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Silent Enemy - Nitpickers Guide (SPOILERS)
An enemy with no motive, no provocation, and no inclination decide that attacking the Enterprise is something that they wouldn't mind doing. As you'd fairly well imagine, the Enterprise doesn't really agree with this reasoning. As another small sideline, Hoshi is ordered to find out what Reed's favorite food is in preparation of his birthday.
Yes, it finally did get to me. Star Trek is trying to have a sense of humor, but they're doing it in a Star Trek fashion... not entirely well. They keep talking about Chef, but they never show him. If they wanted to have a sense of humor, something like the scene above would be taking place. Without the cartoon aspects, of course!
1. First thing's first, is the Enterprise launching what are being termed as 'subspace amplifiers' and being up to the second one. I must say, I'm impressed. Let's face it, I really didn't think the odds were good for keeping even one amplifier out in space for long. You drop it, and what's the likely thing to happen? Some git's going to come across it and decide that being small and defenseless, you can't do much beyond protest if your subspace amplifier is pinched and sold for a bit of easy money.
1. Because it's going to happen. And it should have happened. Point being well and truly made, I should probably move on now.
2. It's reported that there are absolutely no readings from the alien ship, almost as if it weren't there. Now this almost certainly can't be right, because I'm pretty darn sure that the viewscreen images are supplied directly from the sensor readings!
3. The deployment of the new subspace amplifier seems much needed, I get the impression that the Enterprise has been out of contact with Earth for a while. In that case, I was surprised when Hoshi told Archer that she was able to track down Lieutenant Reed's parents. How exactly did she go about that without communications?
4. One of Archer's comments really did strike me as being funny. It consisted of 'We don't really know that much about Malcolm, do we?' That could have something to do with the unnerving fact that this show has a tendency to use only three central characters and push the other four into the background! Also, how can making Hoshi's top priority finding out his favorite food? She's the ship's primary communications officer, it's the only Starfleet vessel in space, hasn't she got better things to do?
An enemy with no motive, no provocation, and no inclination decide that attacking the Enterprise is something that they wouldn't mind doing. As you'd fairly well imagine, the Enterprise doesn't really agree with this reasoning. As another small sideline, Hoshi is ordered to find out what Reed's favorite food is in preparation of his birthday.
Yes, it finally did get to me. Star Trek is trying to have a sense of humor, but they're doing it in a Star Trek fashion... not entirely well. They keep talking about Chef, but they never show him. If they wanted to have a sense of humor, something like the scene above would be taking place. Without the cartoon aspects, of course!
1. First thing's first, is the Enterprise launching what are being termed as 'subspace amplifiers' and being up to the second one. I must say, I'm impressed. Let's face it, I really didn't think the odds were good for keeping even one amplifier out in space for long. You drop it, and what's the likely thing to happen? Some git's going to come across it and decide that being small and defenseless, you can't do much beyond protest if your subspace amplifier is pinched and sold for a bit of easy money.
1. Because it's going to happen. And it should have happened. Point being well and truly made, I should probably move on now.
2. It's reported that there are absolutely no readings from the alien ship, almost as if it weren't there. Now this almost certainly can't be right, because I'm pretty darn sure that the viewscreen images are supplied directly from the sensor readings!
3. The deployment of the new subspace amplifier seems much needed, I get the impression that the Enterprise has been out of contact with Earth for a while. In that case, I was surprised when Hoshi told Archer that she was able to track down Lieutenant Reed's parents. How exactly did she go about that without communications?
4. One of Archer's comments really did strike me as being funny. It consisted of 'We don't really know that much about Malcolm, do we?' That could have something to do with the unnerving fact that this show has a tendency to use only three central characters and push the other four into the background! Also, how can making Hoshi's top priority finding out his favorite food? She's the ship's primary communications officer, it's the only Starfleet vessel in space, hasn't she got better things to do?
