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Day two in Vegas with Koenig, Takei, Dawson, McNeill and various guest actors at StarTrek.com.
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Sep 3, 2002: TNG Season 4 DVD Box Set U.S. Release
Sep 18, 2002: ENTERPRISE season two begins on UPN with "Shockwave, Part II"
Oct 22, 2002: STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK Special Edition DVD hits U.S. streets
Nov 5, 2002: TNG Season 5 DVD Box Set U.S. Release
Dec 3, 2002: TNG Season 6 DVD Box Set U.S. Release
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2002: Click here for full 2002 TREK DVD/VHS UK release dates
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Reviews Ex Deus: "Terra Nova" Manages Worthwhile Moments Even If Cliches and Boredom Dominate |
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07:56:55 on October 25 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: ENTERPRISE Reviews | www.stenterprise.com
Reviews Ex Deus
Written for TrekWeb by O. Deus, edited by Steve Krutzler
"Terra Nova"
Summary: Enterprise explores the mystery of a planet whose human
colonists have disappeared and gone feral.
An episode rather similar to the 7th season Voyager episode, Friendship
One. Much of the same elements are there. The poisoned planet and its
diseased underground inhabitants who blame humans for their plight, hostages
being taken, an unreasonable leader and a somewhat more reasonable woman
whom they manage to reach through a medical cure. The minor difference is
that the settlers aren't nearly as violent as the cave people from
Friendship One, which makes them somewhat understandable and sympathetic
characters. The key difference of course is that the inhabitants are
actually feral children of the original human settlers from the colony
covered in mud. This difference is also the only reason why Terra Nova works
and Friendship One didn't.
Or at least it works for a while anyway. Starting from the premise of a
Roanoke colony whose inhabitants have gone missing, the episode makes for an intriguing
beginning but as with Strange New World, the episode quickly deflates the
mystery and moves on to dealing with the human elements of the problem.
While this is an improvement over Voyager's tendency towards technobabble
and spatial anomalies, a little mystery can be good too. And the only
mystery that remains involving the impact that brings the poisoned rain is deflated and resolved in an all-together un-mysterious manner.
Still Levar Burton's (Geordi from TNG) lushly shot exteriors and the
talents of the two actors playing the natives at overcoming the dialogue
peppered with bad post-apocalyptic 80's movie slang, help make Terra Nova
work well enough as a good episode, even if not a particularly rewatchable
one. Recovering from last week's disaster, TN features some rather clever
set design including a brief shot of a large armadillo like creature, whose
shells are scattered around everywhere around the caves and turned into
tools and food. It's a cheap and subtle touch that goes a long way. A lesson
Unexpected could have certainly used.
Better yet, Dr Phlox and Malcolm Reed who may well end up being
Enterprise's breakout characters get more screen time and the dreary and
bland Trip gets less screen time. Reed has some very nice underplayed
moments in the caverns and even Bakula himself shows some emotion and
becomes genuinely distraught at the revelation of what the colonists have
become. After the last two episodes where Bakula bordered on the robotic,
it's nice to see that he has some depth to play.
The ending is more than a bit of cliche. It's the one piece of the plot
that isn't directly borrowed from Friendship One, but it is borrowed from
about a dozen episodes of Bonanza. Still it's a cliche that flows well
enough with the general feel of the episode, which like most of the
Enterprise episodes so far is charmingly earnest and sincere, if not
particularly engaging or suspenseful.
Next week: Enter the Andorians.
About the Authors
Steve Perry is not the former lead singer of Journey. He is, however, a long time fan of all Trek, yes, even Voyager. He is currently in law school.O. Deus has been a TrekWeb visitor since the site's 1996 inception. Along with being an ardent poster, he is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Deus has written reviews for TrekWeb for over a year and shares the duties with Steve Perry.
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