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ST: Enterprise 4.12: "Babel One"

A quick word to encourage those who do not watch ST: Enterprise to start watching!

This season, although its fourth, has really taken off. Intrigue, action, and most of all, staying within the ST universe/timeline. Whatever silliness/detractions the writers concoted in the past 3 seasons was wrapped up quickly and tightly in the beginning episodes. The blue Andorians show up, again. We got Arik Soong/Brent Spiner earlier this season and got a glimpse of how the invention gene runs in the family. Also learned about the Eugenics War. Learned more about the Vulcans and their belief system. And then, last night's episode left me with a chill down my back, and I'm about to tell why...

Romulans. Ooohhh. They always frighten me a bit, much more than the Klingons because you know they're brutes, but no one really knows what the Romulans are up to. Yet. The ST history has it that 80 years before Kirk's time, the Federation fought a war with the Romulans. However, no one had ever seen the Romulans - didn't know what they looked like, where they came from, etc. Not even the Vulcans. Not until Kirk's time, that is. But Archer and his crew have just encountered a Romulan prototype ship while trying to broker a peace deal between the Andorians and the Tellarites, and the cliff hanger was oh-so-ominous and evil and exciting all at the same time. How did they manage to see a Romulan ship without seeing the Romulans? Another spoiler: The Romulan ship was entirely remote controlled, likely from Romulus or Remus, with some Romulan completely jacked into a virtual reality system and operating the ship. Throughout the episode you were led to believe the Romulans were on the bridge of that ship, since the surroundings look exactly the same, but oh no. It was one of those "holy crap!" type twists that just makes it so good.

Although Enterprise will never replace TNG, last night's episode really got up there. Probably my favorite Enterprise episode so far.  It also reminded me of Babylon 5, which is just one of the best written sci-fi series out there. /end geek moment

10 out of 10! 

Posted by: merserene at 11:41 | link | comments (1)
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#1  29 January 2005 - 14:54

 

The Cardassians always scared me the most. Or, in particular, the one that tortured Picard.

Wait, that's wrong. The Borg were the scariest.

Maybe one day I'll remember to watch ST: E. :)

athenawj

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