Dork
10-06-2003, 09:50 AM
Rai’jiin
Dork’s recall:
Cynical Enterprise Reviews for the Disillusioned Trekker in us all
Hey, guys. Sorry it took so long to get this one up, I had a big weekend. Well, that’s not really true. I had half of a big weekend, which, for me, can be a major detriment to getting things done.
I’d also like to apologize ahead of time for the inordinate amount of B5 references in this one.
I’d also like to apologize for the formatting. I typed this in Word and I’m posting it from my college and I have class in a 20 minutes so I don’t have time to go through I make sure everything looks okay, I’ll probably get to that tonight.
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This episode begins with yet another one of those merry-go-round council scenes. Archer’s getting too close to something and it seems the council’s still not too keen about it. I don’t know what he’s getting closer to but let’s call it ‘Captain Sheridan’s Fountain of Leading Man Mojo’ because if I don’t have something to focus on than my head’s going to implode after having to watch this episode and because, I think it’s pretty obvious that Mina’s not the only one who might be crazy enough to fight Delenn for him (http://www.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=68de7baf-6e58-439a-5250-417961696d2c&size=) (though I might need to be pretty drugged up to try such a thing).
The Xindi doctor doesn’t want to make a bio-weapon to destroy the human race. It’s not that he wouldn’t like to it’s just that, after you do such a thing, the autograph seekers never leave you alone. And then you get typecast in the medical community and all your old doctor friends don’t want to hang around with you anymore because they think you think you’re so much better than them. And then some other mad scientist goes genocidal on the Klingons and everyone just knows that the way the Klingons were eradicated from the known universe is just SO much cooler than the way the humans left. And than you have to go and try to eradicate ANOTHER species and what if you slip up? Then your wife will leave you, your kids will go on Oprah and talk about how the shame just *ruined* their lives and, you know what? It’s just a vicious cycle. And this Xindi doctor, let’s call him Carl, wants no part of it and do you blame him?
One of the Xindi ambassadors comes up with a plan that won’t leave Dr. Carl’s children going to the assassin’s guild so they can regain their honor, or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I don’t remember who comes up with this plan because my dad was trying to figure out how to work his new Walkie Talkie and mom couldn’t remember if it’s Vorizon or someone else who does the coast to coast Walkie Talkies.
CREDITS
Is it just me or is the remix of ‘Faith of the Heart’ more annoying than the original? One thing I noticed is that the dynamic duo of Braga and Berman were bragging all summer about how this season of Enterprise was going to be darker and more intense but the remix of ‘FotH’ has an airier feel. My mom suggested that this might be irony but this episode robbed an hour of my life so I’m going to call it inconsistency and keep on sending bad mental vibes B & B’s way.
In T’Pol’s Quarters:
Oh, look everybody; Trip and T’Pol are in one of their “therapy sessions”. Trip wants to practice a special technique where T’Pol tries to snap his head off at the jaw. T’Pol’s a bit apprehensive. She’ll only do it if Trip does a certain breathing technique she taught him which is actually just hyperventilating. She figures that if she does manage to kill him like she’s been planning for the past couple of weeks it’ll help to make it look more like an accident.
In the captain’s quarters it’s the 3rd night of the Sleeping Ritual and Pathos really wants to leave. He likes Archer as a friend and all but this is getting a bit freaky. Finally Pathos gets the door open and runs to his clan brothers for help. The clan releases fleas on Archer and he has to go to sickbay with a rash.
What’s this? Is this carry over from last episode? Could it be? Could it- CONGRUITY!!!
Oh. . . my. . . goddess. You know, before this I was always under the assumption that at the end of every trek episode the character’s mental/physical health reset buttons were pushed to avoid this sort of thing. I’m just, just, just *astonished*. . . I, I, I, I don’t know what to say. Hold on a minute, let me sit down.
Wow.
