Anyone else notice that?
Um, for that matter, does anyone else even watch Enterprise?
And my dad likes it.
At least Jolene Blalock is still hot. Although next episode, some aliens will probably hold her ravishing good looks hostage. BASTARDS!
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Almost every episode, literally, involves Archer and one other senior officer being brought down to a planet under false pretenses, then captured and held hostage.Anyone else notice that?
Um, for that matter, does anyone else even watch Enterprise?
I think thats the same storyline for EVERY Star Trek episode. I mean.. its either that or they land on some uninhabited planet which strangely turns out to have dwellers of a less-technological advancement in them who think the crewmen are Gods out of some prophecy or another.
Then again, I'm such a total trekkie that I love the shows anyway, even through the corny plots. 
Look at Stargate: SG-1. (Airs on Showtime, 10pm, fridays) the inital plots were about them getting trapped on a planet, and losing their IDC (The little thing that makes earth open the iris on the gate, so they dont get mooshed) and having to get it back. EVENTUALLY, they started getting into more complex and fun plots..
My two favourite are the ones with the armbands that gave them superhuman speed, reflexes and strength, and the one where MacGuyver and Teal'C live the same day over and over and over again.
Now they're getting into really good plots like taking down the evil alien bastards, and doing this, and stuff relates to 20 episodes prior, etc. Very interesting.
I saw inital plotlines for Enterprise (Temporal Cold war, etc) early on, but they seem to have abandoned them for the time being in favour of "OMG THEY R ON A NEW PLANET THAT WE KNO FROM OLD STARTREK!?!?!?!" plotlines.
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and the one where MacGuyver and Teal'C live the same day over and over and over again.
One of my all-time favorite SG-1 episodes of all time. SG-1 was/is one of those shows that proves that the series can be better than the initial movie.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael's fortune cookie read:
One of my all-time favorite SG-1 episodes of all time. SG-1 was/is one of those shows that proves that the series can be better than the initial movie.
Oh god yes. If they ever come out with the series on DVD, I'll make it a point to pick it up, if not that episode first. 
Too bad its only (new episodes) on Showtime. UPN airs it at some point during the week, but they're at least a season behind.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael thought about the meaning of life:
Season 1 is out. Think Season 2 is coming out soon.
I'd need a job that pays all my bills first, Heh.
Slum-coast would prolly have 'em if they're out.
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Chiana is a hottie!
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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This one time, at Bloodsage camp:
Farscape < Enterprise < a sharp stick in the eye < Stargate: SG1Chiana is a hottie!
Thats better
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From the book of Delphi Aegis, chapter 3, verse 16:
I'm waiting for it to come into its second season. The real plotlines start then.
I hope anyway.
Not necessarily. That may have been the case for ST:TNG and ST 
S9, but then came Voyager. Bleh. That was a show that consistently was a nausiatingly awful plotline with completely unlikeable characters (except the Doctor, who I liked though he was in a number of poorly-written plots now and then). Enterprise, hell, I watch that show and I STILL don't remember any of the cast names, obviously they aren't making the right impression on me 
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...Voyager. Bleh. That was a show that consistently was a nausiatingly awful...
Well now, I thought Voyager was actually good in its first two seasons. But after that, it just got... stupid.
I don't know why or how exactly. I suppose they laid off their writers because it would be cheaper to hire some monkeys with typewriters; they'll work all day for a couple of bananas, ya know.
Farscape is ungodly good, mostly for the pure sexual tension between Chriton and Aeryn.
SG-1 is top notch for the wonderful casting of Richard Dean Anderson as Colnel O'Neil. Just.. fits. Plus there's good sexual tension between him and Carter, so its all good.
Enterprise, like I said, I'm waiting to come into its own. The forbidden sexual tension between Archer and T'pol is good watchin's, tho.
And then there's West Wing. Takes a while to learn everyone's name.. but they all work very well together as a cast. They make it really look as if they worked in the white house for the past four years, and are gearing up for a re-election.
Sexual tension? Oh, there's some (Donna and Josh are just so right for each other, durnit!) and then there's CJ and her secret service bodyguard...
TNG, of course, was godlike. But even then it started off by continuing or re-doing old plot lines from the original series, before it really got into its own.
Voyager just plain pissed me off. First off...I liked the woman they originally had slated to play Janeway more than the woman who ended up playing her (who had all the charm of a moth-eaten muppet). Then I hated the overplaying of Chakotay's Native American heritage time and again. Then I hated what they ended up doing with Neelix's girlfriend. Then I hated the Paris/B'ellana thing. Then I *REALLY* hated 7 of 9 and the whole Borg thing. Dear god the Borg got overused in the Voyager series. Then there were times where they got stuck in a holodeck or the like (gee didn't we see that in TNG? Cripes). Series was just shitty most of the time. I stopped watching early, but I'd go back now and then to give it a shot, and it stayed crappy.
SG-1, on the other hand, built up on a lot of the base ideas of the movie. "Okay we have these aliens that came to Earth thousands of years ago and claimed to be gods to the primitive humans..." That alone had a GREAT number of possibilities. But the gate itself was cool. As was the sort of science stories you could toss at the gang through the science fiction of the 'gates (one of my favorites was where they accidentally dialed up a planet that was being consumed by a black hole and the gravitational effects started coming through the gate). And the casting was great. O'neil, Carter, Teal'c, the General, all the characters, in fact, have been well-thought out. And the actors are great. Richard Dean Anderson just plan kicks ass as O'neil, and puts more soul into the character than I think Kurt Russel did in the movie.
