. <big>[b]DOH![/b]</big> :o And that's all, folks. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [b]P.S.[/b] Oh boy, the trailer for next week's ep threatens a "biological terror attack." Can I just take this opportunity to say :rolleyes: ? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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