Surely, I mean. . . uh. . . I didn’t know these things happened in the Trek universe, did you? It’s just. . . unheard of! Oh, my, oh- I’m feeling a bit light headed. I should lie down.
Oh. . . Where were we? Let me consult my notes, after that shocker I’m glad I have them. Mmm, okay. . . Archer has a better chest than Sheridan, but then again Sheridan doesn’t hold himself like a monkey. Something, something Archer just knows he’s never getting the C.A.G. (cute alien girl). Mm, okay! Here we are;
Archer and co. visit the bazaar from ‘That Old Black Magic’ complete with Zhaan’s crazy boyfriend and edible pet birds.
“Okay, guys,” says Archer while pulling up the collar of his plastic rain jacket “look cool.”
The group then proceeds to try to ‘look cool’ and all fail miserably except Trip, who ignores Archer and continues to act just like his adorable country self.
Archer is looking for ‘The Chemist’ so he asks Zhaan’s boyfriend who mutters something about Archer pulling leads out of certain parts of his anatomy and then directs him to Epsilon 3, which is what they call dock 12 in these parts.
On Epsilon 3, which is what they call dock 12 in these parts (complete with changing the preposition):
Archer and co. enter a dark room.
“Hello!” booms ‘The Chemist’ “I told you before my name’s Draal!”
Archer and co. collectively edge toward the door.
“Where are you going?” demands Draal.
“Nn-“ Archer stutters, “Nn- No where. Why?” after a long silence he adds. “So. Seen any Xindi lately?”
“What business do you have with-?
“We’re on a diplomatic mission,” Archer says in a captainly voice and then strikes a pose.
A really long pose. . .
A really really. . .
. . .really really long pose
Draal wonders if maybe Archer has died on the spot so he reaches across the table to poke him in the eye but just before he does Archer snaps out of it and booms-
“A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO KICK THEIRS @$$ES!”
“Quit saying that,” Trip tells him.
“I went on a diplomatic mission once. Zathras accosted me outside the great machine and painted me purple and then he had his brothers drop me off on this dank hellhole of a planet. I’m going to kill Zathras when I get out of here, and Zathras is sorely mistaken if he thinks he’s getting off, and you don’t even want to know what I’m going to do to Zathras. . .”
“Sir,” Malcolm whispers, but when he turns around the captain isn’t there. In the distance he and Trip hear a door slam.
“That’s not good,” says Trip.
“. . . Zathras is going to wish he’d never been born and I’m-“
“Excuse me,” interrupts Trip,“do you have any Trellium D?”
“No, but I have a recipe for it that will almost certainly not work.”
The Captain’s voice is heard from outside “I AM THE ULTIMATE HEROINE! DAMN! I mean *hero*, why do I always confuse those?”
“We’ll take it” Trip and Malcolm say in unison.
Back on Enterprise.
“Look guys, I finally captured Captain Sheridan.”
“Uh, Sir,” says Malcolm “,that’s not Captain Sheridan. It’s a girl in a bikini.”
“Oh,” says Archer disappointedly, “well whatever. I gonna go get a drink.”
“I thought I told you to watch him,” Trip says to Malcolm once Archer leaves.
“I thought you were watching him.”
Trip rolls his eyes and introduces himself to the girl.
“Hi!” says the girl in a bikini. “I’m, like, Kelly! I’m from California! Have you, like, seen the O.C.?”
“Uh, you don’t say,” says Trip and then to Malcolm he says “I didn’t know he was trying to capture Captain Sheridan, did you?”
“Why do you think I care?”
“Just askin’”
Back on Epsilon 3 Trip and Malcolm give Draal what he wanted in return for his Trellium D recipe: Friends the complete first three seasons on DVD. But they leave before Draal can see Rachel and Ross break up.
On Enterprise:
T'Pol and Trip are trying to make the Trellium D recipe work but it blows up so they decide to take a quickie instead. “Come to my quarters,” says T’Pol. “I want to see if I can kil- I mean *help* you. Yeah, help, that’s the ticket, *help*."
