"What we got back didn't live long. Fortunately."

One thing the best of Trek did right was not to idealize technology.

The new arrangement was a terrible idea, especially considering the timing of the change. There was at least an element of wistfulness to the original open, but they made it all peppy and bubbly for the dark-and-gritty season. I still remember the whiplash coming off the teaser to "Twilight." The Earth is destroyed,…

It still bothers me that they didn't include the overlays in the new footage. It's jarring when the footage from the original opening has these subtle maps and diagrams and charts over the picture, and then the new stuff doesn't.

Back when it was a pain in the ass, I managed to record a couple of Enterprise episodes to my computer while screwing around with video tape to DV converters. I edited "Archer's Theme" in place of "Faith of the Heart," and I guess it made an impression, because to this day, every time I see an episode of Enterprise,…

Two of my favorite Enterprise moments are when they played with the communications barrier. In "Silent Enemy," the mushroom-looking dudes communicated with Enterprise with a re-edited version of Archers message to them, since they don't have mouths, and "Future Tense," the Tholians' messages were horrible screeching…

Looking back on it, this episode may have had an influence on my secret, slowly growing desire to chuck it all and become a surf-bum.

Yewll is probably the best doctor in town, so it makes sense the main characters would lean on her. Creepy Doctor said that he couldn't get any work once she got out of prison. It's possible that some of the additional doctors moved in while she was in jail for most of the year.

My favorite part was how his reaction to Christie wanting to be more like Stahma was to immediately fall for the manipulations of a low-grade human Stahma knock-off.

It seemed like a pastiche of a musical theater song to me (maybe from the last big Broadway hit before the war). Might have been tapping into some sort of connotative confluence of drag/burlesque and show-tunes.

That doesn't mean it isn't an alien thing. It might even be a point for it, given that he's a human official of the Earth Republic. Votans might think it's just eccentric or even somehow healthy for a Casti to play at being a Irathiant or an Indogene to get into a Sensoth suit, but humans might take it a bit harder.

Damn you, autocorrect!

I don't know that this is like the Star Trek Universe where empty uninhabited, yet inhabitable, unclaimed planets are super-plentiful.

The thing about the telepaths-as-dangerous-weapons idea is that none of the other races have that problem. It seems that humans were the only ones to ghettoize their telephotos, and everyone else just learned to get along. I suppose it's possible that since the other races all got telepaths in the distant past, their…

I really do wish that there'd be an eBook release of the script books. Without the time pressure, I might even buy all them at their original price.

The quote from the Female Changeling reminded me of the Casti truism they quoted a few times in season one, "Seeming is being." I'll take that as another point for the idea that it's a Votan thing they brought to Earth.

I wonder if alien-drag might not be a Votan tradition/fetish/hobby. The DJ and politician both talked about getting into/out of skin, like it's a term of art, but the politician used an alien phrase for it.

As a Mac user during the '90s, I'd say that it's just as much of a commentary on pop culture's transitory nature as the intentional gags on it in the episode. No one knows what tomorrow brings, the race is not always to the swift, and so on. They probably couldn't have picked a better example than someone not even…

"Alright, Riordon, you're free to go, but stay away from the death-ship buried under the city."
"But all my stuff is there!"

Oh, I absolutely agree that, in the moment, Rafe didn't put up much of a fight, for many understandable reasons. As you say, I just didn't get the sense that the bath-time theater was enough to win him over permanently, just like I don't believe Datak's offer to supply an anti-Earth Republic insurrection is going to…