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This isn't a tech-heavy show, and the plot itself is rather thin. Anyhoo:
-The episode opens with another PR stunt, this time Trip looking to take pics of the captain to send back to Earth for a portrait. Ironically, the digital camera he's using is perhaps the most NON futuristic prop we've ever seen in the series so far.
-Archer's portrait will join those of other famous Starfleet captains, in a collection which purportedly inspired cadets like Mayweather.
-I can't remember everything from "The Andorian Incident", but was it mentioned there that famous Vulcans get mummified? Well, it gets mentioned here.
-The rogue planet is a class-M, but does not circle a star. It supposedly escaped its parent star, but I don't think current physics supports something that heavy going rogue. Heat supposedly comes from escaping gases, but this is even less likely... And for a sunless planet, there's an awful lot of foliage. Still, it allows for a lot of new optical shots with a darkened Enterprise orbiting a darkened planet.
-Reed and Archer were both in the Eagle Scouts, thogh Reed had two more merit badges - including exobiology.
-The away team this time goes down with spiffy nightvision headsets that cover one eye. Dunno what this does for stereoscopic vision.
-Reed joins a bunch of Hirogen-- uh, *game hunters* they find there - the hunters have even spiffier nightvision sets that cover both eyes. Their rifles look almost a little too obtusely like normal hunting rifles.
-Synthesizing unknown alien blood types is a simple matter for earth medical science, apparently.
The rest isn't terribly interesting, I'm afraid. Not a bad epsiode per se, but it doesn't offer anything really new in the Trek universe. This one's alternate episode is "Captain Archer Falls for a Slug".
Mark
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Not in the visual sense. But their temperment and constant talk of "prey" pretty much makes 'em Hirogen. I'm betting we never see these particular aliens ever again.
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We get to see the preserved corpses of a couple famous Vulcan monk-types in "The Andorian Incident," though there weren't any details about why they (or was it just one?) in particular were preserved. Interesting.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: -The away team this time goes down with spiffy nightvision headsets that cover one eye. Dunno what this does for stereoscopic vision.
Screws up steroscopic vision at first but people can adapt with training/practice. Some modern military equipment works in a similar fashion. Hmm, there's stuff about this in that very bad movie with Nicholas Cage in a helicopters. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099575
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I was trained during night ops to keep one eye open, one eye closed whenever a flare went up - it enabled you to look around using the light of the flare, while retaining partial night vision. Of course, I have a lazy eye (otherwise known as a squint) so I don't have true binocular vision (the very idea of what it must be like is unknown to me; it also plays hell with your depth perception!); only using one eye at a time anyway, I therefore found it quite easy - don't know what normal-sighted people thought of it. . .
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So, no new ships mentioned/seen?
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Actually, star-less planets aren't that unlikely. If I remember correctly, astronomers did discover a few rouge gas giants. I'm not positive about that though.
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If synthesizing unknown alien blood types is a simple matter, then how come that in "Journey to Babel" Spock had to donate blood to Sarek because they didn't have enough of his blood type aboard?
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Mim - Nope. The aliens had their own lil' ship, but all we see of their technology is a collection of futuristic camping gear.
Flower - What you may be thinking of are tiny failed stars, which essentially coalesce into gas giant-type planets, go dark, and ultimately freeze. What we're talking about here are rocky Earth-type planets... The science behind it is all fiddle-faddle-foo.
I also read somewhere that there's new speculation that a terrestrial planet once existed between the Mars and Jupiter orbits and was ejected or plunged into the sun during the early days of the solar system (say, 3-4 billion years ago.) I'm trying to find the link where I read that yesterday.
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So was I, But this was something based upon a computer generated model of the history of the orbits of the inner planets.
Dammit, I can't find the link!
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I stand corrected. I'm also wiling to bet that Mr. Science Advisor for Enterprise read just that article in addition to the writer, who took the obvious dramatic liberties.
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