3.02: Anomaly

[mordy]

Warning Spoilers********

From Startrek.com


'Enterprise starts experiencing effects of the spatial distortions pervading the Delphic Expanse, and falls victim to predatory aliens.'


Theres not much on this episode but it sounds good i am sure they will post more details when it gets closer to the Airing date so i will post it as soon as it comes to hand.

 

[Mariel]

A raiding party comes aboard Enterprise and takes almost every thing. The crew catch one of the raiders and learn a little about the people who took all their stuff. The Osarian(I know I didn't spell that right) tells Archer that he's never gonna make it cause he's not tough enough. And says something about the Terreium D being used to insulate ships from the spacial distortions. Maybe Enterprise should think about getting some. The crew comes across a sphere that has most of thier stuff in it and alot of other things too. And they also find that the sphere has a bunch of generators on it but only a 2 or 3 are working. I wonder if the sphere would help control the distortions in that area of space. Archer also gets more info on the Xindi from the computer of the Raiders.
I thought it was a pretty good episode.
:blpaw:

 

[skoon]

I seem to keep missing half the episodes (dog walking time), do people like S3 so far?

 

[Dave]

Rick Berman: ...we're going to encounter the first of what are going to be more than one sphere. These are artificially created, almost moon-sized spheres, the purpose of which we do not know yet... We're also going to find some marauders, some pirates who take advantage of ships that come into the Expanse...

 

[Dave]

I liked this episode, there was a mystery, more details in the plot, more for Hoshi to do.

The floating coffee cups and bowls of food was cute but unexplained. Why did the phenomena last for so long, but only in one place in a room, even though the ship was moving at Warp or at Impulse?

The spheres are ancient artifacts so have nothing to do with the Xindii, but sound as if they have a lot to do with the Expanse itself. I think it was said that they were made of poly-Duranium alloy and that it was similar to the Pirate vessel's hull. Did this mean that the sphere builders and Pirates were somehow related? Or simply that poly-Duranium alloy is the de rigueur material for Starship hulls? I think it is the latter, another nod to the future, since Starfleet later uses Duranium hulls. On the other hand I've read online that it was Trillium-D, but that's not what I heard.

The aliens, who Phlox identifies as Osaarian, were pretty ordinary Star Trek forehead and nose-pieces with pony-tails. It's like they sit down and think "What haven't we used before? Oh Yeah! Pony-tails! that'll do this week." Why not reuse someone like the Pakleds instead? They were pretty stupid but mechanically minded and would have fit the part, plus they looked almost the same. (Apart from the pony-tails.)

It wasn't said, but I read in an magazine interview that the Osaarian taken as prisoner was meant to have been caught in an anomaly himself and that's why his face got twisted.

Is this the first time they follow an ion trail to catch a ship? Again it's something Jean-Luc Picard later would do on an almost weekly basis.

And it ends with Archer about to learn the secrets of the captured Xindii database.

 

[ray gower]

When it started I had images of De-ja-vue flashing before my eyes.
There was Enterprise, sat in nothing and the lights go out, until the local gypo's turn up, knock seven bells out of Enterprise and nick everything not physically bolted down. Our intrepid heroes chase after them and find another victim? And the reset switch is pressed somewhere in the middle, after Enterprise has been thumped several more times.

Sound familiar to a certain very poor episode from another series?
Fortunately it was a little better thought out than that and was an enjoyable romp.

Suspect the Xindi could become something of a sideshow to Trip's neck massage sessions though

 

[Dave]

It did remind me of that Voyager episode too. Actually, I liked the way the Kazon did it without the use of Transporters. With transporters it's a little too easy, but if the Osaarians had done that then it would have been far too similar.

I also agree on the neck massage.

TOS was a very sexual series, Kirk got a woman every week, Spock seduced that Romulan woman, there was the first inter-racial kiss, etc etc. Yet it was never as overly explicit as this is.

Maybe I'm just too old, but I'm sure the majority of viewers do not watch to see the neck massage.