#ent rewatch

[spockvarietyhour]

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations To boldly go where no man has gone before.

[odo-apologist]

My dealer: Got some straight gas 🔥😛 This strain is called "Alien Pollen" 😳 You'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: Yeah whatever. I don't feel shit

5 minutes later: Dude I swear I just saw some rock people talking with T'Pol deeper in the cave

My buddy Trip pacing with a phase pistol: The Vulcans are lying to us

[ent-is-indecisive]

Parker going crazy at a chocolate convention ♡ my girl ♡

[smileyobrien]

imagine not knowing it's the vibrations in the dilithium dispersement manifold 💀

[aceofwands]

idk man I just think of all the franchises you could try to make the Next Big Thing by creating a bunch of new shows and movies, maybe don't pick the one with the notoriously nitpicky obsessed with canon fandom ?? if you don't plan on applying any sort of consistency to the world, characters, alien cultures, entire ethical and moral framework of the universe, etc etc ????

[bumblingbabooshka]

thoughts on saavik?

I don't know anything about Saavik v_v I really love these two posts about her though! X and X I think about these posts often and whenever I do I feel like I want to draw!

[sirellas]

one of my biggest issues with new trek is that it keeps trying to make every season of every new show have such a monumental scale that it circles right back around to being irrelevant. there's always a huge evil plot to destroy everything in the universe slash starfleet (and the assumption that starfleet and the federation IS everything ((and that everyone should want to join)) is a whole other debate) and our rag-tag crew of misfits has to save the poor defenseless federation against all odds etc etc..... like i get it, big stakes = big action = big emotion. but it's too big. it's lazy. when "everything" is on the line, characters don't have to justify why they're risking their lives because, duh, it's obvious, they're doing it because they have to etc etc. there's literally no believable alternative in the narrative.

whereas a smaller scale issue (i.e. voyager stuck in the DQ, dealing with the cardassian occupation of bajor, and so on; still big problems to solve! but they don't affect the entire fabric of society) has moral gray areas and also specific goals the main characters should achieve other than just "save everyone in the universe". the characters could and did question their own motives and actions because there wasn't one right answer! the shows were about thinking about what the right answer was!!! how am i supposed to believe that the real treasure was the friends we made along the way if i don't care about the ""way"" in the first place????

[garashir]

according to my enterprise posts I have watched through season 2??? I’m watching it from the beginning now and I have no memory of any of this

[incognitomoustache]

Dr. Yuris: "The mind-meld was performed against her will." Dr. Oratt: "Can you verify this?" T'Pol: "Why? So you can perpetuate your double standard? Condemn the infected when they meld by choice and sympathize with them when they don't? ----------------------------------- Archer: "Dr. Yuris has been suspended." T'Pol: "...That was to be expected." Archer: "They offered him a hearing, but he refused. Oratt said he'll lose his standing with the Medical Exchange when they get back to Vulcan." T'Pol: "...Also to be expected."

'Stache's list of favourite Star Trek Episodes:

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005) 2x14 – "Stigma"(6/6)

[forfuckssakejim]

the shipping on enterprise is fuckin crazy. they literally baited us for two seasons with t'pol/archer and then a season and a half of t'pol/tripp.

and then just??? idk... the fruity themes between reed and tripp and then the sexual tension between reed and and hayes is justttttttt.

this show is wild.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Enterprise "Terra Prime"

[mai-komagata]

so i rewatched arena last night

takeaways:

they say they don't recognize the ship -- that is fine, they can get different ships in like 8 years, the federation probably doesn't have a catalog of all their vessels.

they don't seem particularly confused as to what the gorn are -- you can read it as "they have never heard of it before" but they don't actually say that. Uhura seems pretty horrified to hear about the gorn. Which tracks.

Colony being destroyed and colonists being in melty face mode tracks with gorn doing what they do to colonies.

This being a weird territorial dispute is not a bad angle -- federation thinks they are to blame, but maybe those are there ritual breeding grounds and we are impinging.

Kirk feels revulsion at the gorn, which tracks our experience of them so far.

Juveniles being super fast and agile and old gorn being lumbering but super strong tracks with a lot of lizard species.

I liked the "these are incomprehensible evil creatures" angle in arena, and I think that meshes with xenomorph experience, in a way simply lizard suit + alien language wouldn't for modern audiences.

Kirk (and Spock) showing compassion for the gorn angle is def interesting. And def more hearfelt if you have all this gorn history, which would make compassion difficult. You'd hope Kirk would generally have compassion for a random alien species. But it makes a more compelling narrative if they have thus far been presented as incomprehensible monsters until Arena, because then the compassion is more radical, and the encounter with the Metrons made them realize otherwise.

[fluorescentbrains]

cease fire is a great episode of television because archer went down to that planet with no plan for brokering peace between two more advanced civilizations but to flirt his little ass off. And it worked

[papasmistakeria]

Mirror Archer: Why are you torturing this random tellarite crewman?

Mirror Reed:

[tocourtdisaster]

Why didn’t Enterprise end with Terra Prime? It’s the perfect finale and it would have saved us from the absolute train wreck that was These are the Voyages.

[quinnntillion]

the faith of the heart hater to faith of the heart lover pipeline