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Palm Digital Media reports that the STAR TREK NEMESIS novelization was the #3 selling e-book in December 2002.
Jan 05
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Wigglefish has reviewed DS9: Rising Son and The Brave and the Bold, both 4/5 stars.
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The L.A. Times analyzes William Shatner's acting career.
Jan 04
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TREK novelist Peter David sounds off on the state of the franchise at his web site.
Jan 03
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Australia's TV1 will air a MAKING OF STAR TREK NEMESIS special on January 11th during its SCI-FI SECTOR @ 8p. (Thanks to 'Joe' for this)
Jan 03
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Cinescape has reviewed Pocket Books' THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, giving it an A- in its full review.
Jan 02
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FilkJerk and BattlestarGalactica.com have ripped into Ronald D. Moore's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA script. (Thanks to 'Beth' for the tip)
Jan 01
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Dean Valentine, former UPN exec, has purchased a 49.9% stake in the Jim Henson Company with his investment group, according to Reuters.
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Dec 31, 2002: TNG Season 7 DVD Box Set U.S. Release
Jan 3, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS hits UK theaters
Jan 16, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Germany
Feb 6, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Australia
Feb 13, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in the Netherlands
Feb 14, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Brazil
Feb 26, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Hungary
Feb 25, 2003: ST: DS9 Season One DVD Set U.S. Release
Mar 4, 2003: STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME Collector's Edition DVD Arrives
Mar 21, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Norway
Mar 26, 2003: STAR TREK NEMSIS debuts in Belgium and France
Mar 28, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Sweden
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08:31:29 on February 03 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: ENTERPRISE Reviews | www.stenterprise.com
Reviews Ex Deus
Written for TrekWeb by O. Deus, edited by Steve Krutzler
"Sleeping Dogs"
Summary: A competent if not particularly original adventure episode with
all the bells and whistles you would expect of a top dollar TV production.
Sleeping Dogs is marketed as a Klingon episode, but in fact, the Klingons
are essentially background to a submarine style "trapped crew" episode. The
only Klingon with any significant role or lines of dialogue spends most of
her time lying prone in sickbay, except when for reasons of plot
convenince decides to help the Enterprise crew. The
Klingons themselves are mainly set dressing with familiar Star Trek elements
such as Klingon ideograms on the consoles, Gakgh and Targs there as much for
nostalgia reasons as anything else.
In practice the Klingons could have been replaced with a newly invented
Enterprise species (as the Orions actually were, presumabely it was decided
that two familiar Trek races in an episode were too much) without any real
difference except that the episode might have gone somewhere new. Instead it
chooses to try and fill out a conventional adventure plot with Klingon
nostalgia and the result is entertaining enough, but not particularly
original.
One of the episode's advantages is the decision to put Reed, T'Pol and
Hoshi on board the Klingon vessel. Three strong characters played by three
strong actors, while Trip and even Archer move into the background.
This provides the oppurtunity for a little character work such as Hoshi's
meditation scene, which while not ground-breaking in and of themselves,
provide some texture to what might have otherwise been a fairly hollow
episode.
Archer's role in the episode is mainly confined to demonstrating an
inability to understand one more alien species besides the Vulcans. In
Breaking the Ice he apparently managed to serve on a Vulcan ship and yet not
understand that a Vulcan would not engage in small talk with him. In
Sleeping Dogs, after two encounters with the Klingons, Archer still does not
understand that the Klingons do not fit into his boy scout world and have no
interest in friendly interaction with him. The lesson might have been
communicated in the series pilot when the Klingon he came to rescue nearly
beat his brains in and the Klingon chanchellor all but threw him out at
knife point. It might have been communicated in Unexpected where only
T'Pol's lie kept the Klingons from tearing the Enterprise apart.
Nevertheless, none of those encounters prepeared Archer to expect that
the Klingons would not want his help and respond to it about as well as a
vegetarian diet. And so Sleeping Dogs ends with the Enterprise retreating
from two approaching Klingon warships as the Captain of the ship he rescued
vows vengance against him. Is there any reason to expect that he may have
learned his lesson this time out? Otherwise those decades of war reaching
into Kirk's time may be somewhat self-explanatory.
Though if the Klingons are to become the enemies of Starfleet once
again, the angry neo-Viking Klingons of the TNG era may need to be replaced
by the cunning and ruthless TOS Klingons who would actually be worthy
enemies for the Enteprise crew. Otherwise we may be doomed to a series of
episodes like Sleeping Dogs in which the Klingons are enraged by everything
while Archer struggles to grasp why this is the case, until he finally
comprehends that xenophobia is pretty much what being a Klingon is all
about.
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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 and columns for TrekWeb for over two years.
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