Star Trek: Thread Space 9

[PowerSlave]

Yes, that was what I was eluding to. The parallels are never complete or exact, but I can see where the writers get their ideas from other cultures quite often. Of course, it's all debatable.

[Kotowboy]

ENT " Dead Stop " is a decent episode. Reminded me of the Red Dwarf episode Legion though.

Seriously it's almost the same story... Check it out

[soupytwist]

ENT " Dead Stop " is a decent episode. Reminded me of the Red Dwarf episode Legion though.

Seriously it's almost the same story... Check it out

Does it have the 'change the bulb, for red alert' joke?

[Kotowboy]

It does not

I liked Dead Stop it just felt so eerie... From the garbled message with co-ordinates to the un-manned super station.

To "Select method of compensation"

Loved the vibe.

[Kotowboy]

I had a thought recently...

I wonder if - when they invent a word for new aliens - they do some research to make sure it's not some foreign slang word or insult or profanity.

[soupytwist]

It does not

Smeg.

[Kotowboy]

Rainn Wilson from the Office ( US ) and "Super" amongst other things will be Discovery's Harry Mudd.

[BlobVanDam]

Very curious that they're including Harry Mudd, and I don't think that this is a good casting choice.

[Adami]

I really disliked Rainn Wilson for a long time.


Then I saw Super.


Dude's a good actor.

[Kotowboy]

Star Trek Enterprise.


"Oh hey. This ship from the future is bigger on the inside. "


Anyway that's enough of that.


I hope they come back to it later. You can't introduce a ship like that then do

nothing with it

[Kotowboy]

Oh and...

" In this episode - Archer and Mayweather have to escape a prison....again "

Ugh. SKIP.



I've noticed Enterprise is really lacking in the actual Sci-Fi department. It's mostly day to day life. Meeting aliens. Getting in trouble. Diplomacy and Politics.

Last nights episode about the non-corporeal beings was cool. But they're so few and far between.


Having said that - there are some really nice shots of NX-01 dotted around. It's a nice design. I prefer it to the original 1701 in TOS





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I just realised that the episode Cogenitor is a lot like the episode where Riker fancies that non-gendered alien.

[Kotowboy]

Getting a bit bored of this exchange :

* Enterprise enters new space and beam down to surface

* Aliens show up " you're in our space and you have crew on our planet leave immediately "

* " There was no way of knowing but we'll get our crew back and leave ASAP but theyve been infected. The cure is on the planet "

* LEAVE IMMEDIATELY !!

* Do you want the cure too ? We can he...

* NO NO CURE NO WHATEVER YOU SAY NO BLAH BLAH CANT HEAR YOU NOOO

* Crew return to ship and Enterprise leaves

* " they're chasing us and shooting at us !! "

* Stop firing you f---ing idiots. We're leaving like you wanted and we have teh cure to help our crew

* LA LA LA CANT HEAR YOU RESUME FIRING


I love how stupid Aliens are in Trek.

[El Barto]

I just realised that the episode Cogenitor is a lot like the episode where Riker fancies that non-gendered alien.

Yeah, they both suck ass.

[Kotowboy]

Oh Hi Barto.

[El Barto]

Eh, androgynous people creep me out. Besides, you're the one that should be complaining about repetitive plots. How many episodes do we have to see where Trip can't keep from bitching about another culture's values?

[Kotowboy]

Enterprise is ok but as i said before - there's not a whole lotta sci fi in it.

The more I see of NX01 the more I like it. Easily the best design since the TOS movie refit.

Kinda like a cross between the original Kirk ship and Enterprise E.

[BlobVanDam]

It's the Akira class with a new hat because the network doesn't understand Star Trek. The NX looks better than the Akira though imo. Much more thought put into it by Doug Drexler.

I really like the design of the NX, and the elements they added to it to being it pre-TOS, but it's not one of my favourite ships, or even Enterprises. I much prefer the aesthetic of the TNG > era ships. I prefer it to the B and C (neither of which were designed as main ships to begin with), but I love the D and E, and even the F more.


Yeah, I said it. I love the D.

[Kotowboy]

It took me a long time to like the design of Enterprise D. I always thought it was really bulbous and curved compared to the sleek lines of the TOS movie 1701/A


1701-F is not bad. But it looks like Voyager got depressed and ate a load of cake.

[BlobVanDam]

The Enterprise D does have strange proportions, and it has its good and bad angles, but I've grown to love it. Also, it was the design that defined the TNG era of ships, so that's significant.

