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Group: alt.startrek · Group Profile
Author: Benjamin PavsnerBenjamin Pavsner Date: Feb 4, 2008 14:09
Unfortunately, the Sci Fi channel seemed to limit itself, given a lot of
what they showed were 2 and 3 parters (would "Zero Hour"/"Storm Front" be a
2 1/2 parter) a lot seemed to be left out. I would have LOVED seeing the
Soong trilogy, myself.
"George Peatty" copper.net> wrote in message
news:b77eq3ho7kjvfckidlu5sbtls0fmbploef@4ax.com...
> Instead of watching all the pre-game Super Bowl crap, I spent most of
> yesterday watching the Sci-Fi channels Enterprise marathon, and found
> myself
> intrigued about their choices of which episodes to air:
>
> Dear Doctor - one of the most controversial episodes of any Trek series,
> and
> the best treatment of the Prime Directive ever done anywhere in Trek.
> John
> Billingsley was terrific ..
>
> Shockwave 1 and 2 - Daniels takes Archer into the future, and "makes the
> biggest mistake in the history of time travel"
>
> Vanishing Point - Hoshi gets naked after a transporter malfunction
>
> Much of the Xindi arc, including Zero Hour, E Squared, and Proving Ground,
> my three favorite episodes of that arc.
>
> Storm Front 1 and 2 - Nazis invade America. This was the only arc I flat
> out didn't care for, though I thought that the actor who played Silik was
> really good here. As Daniels was brought back to life when the timeline
> was
> reset, I want to believe Silik was, too.
>
> In A Mirror, Darkly, Part 1 of which I loved, and Part 2 of which sucked.
> I
> kept thinking, I'll bet the cast really enjoyed playing against type. I
> certainly enjoyed Linda Park as 'the Captain's woman'
>
> Terra Prime 1 and 2 - Peter Weller was terrific as the xenophobe desperate
> to purge the earth of alien influence ..
>
> Conspicuously missing was much of the fan favorite fourth season: nothing
> about the Augments, and nothing about the dreadful episode about how the
> Klingons lost their ridges .. I thought the choice of which episodes to
> air
> was excellent, especially since it so closely followed my own list of what
> were the best episodes of Enterprise.
>
> About the only one I would have liked to see that wasn't shown is Carbon
> Creek where T'Pol plays with headgames with Trip and Archer (and by
> extension, Braga does with us ..)
>
> Way to go, Sci Fi. Lets do it again real soon.
>
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