If you go into the back episodes of JRWSTFTFT when they did that episode I wrote in a critique that ended up going for 13+ minutes even as Jon tried to speed read it.

He was a humpback whale.

I'm amazed Archer got beyond the space between the moon and New York City. It seemed like the best that he could do.

Ayatollah Colm Meaney: "If this is anyone other than George Takei, you're stealing my bit!"

Eh. The fact that you can beam one dude between star systems doesn't eliminate the need for starships any more than being able to transport someone from California to China and back would mean the USN would have no need for carrier battle groups. There are countless uses for the Enterprise beyond "get one person from…

That's also how it was spelled when it was first introduced in Star Trek VI. It's not really a sin to go with the Meyer / Nimoy spelling.

One thing that stands out for me on DS9 is how many of their problems or dilemmas are things that can't be solved by technobabble.

Just like Lt. Carey, who they also thought had died, then remembered he was alive just long enough to kill him off, and make Admiral Janeway's time travel decisions in the finale even more sociopathic.

Yep. If it's only Enterprises (because other wise the correct answer is the Defiant) then it's Constitution-Refit all the way, preferably with the Star Trek VI bridge. Industrial but classy.

Worked for Putin.

So, Porthos?

Exactly. Even by later DS9 there was a glut in the syndication market (Xena, Hercules, and a ton of 'adventure' shows) to the point that in Atlanta the show ended up on 11 am on Sundays or midnight Saturdays. At the same time, Fox, WB and UPN came out and had full prime time schedules—the days when TNG was able to get…

Yeah, if we count movie finales as the real finales it's a real trade off. What we gain in Star Trek VI's classy finale we lose in N!@$!@!% total failure.

Watching Season 1 now, several years after the heights of Bush-ism, I appreciate Trip more even if he's kinda racist. At least he has chemistry with Archer. Them being best buds is one of the more believable things on the show.

Bakula is a master of laid back charisma, which, unfortunately, is the exact opposite of the in your face theatricality usually demanded of a Trek captain, and certainly provided, whatever their faults, by Shatner, Stewart, Brooks and Mulgrew. Also, the character was written as a world class moron—clueless,…

Forrest: "And how you doin' little partner?"
T'Pol: "Fine. And it's little visitor now."
*Archer smiles*
T'Pol: "Usdi adadamdvhidohi how you say it in Vulcan."
Forrest: "Oh, pardon my French, but I'll be damned."
T'Pol: "Archer told me I have AIDS."

I did appreciate that right after the epic disaster of the HIMYM finale, lamentations of These are the Voyages… showed up on Twitter. It's now a go to reference point for a true stinker.

Yeah, in watching Season 1 for the first time and reviewing it for JRWSTFTFT, there really is an anti-Vulcan racism moment of the week on that show. I think my favorite was one where Archer was captured yet again and T'Pol suggests bringing in a Vulcan lawyer. Trip says he'd be better off getting the death…

Part of the problem I think is the tendancy of Enterprise writers (and later Trek writers in general) to write the character as their job. And helmsman and translator are pretty fucking boring jobs.

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