I hope "Conversations with Dead People" wins. That was the finest hour of Television I have seen all season.

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This is the first year where they have split the "Best Dramatic Presentation" award into long form (movies) and short form (TV) awards. So in the past when The Visitor and other Trek shows were nominated, they were in the same catagory as movies from the same year (i.e. The Visitor went up against Toy Story, 12 Monkeys, a B5 episode, and Apollo 13). In many years, no TV shows or episodes were nominated, as the catagory is often dominated by movies, so for a show to be nominated was impressive.

And just a side note, Nemesis is the only Star Trek movie not to be nominated for a Hugo - besides ST V: The Final Frontier. (yes, even Generations was nominated)

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I'm glad that Enterprise earns an award for the writing. It's rare that sci-fi gets nominated for something else than special effects.

I think both episodes ("Sickbay" and "Carbon Creek") had good drama, and the reason why peoples opinion about "Sickbay" was so split, could be that it was NEW to Star Trek. New things aren't always easily appriciated. Take for example music: Traditional music are easily understood, because we've heard it so often. Similary, Trekkers are so used to "tough captains" that it takes an effort to understand something that is different.

Maybe we haven't seen enough of Arhcer's background or the state of Earth to understand, how different things are. It reminds us of traditional Trek, but contradicts it, at the same time. We don't understand why a man like Archer could become the captain.

But it makes sense, that his actions are more or less unpredictable in situations with pressure. He is inexperienced in the role as "space captain" and doesn't always recognise the danger. By the time his mission begins, humans have an utopic view of the universe. Probably lead by our own success at eleminating a great deal of problems, with help from the Vulcans, we think it's finally time to become part of a greater society in space.

The Vulcans are a perfect example of what we expect to find, out there. They've always kept us away from deep space, because they consider us too primitive; too controlled by emotions; in other words, such aggressive behaviour don't fit the space society.

We, as the audience may need to think twice, to understand an episode like "Sickbay". But when we consider the circumstances of Archers time, I see no problems with the episode.

Apparently in season 3, Archer WILL go on a military mission. I don't think this fits his nature. But maybe he will be forced to it.. It could provide some stories with deeper personal conflict, and this helps to get under the skin of the characters.. On the other hand, we may get stories that are traditional and easy to understand, but hardly a step forward. Well, I hope the best.

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Interesting

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