The show Enterprise is the last vestige of Gene Roddenberry's dream. Although he never signed off on this
one, it does bear the Star Trek name. Actually, it doesn't. Or it didn't. But, whatever.
It still has Hoshi, the human universal translator and the most useless character in any Star Trek show.
Puurrrrrrrrr!
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Star Trek: Enterpoop
Friday, April 02, 2004
Friday, February 06, 2004
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
312 Chosen Realm
"Genarran tea. Sounds wonderful, even though I have never heard of a Genarran, it sounds tasty."
Terrorists! Religeous fanatics. They have taken over the Enterprise with "bio-explosives" much like the Voyager episode XXX. This religeous leader really pisses off Archer, he looks so upset.
What, no undelete?
Whoah, abortion in Star Trek!
Aliens are always going to hold the "torture" against Archer.
Fortunately religeous types are easily fooled by science. Like transporters.
Instant messaging.
Archer talks the suicide bomber into betraying his buddies.
Heh, the other religous people have different color tatoos, and they have ridiculous reasons for fighting forever. Just like he old star trek episode.
Malcolm always picks the weeniest weapons, the ones that fizzle.
Friday, January 09, 2004
Reruns
More than a month of Enterprise reruns! Agh!
About the only thing I learned in this month is that Exile was directed by Roxann Dawson, also known as B'Elanna Torres from Voyager. She did a pretty good job. Much better than Nimoy would have done. Or Burton.
The next new episode, Chosen Realm, is going to air next Wednesday on the 14th. I'll have to wait until then I suppose. In the mean time, I'll play with my Star Trek: Voyager action figures and my overactive imagination.
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
311 Carpenter Street
The guest star, Leland Orser, the guy who plays Loomis, I recognize from that creepy Star Trek: Voyager episode with the psychopathic hologram. He did a good job playing an absolute freak. And now he appears to be abducting prostitutes for the Xindi.
So this makes the third week in a row with throwback Star Trek style episodes. If I was going to go back to the year 2004, I don't think I would bring an Alien to help me stay under cover. Especially not one with pointy ears. I'm surprised she didn't decide to wear a headband like Spock.
Of course you can't have a "contemporary time period" Star Trek without some appropriate social commentary. They barely were able to sneak in the message "gas is bad" before they continued with the plot. And minutes after the vulcan neck pinch, T'pol was dissing on humans. Then dissing on red meat. Then dissing on cigarettes. It's what made the 21st century so cool, though, right? You know, T'pol, cigarettes make you look more sophisticated.
Check out the 5-minute Enterprise summary of this show. T'pol and Archer travel back in time for some reason.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
310 Similitude
I can't think of an episode that starts better. With a dead Trip.
Nutrionic particles. That sounds familiar. Those are the particles that fuck everything up. Or maybe they were just making that up, I'm not sure.
I do have to admit, Star Trek casting did a good job getting actors to portray a younger Trip, they made sure to get ones with bad southern accents.
An interesting way to introduce somewhat contemporary ethical quandrys such as cloning tissue for spare parts. Although I was sure that they would try to use this as an excuse to get T'pol and Trip in bed together. Clearly we're going to see that in a future episode. Dammit.
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
309 North Star
Enterprise is going through the types of episodes that were so neat looking back on in Star Trek. I am expecting they will eventually visit the Nazi-era world soon, where there are a bunch of aliens that for some reason behave like Nazis. Or perhaps they will discover a Greek world, where everyone wears a toga and sandals.
The deputy was in the Voyager episode "The Chute." I can't remember which one he was. And I had to look that up in IMDB.
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
308 Twilight
An old an grey befeebled captain in a bleak future. This reminds me of that last Next Generation episode, "All good things..." It's always a good
Hey, Archer and T'pol are on Seti-Alpha 5. They don't say whether or not Khan is leading them or not.
Evil Malcolm with the goatee. In fact, I bet that's the same goatee that Spock wore. It looks just as fake. Naw, that goatee is probably long dead by now.
Interesting, irradicating parasites in the future kills them in the past. Actually this is a little like the Deep Space Nine episode where Sisco is jumping through time. I knew that having a running theme of time travel was going to mean lots of crappy time travel episodes. This one was a little intriguing though.
Friday, October 17, 2003
306 Exile
So this is the episodes that Linda Park described as Beauty and the Beast. It really is pretty much that story, but in a funky, Star Trek sorta way.
"Hoshi ... look into Camera 3... Camera 3!"
"Brr, It sure is cold on this soundstage."
Trip, you idiot, you set off the thruster? And launched the shuttle off the asteroid you were on? Why do they put this guy in charge of the ship sometimes?
Yeah, I think Linda is right. It does seem an awful lot like Beauty and the Beast. I liked that Disney movie. But, at least I found Linda's forum. Shhhh.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
305 Impulse
Those are pretty cool looking asteroids. Not at all like that video game, Asteroids. And they are moving rather erratically. Why in the world would every one of the senior officers on the ship jump in a shuttlepod and navigate through it? Leaving Hoshi, the ensign specializing in spelling is now in charge.
I love it how any space door, no matter how thick and tightly secured, can always be opened by ripping off the faceplate of the open/close panel. Even that huge sphere in Anomaly that was designed by technologically advanced aliens had a control panel that, when you blasted, opened it's security doors.
Stun doesn't work? Stun never works. Fortunately kneeing them in the crotch does work. We need more fisticuffs in Star Trek. In fact, I think we need some Kung Fu.
Sunday, October 05, 2003
304 Rajiin
Alien bizaar... Alien consortium... they went all out on the makeup for this episode.
What happened to the translating? Is the universal translater online? Does this mean that Hoshi is nothing but a Uhura now? The intergalactic switchboard operator?
Hoshi and the sex slave are not going to make out, I know it. I guess the writers are not reading my mind. But there are some cool crazy weapons.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
303 Extinction
The idea of this episode is that there is a planet that turns humans (but not vulcans, of course) into an alien race. A fairly primitive race too, as it appears.
Interesting, the people who were burned appear to have their clothes in tact. Not surprising I guess, clothes in the future are a little less fire prone than the polyester costumes that the actors are surely wearing.
Okay, I suppose I nitpick a lot. By why does Trip need to get T'Pol's DNA from the peaches? Why couldn't he just find one of her hairs in her underwear drawer or something?
Not much of a surprise. The alien race was wiped out many years ago. But I don't understand why Dr. Flox is so interested in eliminating the remnants of the civilization. He's a complicated man, and no one understands him but his larvae. Doc Flox.
