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Friday, October 29, 2004
Trek? Is that you?
Holy crap, I just enjoyed an episode of Enterprise! That's never happened before! I've found the show bearable and sometimes somewhat interesting with signs of potential ... but I've never had a good time or actually laughed during it.
So maybe there's hope for this season.
It looks like they pulled out the ol' textbook for Sci-fi 101 and got back to basics. Some of the good stuff in this one:
GOODIES FOR GEEKS
Sticking in the green, Orion Slave Girl as a nod to the orignal series makes people feel warm and fuzzy inside. Same goes for references to the Eugenics Wars and having Spiner as the guest star.
GREED
The big problem with last year's storyline was that the Xindi didn't want anything ... they were simply acting out of fear that they'd be destroyed. Lacking any true passion, it made them a little dull and pathetic ... like Bajorans with an extra layer of make-up. In this episode, people wanted things: Augment Dude wanted his brother's honey, the Orion's wanted slaves, Soong wanted to improve the species, Tucker wanted T'Pol, T'Pol wanted the big green guy to stop shaking her ... people are interesting when they want something, and in this episode there was a nice range of passion, from Tucker's slow burn to the Augments' hot desire. People are dull when they not want something, such as Xindi not wanting to be destroyed or Brannon Braga not wanting to learn how to make a show dramatic instead of lame.
GET POMPOUS
In sci-fi, the best baddies are the over-the-top, pompous wackos. Take Babylon 5 as an example: the first season of that show featured a parade of snooty villains with overdone British accents. See for yourself, say these word aloud in your best British accent:
Commander Sinclair, I have come to destroy your mind! With my brain!
See? It's fun!
Watching tonight's episode, I laughed every time the Augments had a scene. They were puffed up, they had ridiculous accents and they overacted in every scene ... remember the line when the guy says, "I pulled you from the river ..." Funny stuff! I would have been sorry seeing that character die if I hadn't been enjoying it so much (he gives his brother a priceless , google-eyed stare right at the end). It's really saying something when the bit actors playing the second-string characters upstage Spiner as a Soong character.
FUN STUFF
Finally they relaxed enough to get a little silly and have some fun. I mean, bloody hell, it's Star Trek ... why were the first three seasons so damn serious? And all it took were a few little things, such as the pathetic loser ensign crying in the cage (if he'd been wearing a red shirt and had been killed, I would have cracked open the champagne right there!), the details of having the Augments being able to take phaser fire and being able to open Soong's door bare-handed and the scene where the Augment grabs Archer by the throat and says that he'll "Rip it out!" ... in a groovy, bad accent (funny reference to Sting's big scene in Dune).
If this is the clean slate, if this is what the show is going to be like this season ... well, golly gee, there may be some life in the ol' mofo yet!
8:54 PM
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