October 2011
13 posts
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50. [ENT] Regeneration – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
So remember that Borg sphere in Star Trek: First Contact that the Enterprise-E blew up with four quantum torpedoes? Turns out that things that blow up don’t actually “disintegrate” like Trek writers usually think they do. A century later, the crashed wreckage of the sphere is uncovered in the Arctic. The science team observing it decides it’s a good idea to thaw...
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49. [ENT] Cogenitor – SHORT REVIEW EDITION
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
Enterprise has one of the smoothest first contacts ever when they meet a ship studying the same hypergiant they are. Their captain Drennik hits it off with Archer immediately, and why not? He’s played by Andreas Katsulas, one of the coolest guys in the universe until his untimely death of lung cancer. You may remember him as Tomalak from TNG, or you may better know him...
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48. [ENT] The Breach
SCORE: (2/5 stars)
Enterprise has been ordered to evacuate some Denobulan geologists from a planet that’s just undergone a xenophobic regime change and demanded that all offworlders leave the planet. Since the scientists are deep within a cave system, hails don’t reach them, and a spelunking team of Trip, Reed, and Mayweather is dispatched. At the same time, an evacuating ship...
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47. [ENT] Horizon
SCORE: (2/5 stars)
Nobody’s favorite character Travis is in the spotlight! Enterprise has been ordered to reverse course about 30 light years to observe a planet that’s just been knocked off course, and when Mayweather discovers that they’ll be passing by his home ship Horizon, he decides to take a few days to pay them a visit but learns his father died six weeks ago. Trip...
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46. [ENT] Judgment
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Hey folks. Before I get into this review, I just want to give you a heads up that starting November 1 I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, where I will attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Between work, NaNoWriMo, and watching/reviewing three episodes of Star Trek a week, I’ll be pretty swamped, so starting from now until...
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45. [ENT] The Crossing
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Enterprise encounters a giant ship at warp that chases it down, opens up, and swallows it whole, disabling both warp and impulse engines. What they find inside is a massive structure home to floating non-corporeal energy beings. They take a shuttle out to investigate, when one of the floating creatures flies into Trip’s head and takes control of him, before returning...
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44. [ENT] Canamar
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Transcript after the break.
CT: Welcome to Chronotrek. Today’s episode is Canamar.
[clip] Sato: Enterprise to Shuttlepod One. Enterprise to Shuttlepod One.
CT: Archer and Trip have been falsely accused of smuggling and are on their way to a penal colony, when the ship is taken over by one of the prisoners.
[clip] Official: Smuggling is rampant in this system. My...
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43. [ENT] Future Tense
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Years after the Doctor fixed his chameleon circuit , his TARDIS was hijacked by a dying man who left it floating in space for a 22nd century starship called Enterprise to discover. The crew is surprised to learn that the dead passenger is human. Archer suspects that it might have been Zephram Cochrane, who disappeared for parts unknown after he left Alpha Centauri. (It’s...
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42. [ENT] Cease Fire
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
What time is it? Andorian time! Give me that blue-skinned Jeffrey Combs goodness! Also playing an antenna alien is Suzie Plakson, also known as Worf’s baby momma and Q’s wife Q. They’re engaged in a battle with the Vulcans over a planet that lies on the border between their territories and has been fought over for 100 years. The Vulcans have just issued...
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41. [ENT] Stigma
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
Transcript after the break.
CT: Welcome to ChronoTrek. Today’s episode is Stigma. [clip] PHLOX: I’m afraid we have no choice. Without further treatment, you could very possibly die. CT: T’Pol’s been diagnosed with Vulcan AIDS, and Dr. Phlox’s wife comes aboard looking for some sexytimes with Trip. [clip] PHLOX: This is our chief engineer,...
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40. [ENT] Dawn
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
If you happened to live in the 80s, you might have caught a little science fiction film by the name of Enemy Mine, where a human starfighter pilot and his reptilian mortal enemy crashland on a planet and have to put aside their differences to survive, in the process learning they’re more alike than they think. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. Lou...
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39. [ENT] The Catwalk
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
Some aliens alert Enterprise to a space storm heading toward them at Warp 7, a speed they can’t outrun. It’s full of harmful radiation, so they decide to take up residence in the catwalk of a warp nacelle, which is more heavily shielded. It’ll be a tight fit but they’ll be able to squeeze all 83 crew in there. The downside is they’ll have to shut...
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38. [ENT] Precious Cargo
SCORE: (1/5 stars)
Because he just wasn’t enough of a hick yet, we open on Trip in his quarters, playing a soulful tune on his harmonica, when he sees a cargo ship pull up alongside Enterprise. They have a failing stasis pod carrying a woman with chronic bitch-face, who they claim is a passenger en route to a planet five months away, but they’re acting rather suspicious about the...
