Jellyn’s Collection of Curiosities

So my Tivo says this is episode 3. It’s at least an episode of Enterprise. So we’re part of the way towards it being what it claims it is.

At least I get to watch the intro.

People were dissing that intro. I can take or leave the music, but the story the visuals tell is a good one, and fitting.

Course it would’ve been awesome if Bakula was singing the theme..

I.. don’t understand how being on the starboard side of the ship versus the port side would make the stars go in a different direction…

I didn’t actually notice the colors on their uniforms in the last episode. It’s good the captain has Kirk’s yellow/gold and not Picard’s red.

Wow.. what morons… ‘Oh, hai, we’re the Enterprise and we come in peace. We come from Earth. Here, have a map of how to get there and blow it up.’

Well, I see they really took care on the closed captioning on this.

Voice: The ship is yours.
CC: You’re in charge till I get back.

Often there is this disconnect between the script and what’s actually shot. And in this case he wasn’t facing the camera, so it could’ve been a last minute redub of the line. But since this is a rerun, after a DVD was made of it and everything, I would’ve expected the captioning to have been cleaned up.

“Sharktopus” Seriously, Syfy? Srsly?

Well, that ep seemed to be all about Hoshi finding her confidence. Or something. Using the metaphor of herself as a slug. I won’t even begin to try to feminist deconstruct that.

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Episode 4.

I do like the ballcaps. Very astronaut-y. I should see about getting myself one.

Hrm.. Minshara-class planets. M class.. Minshara could be a Vulcan name or term. Which I kind of wanted them to be doing! But it’s hard to say.

I’m probably just imagining that that pond looks like the one in Little House on the Prairie. Maybe.

Lots of Vulcan in this episode. I wish it was as well fleshed out as Klingon.

And both redshirts live! Hurrah!

I don’t really intend to do full posts for each episode. I have 30+ episodes sitting on the tivo that I need to breeze through and a marathon coming up on Tuesday. (Not that there isn’t a 30 episode gap in the middle, but.. lesigh.) Anywho…

Episodes 1-2: Broken Bow — Downloaded off the interwebs because SyFy didn’t show it.

I did watch this one when it originally aired, because of course I had high hopes for a STAR TREK with freaking SAM BECKETT on it. Not only that, but it’s sort of like.. the future, and the past, all at once. So an interesting premise, no?

Watching it now, I realize what I’ve seen him in most recently is Men of a Certain Age. And then I spot the Vulcan and it’s Excrement-Cranium from Alien Nation. Who was also on another Star Trek as… someone. Possibly the same Vulcan. Or a Romulan?

But see if now we’re saying the Vulcans know all about the Klingons and tell Earth all about them, then why is it called Kronos? The Vulcans can’t be bothered to pronounce it correctly? I can give a pass on the word Klingon because the tlh is kind of tricky to say. But the Q is not nearly so difficult. It’s like the Vulcans made the executive decision of changing the pronunciation into English. Which is just weird.

Moving on…

I’d read that when talking to someone in zero-G who’s upside down to your orientation is disconcerting and makes it difficult to understand them. For a moment there when they were talking upside down, I started to see it. Eyes should not talk!

Also, they really needed to think twice before naming these people. Travis, Trip who’s also Tucker, T’Pol. And we’ve got ArchER, MayweathER, TuckER. And then there’s 2 people whose names I haven’t even caught yet. And Hoshi whose name I believe is Hoshiko Sato. So apart from confusing her with Tosh from Torchwood, at least she’s one I can keep track of.

Also, three white guys with short brown hair is not very nice. I’m only saved from being confused there because one of them is Scott Bakula.

Phlox. 26 minutes in (not counting the intro that was stripped) and I swear that’s the first time we’ve heard that name. I wonder if this download is recorded from an edited version. Or if they were really that remiss in telling us who people were.

Oh come on… you shouldn’t need the Vulcan to tell you that Rigel is a star system. How the heck did Hoshi sort of non-translate that into ‘a pronoun noun that sounds like Rigel’ without Rigel being the Earth name for it?

That’s the problem with making all these humans ignorant of the races and systems out there and the Vulcans the holders of all wisdom. I know you need to use the names that were used in TOS.. or do you? Why can’t you call Rigel something else and then somewhere along the way the humans decided.. naw, it’s been Rigel here for centuries.. let’s stick to Rigel.

Or.. call it Qo’noS for a little while, until your contempt for Klingons takes over and you start calling it whatever the heck you want. Kronos, Chronos, PoopooWorld. Whatever.

Ah. And now we get to the one scene I remembered from all of Enterprise that I watched. Let’s get oiled up and half-naked in decontamination.

Archer in his underwear in sickbay made some sense, especially with an injured thigh. Archer in his underwear in his quarters.. ah, UPN, whatever do we do now without you?

That blood looked a little too red to be Klingon.

All in all, rather boring in bits, but not bad. That decon scene was still gratuitous though.

Summary: Kim acquires a harem. Or rather, a harem acquires Kim.

Kim has deja vu. You should know by now that deja vu is never deja vu!

Naughty naughty, Kim. I’m guessing you’re not Janeway’s favorite son today.

Ah, a cut. Kim’s marker to let us know what time version of him we’re watching at any given time.

Oh, spots. Well, that’s unexpected.

Kim is Clark Kent.

At least he said marriage is usually one woman with one man.

That scene cut was… odd.

If they’re 90% women, then how does the math work out to be 3 wives?

Yay for chick realizing it was a trick. And yay for Kim for not hesitating to club her on the head with a goblet.

You have to suspect that a race that will put their own babies in other race’s bodies are not going to be so hot on other fronts too. Even though that’s not what they actually do, that’s just what they claim to do.

I didn’t fully understand the biological technobabble, but I fail to see why it was necessary he be male.

Ha ha! Tuvok just said ‘Aye, sir’ to Janeway. Go, Tuvok! Under stress, he reverts to Starfleet protocol.

Well, that was a kind of interesting episode. And oddly had no B plot. Was there a B plot that got cut? Hrrrm.

And didn’t turn out to be a time travel related plot in any way. Misdirect! With the deja vu and the flashback to Kim as a kid, it definitely looked like it was leading that way.