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No, it's not a musical. That would be Moulin Rouge Planet, silly.
( Not-a-review and, needless to say, spoilers, follow )
( Not-a-review and, needless to say, spoilers, follow )
Happily downloading
Nov. 19th, 2001 02:28 amBeen using Morpheus to download Enterprise episodes. A mixed bag, all told, but it's shaping up to be an okay series and hasn't turned me off completely like Voyager did within a season. The stories are shaky in execution sometimes, but the characters are good and are slowly becoming better defined and more complex, which is a good thing, and even the duds have a couple of good moments in them.
Even T'Pol is growing on me - Jolene Blaylock still plays her as looking more pissed-off than unemotional, but I like the way the writers are using her, like Spock, as a logical counterpoint to these impetuous human natures (and I find myself agreeing with her a lot of the time, too).
Her arguments with Archer, particularly in the episode "Terra Nova", where they debate whether or not to forcibly relocate a human colony, foreshadow the Prime Directive really well. I can half imagine decades from 2151, when the Federation has been founded, Starfleet Academy having "Before the Prime Directive: The T'Pol-Archer Dialogues" as a standard text for the "Exploration Ethics 101" course ("...and today we'll be looking at the Enterprise NX-01 mission logs from the last quarter of 2151 to early 2152...").
When you start me imagining things like that, you know you've got me at least halfway with the idea of this fill-in-the-blanks trip through Trek history, now.
Even T'Pol is growing on me - Jolene Blaylock still plays her as looking more pissed-off than unemotional, but I like the way the writers are using her, like Spock, as a logical counterpoint to these impetuous human natures (and I find myself agreeing with her a lot of the time, too).
Her arguments with Archer, particularly in the episode "Terra Nova", where they debate whether or not to forcibly relocate a human colony, foreshadow the Prime Directive really well. I can half imagine decades from 2151, when the Federation has been founded, Starfleet Academy having "Before the Prime Directive: The T'Pol-Archer Dialogues" as a standard text for the "Exploration Ethics 101" course ("...and today we'll be looking at the Enterprise NX-01 mission logs from the last quarter of 2151 to early 2152...").
When you start me imagining things like that, you know you've got me at least halfway with the idea of this fill-in-the-blanks trip through Trek history, now.
I finished watching the pilot for Enterprise, last night. Not bad, actually - I was worried about how they could make modern day effects still look retro when compared to the original series and they've managed to do a decent job at it. Trek pilots have this odd tendency to be good in inverse proportion to the series to follow. Take "The Cage", which was overly cerebral but led to a great original series. Or "Encounter at Farpoint" which sucked incredibly but The Next Generation that followed was worth it. Or "Emissary", which did not reflect anything of the potential or epic quality of the Deep Space Nine saga. And "Caretaker", which was a kick ass pilot for the series Voyager which ultimately sucked ass.
So how does this measure up? Well, it wasn't quite as good as Caretaker but more compelling than Emissary, so I guess that means the series has a good chance of not sucking as badly as Voyager did.
I wish the theme song was better, though. Ick.
So how does this measure up? Well, it wasn't quite as good as Caretaker but more compelling than Emissary, so I guess that means the series has a good chance of not sucking as badly as Voyager did.
I wish the theme song was better, though. Ick.