Elsewhere on the ship:
Kelly is being a bad, bad- whatever the hell she is.
Kelly goes to T’Pol to ask her if she saw the last episode of the O.C.. But T’Pol doesn’t know what the O.C. is so Kelly puts her into a coma for spite. Just then, Trip shows up so Kelly decides to hit him over the head with pottery then run away once he knows who she is.
In Sickbay:
“T’Pol’s in a coma,” Phlox tells Archer and Trip
“I want to talk to her,” Archer says.
Phlox and Trip exchange a look that clearly says ‘Where’d you put the straight jacket?’
“But she’s. . . in a coma,” says Phlox.
Thankfully, Archer loses interest and goes to talk to Kelly.
In the Brig:
“You, like so couldn’t kill me,” Kelly says to Archer. “Even though I like, have all this super cool info ‘bout your biology that would like, so screw the federation,” then, almost as an afterthought she adds, “and stuff.”
“Could too.”
“Could not.”
“Could too.”
“Not uh.”
“Uh huh.”
“Not uh.”
“Uh huh.”
Just then, something jumps out of warp in front of Enterprise or something like that. Seems the Xindi want their ultra cool spy device back.
In Engineering:
Malcolm is having, so far, a fantastic day “Put on the dramatic music I want to shoot something!” he screams then proceeds to run around shooting things.
“Uh, Malcolm,” says Trip.
“What?!”
“The Xindi haven’t beamed aboard yet.”
Malcolm tooks down at the Starfleet Military guys moaning in agony at his feet, “Oh,” he says sheepishly “sorry, sorry. Got a little carried away there.”
Just then 30 Xindi beam on board Enterprise and take Kelly. . . who’s still arguing with Archer.
“Not uh.”
“Uh huh.”
“Not huh.”
So the Xindi whack Archer over the head and take Kelly to their ship.
In the Xindi council the Xindi want Kelly to give them the info she’s collected on the humans but she doesn’t want to because, and she hasn’t gotten around to working out the logic on this yet, she has a feeling that if the humans are, like totally wiped out and stuff than she’ll never find out happens next on the O.C.. But the Xindi threaten to take away her AOL privileges so she does ahead a gives them the data.
On Enterprise:
Trip finds Archer crying in his quarters. “What’s wrong, sir?”
“I lost my soul mate!” Archer cries “Kelly met me word for word. She’s the only one I’ve ever met who’s keen intellect met mine.”
“Yeah, it's a big loss,” says Trip apathetically, “and stuff.”
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Rating:
Dork gives the 3rd season Star Trek: Enterprise episode ‘Raijiin’ the rating of:
http://www.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=576629d8-7c63-27f1-2a8f-65072c325881&size=lg
Walter Koenig’s Rather Obvious Toupee
Now I know this makes a little less sense than usual but here’s some advice for the future: the more random the rating, the more likely it was influenced by spite. If, one of these days, the rating is a picture of an opened can of Spam the said episode should probably be shot into space along with whoever the hell wrote it and Brannon Braga (like I needed a reason to shoot him into space).
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Just a couple notes on the Episode.
Kelly
o No accent
o Doesn’t talk like an alien
o Isn’t at all weirded out by anything the crew does
o No alien tendencies or habits
o Where the hell does she get these cloths from. Honestly, the Xindi capture her and let her freshen up before bothering to get the info she has on human biology?
o Is she a concubine or a spy? If I didn’t know trek writing so well I might be tempted to think that this was intentional, that the Xindi had planted her in the hands of the dealer. And even if the writer had written it like this I’m still going to call it bad writing for depending too much on coincidence. If Kelly truly is as alluring as the writers claim she is (which she isn’t by the by) then how could the Xindi guarantee someone else wouldn’t snatch her up before Archer dropped by?
