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Spoilers For First Regular Episodes Surface: Fluid-Drained Bodies and a Planetary Excursion |
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17:42:29 on August 07 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
The Star Trek Universe, a relatively established fan site that has historically been a reliable source for inside information (though these would be the first ENT spoilers, if proven accurate), has posted the first story information for the third and fourth episodes of ENTERPRISE (the pilot is eps one and two).
According to the site, the third episode is titled Fight or Flight, and has the Enterprise discovering a derelict vessel. Upon boarding the ship against T'Pol's advice, the bodies of the vessel's crew is discovered suspended from the ceiling with hooks and having their fluid drained by unknown aliens in an attempt to recover some sort of substance. When the mysterious aliens show up, Hoshi Sato must use her communication talents to save Enterprise from a similar fate.
The fourth episode, for which the site does not report a title, has the crew exploring a "strange new world" for the first time. A hostile alien race is discovered, though all is not as it first seems. This episode features many instances of 'Trek' tech that isn't yet up to snuff: during a wind storm on the planet, the landing party must abort its rescue mission for lack of any other "tech-heavy" alternative; and later, when trying to beam a crewman off the planet, the particle buffers cannot differntiate between the crewman and some debris from the planet in the transporter stream. As a result, the crewman materializes with chuncks of rock fused into his body.
Please be aware that none of this information has been independently confirmed by any other reliable ENT source and this info should be treated as rumor.
This story info, however, could be copyright © Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
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I wish
By Knight6978
(Knight6978@aol.com) at 12:50:57 on August 09
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I love star trek.. ANd i loved every show with the exception of Voyager. but wouldn't be great if there was a mixture of Battlestar Galactica with star trek.
for example..Fighters coming out of the enterprise bay to fight out incoming aircrafts or a borg cube. shuttles are okay but navy aircraft carry fighter planes..so why shouldn't a space naval craft...
here is a few more combo suggestion:
Indian jones and Alan Quartermain (king solomain mines)
James BOnd ANd Tom Cruse from Mission Impossible
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Enterprise Truth?
By WayneF
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DOesn't it seems a bit odd that the captain of the Enterprise is Captain Archer. In the original books and tv shows the original captain of the Enterprise was Captain Robert April. Then it was Christopher Pike then James Kirk. Is it me or does it seem like Paramount is going to rewrite Trek history?
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NX designations in Trek
By ety3
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We know the Excelsior was NX-2000 in ST:III, and changed to NCC-2000 before ST:VI.
Also, Defiant was NX-74205 and never became NCC since it was continually being used as a testbed for new systems (including ablative armor). I'm not sure if the new Defiant (the recommissioned Sao Paulo) had an NCC or NX commission.
And, according to the "ST:TNG Technical Manual," all Starfleet vessels have temporary NX designations while they are being tested before commissioning. The Enterprise D's NX number is in the book, but I can't recall it right now.
As far as the NCC meaning "Naval Construction Contract, or Commission" or whatever, this is not established in canon, and I believe I read somewhere one of the original series producers said it didn't really mean anything.
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Can someone please explain?
By Maki_NX-01
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I was watching Star Trek III.....and I noticed that on the Excelcior, the registration number started with a NX.....should it not have been NCC??? Am I smoking so much crack that I can't put it together....(that was a rhetorical question people).
If thats the case, whats the connection with the new "Enterprise" show having the ships number start with an NX.....am I just going nucking futz???
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Not too bad, but nothing original
By Clunk
(clunk17@hotmail.com) at 18:16:22 on August 08
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I agree with posters below, these plots definately have a TOS-esque ring to them. I don't quite know how well that'll work since TOS episodes (well, some of them) are now unintentionally campy, but we'll see how this plays out. They're not overly impressive or original ideas, but they could be handled well so I won't pass judgement until I see them.
I simply hope that this ship they find with the bodies also doesn't have some mysterious virus that causes all of the people who come in contact to effectively lose their inhibitions and their minds. If they rip that same plot from both TOS and TNG, I'd have to go run to the bathroom.
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-CLunk
"Grammar, ho!" --Archangel
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Promising
By Grand Admiral Thrawn
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Looks like they appear to be off to a more mature, realistic yet with Star Trek at the central core, positive start. If they can sustain this level of production than there is still hope for the franchise
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"Lets make sure history never forgets, the name; Enterprise"- Captain Jean-luc Picard
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off to a good start
By Tad
(tad1019@hotmail.com) at 10:11:15 on August 08
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sounds like we'll have good episodes following the pilot. i am looking forward to the transporter episode. sounds interesting... i mean how will this affect people already scared to death of the transporter? and will rockboy live to see another day? :) looks as if ENT will get off to a good start.
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helldamnfart - Bart Simpson
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Sound like the original series to me
By MikeNinNH
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Well, the plot blurbs for the followup episodes sound a lot like typical Original Series episodes to me. I actually find that refreshing, after seeing the last few series take themselves so seriously on a regular basis.
I mean, the drained body one sounds like when they beamed aboard a derelict USS Exeter to find everyone crystallized. Not as gory, maybe, but then in the 60's you couldn't get away with that kind of gore (plus it was easier on the budget).
