Thoughts from the Star Trek viewing

[napoleonherself]

1. You do NOT play an uplifting, poppy song WITH FULL VOCAL over the opening credits to a Star Trek series, all right? It just isn't done. It's WRONG.

2. THe cute puppy is obvious pandering. Yes, he is adorable. I want to pet his cute fuzzy wuzzy head. But he's as transparent as glass. Cute animal = ratings, so a puppy it is!

3. There was one point where Scott Bakula's character used the word... erm... "ass". This amused me, because that so totally would not have been okay for TNG, or even DS9, but by now? Heck, we're so desensitized that it just flies right by. [Edit: he said it again! He said it again!] [Edit again: later on he said "butt". Guess they used up their allotted quota of the other word.] [Edit again again: We got the b-word, though!]

4. Aww yeah. Apparently on THIS Enterprise, they get REAL guns, not them pansy little phasers.

5. Okay, that scene was so obviously put in just to add sexual tension. Half-naked member of each sex, stuck in the same small room, sniping at each other while the camera made some nice careful close-ups of their hands rubbing some sort of cream (presumably part of the decontamination process after the away mission; I missed the explanation if there was one) on their bodies. And on each others'. Dear gawd they'd better not use this as a basis for more such maudlin scenes later in the series.

6. Is it, like, a law that the second in command has to be AS VAGUE AS POSSIBLE when the captain asks for a status report?

7. If you are in a structure composed of a whole bunch of small ships maglocked to a central core, and you hard-reverse those maglocks, causing all the ships to go sailing merrily away without anything resembling undocking procedures... isn't the central core going to become a vacuum very, very quickly?

8. Archer dodging the phaser blast? VERY cool. I don't care if it was "right" or possible according to the laws of physics or whatever. It just looked DAMN cool.

Dialogue that made me snicker:

"Your comm officer's in Brazil."

"Your superiors don't think we can flush a toilet without one of you to assist us."

"I... I'm not sure, but I think he said something about... eating the afterlife?"

[the crew meets up with a helpful alien named Sarin]
Me: "They'd better not kill her. We're running out of informants."
Bad guys: ::kill her::
Me: "Well, great."

"You might think about requesting seatbelts when we get home." Which is funny because TWO FREAKIN CENTURIES LATER, the guys who design Federation ships have STILL not figured this out.

"I suggest we return to the phosphorus layer." Okay, so it was funnier in context.

And that's it. All in all, a good ep. Definite potential for this series. The intro theme has GOT to go, though. I'm not kidding.

Comments

The Future

[nilremvenx.livejournal.com]

Well.. with TNG and DS9 and Voyager and all that stuff.. we get the benefit of 'hearing' all the audio through a universal translator. This translator, ofcourse, filters out all the not-so-nice words. All we get to hear in the future is DAMN and maybe BITCH. (Since damn is in the bible and bitch could refer to a female dog.)
Back in the beginnings of Star Fleet they didn't have these magical mystical universal translators (you know.. I just realized how "Universal" universal is when you're talking about Star Trek). And so Captain Sam can use the word "ass".

I know you're saying "But ass can refer to a donkey or mule" and shouldn't be nix'd out by the translator.
Yes, but no one refers to beasts of burden as asses in the future. No one really uses them anyway.

[ex-quagmire1.livejournal.com]

FUCK!!!!

I missed the damn thing.

Theme music

[hamusutaa.livejournal.com]

I happened to like the theme music...

Okay, let me clarify...

I happened to like the theme music the first time. Let's see how well it sits in a few weeks.

Paramount is still staffed by Ferengi

[(Anonymous)]

Vulcans ignoring the sanctity of life?? This must be the mirror universe. And so much for decent theme music (though have you ever heard the actual words to the original theme? Snort). At least Archer is a captain in Kirk's tradition. I always expected Picard to grab Riker's shoulders, pin him up against a wall, and say "I"M in charge here!" And he never did.

repeat

[(Anonymous)]

It's on again on Saturday. Check your local listings.

[moe4eyed.livejournal.com]

1. I would have to agree. Go back to the lovely instrumental-type music.

5. The worst part about the scene was that it was actually important from a character/plot development point-of-view, so they can't just chop it out in syndication. I've always thought that scenes that are necessary for the plot to work should be done in the worst manner possible, which is why in my version of Hamlet, the "To be or not to be" sililililoquy takes place during a bar-room brawl.

6. I was irked by that also. It affects all of the serieses, and for no reason as well.

I wonder how many people got the irony in the seatbelt line. It probably went over the head of 90% of the audience, which is regrettable.

I didn't see all of it, though. I taped the whole thing, watched the first hour as it was showing, then discovered that I programmed the VCR incorrectly. I'm sincerely hoping it's reshown.

Ryl is informed

[ryl.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what this was talking about.