Thoughts while I watch Enterprise 2x07
Nov. 7th, 2002 03:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksOoooh, seventh episode of the second season and they call it "The Seventh". Wonder how long it took them to rack their brains and come up with that one?
Hey, that's not a qwerty keyboard. Doesn't even seem to have enough keys for English. Is that a Vulcan keyboard? Or is that what keyboards are reduced to in the 22nd Century because they can dictate stuff onto the screen now? But what if you want to type something private and don't want to say it out loud? Is there an alternate keyboard? Do you hand gesture? Am I thinking too much and should shut up and watch the episode? Oh, you're no fun...
T'Pol looks like she's been crying in this scene - even down to the hoarse voice. It's kind of weird, but I expect it's intended. And of course, Quantum keeps badgering her about what matter of security she's talking about instead of picking up on the fact that his Vulcan Science Officer is as close as she's ever come to breaking down in an emotional soggy mess. Kirk would have been more sensitive.
For pete's sake, it's hours later and Quantum's still snarking about T'Pol's "classified mission" like a kid whose friend won't let him in on an in-joke. How passive aggressive can you get? Grow up. Act like a professional. You should be more concerned about whether there's any problems with the system that might enadnger your crew rather than riding T'Pol's case. "If Vulcan High Command doesn't approve of me watching water polo" my ass. And T'Pol wants to discuss a "personal matter" with him and he's distracted by a water polo game?!?
It should not surprise people this episode is written by Bermaga who seem intent on making John Archer the Al Bundy of the Star Trek universe.
"Why?" "I need to be with someone I can trust." I repeat Quantum's question. Maybe she's just trying to set him up so he can be shot and killed on assignment since this guy she's picking up is so darn dangerous. Hey, I can dream.
Trip is actually making a very good argument as to why he needs to know at least some details of the mission - and of course Quantum refuses, because it's okay now that he's been let in on the secret and he can exclude the other kids as well.
Hey, isn't that stock footage? It's the planet Rigel from "Broken Bow"!
It's really sad. Mayweather is actually on this mission with Quantum and T'Pol, and he still doesn't get any lines. I feel your pain, Anthony Montgomery.
Whoa. Walking Target Quantum. What the Hell did he think he was doing? I refuse to think that drawing Menos out was his intention.
Oh, so it's the "Trip screws up while acting as Acting Captain" subplot. Ha ha ha. Haven't seen that before. Such originality! Such wit! Render unto me a frelling break.
Bruce Davison is such a breath of fresh air in this episode. Take acting tips, guys. But really, he's playing you like a pro. That bit about the hologram of his family is really one step over the line.
There's a cleverer way to explain Archer's absence than having Trip pretending to be him. Phlox already said there was this lymphatic virus aboard - just say that Quantum's down with the virus and will be out for a few days. Duh. Instead, we get cheap comic relief rather than taking the chance to show that Trip isn't a complete dimbulb.
I'm kind of in two minds about Jolene's depiction of T'Pol's emotional distress in this episode. On the one hand, it's sometimes too emotional to be truly Vulcan, but on the other the strain is almost understandable considering what she's been through. I will say, though, that it's a very difficult mood to act, and I wouldn't know the first thing about how to approach it. Maybe they should have asked Nimoy.
"Why would you feel guilty if Jossin was about to fire at you?" Um... some people would feel guilty, irrespective of the circumstances, because they feel killing is wrong no matter what?
Eh? What happened to that whatchamacallit acid? Is the scrub over? Can someone tell us these things?
"You won't kill an innocent man." "Well, d'oh, this is set to 'stun'." Zap. Okay, maybe that would have been less dramatic. But the scene as played was a trifle ludicrous - Archer taking time to tell T'Pol what to do, and Menos calmly walking away?
So Menos was playing them after all. I admit that when T'Pol found the injector casings it threw me off a bit, but that goes to show how good Davison actually is in playing the innocent.
Man, T'Pol's eyes are really baggy. I'm beginning to wonder if Jolene was really crying. "If you ever need someone you can trust..." Eww, puke. No. More. Cheese.
Better than last week's, due to Bruce Davison and some interesting development on T'Pol's part. Maybe it's just that I've been reading spy novels again, but it might have been interesting if the F'lara ritual was forced onto T'Pol and the Security Directorate was trying to wipe her of secrets they didn't want spilled. Ah, but that's just me.
Meh. Just... meh. Give it a C minus.
Hey, that's not a qwerty keyboard. Doesn't even seem to have enough keys for English. Is that a Vulcan keyboard? Or is that what keyboards are reduced to in the 22nd Century because they can dictate stuff onto the screen now? But what if you want to type something private and don't want to say it out loud? Is there an alternate keyboard? Do you hand gesture? Am I thinking too much and should shut up and watch the episode? Oh, you're no fun...