[Kotowboy]

Enterprise D looks a bit weird head-on.

But it doesn't have that angle that just makes it look awesome - like that classic shot from STV with the big moon behind it.

The TOS refit design is not just the best looking Enterprise by a long way but also the best design for any spaceship ever imo.




Enterprise E is the next best one. It has similar sleekness and lines.

[ReaperKK]

The Enterprise E is one hell of a ship

[Kotowboy]

Haha I watched an episode last week with Dean Stockwell in and I only just twigged that Bakula & Stockwell were Sam and Al in Quantum Leap.

Oops

[Adami]

Haha I watched an episode last week with Dean Stockwell in and I only just twigged that Bakula & Stockwell were Sam and Al in Quantum Leap.

Oops

I was kind of hoping for some kind of cheesy Quantum Leap reference.

You want to escape captain? Here's a window.......feel free to leap.

Or even "you look like someone I used to know"

Anything, don't care how lame it is.

[Kotowboy]

I think Bakula's acting in Enterprise is a lot better .

I was never sure in Quantum Leap if he was any good.

Plus it had a lousy finale.

[Adami]

I think Bakula's acting in Enterprise is a lot better .

I was never sure in Quantum Leap if he was any good.

Plus it had a lousy finale.

Oh I loved the finale, but I'm a big fan of depressing stuff. And god damn was that a depressing ending.

[Kotowboy]

I mean - they got him back before - they know HOW to do it.

I read elsewhere that " Sam never returned home " because he CHOSE to continue helping people. Not because he couldn't.

[Adami]

I mean - they got him back before - they know HOW to do it.

I read elsewhere that " Sam never returned home " because he CHOSE to continue helping people. Not because he couldn't.

Yea, that's what the bartender told him. He can return home whenever he wants, followed by "He never returned home".

The only part of QL I really disliked, conceptually, is the idea that his physical body was traveling, but produced the aura of the person he was inhabiting? Eh. Would have been easier to just say they swapped consciousnesses.

[Kotowboy]

I liked it now and again.

I like the episode where Sam and Al switched places for some reason but Al had ziggy in his hand so couldn't use it.

They had to write a letter to the future like in BTTF3 to open the door where Sam was projecting as a hologram.

[Kotowboy]

I love those moments in Star trek where Aliens get on board the ship and the crew set up a plan to trick them but they pretend it's to help the aliens.

We know that the crew are tricking them but the aliens don't.

In ENT when the religious nutjobs ask Archer to kill a crewmember and Archer chooses himself and says he'll use the execution device and we know it's the transporter

 

[Kotowboy]

I love those moments in Star trek where Aliens get on board the ship and the crew set up a plan to trick them but they pretend it's to help the aliens.

We know that the crew are tricking them but the aliens don't.

In ENT when the religious nutjobs ask Archer to kill a crewmember and Archer chooses himself and says he'll use the execution device and we know it's the transporter

Haha and another one - when they pretend Archer and Degra have been in a prison for 3 years and are trying to trick him into giving them the co-ordinates of the weapon installation.

Pretty fun episode. When he thinks they've arrived at the Red giant and says " Our border defences will destroy you !!! " and Archer knows the co-ordinates were genuine

Great episode. Almost done with S3. Hopefully the Xindi storyline is nearly over.




Also Doctors Orders where Phlox is alone on Enterprise for several days. GREAT. Actually pretty scary/creepy for Star Trek. Some genuinely tense moments. When he sees Hoshi's zombie face

and when he is looking out of the window and sees the shadow. Plus when he is in full panic mode THEN finds out they won't be out of the nebula for another two and a half months...

[El Barto]

You must be blowing through 10 a day or so. Or else skipping chunks of it. I'm guessing the latter as you haven't mentioned a couple of the best and worst episodes of the whole series. And yeah, the Mission: Impossible episode with Degra was good.

[Kotowboy]

I watch several a day. I skipped one or two because they're Klingon or escape from prison ones and they sound boring as hell.

I may go back and watch them once S4 is done.

[Kotowboy]

HAHA. Sillik in Storm Front wearing ordinary human clothes.

[Kotowboy]

End of Storm Front part 2 was much more satisfying and emotional than the end of Voyager's Endgame...

[El Barto]

Once you see him out of the makeup Sillik's voice becomes all the more impressive. He had kind of a John Harrison thing working.

And just wait til you get to the finale of ENT.