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Nasty Pasty

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« #175 : 04-23-2005 20:44 »
« : 04-23-2005 20:44 »
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*buuuump* Last few episodes. Bummer. This week, I watched one of the best eps. of the series: "In a Mirror, Darkly". The episode takes place entirely in the classic alternate "Mirror Universe". The episode basically takes a look at the events happening in the prequel mirror universe, and it did not disapoint. The episode started off suprisingly with some archive footage from StarTrek: First Contact, when Zefram Cochran walks to greet the landing Vulcan ship. But as he goes to try and do the "live long and prosper" sign, he reaches into his coat and pulls out a gun and shoots the vulcans, causing everyone to run aboard the vacant ship.
You have to see this to believe it.
Next, the intro movie dropped the crappy Dawson's Creek-esqe theme in place of a Nazi-Parade song, and the video showed alternate events such as Neil Armstrong planting a Terran Empire Flag on the moon, and the ISS Enterprise attacking different ships.
After the intro, the episode basically portrays a completely different, evil crew using torture on crewmen and the Captain having sex with about every woman on board. The episode is complete with Tholians, and mutinies, and yes the USS Defiant, the lost Constitution Class ship from the Original Series.
I won't go into too much detail, but I SERIOUSLY urge everyone to watch this episode, as well as the 2nd part next Friday. A++[/b
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Grim

Professor

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« #176 : 04-24-2005 06:26 »
« : 04-24-2005 06:26 »
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Generally I've been waiting for channel 9 here in Australia to play Enterprise, I watch it coz its star trek, I never feel that much of an urge to aquire episodes early. However I have done when episodes are advertised to have call backs to previous material. For example, I downloaded the Ferengi Episode when it aired in the US, as well as that lame Borg episode, even that one with the romulans and that other with the tholians.
Being a fan of the Mirror DS9 episodes, but not so much a fan of the Mirror Mirror Ep of TOS, I thought I'd snatch a copy of this.
Although its a shame that its inconsequential to the story line of the Trek universe crew, it was still most enjoyable, plus it had a 3d tholian and a tholian web!
Most enjoyable, cant wait for next week's!
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Ranadok

Starship Captain
   
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« #188 : 05-14-2005 00:13 »
« : 05-14-2005 00:13 »
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Well... That totally sucked. The final episodes of Enterprise aired tonight, marking the end (for the foreseeable future, at least) of a franchise that has been on the air since 1987.
Terra Prime wasn't bad. In fact, it was pretty good. It definitely picked up from last week's episode, and had emotion and an interesting plot and so on and so forth. It had a few holes (like the Whatever The Plot Requires Gun that the terrorists had control of). Not end-of-an-era material, but a decent episode. But that's not important. The important part is what came on after it...
These are the Voyages. Imagine if The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings had been presented as the Simpson family watching the episode on TV with it cutting off right before the opera. That would be about as bad. If it had been a normal episode, it may have been interesting, in the same way that the alternate universe ones were a few episodes back (though those were definitely better no matter how this one is looked at), but as a series finale it was a complete disaster. Having Riker in the background of every other scene (and in the foreground for the rest) really killed all hope any of the scenes had at any sort of tension. How are you supposed to find any interest in a firefight when you know that the whole thing isn't real and can be paused, rewound, or skipped with no consequences? Then, a main character was killed for no reason (it seemed as if Trip just stopped thinking as soon as he saw the baddies, and figured "I know, I'll blow all of us up" without considering any other alternatives). It was a real disappointment after the complete turnaround in quality that this last season has been. So long, Star Trek. Come back when you get a haircut and clean up a bit.
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