The Arch
o While this episode annoys the hell out of me it’s still a bit intriguing. The episode’s a combination of intrigue actually. As horrible as Raijiin is executed she’s still an interesting concept. Could she be an android? Her scanning capability is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, it seems that’s all Enterprise is: a wonderful idea, an intriguing concept, on top of that visually stunning but as a whole: poorly executed. There’s a lot of potential there. A lot of potential for Raijiin, the story, and the Xindi council. But Star Trek has disappointed me too many times. I’ve come to expect it. We will never see Raijiin again, ‘Raijiin’ is not is not going to be one of those episodes that leads the audience into a fantastic new story arch, and Xindi council and what they are trying to keep from Archer will be, when everything is finally revealed, foreseeable, utterly predictable.
o Before Enterprise started the producers said that they were going to mainstream Star Trek. Make it a little more appealing to the masses. Which was, I think, part of the reason they chose to take off ‘Star Trek’ from the title. And I was thinking: are B & B getting writers who have never written science fiction? If you were trying to mainstream science fiction using writers who don’t write science fiction would make a lot of sense, especially to people like B & B who, and I say this in all seriousness, are not fans of the genre.
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OutTakes-
This bit was originally in the review but I had to take it out because it didn’t fit:
Let me give all you T/T shippers out there a bit of advice: just because T’Pol’s flashing Trip ‘meaningful glances’ in the Engine room does not necessarily mean these two are hooking up. Remember that 2nd season VGR ep ‘Resolutions’? Janeway? Chakotay? Bathtub? Monkeys? Shoulder rub? Remember how after that episode everyone just KNEW it was just a matter of three or four real time weeks before they got together? Now, remember how they spent the next five seasons constantly two seconds away from jumping each other’s bones? Remember Kellin? [die, Kellin! Die! Die! Die!] Remember Micheal? [Die, Micheal! Die! Die! Die!] Remember that subplot in the series finale? Now, remember who’s responsible for all those bad things? That’s right, Brannon Braga.
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Much love people and once again, I’m sorry it took me so long to get the ‘Rai’jiin review out.
-Dork
Dork’s recall:
Cynical Enterprise Reviews for the Disillusioned Trekker in us all
Hey, guys. Sorry it took so long to get this one up, I had a big weekend. Well, that’s not really true. I had half of a big weekend, which, for me, can be a major detriment to getting things done.
I’d also like to apologize ahead of time for the inordinate amount of B5 references in this one.
I’d also like to apologize for the formatting. I typed this in Word and I’m posting it from my college and I have class in a 20 minutes so I don’t have time to go through I make sure everything looks okay, I’ll probably get to that tonight.
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This episode begins with yet another one of those merry-go-round council scenes. Archer’s getting too close to something and it seems the council’s still not too keen about it. I don’t know what he’s getting closer to but let’s call it ‘Captain Sheridan’s Fountain of Leading Man Mojo’ because if I don’t have something to focus on than my head’s going to implode after having to watch this episode and because, I think it’s pretty obvious that Mina’s not the only one who might be crazy enough to fight Delenn for him (http://www.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=68de7baf-6e58-439a-5250-417961696d2c&size=) (though I might need to be pretty drugged up to try such a thing).
The Xindi doctor doesn’t want to make a bio-weapon to destroy the human race. It’s not that he wouldn’t like to it’s just that, after you do such a thing, the autograph seekers never leave you alone. And then you get typecast in the medical community and all your old doctor friends don’t want to hang around with you anymore because they think you think you’re so much better than them. And then some other mad scientist goes genocidal on the Klingons and everyone just knows that the way the Klingons were eradicated from the known universe is just SO much cooler than the way the humans left. And than you have to go and try to eradicate ANOTHER species and what if you slip up? Then your wife will leave you, your kids will go on Oprah and talk about how the shame just *ruined* their lives and, you know what? It’s just a vicious cycle. And this Xindi doctor, let’s call him Carl, wants no part of it and do you blame him?
