Enterprise Season 3, Episode 2: Anomaly

Woden

Well just to get the ball rolling

I thought it was an ok episode. I think it ended very strongly. Particularly like the ship scrapping off the sphere it looked good. Also Archer showed a pair of balls in that he was willing to go ahead with the torture but at the same time some humanity in that he returned the crewman.

Also liked the shuttle flip to dock thingy that was done. The episode boarding scene i thought was also very good and again nice use of the maco's. i did think it lacked something in the middle though and it sometimes it annoys me when it seems that Archer is always pissed off about something, he needs a bit of calm sometimes.

bizmark

ohhh good stuff again

about time Archer grew some balls more so when its the faith of mankind on his shoulders

the action fited in this week and that was a nice battle at the end i liked when the enemy ship lost its engines and rubbed off the sphear. I wonder why some race would build 19 km sphear in the first place ? and then hide it with a cloaking feild which can be easly bypassed surely it would of been better just to give it a load of weapions and a auto defence programe.

Yet again the army guys showed some tatics which is a nice changed form years of dead red shirts

ah its improveing alright fairplay

asmith

yep, have to say it's been a good start to the season alright. Lots more action and a good underlying storyline. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out.

How may episodes are in the this series anyway?

Gummy Panda

Did that sphere remind anyone of the dyson sphere from next gen? It was the episode with scotty in it.

Nice action in this episode. Especially liked archer using spacing as a torture. About time he showed some balls. He's not suppose to be such a evolved human as picard or janeway.

MACO's are doing well again. Good to see a real combat unit rather then the usual run out and spray phaser fire. The stun grenade was sweet even though they missed their target.

This xindi plot is working out very nicely so far.

Woden

well there is a talk of the season being short but ignoring the rumours a season is typically 26 episodes long.

bizmark

Did that sphere remind anyone of the dyson sphere from next gen? It was the episode with scotty in it.

reminded me more of the death star......the dyson sphere was a huge sphere like the size of the earths orbit around the sun

dazberry

Originally posted by bizmark
reminded me more of the death star......

Don't let Dataisgod see you making that reference - it's not allowed But yes, at first The Dyson sphere popped into my mind, but when I realised it was smaller it reminded me more of that other thing.

I'm really getting to dig the MACO dudes (and dudette). After the DS9 Dominion wars, it had me thinking along the same sort of lines - that it would have been great to see some special ops in operations and fire fights, so its great to see them here. Hopefully they'll get a kick ass episode or two.

D.

Zaph

Didn't realise that Enterprise had started back until I heard the mention of "all new" during the Simpsons break. Glad I've only missed one episode but I need to catch up, specifically 1) who are the commandos and what's the story with them; and 2) what's the significance of the database Archer was looking at at the end?

Woden

archer asked for the commando's when he knew he was going into the expanse he thought they would be a good thing to have onboard.

with regards to the database, they don't know much about the xindi, where they are currently living etc. so presumable the database will be used for stuff along those lines and to give general information

Raskolnikov

Wasn't it awfully handy that Enterprise 'found' a derelict ship which luckily had a database they could download with the information on how to track the pirates?

I can't say I like the sexing up of the Vulcan woman either. If I want to watch scantily clad ladies I'll download some porno or something.

Having said that though, it's still a slight improvement over the last series. It'll never, ever, ever be as good as Stargate though.

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by dazberry
Don't let Dataisgod see you making that reference - it's not allowed But yes, at first The Dyson sphere popped into my mind, but when I realised it was smaller it reminded me more of that other thing.

I'm really getting to dig the MACO dudes (and dudette). After the DS9 Dominion wars, it had me thinking along the same sort of lines - that it would have been great to see some special ops in operations and fire fights, so its great to see them here. Hopefully they'll get a kick ass episode or two.

D.

I thought that it was some sort of structure that might have been built around a static blackhole to absorb it's energy from the gravitational pull? Also, it was said that the thing was emitting gravimetric wotsits, prehaps that was the cause of the disruptions? They should have blown the crap out of it if you ask me, Kirk would have

bizmark

Wasn't it awfully handy that Enterprise 'found' a derelict ship which luckily had a database they could download with the information on how to track the pirates?

They where attacked by the pirates and worked out a way to find them but their power / life support failed that was explaned in the ep

Woden

i don't know about it absorbing an energy from the black hole, if that was the case it wouldn't have had X amount of fusion reactors in it?

bizmark

ya seeming a black hole would quite nicely power you for er..ever what would be the point of haveing 7 12km long fusion reactors

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Stark

I still think it was pretty boring. Watched it side by side again against a season 2 episode on E4 and didn't notice a difference in episode quality. Okay so Archer grew balls, it was still a wooden effort from him. It probably won't last either, it'll be like Voyager when Captain Janeway would get all nasty one episode, and is back to her tea&coffee serving self next week. At least Voyager had the Borg to save it, Enterprise doesn't even have that. Having them once was pushing their luck, even if that was the one good episode of the whole 2 seasons.

It's just not Star Trek really. Star Trek was about getting a glimpse into a utopian future with cool technologies and a people motivated by desires different and more noble to ones which motivate 20th century folk. Fair enough I once hungered for darker story lines, more character conflicts and greater emotional depth but I've learned that if I want that I should switch to a different sci-fi show like one of the classic 70's shows, Babylon 5 or Farscape. The only Star Trek show to successfully incorporate these features has been Deep Space Nine. In Enterprise, the attempt is just shown up for the wooden effort that it is.

I think they should dump Enterprise, and go for a Star Trek show set in the 25th century, or maybe the 31st century with the likes of (what was that guy who used to interact with Captain janeway in voyager?). Maybe recover something from Enterprise and jump ahead a few centuries to show the temporal cold war when/where it happens.

User45701

It Was a good episode im looking forward to 2nites episode.
Should be good

oh - ye i completly forgot that they had the borg in that 1 epsiode of enterprise.
It was quite good but remember there are so many differences between the Enterprise timeline and the Star Trek timeline we know

For 1 thing the Delfitic expance (is that how u spell it)
When was that mentioned before
Also there are loads of new alies we dont know.....
what happaned the Human/Romulan wars? did they just not happen?

I Think what will happen is....
They can ahve the borg or any other race as many times as they want cause at the end of enterprise , when it all ends there will be a temperal incursion (affecting time event) and then time will change to reveal the timeline we are familer with