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So, this takes place a week after "Fight or Flight" ... although I'm confused about the time period (someone says they're 3-weeks out in the beginning, then Tucker says 6 ... maybe they meant 3-weeks since the last planet?)
Nice crewmen ranks ... they can be hard to see. I though Ethan was a Lieutenant at first.
Looks like Mayweather went through an ion storm on board the freighter ... from the context of the conversation with Tucker, it doesn't sound like it happened on Enterprise.
I love that yellow volleyball. I hope we get to see Enterprise's recreation facilities at some point.
For some reason, I was expecting a bigger landing party ... they finally find another world, and they only bring down three extra science officers? And no security people? Even if there aren't any "humanoid" life forms, security men might be handy against large mammals ...
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Trip Trips! aah.. good episode, a lot more that the first 15 minutes made me expect.
I'm reminded of the scene in Galaxy Quest.. 'Dont open the door! Can we breathe?! Is there air? Did you think we should check first?!' It should be a natural assumption that a lush earthlike planet will have evolved its own ecosystem of toxins, pharmaceuticals, diseases and parasites that may not be compatible with our biology, no matter how Earth-LIKE they are. I hope that the crew remembers this.
Im glad that writers and SFX guys are finally making use of their LSD experiences.
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Jeff: That was a water polo ball, if the comment about "I wish Enterprise had a pool" didn't make that abundantly clear.
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Meaning they don't have a pool and why would they?
Anyway, i find the episode alright, i feel the away missions unrealistic, but hey kirk brought his senior officers and himself into every dangerouse trip anyway...so...meh. But still, the captain personaly flying the shuttle into a dangerous storm to rescue the 4 of them? Doesn't anyone else have a shuttle permit?
I liked the transporter merging the leaves into the guy[crewman]. Good reminder to us that the transporter tech. is still very unsafe. The guy managed to live...blah.
And as mentioned above, their actions were very reckless, just becuase it looked like Earth doesn't mean it was Earth. The guy who smelled the flowers really should have died.[but if they did behave like good little vulcans, there won't be a story].
Last is, why couldn't they beam the team from the caves, when they could beam a guy in the middle of a storm and transport medicine into the caves themselves?
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No. Water polo balls are yellow and plasticky to the touch, IIRC. Volleyballs are white and foamy-squishy to the touch.
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The F0rce: I think the general idea was that the they didn't want to stick bits of cave into everyone else.
On another note, it looks like that the End Credits are very much tune-of-the-week now. This week's was rather good.
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"Fucking Orlando Magic...fucking preemting it to Saturady...fucking hell..."
Saturday is the regularly scheduled day for it here. And, so far, only the premiere was shown on time (7p.m., I think it was). Last week's was at 4p.m., and this week's is at 10p.m., both because of hockey games.
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I thought it was alright. I really liked that scene in the tent with the scorpion-like thing.
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The thing about the transporter is that it couldn't reach very deep into the cave, and the crew wasn't exactly open to suggestion.
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Instead of "Trip," Charlie Tucker's nickname should be "Sunofabitch." That seems to be his stereotyped good ol' boy tagline.
If Mayweather meant to say "DY 500," then he's being consistent with the three known DY 500 ships when Tucker says they've been withdrawn decades ago.
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It seems odd that just the DY-500 class ships would be removed from service as a whole, but the DY-430 SS Urusei Yatsura would be beginning a mission 5 years before ENT in 2146 and the DY-245 SS Hatteras would still be operating in 2187.
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Well, no moreso than the 747 being an older aircraft than the 717 and 737.
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