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The one where Jack and Teal'c repeat the same day over is a good one too. Its great when they realize they can do anything they want, with no consequences.
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Tonight's episode of Enterprise was the worst yet I think.
They just didn't have a plot. They didn't have a bad plot, it was just kind of nonexistent.
Crewmember A + B go to planet and get seduced by shapechanged aliens and shot (Trip and Malcolm)
Crewmember C goes to planet, gets seduced by physically altered alien and gets shot (Archer)
Crewmember D goes to planet, learns new lange, gets laid (Hoshi)
Crewmember E goes to planet, gets seduced by mountain, and hurt (Travis)
I mean... c'mon. They weren't even tied together!
The first Episode was worth my time... but the rest of them... **shrugs** eh... I'd rather watch 'Six Feet Under' reruns on HBO.
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Although I have not been able to see it for about three or four months 
Even the ship names kick so much ass ^_^
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Someone said all of the episodes now have to do with going down to a planet and being held hostage. When I stopped watching it, every planet they went to had a HUGE hidden/underground alien base that wasn't supposed to be there and that the locals knew nothing about.
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Oh and as a side note...Someone said all of the episodes now have to do with going down to a planet and being held hostage. When I stopped watching it, every planet they went to had a HUGE hidden/underground alien base that wasn't supposed to be there and that the locals knew nothing about.
Someone said that? I hadn't noticed.
Damn it!
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
...and the one where MacGuyver and Teal'C live the same day over and over and over again...
I love that one too! liked it when he quits and kisses whats-her-face.
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Nobody really understood why Hireko FishSlayer wrote:
West Wing > Jeremiah > Farscape > Enterprise > a kick in the teeth > income tax > AndromedaTonight's episode of Enterprise was the worst yet I think.
They just didn't have a plot. They didn't have a bad plot, it was just kind of nonexistent.
Crewmember A + B go to planet and get seduced by shapechanged aliens and shot (Trip and Malcolm)
Crewmember C goes to planet, gets seduced by physically altered alien and gets shot (Archer)
Crewmember D goes to planet, learns new lange, gets laid (Hoshi)
Crewmember E goes to planet, gets seduced by mountain, and hurt (Travis)
I mean... c'mon. They weren't even tied together!
i thought last night's episode rocked.
i didn't catch too much of what happened with Travis but what happened to Malcom and Trip was hilarious. they deserved everything that happened to then.
i also think that it's a crackup that the only person who had a good vacation was the Com Officer, useually she's the most dull character.
of course, the whole "Col. Grat" plot was advanced a little too with the chick who was trying to get the answers out of Archer.
and what the hell do you expect when the crew goes to a pleasure planet for shore leave? a bloodbath?
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Woody spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Exactly Sentow. You said it.
You ARE 'someone' aren't you?Actually, the scrolling 'past comments' box errored out on me so I couldn't see who wrote it.
I prefer the term, "Some dude," thankyouverymuch 
DAI!
I liked the first 4 episodes then it just lost that loving feeling...
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Enterprise also wins "worst TV theme song--ever."
I thought the song was pretty decent, considering. The old footage from launches and stuff adds a bit of "Hey, this could really happen someday" feel to it.
Anyway.. SG-1 also brings to light a lot of recent theories on wormholes. Why, I remember one where they dialed a planet, and had to bypass some saftey protocols to get a lock. Turns out the probe they sent through put a superheavy unstable element into the core of their sun, and caused it go all funkylike. The only thing they could do would be to put a stable transuranic element into the sun to stabilize the whole thing.. Tried to do it via a rocket built on the planet itself, but that got blowed up because of the religious zealots on the surface.. So they interrupt the wormhole mid-transit, hopefully forcing the element into the sun itself.. And hey! It worked.
Like oltheros said, the storyline was encompassing, the ships were sweet, and the plotline was never really straining. The entirely new universe gave it, and farscape, complete freedom in the design and workings of all the aliens and such. In Star Trek, making new aliens, or involving older ones, requires alot of dravb busywork that make the encounter less of what it could have been with a clean slate.
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Elvish Crack Piper obviously shouldn't have said:
Babylon 5>All to the nth degree
Yes, yes, and yes.
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ACES! Another post by Suchii:
Hey! I like Andromeda!...
Although I have not been able to see it for about three or four months
Even the ship names kick so much ass ^_^
It's a decent show, as long as you don't take it to the godly sci-fi religous experience most folks do with sci-fi shows.
However, if it's really been that long since you watched, you're going to be completely out of the loop. Looooots of changes have happened.
Farscape and B5 are about on the same level for me. I can't pick either as my favorite, tho B5 *does* have a greater number of favorite memories for me, mainly because it's all 'out there' and I've seen them all.
Best scene ever, tho: Delenn showing up in the Minbari cruiser to face-down Clark's second battle wave. "The only Human to ever destroy a Minbari cruiser is behind me. *You* are in front of me. If you want to live, be somewhere else."
Andromeda was a great show up till then.
PS I wasn't expecting a bloodbath, but for something to happen would have been convenient. They can have vacations on their own time, not mine.
