What a great episode ... again! And of course I had to upvote ;-)
First of all I’m a really GREAT fan of The Orville :) But start of this episode looked strangely familiar, then i remember it. Black mirror, season 3 episode 1 - Nosedive :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/?ref_=ttep_ep1
Anyone seen that?
What a convoluted plot! Can't wait to see the conclusion!
Let me just say that, while there have been some moments of brilliance in the early episodes of this return to the Twin Peaks universe, there have been some things and episodes that have had me a bit concerned. That being said, if everything beyond this episode was crap, it could not diminish the absolute brilliance I witnessed tonight. Started out good, but the sequence that kicks off with the a-bomb explosion has to be the most artful piece of television ever produced to date. Those first few minutes are what Kubrick might have done in 2001 if he'd had the technology. I suspect I'll be rewatching this episode several more times in the week to come. So, if you, like me, have been a bit disappointed at moments with the return, I hope that this episode has restored your hope and or faith in the genius that is David Lynch. I know it has for me. Mind. Freaking. Blown.
The single greatest hour of television I've ever witnessed.
was like watching paint dry. was a big fan of twin peaks original series. this is just bum rape from david lynch :(
I have a hard time imagining the show gets any better from here.
The original pilot episode of Star Trek lacked the intensity, wit and charisma of TOS's compelling characters. However, you'll be able to identify some of the elements that made this show great and why it stood the test of time. It's worth the watch, even though a huge chunk of it was used in the subsequently released two-part episode "The Menagerie".
What the hell was this episode?
Also what the hell was that ending in particular?
Let's just hope there's not many more times where Eleanor figures things out and Michael erases everyone's memories again. But I still want to see where things will go from here.
As long as that doesn't happen every week now. That will get old quick. Hell, I think it might have already.
Still, a lot of the show is still brilliantly funny. "I'm gonna work-out!"
Watch TNG S07E12 and then watch this one. Its a great experience!
I have to say that after watching every single Star Trek episode available, that this is THE WORST series finale, ever (even TOS's Turnabout Intruder was better). Awful doesn't even comes close to describe it, as it's a complete let down after a better than expected season. Charles Tucker's death is totally unnecesary, and the last scene with T'Pol is less than stellar. The true final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise is Terra Prime, not this crappy bookend.
this was made a few years after 9/11 and show how defining was this moment on television. Once again star trek tries to debate the issues of his own time facing the future. The previous episode was as well, about terrorists as so this hole story about the xindi doing the act of terrorism and starting a war against earth. Im not sure i enjoy this side of trek, but i found this episode at least watchable. it has some good scenes but not ENT at his best.
I was quite happy with Phlox's story, but the lame spelunking plot got in the way.
Playing a bit fast and loose with the door timings, aren't they? Up to now they've established that pushing the button to open an interior door on Enterprise will open it long enough for someone to walk through it. Now suddenly they have doors that wait until someone actually walks through. It's actually kind of interesting to think about what sort of sensors the doors on this Enterprise might have compared to the fully automatic doors on later starships—though the doors actually open and close when the director says, which means they're subject to dramatic timing and all the other little things that make it impossible to actually establish their technical workings.
Mmm, rubber bat'leth, good for bending under T'Pol's boot.
Why would you bring your dog down to an alien planet inhabited by a species that found the simple act of eating offensive. Why even ask them if the dog could visit the planet. Why take the risk? Archer, why.
That metallic clunk when Trip pulls out the prop "access panel" into an air duct that was literally made from a paper & cardboard air filter they probably just grabbed from maintenance at the studio. Gotta love Foley.
For being "confined to quarters until further notice", Trip and Reed are awfully active outside their berths.
You know what that station looks like inside? Aperture Laboratories. Clean and pretty in the "public" areas, steel and grease in the back rooms. It even has a malevolent AI to go along with it. (I don't buy "Your inquiry was not recognized" for a second. It understood—it just feigned being a simple pre-programmed voice interface to reduce suspicion.)
Tiny cast of regulars this time. What were the rest of them up to?
Hoshi is "the only one" who can fit into the crawlspace? It's massive! Almost the size of a Jefferies tube on the later series. Please. If they want to say stuff like that on screen, they gotta build smaller sets.
And, shortly after that line: The men in Starfleet wear full-body underwear beneath their uniforms, but Hoshi doesn't even have a sports bra on under her shirt? It's definitely not because the writers wanted to do a gag where she ends up topless after the aforementioned trek through the crawlspace. Nope, not at all. Logic - 0, Hollywood titillation - 1
It was pure serendipity that I happened to watch this episode right after returning to Quantum Leap season 2 after taking a break from that series. Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula were reunited on the small screen!
Kind of disappointed at the blatant mention of Japanese internment camps, though. I thought that connection was more than obvious enough without hitting the audience over the head with it.
> Jeffrey Combs
> and Ethan Phillips
I heard Phillips' voice immediately. Yes, I was a bit excited. Yes, I was later disappointed.
It's so fun seeing recognizable real-life products disguised as futuristic sci-fi props. In this episode, it was two bottles in Sickbay that were clearly SIGG brand (and only very slightly touched up by the props crew). Nothing compared to Quark using my family's picnicware glasses every day in his bar on DS9, but still fun.
So there are only 173 Rules of Acquisition at this point in time? A lot changes in a century.
"There are fourteen weapons lockers on this ship." — And none of them should be accessible without any authentication at all. The key word is locker. They're supposed to be locked. Sigh.
Nice touch that they threw in "Do I look like a Menk to you?" as a reference to "Dear Doctor".
So Porthos wasn't affected by the gas? Does it only work on humanoids?
