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And what's with Rene A. doing an episode next week? I don't know if I like the idea of former regular cast members making cameos ... I dunno, it just somehow seems ... wrong. That might just be me, tho.
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I couldn't tell Ethan was a Ferengi until I started to pick up some of his acting skills. Of course I knew that Jeff was in there because he acts almost the same in every character he plays.
I wonder if he'll break the record of playing the most different species record. He played human, Vorta, Ferengi, some alien in Voyager, Andorian, and I believe he played a Romulan though I am not sure.
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<excessive knowledge> Guest Species Records:
Vaughn "I still wash glue out of my nostrils all summer long" Armstrong (7 species, 10 characters)
Klingon x3 (Korris from "Heart of Glory", Korath from "Endgame", and fella from "Sleeping Dogs")
Cardassian x2 (Danar from "Past Prologue", Seskal from DS9's finale arc)
Romulan (Telek R'Mor from "Eye of the Needle")
ex-Borg drone (Two of Nine in "Survival Instinct")
Hirogen (Alpha guy from "Flesh and Blood")
Vidiian (Unnamed Captain from "Fury")
Human (Admiral Forrest, "Broken Bow" onwards)
Jeffrey "I'll only come back if they won't kill me" Combs (6 species, 7 or 11 characters depending on how you count Weyoun)
Unspecified Perv Alien (Tiron in "Meridian")
Ferengi x 2 (Brunt from "Family Business" onwards, Krem in "Acquisition")
Vorta x 1 or x 5 (Weyouns 4 through 8)
Human (Racist cop in "Far Beyond the Stars")
Unspecified Fu Manchu Alien (Penk in "Tsunkatse")
Andorian (Shran in "The Andorian Incident" and "Shadows of P'Jem")
Marc "Someday I'll settle down and play a recurring character" Alaimo (5 species, 7 characters)
Antican (Mr. Eat Fresh in "Lonely Among Us")
Romulan (Tebok in "The Neutral Zone")
Cardassian x 2 (Macet in "The Wounded" and Dukat)
Human x2 (Frederick LaRouque in "Time Arrow" and the other racist cop in "Far Beyond the Stars)
Bajoran (or at least Dukat as one)
Ethan "Look where my career took me after wrapping a principal role on UPN's #1 show" Phillips (3 species, 4 characters)
Ferengi x 3 (Dr. Farek in "Menage a Troi", Neelix-in-disguise-as-Grand-Proxy in "False Profits" and Ulis in "Acquisition")
Talaxian
Hologram (Cameo as Maitre 'd in First Contact)
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Er...I thought the general consensus on Combs' acting skills was exactly the opposite. Krem may have looked like Brunt (I didn't particularly think so.), but he certainly didn't act like him, or like Shran, or Weyoun, all of whom I would say are quite distinct.
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I lauged all the way through the ep. I hope they don't use the Ferengi again, but it was worth it with Combs, Phillips and Clint Howard together.
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Archer again pisses me off as a man of no-action. He had a lot of opportunities to take out the guy watching him and never did a thing. Kirk never would have stood for that.
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Personally, I thought it was average. The writing of the episode was alright. The execution of the parts was good.
I think, however, that if they were to use the Ferengi, they should have saved it for later. It must have been a ploy in case the series flopped that was kept. I don't think they can get away with using the Ferengi in any future episodes without continuity cries from the continuity police.
Overall, I'd give it a 6 out of 10. Not the best episode yet, but not the worst. I don't think it'll be the "Trouble with Tribbles" of the series, but it definitely made people watch, which is the whole point of the series, eh?
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I haven't seen this episode and probably won't until BBC2 shows in 2003 or 2004 (or maybe even later). I saw a review of this on another page that had numerous articles on it. All I have to say is: this is Enterprise, not TNG or DS9! What the hell have Ferengi got to do with it!!!!???? I mean come on! The Stargazer/Enterprise-D was meant to have made first contact with them!!!
Jesus Christ! Are the creator and writers of Enterprise totally brain dead?????
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I'm afraid the BBC won't show it. Sky or Channel 4 or somesuch bought the rights in the UK. And I bet you can't have multiple channels buying the same series.
Oh, and I just rewatched "The Battle". The attack of the Ferengi on the Stargazer sounds quite like the thing the ENT Ferengi would do. The only weird thing is that the Marauder ships are a bit overpowered. And that we never heard of a structured Ferengi fleet with DaiMon's and rank-tattoos again in DS9.
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It seems that neither the ENT pirates or the "The Battle" Ferengi used a D'Kora class Marauder for their dirty work, though. Had the ship in "The Battle" been a D'Kora, Picard would surely have recognized the design when he saw a D'Kora in "The Last Outpost".
These pirates probably don't get top-of-the-line hardware. Nor are their crews probably the brightest bulbs in the great advertising screen of Ferengidom. Well-off merchants can better afford the big Marauders, which in turn may not be all that well suited for piracy due to their conspicuous bulk.
It's indeed strange that the "military" Ferengi disappear so completely in DS9. Then again, in TNG they were the folks who openly challenged the biggest enemy vessels (e.g. "Peak Performance"). Perhaps they were the state-sanctioned elite pirates or privateers of Ferenginar?
In DS9, there simply weren't any big ships to plunder, so naturally we only saw the petty criminals and the businessmen. Only a fool would have tried raiding the commerce anywhere near our Starfleet-backed heroes...
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The ship that attacked the Stargazer reportedly hid inside a crater on a moon. I imagine something similar in size to the ENT-ship, but with landing abilities.
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