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A fun episode tonight, without too much tech. Prized this time out is the acting, especially with Bakula being an EFFECTIVE character, and some good musical moments. Ah well, following up on "Future Tense" would be tough in any case...
-We open with the apparently ressurected (or repaired, or re-named, or whatever) Shuttlepod One drifting unmanned when Enterprise finds it. Note that despite the tumbling, the stars outside the pod when viewed from the inside remain perfectly still.
-Once again, we have a "Starlog supplemental" for a timestamp. I'm finding it a little annoying, actually, that we haven't had a real date for a while now.
-The antagonists are the Enolians, who thought that Archer and Trip are smugglers. They use weapons that resemble sawed-off shotguns, but their pistols are a re-dress of the old EM-33 pistol. Their ship is new, and not terribly pretty - almost Cardassian in nature. Prisoners are kept chained a la oarsmen! I kept waiting for people to start drumming.
-The planet where Archer and Trip were making Enolian first contact is Keto-Enol, which is "the largest trade outpost in the system". There are other outposts in the system?
-There are a variety of aliens on the transport, including a Naussican. Trip's seat buddy looks really familiar, and I think the guy sitting next to Archer is using leftover Reman makeup...
-Hey, is the Enolian important guy wearing green versions of the Red Squad pin? And while we're talking about wardrobe, why are Archer and Trip in civvies? It MIGHT have helped when they got arrested for smuggling.
-Enolians have small warp-capable patrol ships; Archer, now posing AS a smuggler following the inevitable prison break, manages to get rid of 'em by venting some (warp?) plasma and detonating it.
-As he is being driven insane by his seat buddy, Trip gets to mentions stuff like Orion Slave girls and a Melvaran. Melvaran? Melllvar?
-The prisoner leader, Kuroda, was supposedly accused of stealing a latinum brace at the shipyard he was working on Keto-Enol, which first landed him in prison. I wonder how strong a latinum brace would be...
-Enterprise finds the transport, and AT LAST SOMEONE SUGGESTS USING THE TRANSPORTER TO FREE THEIR CREW!!!! But of course, the prison ship's shielding is too much.
-Man alive, planetary CGI must either be really easy to do, or the Eden folks just REALLY know their stuff. Now, while the episode ends rather predictably, it sure looks pretty. Mayweather gets to shoot something, we get to see some nice (if coincidentally ill-timed) images of ships burning up in the atmosphere, and Archer be genuinely mad.
Mark
[ February 25, 2003, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Mark Nguyen ]
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