T'Pol looks like she's been crying in this scene - even down to the hoarse voice. It's kind of weird, but I expect it's intended. And of course, Quantum keeps badgering her about what matter of security she's talking about instead of picking up on the fact that his Vulcan Science Officer is as close as she's ever come to breaking down in an emotional soggy mess. Kirk would have been more sensitive.
For pete's sake, it's hours later and Quantum's still snarking about T'Pol's "classified mission" like a kid whose friend won't let him in on an in-joke. How passive aggressive can you get? Grow up. Act like a professional. You should be more concerned about whether there's any problems with the system that might enadnger your crew rather than riding T'Pol's case. "If Vulcan High Command doesn't approve of me watching water polo" my ass. And T'Pol wants to discuss a "personal matter" with him and he's distracted by a water polo game?!?
It should not surprise people this episode is written by Bermaga who seem intent on making John Archer the Al Bundy of the Star Trek universe.
"Why?" "I need to be with someone I can trust." I repeat Quantum's question. Maybe she's just trying to set him up so he can be shot and killed on assignment since this guy she's picking up is so darn dangerous. Hey, I can dream.
Trip is actually making a very good argument as to why he needs to know at least some details of the mission - and of course Quantum refuses, because it's okay now that he's been let in on the secret and he can exclude the other kids as well.
Hey, isn't that stock footage? It's the planet Rigel from "Broken Bow"!
It's really sad. Mayweather is actually on this mission with Quantum and T'Pol, and he still doesn't get any lines. I feel your pain, Anthony Montgomery.
Whoa. Walking Target Quantum. What the Hell did he think he was doing? I refuse to think that drawing Menos out was his intention.
Oh, so it's the "Trip screws up while acting as Acting Captain" subplot. Ha ha ha. Haven't seen that before. Such originality! Such wit! Render unto me a frelling break.
Bruce Davison is such a breath of fresh air in this episode. Take acting tips, guys. But really, he's playing you like a pro. That bit about the hologram of his family is really one step over the line.
There's a cleverer way to explain Archer's absence than having Trip pretending to be him. Phlox already said there was this lymphatic virus aboard - just say that Quantum's down with the virus and will be out for a few days. Duh. Instead, we get cheap comic relief rather than taking the chance to show that Trip isn't a complete dimbulb.
I'm kind of in two minds about Jolene's depiction of T'Pol's emotional distress in this episode. On the one hand, it's sometimes too emotional to be truly Vulcan, but on the other the strain is almost understandable considering what she's been through. I will say, though, that it's a very difficult mood to act, and I wouldn't know the first thing about how to approach it. Maybe they should have asked Nimoy.
"Why would you feel guilty if Jossin was about to fire at you?" Um... some people would feel guilty, irrespective of the circumstances, because they feel killing is wrong no matter what?
Eh? What happened to that whatchamacallit acid? Is the scrub over? Can someone tell us these things?
"You won't kill an innocent man." "Well, d'oh, this is set to 'stun'." Zap. Okay, maybe that would have been less dramatic. But the scene as played was a trifle ludicrous - Archer taking time to tell T'Pol what to do, and Menos calmly walking away?
So Menos was playing them after all. I admit that when T'Pol found the injector casings it threw me off a bit, but that goes to show how good Davison actually is in playing the innocent.
Man, T'Pol's eyes are really baggy. I'm beginning to wonder if Jolene was really crying. "If you ever need someone you can trust..." Eww, puke. No. More. Cheese.
Better than last week's, due to Bruce Davison and some interesting development on T'Pol's part. Maybe it's just that I've been reading spy novels again, but it might have been interesting if the F'lara ritual was forced onto T'Pol and the Security Directorate was trying to wipe her of secrets they didn't want spilled. Ah, but that's just me.
Meh. Just... meh. Give it a C minus.
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Date: 2002-11-06 08:55 pm (UTC)I agree. I had to rewind to be sure that he was the one who actually tackled the fugitive when they captured him. He gets a bit of action, and we barely see it...
it might have been interesting if the F'lara ritual was forced onto T'Pol and the Security Directorate was trying to wipe her of secrets they didn't want spilled.
Well, she did seem to be under restraints during some of the flashbacks...
If this were Babylon 5, there would've been hints for the whole first season that there was something T'Pol had forgotten ("There's a hole in your mind"). Oh, and the acid would've burned through T'Pol's makeshift covering, leaving her limping and trailing bloody footprints. And... well, it would've been a whole lot better in other ways too...
Of course, in my universe, Enterprise is all non-cannon, so I'm not that concerned. (So is Star Trek: First Contact. Sorry, but Strangers from the Sky did first contact right.) It's also odd that in my universe they went right from Star Trek IV to VI, but I guess that's Hollywood.
No. More. Cheese.
Hey, that reminds me: didn't they forget to include a cheescake shot of Archer and T'Pol soaping each other off in decon?