One of the Xindi ambassadors comes up with a plan that won’t leave Dr. Carl’s children going to the assassin’s guild so they can regain their honor, or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I don’t remember who comes up with this plan because my dad was trying to figure out how to work his new Walkie Talkie and mom couldn’t remember if it’s Vorizon or someone else who does the coast to coast Walkie Talkies.
CREDITS
Is it just me or is the remix of ‘Faith of the Heart’ more annoying than the original? One thing I noticed is that the dynamic duo of Braga and Berman were bragging all summer about how this season of Enterprise was going to be darker and more intense but the remix of ‘FotH’ has an airier feel. My mom suggested that this might be irony but this episode robbed an hour of my life so I’m going to call it inconsistency and keep on sending bad mental vibes B & B’s way.
In T’Pol’s Quarters:
Oh, look everybody; Trip and T’Pol are in one of their “therapy sessions”. Trip wants to practice a special technique where T’Pol tries to snap his head off at the jaw. T’Pol’s a bit apprehensive. She’ll only do it if Trip does a certain breathing technique she taught him which is actually just hyperventilating. She figures that if she does manage to kill him like she’s been planning for the past couple of weeks it’ll help to make it look more like an accident.
In the captain’s quarters it’s the 3rd night of the Sleeping Ritual and Pathos really wants to leave. He likes Archer as a friend and all but this is getting a bit freaky. Finally Pathos gets the door open and runs to his clan brothers for help. The clan releases fleas on Archer and he has to go to sickbay with a rash.
What’s this? Is this carry over from last episode? Could it be? Could it- CONGRUITY!!!
Oh. . . my. . . goddess. You know, before this I was always under the assumption that at the end of every trek episode the character’s mental/physical health reset buttons were pushed to avoid this sort of thing. I’m just, just, just *astonished*. . . I, I, I, I don’t know what to say. Hold on a minute, let me sit down.
Wow.
Surely, I mean. . . uh. . . I didn’t know these things happened in the Trek universe, did you? It’s just. . . unheard of! Oh, my, oh- I’m feeling a bit light headed. I should lie down.
Oh. . . Where were we? Let me consult my notes, after that shocker I’m glad I have them. Mmm, okay. . . Archer has a better chest than Sheridan, but then again Sheridan doesn’t hold himself like a monkey. Something, something Archer just knows he’s never getting the C.A.G. (cute alien girl). Mm, okay! Here we are;
Archer and co. visit the bazaar from ‘That Old Black Magic’ complete with Zhaan’s crazy boyfriend and edible pet birds.
“Okay, guys,” says Archer while pulling up the collar of his plastic rain jacket “look cool.”
The group then proceeds to try to ‘look cool’ and all fail miserably except Trip, who ignores Archer and continues to act just like his adorable country self.
Archer is looking for ‘The Chemist’ so he asks Zhaan’s boyfriend who mutters something about Archer pulling leads out of certain parts of his anatomy and then directs him to Epsilon 3, which is what they call dock 12 in these parts.
On Epsilon 3, which is what they call dock 12 in these parts (complete with changing the preposition):
Archer and co. enter a dark room.
“Hello!” booms ‘The Chemist’ “I told you before my name’s Draal!”
Archer and co. collectively edge toward the door.
“Where are you going?” demands Draal.
“Nn-“ Archer stutters, “Nn- No where. Why?” after a long silence he adds. “So. Seen any Xindi lately?”
“What business do you have with-?
“We’re on a diplomatic mission,” Archer says in a captainly voice and then strikes a pose.
A really long pose. . .
A really really. . .
. . .really really long pose
Draal wonders if maybe Archer has died on the spot so he reaches across the table to poke him in the eye but just before he does Archer snaps out of it and booms-
“A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO KICK THEIRS @$$ES!”
“Quit saying that,” Trip tells him.
