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Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise
Steve Krutzler writes "TrekWeb has posted a brand new interview with actor John Billingsley (Doctor Phlox on Enterprise). He talks all about the second season of the Star Trek prequel including the upcoming episodes "A Night In Sickbay," "Minefield" (featuring the first encounter with the Romulans!) and "Dead Stop." He also talks about the character of Doctor Phlox possibly falling into the 'Neelix Trap' and says he wishes the series would kill more people off like the original Star Trek!" Billingsly
was great on a recent episode of SG1 too. I'm seriously excited for the
next season of Enterprise. I don't think I've ever said that about any of the
other Trek series.
The Enterprise on the show was never featured in Star Trek 1 as "One of the ships that had the name Enterprise"
There's an episode with the Ferengi in Enterprise. They hardly knew anything about the Ferengi on the first season of "The Next Generation". One of the ferengi (I believe played by Armin Shimmerman at the time) comments on how ugly the humans really are. Yet one of the Ferengi seem to obsess over a Vulcan.
This show has equipment far more elaborate than the original series. The consoles on the original show were dials and knobs.
Whatever happened to the Eugenics War of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.
And my personal favorite, The Royale from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved. Yes, Star Trek could be in a universe where Fermat's Last Theorem is unsolved, but then in Star Trek DS9, Dax was commenting on how she created another proof for it.
When I think of Star Trek, I always think of it as being in an alternate future, kind of like Command And Conquer: Red Alert where World War 2 never happened. Just I wish they'd keep things straight, and everything in the same universe. :)
Then again, maybe Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Original and Star Trek: Enterprise belong in different Quantum Realities :)
For their sake, I hope black holes do exist. It would suck if they had to go over all of the TNG/DS9 episodes and dub the word "Black Hole" with "Gravastar".
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"- The writers can't keep track of 10 movies and 24 seasons of episodes! Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?"
Heh I found that one amusing. I know people like that. Here's what bugs me: Enterprise has a wonderful opportunity to explore some of the events that were alluded to in the other series. Not only that, but we get it from the perspective of people fresh into deep space. This is really exciting, but these stupid 'purists' think that the show is better if they adhere to it literally. Do that, and you lose your opportunity. Some flexibility should be allowed.
It's a TV show! It's ENTERTAINMENT! Enjoy it, don't sit there and act like you could make it better because you remember details that were only intended to pad out the drama.
If you want rationalization for the 'inconsistencies', consider this: The 1701-E Enterprise influenced with Cochrane's life. The biggest hint of that was the naming of the NX-01 to Enterprise. Imagine it that way, quit griping, and enjoy the show!
Nobody wants to witness a Milhouse Vs. Screech debate.
If I remember the episode, part of the problem was also that the race that was going extinct was inhibiting the planet's second race from growing. My recollection is probably off a bit, but I think that the choice was more along the lines of giving the dying race what it needed to survive versus letting evolution elevate the less-advanced race to dominant species. It's kind of like (though off by a ways) if you were given a choice to save the dinosaurs who were going to be eradicated by some meteor-induced ice-age, would you do it, given that it might destroy the natural progression of life on the planet? Kind of a crappy analogy, but it's the best I can think of at the moment.
In any event, I actually really enjoyed that episode. In my mind, at least, the Doctor's dilemma was a lot more profound than you make it sound. Without the prime directive as a guiding principle, there's a lot more room for this series to be interesting.
Sorry, but the only thing that got me to watch Enterprise was uber babe Jolene Blalock.
...To fire the proton torpedoes or not, that is the question Captain"
StarTrek has degrading from swashbuckling action to moral pontification in space, no more "Let's get our shirts ripped, blow away the bad guys and get the greenskinned girl back to our quarters."
Now it's, "who are we to act like gods in space?
To be fair, the series premiere and finale were good, I really enjoyed. But, all the episodes in between were old hat and just plain boring.
What I'd like to see? Mission Impossible StarTrek style, ditch the ship and whip out all the cool gadgets to spy on bad guys and make big explosions with! Seriously though, a StarTrek focused on a few StarFleet secret agents with the latest in badass sci-fi tech going out on commando missions would definitely be worth watching and add some new blood into the aging ratings vehicle.
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Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?
Because they're getting paid to make Star Trek a significant portion of their lives, personally I expect them to be able to match the knowledge of the majority of Star Trek fans. Or at the very least to do a google search on occasion if they're unsure of anything. Contradicting something in another series or episode is fine if they make an active choice betwean entertainment value and continuency, but it's unprofessional if the break is done simply from ignorance. My watching of the franchise has been disjointed enough that I doubt I'd catch a mistake if it was made, but if I had a job related to the continuation of it you better believe I'd do my homework catching up.
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Star Trek in the Roddenberry era was all about humanity. The ship was just a vehicle. Nowadays, its gotten pretty formulaic. Most of the Q Episodes after the first two were always good for a bit of lite philisophical entertainment, but damn near everything else was.. egh.
Roddenberry is doing a friction-free 200000RPM around in his..err, space-urn.
(Unless it's de-orbited already.)
...Or have some poor intern chained to a filing cabinet whose sole job is to keep track of the Trek timeline. I've heard of worse jobs for em...
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From the first viewing of the pilot episode where the explicit and gratuitous 'Rubbing gel all over the bodies of a well-stacked bird and some buffed up fella' scene happened I have had little interest in Star Trek Enterprise.
The theme song is cringeworthy. They're blatantly using T'Pol to keep the sex-starved geekboys interested (To boldy pout where no large-breasted tramp has pouted before). There's (as is usual these days) an extreme overabundance of Americans (I mean, yeah, it's a big country, but you get the feeling any other country on Earth is slipped in only for plot development these days).
And the Vulcans! Logical, suppresed emotions? My arse, the actors like to think that Arrogant, Condescending, Irritable and Sarcastic are things that a highly intelligent being with supressed emotions and a fixation on Logic would be doing, it's all been downhill since Spock if you ask me! What's more, as well as being some much-need T&A to keep the boys awake T'Pol is also continuing the theme of inhuman outsider who really really wants to be Human (or if you prefer and are a little cynical like me, really really want to be American). cf Data, Odo, 7of9 (note the theme of Tits In Tight Clothing coupled with Struggling to understand Humanity/The American Way they learned there and are making good use of now).
It's all stuff we've seen before. They're all plots we've seen in one way or another before. The Aliens are still Just Humans(with all their mannerisms and emotions) With Funny Faces, they still use the Teleporters to get them out of sticky situations and I just know the Holodeck will make an appearance at some point so they can get down to some serious Holo-cobblers a la TNG and Voyager. All in all this in no way, for me, feels like a prequel to TOS, it feels just like one of a million other Americanised SciFi shows and after the horror story of Voyager (I won't even start to list how that narked me off) I hold little hope for Star Trek, it's all one big Franchise now and will never be allowed to die like it should have after DS9 (or before, according to taste).
Maybe I'm just jaded ;0).
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