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

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I don't like slash fanfiction either. ;P

And it isn't that I have a PROBLEM with the swearing and sexual tension and stuff, per se. The swearing amused me. And as for the tension bit, it was just very very VERY obvious and overdone. It would've been more subtle of them to flash a little 'Look! Half-naked people!' notice on the screen.

Plus I just love to complain for the sake of complaining. Ever so much fun.