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Very very cool. This is what we like to see!
I enjoyed the actor who played Soval's... ACTING during the meld scene - he took on a distinctl human-like quality in the way he was speaking - i.e. the guy's normal thoughts - quite a contrast to his normal Vulcan speech - well done.
Also - did anyone notice the harp music during the mind meld scene... very much like that in TOS.
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At the end there, there was a very similar feel to it as was at the end of "Unification, I" , I was half expecting Spock to suddenly walk out of the shadows and say: "Indeed. You have found him, Captain Picard."
Anyway, looks like next week Enterprise is going to get spanked by a combat cruiser(?)!!!
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It's quite interesting that they have the rank of Corporal in Starfleet now. Perhaps they've incorporated the MACOs in, while the NX-01 was in the Expanse. Starfleet is the new Homeland Security department. . . 8)
Good episode. Lots of political stuff, might finally start to see the Vulcans beoming the way we're used to them. It's good that Soval has lost a lot of the asshole act, maybe they will use him to replace Forrest's role in the show, not that he really needed to be replaced.
Anone see the bombed Embassy and think of the Oklahoma City bombing?
At about two o'clock from the United Earth logo, doesn't that look just like the Starfleet arrowhead? I'm sure it's just an optical illusion, you can see two more similar chevrons at one o'clock and ten o'clock, but it would be telling if the Starfleet logo (originally the Enterprise logo) turned out to be based on a Vulcan symbol! Even if there is a sideays version of it already on the Starfleet Command patch.
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Like I said, I'd say it's a fair bet that Askwith was supposed to be a MACO, but the wardrobe people mistakenly gave him a SF uniform. After all, it's been pretty well established ("The Expanse," et. al.) that the MACOS are Earth's actual military at this point, not SF. And don't you usually see military officers from a country guarding their embassies?
And I just highly doubt that Coto, the Reeves-Stevensons, or anyone else intended to add "Corporal" to the SF rank structure. It just don't make no sense!
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I see. So your contention is that, while I posted a link to an image which was then followed by a paragraph outlining my motives in posting the link, he has instead chosen to concentrate exclusively on my posting the image, and he then feels compelled to mention that the structure featured in the image subsequently suffered catastrophic bomb damage?
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-Anyone notice that the blue piping on T'Pol's outifts are apparently part of her "uniform"? It's on her desert outfit, which was apparently Vulcan standard issue.
-Also, the shots of Enterprise orbiting Vulcan seemed to be consistently dorsal-side facing the surface. It's oddly consistent, as usually it's side-on (and changing within that episode, even if they're all new VFX shots).
-The explosion of the embassy was pretty cool - we see the glass blowing out before the first shoots out the top of the building, which is another Trek first in terms fo detail. The walls of the interior look interesting, though. I'm reminded of the funky designs of the E-J corridors.
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It was interesting to see that Vulcan does have large modern cities.
Who, when designing a desert outfit, makes the shirt skin-tight with a tight zip-up collar?
Those shots in orbit of Vulcan were strange. Perhaps they had to be in a polar orbit or something. More likely they just took some ordinary shots of the NX-01 and added the planet and gave everything a refelcted red glow.
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