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TheF0rce
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The episode was ok.
I don't know about anyone else,
But I for one expected the plot twist where the aliens turned out to be “nice” and the local gal, Elian, was full of it.

After Reed said he couldn't scan what’s under the shop, I imagined a whole sinister complex down there or the alien ship itself.
And a sinister mining operation it was!
No plot twist.

The malfunction of the universal translator was pretty much the high point IMHO.
Despite its malfunction, it still seemed a little "too" high tech for this time period.
At least it shouldn’t be that compact, how did Archer fix it so quickly? Were the batteries low?

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I missed parts of the episode, so I'm not sure how the translating was done. However, in the scene where Archer's translator goes out (which I managed to catch), it looks like he's holding his communicator to grab a speech pattern.

My impression from "Fight or Flight" is that the universal translator is a program in the ship's computer and not an actual hand-held device. Sato and Archer were talking about the need for Sato to actual be aboard the Axanar freighter since she could run the translator from the ship over the comm line. It would seem to me that the ship's computer does the translation and sends instructions back to the translating device the crew is using. The universal translator wands in The Original Series seemed capable of doing the translating on its own without using the ship's computer.

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Good for the wands.

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Oooh, that would have been good. Like the Malurians are doing the duckblind observation thing and the poisoning thing is just an unfortunate coincidence. Ok, yeah, that would've made a better episode.

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Malnurtured Snay
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That would've been pretty good too. So -- bit confused about this -- are the Malaurians reptiles, that WAS a Suliban, wasn't it?

I didn't pay enough attention to the episode, true, but it seemed like the crew got over seeing another Suliban pretty quickly.

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Er...no, it wasn't, obviously.
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Ryan McReynolds
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Yeah, given that it looked nothing like a Suliban, it's probably safe to say that the Malurians are herpeto-humanoids.

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Alshrim Dax
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When Archer pulled the skin off .. my first thought was "Ooooh.. Gorn".. but .. that lasted only a second.

I liked the ep. It's nowhere in the caliber of Breaking the Ice or Andorian Incident - but it was entertaining.

I liked that messing with the Prime Directive.
T'Pol kickin' ass was great.
I can't wait till the crew comes together as a unit.

I remember in Fight or Flight, Archer gave command of the ship to T'Pol. I think it is assumed that her Vulcan Rank carries over into StarFleet.

I could be wrong.

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oh Gorn??? How in the world do you think they fit a snout like that under a mask???

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Wes
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I was certain it was a suliban. but why would a suliban need a mask?? hmmm
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Dude! It wasn't a Suliban! It was a Malurian, and it didn't look anything like our shapeshifting friends.

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quote:
Originally posted by Proteus:
I was certain it was a suliban. but why would a suliban need a mask?? hmmm

The most obvious piece of evidence that it wasn't Suliban (aside from the fact that they never called it anything other than Malurian) is that it had scales. Suliban, while mottled and textured, don't have scales.

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