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- Timestamp is December 27th, 2153. About two weeks since last episode.
- "Starfleet training" again, no Academy.
- The MACOs want the regulars to take up some tactical training. Reed doesn't particularly likes it.
- The MACOs have never fought aliens before joining NX-01. They only had 'simulated combat on Earth's surface'.
- The MACO girl is called Amanda Cole, a Corporal. I think we hadn't seen here before.
- Hayes is directly under Reed's command, and addresses him as "Sir".
- That little badge on his right shoulder is definitely the TOS "Command" star.
- Mayweather has almost three entire lines!
- Big Giant Freaky Anomalies. It's all gone gooey!
- The grappler is used. I guess it's the first time we see it without the sensor package.
- The alien looks like a mix between Suliban and Tosk.
- First correct use of the word 'upload' in Star Trek. Yay!
- The MACO training is obviously not "Starfleet regulation". Our poor brightly colored crew gets kicked hard by MACO fists. They seem to either train in an empty cargo bay or have their own gym. Or they emptied the old gym of the 'toys'.
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- Despite that the MACOs have never fought anything off Earth, they have designed some sort of targeting training system on Jupiter Station.
- They let the Starfleeters train with the MACO rifles.
- The alien is a transdimensional being. He's capable of walking through stuff, a la Daniels trick and the interphase cloak. His last words: "When the Xindi destroy Earth, my people will prevail". So now.. transdimensionals are involved in the Temporal War too...
- Errr... I guess this episode has the dubious honor of being the first time regulars had sex with eachother. But the scene leading up to it wasn't nearly as weird as I feared for.
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The lack of military experience really suggests that Earth has been pretty peaceful for a while. This is,what, about a century after WW III?
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You forgot Ezri and Bashir ... Odo and Kira ... Riker and Ro ... if we want to count "irregulars", let's not forget Rom and Leeta ... Garak and Ziyal ...
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From a technical makeup POV, I was very pleased to see that both Reed and Hayes has bruised and swelled considerably the day after the fight. This may well mark the first time we've seen two Enterprise crewmen really kick each other's asses.
Good to see Mayweather can kick butt.
One thing: what happened to the MACO actor that was in Crusade?
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I expected the two of them to start laughting afterwards as well.
That happened to me and a freind back in sixth grade...although he only lost a tooth and I got a black eye. Made us pals though, and I bet it does here as well. Trek has a tradition of sorts of making characters that dont initially like each other into pals: McCoy and Spock, Bashier and O'Brien, Mayweather and his imaginary freind "Mr Quiet"....
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