“I went on a diplomatic mission once. Zathras accosted me outside the great machine and painted me purple and then he had his brothers drop me off on this dank hellhole of a planet. I’m going to kill Zathras when I get out of here, and Zathras is sorely mistaken if he thinks he’s getting off, and you don’t even want to know what I’m going to do to Zathras. . .”
“Sir,” Malcolm whispers, but when he turns around the captain isn’t there. In the distance he and Trip hear a door slam.
“That’s not good,” says Trip.
“. . . Zathras is going to wish he’d never been born and I’m-“
“Excuse me,” interrupts Trip,“do you have any Trellium D?”
“No, but I have a recipe for it that will almost certainly not work.”
The Captain’s voice is heard from outside “I AM THE ULTIMATE HEROINE! DAMN! I mean *hero*, why do I always confuse those?”
“We’ll take it” Trip and Malcolm say in unison.
Back on Enterprise.
“Look guys, I finally captured Captain Sheridan.”
“Uh, Sir,” says Malcolm “,that’s not Captain Sheridan. It’s a girl in a bikini.”
“Oh,” says Archer disappointedly, “well whatever. I gonna go get a drink.”
“I thought I told you to watch him,” Trip says to Malcolm once Archer leaves.
“I thought you were watching him.”
Trip rolls his eyes and introduces himself to the girl.
“Hi!” says the girl in a bikini. “I’m, like, Kelly! I’m from California! Have you, like, seen the O.C.?”
“Uh, you don’t say,” says Trip and then to Malcolm he says “I didn’t know he was trying to capture Captain Sheridan, did you?”
“Why do you think I care?”
“Just askin’”
Back on Epsilon 3 Trip and Malcolm give Draal what he wanted in return for his Trellium D recipe: Friends the complete first three seasons on DVD. But they leave before Draal can see Rachel and Ross break up.
On Enterprise:
T'Pol and Trip are trying to make the Trellium D recipe work but it blows up so they decide to take a quickie instead. “Come to my quarters,” says T’Pol. “I want to see if I can kil- I mean *help* you. Yeah, help, that’s the ticket, *help*."
Elsewhere on the ship:
Kelly is being a bad, bad- whatever the hell she is.
Kelly goes to T’Pol to ask her if she saw the last episode of the O.C.. But T’Pol doesn’t know what the O.C. is so Kelly puts her into a coma for spite. Just then, Trip shows up so Kelly decides to hit him over the head with pottery then run away once he knows who she is.
In Sickbay:
“T’Pol’s in a coma,” Phlox tells Archer and Trip
“I want to talk to her,” Archer says.
Phlox and Trip exchange a look that clearly says ‘Where’d you put the straight jacket?’
“But she’s. . . in a coma,” says Phlox.
Thankfully, Archer loses interest and goes to talk to Kelly.
In the Brig:
“You, like so couldn’t kill me,” Kelly says to Archer. “Even though I like, have all this super cool info ‘bout your biology that would like, so screw the federation,” then, almost as an afterthought she adds, “and stuff.”
“Could too.”
“Could not.”
“Could too.”
“Not uh.”
“Uh huh.”
“Not uh.”
“Uh huh.”
Just then, something jumps out of warp in front of Enterprise or something like that. Seems the Xindi want their ultra cool spy device back.
In Engineering:
Malcolm is having, so far, a fantastic day “Put on the dramatic music I want to shoot something!” he screams then proceeds to run around shooting things.
“Uh, Malcolm,” says Trip.
“What?!”
“The Xindi haven’t beamed aboard yet.”
Malcolm tooks down at the Starfleet Military guys moaning in agony at his feet, “Oh,” he says sheepishly “sorry, sorry. Got a little carried away there.”
Just then 30 Xindi beam on board Enterprise and take Kelly. . . who’s still arguing with Archer.
“Not uh.”
“Uh huh.”
“Not huh.”
So the Xindi whack Archer over the head and take Kelly to their ship.
