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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.
Jan 05
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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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07:15:24 on February 28 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: ENTERPRISE Reviews | www.stenterprise.com
Reviews Ex Deus
Written for TrekWeb by O. Deus, edited by Steve Krutzler
"Fusion"
Summary: Enterprise spends time in a nebula, Archer realizes he hates
all Vulcans and T'Pol gets mind-date-raped. The FX department wastes some
gorgeous FX shots on a profoundly mediocre episode.
When 'Unexpected' first aired it seemed as if it might reign as the
supreme and unchallenged 'Spock's Brain' episode of Enterprise and 'Fusion'
presents no real challenge to it. This is mainly because where 'Unexpected'
was gleefully awful, 'Fusion' is a rather mediocre reworking of TNG Troi
episodes such as "The Price" right down to the haunting visions, the
mysterious evil man and some gratuitous bed scenes. The result is dreary and
predictable at best, especially when run at Enterprise's molasses pace.
Enterprise has traditionally eschewed B plots and it is a sign of how
little content Fusion actually has, that it needs a B-plot to keep the
episode moving along and fill out the time. Possibly in an attempt to
distract the audience from how predictable and trite the A story was, the
writers chose an even more predicable and trite B story featuring 'the son
making peace with his dying father.' One has to wonder how many TV cliches
Berman and Braga had to sort through to find one of the hoariest cliches out
there and execute it in the most cliched way possible. Is there even a
single viewer out there who didn't instantly know that Trip would attempt to
bond with the obese Vulcan by telling him about some story from his own past
or that at the end said obese Vulcan would have made the call? This goes
beyond predictable and unoriginal and manages to achieve something like
trite greatness.
The premise for 'Fusion' has Enterprise encountering an alien ship with
technical difficulties resulting in some cultural exchange. It's another
plot that Enterprise might want to give a rest since it's already been used
in far too many episodes including the last episode, Shuttlepod One. The
actual execution is something like a Vulcan version of TOS's 'The Way to
Eden' right down to one of the crew being the son of a high ranking
ambassador. In fact at any moment you expect T'Pol to get out her lute while
they start singing "Stiff man putting my mind in jail \ Judge bangs the
gavel and says No bail \ So I'll lick his hand and wag my tail." Except
it's not actually bad enough to be funny or to inspire any emotion other than boredom and curiosity as to whether there might be something more exciting on PBS's schedule tonight.
The T'Pol portion of the episode plays even more slowly if
anything. The Vulcan has no chemistry whatsoever with T'Pol and the entire
routine is completely predictably because TNG played it out with Troi over
and over again. If Berman were to actually watch a few episodes of his own
series, he might notice that the theme of substituting mental invasion for
sexual invasion has been done to death on Star Trek and by done to death, I
mean that reruns of these episodes could be used to solve the rat problems
of several major urban centers.
Indeed the closest thing to a strength that 'Fusion' displays is that
Archer actually seems like a strong character here and his final scene with
T'Pol is one of those admissions that could spur some growth for his
character. Indeed Fusion's only good moments are, ironically enough,
contained in its opening teaser and feature Archer as well. Some
gorgeous FX shots wasted on what is essentially a bottle show made using
recycled TNG scripts, which all in all seems like a rather futile attempt to
save money.
Next week: T'Pol is haunted by her dead grandmother's spectral lover.
After all if B&B are going to recycle bad TNG episodes, Sub Rosa is
undeniably the granddaddy of bad TNG episodes. (or Repeat Hell for another month.)
About the Authors
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.
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 and contributes reviews when his busy schedule permits.
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