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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.
1. Goto new planet or space phenomenon.
2. Imply Vulcans are either stupid and/or evil.
3. Marvel at planet or phenomenon.
4. Go down to planet/phenomenon.
5. Get into trouble.
6. Shoot at bad aiming aliens and escape planet.
7. Wrap up episode implying how Vulcans are agian evil/stupid.
what happened to the expendible extras in star trek? kirk: the away team will consist mof myself, spock, bones and ensign billy, now this mission could be dangerous, one of us may not make it back..."
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
... I can never get enough of these comments:
- 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?
- STTNG was the only good series, the rest were crap. I can't believe they'd keep this show going even though the ratings were so good!
- Enterprise sucks! It offends me so deeply I want to tear my eyes out! I just can't get over there being a scifi show I don't like.
- I don't like this show, so nobody should.
I like to read these comments, then sit back and imagine what Galaxy Quest 2 will be like.
"Derp de derp."
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> And my personal favorite, The Royale [startrek.com] from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved.
Hmph. Obviously, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem derived by human/machine symbiotes in the late 20th century was... umm, one of humanity's treasures that was lost during the carnage of the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s!
The fact that the historical record lists the Eugenics Wars as being in the "1990s" was just an error in the historical record, arising from the Great UNIX Date Catastrophe of 2038. (Notice how the Star Trek universe never mentions the Great UNIX Date Catastrophe of 2038? It's because it happened, and all the dates got screwed up, and as a result there's no historical reference to it!)
Beam me up, Paramount, there are no scriptwriters here. ("Dammit, Jim, I'm a Slashdotter, not a scriptwriter!")
I must admit I haven't watched Enterprise. But the thing that always struck me about almost all star trek episodes (except the original series) is the way they always get out of trouble. Solution number 1: "Pass the tachyon beam through the deflector array" Solution number 2: "Reverse the polarity of the nuetron flow" And it is guaranteed to work.
(* You also have to keep in mind there really isn't a prime directive yet. They haven't messed up enough planets to have a set of rules to tell them not to. *)
Thats what Enterprise should be about: making all the stupid mistakes that the later ships have rules against.
I am still waiting for, "Oh yeah, Baby, take that bra off and I'll give your people warp drive!"
Table-ized A.I.
It should be obvious that transporters -- like all devices in the future -- will have DRM protections preventing duplication.
--Reed
Yeah, but maybe you don't want them opening all the time... who knows what might happen? Maybe the TNG Enterprise had advanced AI to determine if the crewmember was actually trying to walk into the room blocked by the door, or just walking down the hall. On a starship, you don't want doors that open willy-nilly, like every time I walk past CVS on my way to the bank.
God, what the hell am I saying?!? You know, I don't think geeks watch Star Trek. I think Star Trek makes geeks.
Thank you so much for providing the payoff for reading this thread. I wish I had some mod points to mod you up.