In the Xindi council the Xindi want Kelly to give them the info she’s collected on the humans but she doesn’t want to because, and she hasn’t gotten around to working out the logic on this yet, she has a feeling that if the humans are, like totally wiped out and stuff than she’ll never find out happens next on the O.C.. But the Xindi threaten to take away her AOL privileges so she does ahead a gives them the data.
On Enterprise:
Trip finds Archer crying in his quarters. “What’s wrong, sir?”
“I lost my soul mate!” Archer cries “Kelly met me word for word. She’s the only one I’ve ever met who’s keen intellect met mine.”
“Yeah, it's a big loss,” says Trip apathetically, “and stuff.”
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Rating:
Dork gives the 3rd season Star Trek: Enterprise episode ‘Raijiin’ the rating of:
http://www.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=576629d8-7c63-27f1-2a8f-65072c325881&size=lg
Walter Koenig’s Rather Obvious Toupee
Now I know this makes a little less sense than usual but here’s some advice for the future: the more random the rating, the more likely it was influenced by spite. If, one of these days, the rating is a picture of an opened can of Spam the said episode should probably be shot into space along with whoever the hell wrote it and Brannon Braga (like I needed a reason to shoot him into space).
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Just a couple notes on the Episode.
Kelly
o No accent
o Doesn’t talk like an alien
o Isn’t at all weirded out by anything the crew does
o No alien tendencies or habits
o Where the hell does she get these cloths from. Honestly, the Xindi capture her and let her freshen up before bothering to get the info she has on human biology?
o Is she a concubine or a spy? If I didn’t know trek writing so well I might be tempted to think that this was intentional, that the Xindi had planted her in the hands of the dealer. And even if the writer had written it like this I’m still going to call it bad writing for depending too much on coincidence. If Kelly truly is as alluring as the writers claim she is (which she isn’t by the by) then how could the Xindi guarantee someone else wouldn’t snatch her up before Archer dropped by?
The Arch
o While this episode annoys the hell out of me it’s still a bit intriguing. The episode’s a combination of intrigue actually. As horrible as Raijiin is executed she’s still an interesting concept. Could she be an android? Her scanning capability is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, it seems that’s all Enterprise is: a wonderful idea, an intriguing concept, on top of that visually stunning but as a whole: poorly executed. There’s a lot of potential there. A lot of potential for Raijiin, the story, and the Xindi council. But Star Trek has disappointed me too many times. I’ve come to expect it. We will never see Raijiin again, ‘Raijiin’ is not is not going to be one of those episodes that leads the audience into a fantastic new story arch, and Xindi council and what they are trying to keep from Archer will be, when everything is finally revealed, foreseeable, utterly predictable.
o Before Enterprise started the producers said that they were going to mainstream Star Trek. Make it a little more appealing to the masses. Which was, I think, part of the reason they chose to take off ‘Star Trek’ from the title. And I was thinking: are B & B getting writers who have never written science fiction? If you were trying to mainstream science fiction using writers who don’t write science fiction would make a lot of sense, especially to people like B & B who, and I say this in all seriousness, are not fans of the genre.
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OutTakes-
This bit was originally in the review but I had to take it out because it didn’t fit:
Let me give all you T/T shippers out there a bit of advice: just because T’Pol’s flashing Trip ‘meaningful glances’ in the Engine room does not necessarily mean these two are hooking up. Remember that 2nd season VGR ep ‘Resolutions’? Janeway? Chakotay? Bathtub? Monkeys? Shoulder rub? Remember how after that episode everyone just KNEW it was just a matter of three or four real time weeks before they got together? Now, remember how they spent the next five seasons constantly two seconds away from jumping each other’s bones? Remember Kellin? [die, Kellin! Die! Die! Die!] Remember Micheal? [Die, Micheal! Die! Die! Die!] Remember that subplot in the series finale? Now, remember who’s responsible for all those bad things? That’s right, Brannon Braga.
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Much love people and once again, I’m sorry it took me so long to get the ‘Rai’jiin review out.
-Dork