I think they've been saying that they want to get back to the true action-adventure spirit of the original series, with less of the underlying multiple episode plotlines. Which isn't unlike the first couple of years of TNG, only hopefully this time they'll do a better job right out of the gate.
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This all sounds very...
By Matty
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...X-files. Chris Carter always said that the X-files reason for being was "to scare the pants off people" - I just hope we are going to see that here. Space is scary - in truth and fiction. I think we have all gotten a little numbed to that idea...
I want to sh*t myself watching ENT... for good reasons you understand...
;-)
M
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WHINING! Sheesh!
By HotStove
() at 23:34:47 on August 07
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Here are some other loser Trek plots:
Kirk travels through time via a flashing, talking donut and he falls in love with this chick with a flapper hairdo and he and Spock get to wear flannel shirts.
OR
Picard is changed into a mechanical space-vampire and in turn tries to assimilate the unsuspecting Planet Earth!
You can extrapolate anything you want from the plot clips here. Jeez, get a life people, we'll know how it is when we see it.
By the way, for you newbies out there, Kirk was the captain from the ORIGINAL Star Trek series...
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Landing Party?
By Chris Pike
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I wonder if the text from this review says "Landing party" with good reason?
One would hope!
No more of this pseudo-psychiatric "sensitive awareness group away team" crap.
Chris
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Strange new world?
By Lost
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Okay.. so.. after they drop this Klingon off.. their on there way home (just guessing) and they come across this ship floating in space. What.. it was right in front of them, and the deflector dish made them stop after the opening scene? Does Archer say "Oh boy" when he peals himself off the viewscreen? So theres a ship floating in space.. Okay.. thats not too weird. It doesn't answere to hails.. humm..
So Archer, having to put something in his "captains log" for posterity, against the better judgement of his Vulcan, says "Lets take a shuttle over" .. OH MY GOD!! Their are dead aliens over here hanging from hooks!! .. humm..
Yup.. they definitely got tales from the crypt writers on the show. If these aliens were trying to extract something from the bodies, how come they didn't just use a blender? ... AND SATO SAVES THE DAY BY TALKING? .. how come Janeway never had it that easy? ..
and as for our mystery episode, which, if I was the crypt keeper, I'd call it "Planet X" .. okay.. are they still not back to Earth yet after almost getting drained of their fluids? Why does Archer feel the need to explore a windy uninhabited rock?
*rolls eyes* you know.. this episode comes off as having the same feel as the movie Alien.. Archer "Oh boy! A planet we can land on!! Lets do it!! I wanna leave my footprint all over the place! Niel Armstrong, EAT MY SHORTS!" .. so they take a shuttle down to the surface.. Turns out the planet wasn't so uninhabbited after all! I'm thinking something hostile, how about you boys and girls? .. something.. I don't know.. either robotic.. or bug like.. but definitely deadly. Their shuttle gets destroyed (hence why they needed to be rescued).. someone gets hurt.. Captain figures "well.. Doc Phlox say's he's dead anyways.. sounds like I found my first guine-pig for the transporter" and has him beamed up.
MEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! Big mistake holmes! Someone doesn't know how to use the little sliding control on the transporter pannel right. Dude gets blown apart at the sub atomic level, moved 800 some odd miles, and reassembled with SAND and ROCK fused into his body cuz someone moved the slider up and down and beamed up some foreign matter too. OOPSE!!! (definitely the tales from the crypt guys) .. okay.. humm.. I'm wondering if this crewman lives.
I'll lay a bet. I'm gonna say, since we have a Baywatch writer now, that the rocks make him look like he has breasts, and he makes a full .. (hehehe.. *cough*D-cup*cough*) recovery.
So Archer kills the thing (so much for peaceful first contact), doesn't let himself get beamed up, Shuttle comes and gets them, and the episode ends with eeri music and a long shot on the transporter.
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Is it just me, or are these the stand alone episodes that sucked so much on Voyager? .. Atleast we get to see someone get scrambled in a transporter again.. this would make 3 times.. (ST:The motion picture.. and in a DS9 episode when that one chick was assasinated right infront of kira) .. I hope we see more glitches like this. Maybe the Enterprise's computer going psychotic on them :)
*shivers* .. Oh NO!! I've caught the bad story bug!!! Somebody!! Get me an EMH mark 1!!!
LOST
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and it starts ...
By dj
() at 18:59:56 on August 07
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If these plots are accurate, let's just say I got a bad feeling about this. Not to jump the gun, but it sounds like we're already getting more emphasis on plot than character here.
If they want to continue to give us the standard Voyager bizarre aliens and anomolies and time paradoxes and overly convoluted plots, that's actually fine with me, but the characters have GOT to be more developed along the way. Otherwise, who cares.
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Transporter use
By One
() at 17:59:29 on August 07
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I hope this rumor of the crewman being beamed back with rocks infused in his body, if true, will add to the crew's distrust of transporters for future eps. I fear that this, while having the potential to ingrain a profound fear of transporters upon the crew, will be forgotten by the next episode and the use of transporters could be common and pleasant by the end of the first season. If they show something, make it count!
A reset button is the type of thing the writers must avoid in order for the series to be credible, and the kind of thing Voyager was notorious for doing.
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