#nx season 3

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why is northern exposure season 3 just back to back to back bangers

like every single episode is classic beyond time

[northernexposureonly]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

(Original Air Dates in the US)

SEASON THREE / 23 EPISODES (1991/1992)

23.09. - 3x01 The Bumpy Road To Love

30.09. - 3x02 Only You

07.10. - 3x03 Oy, Wilderness

14.10. - 3x04 Animal R Us

28.10. - 3x05 Jules Et Joel

04.11. - 3x06 The Body In Question

11.11. - 3x07 Roots

18.12. - 3x08 A-Hunting We Will Go

09.12. - 3x09 Get Real

16.12. - 3x10 Seoul Mates

06.01. - 3x11 Dateline: Cicely

13.01. - 3x12 Our Tribe

20.01. - 3x13 Things Become Extinct

03.02. - 3x14 Burning Down The House

24.02. - 3x15 Democracy In America

02.03. - 3x16 Three Amigos

09.03. - 3x17 Lost And Found

16.03. - 3x18 My Mother, My Sister

23.03. - 3x19 Wake Up Call

27.04. - 3x20 The Final Frontier

04.05. - 3x21 It Happened In Juno

11.05. - 3x22 Our Wedding

18.05. - 3x23 Cicely

[weerd1]

ENT Rewatch Starlog, 26 April, 2024: Episode 3.20 “The Forgotten”

Enterprise heads to the rendezvous coordinates provided by Degra while Archer eulogizes the 18 crewmembers lost in the battle at Azati Prime. He asks Trip to write the letter to the parents of a young woman from Trip’s team who was one of the victims, Crewman Taylor. T’Pol meanwhile is not showing more withdrawal symptoms, and the Trellium is all but gone from her system, but she has lost the ability to ignore her emotions. 

Arriving at the coordinates, Enterprise initially finds only more subspace anomalies, but then as if from nowhere, Degra’s ship appears and leads them through a cloaking field to a nearby sphere.

Archer begins to talk to Degra and the Arboreal names Jannar, then brings them on to Enterprise to show them the Reptilians recovered in the 21st century along with their bioweapon. Jannar remains somewhat skeptical but Degra begins to believe Archer. 

Trip dreams of Taylor and realizes how much she’s reminding him of his sister Elizabeth. He’s called to action though when a plasma conduit bursts, and the flow must be shut off from outside of the ship. He and Reed go out to stop the burn, and Malcolm is overheated, but they are successful. Trip repeatedly confronts Degra angrily, with both T’Pol and Archer get him to back down. 

A Reptilian ship appears planning to capture Enterprise, but Degra works with Archer to destroy them; he has seen the data Archer captured from INSIDE the damaged sphere earlier on, and it all begins to come together for him. He give Archer coordinates though a subspace corridor to appear before the Xindi council in three days and departs. 

Trip realizes how badly he’s conflating Taylor with Elizabeth and breaks down in front of T’Pol, she comforts him and they each lament how they envy how the other experiences emotions. Trip completes his letter, and says farewell to Elizabeth afterward. 

This episode puts things in place for the last act of this season with the maker of the Xindi weapon now fully aware of how the Sphere Builders have deceived them, and willing to assist. Trip’s anger with Degra works here, and we get some really good work from Connor Trinneer as Trip goes through the torment of loss. 

Yes, I still despise the “T’Pol is an addict” storyline, however nothing but praise to Jolene Blalock in how she plays it, in particular the scene where T’Pol comforts Trip.  A lot of things I’d have done differently in her story, but my little TnT/Tri’Pol/Floridaman in Space and his Gorgeous Alien Girlfriend shipper heart feels that scene keenly.  

Also, keep your eyes open for a Trek/Orville crossover before there even was an Orville, as Seth MacFarlane has a short guest role as an engineering officer Trip yells at. And this episode is very ably directed by none other than Levar Burton expanding his Trek credits!

NEXT VOYAGE: Enterprise finds some very familiar faces on “E2”!

(Images taken from the main website for @trekcore; I am happy to remove the images if asked.)

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[northernexposureonly]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 3.02 “Only You”

“Think about a woman who doesn’t know you’re thinking about her, doesn’t care you’re thinking about her…makes you think about her even more.”

[stra-tek]

Big random list of things that NEARLY happened in Star Trek with no context or citation...

Harry Kim was to appear in Picard season 3 as a Captain (possibly of the Voyager-B)

Sarek was to use the Guardian of Forever to go back in time to become Surak of Vulcan, in a Next Gen episode

An episode was pitched where an NX-01 med tech played by Alice Krige was captured and assimilated by the Borg, becoming their queen

A Star Trek movie was almost made about undoing the Kelvin Universe, and would have had Shatner and Nimoy appear

They considered having Will Riker die, Data become first officer and Thomas Riker the Ops officer in TNG's "Second Chances"

JJ Abrams wanted Nichelle Nichols to cameo as the mother of Zoe Saldana's Uhura

The first season of Enterprise was to be set on Earth, culminating with the launch of NX-01 at the end of the season

They considered a shock reveal in ENT season 4 that it was actually the Vulcans who split off from the Romulans, and Romulus was their original homeworld

William Shatner wanted to return as Kirk from the Mirror Universe, in an Enterprise episode that involved time travel and creating the mirror universe with the transporter

Elnor was going to "explore his sexuality" in early Picard season 2 plans, before a change of showrunner and his character mostly vanishing

The ENT writers wanted Shatner to play Chef, a Kirk look-a-like hired by Daniels and trained to act Kirk-like to give an important speech at some point in history the real Kirk is mysteriously absent from

Data was originally created by mysterious aliens, and was to have a twin sister

Prodigy season 2 writers discussed having Chris Pine's Kirk from the Kelvin universe join the crew for a few episodes

In the originally filmed cut of Star Trek: Generations, Kirk is shot in the back and dies

Very early discussions for what eventually became Star Trek: Picard considered an adaptation of the Star Trek: Destiny novel trilogy

These discussions span off from a Short Treks pitch where a young cadet Jean-Luc Picard met Nichelle Nichols' Uhura

Early plans for the 2009 movie had wholesale destruction of the Prime universe, including the destruction of Earth. Thank Perpetual Entertainment for getting the destruction scaled back to Romulus so Star Trek Online had a Federation left to feature

There's was a story treatment written for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock where Spock stays dead

This one might be a little sus, but Christopher Pike in Discovery season 2 was planned to be very religious and fall to his knees at one point before the Red Angel, and clash with Michael over science vs faith

Early ideas for Star Trek Into Darkness had Benedict Cumberbatch as Robert April, former Enterprise captain turned rogue

Seven of Nine was going to sacrifice herself in order for Voyager to get home

A time travel Justice League of Trek movie by Brent Spiner, bringing together all eras of goodies vs all eras of villains, was considered

Spock shot JFK to fix the timeline in a proposed sequel to The Motion Picture

Ripper/Ephraim was originally going to be a regular, if giant tardigrade, crewmember on Discovery

Prior to Leonard Nimoy's involvement in what would become the 2009 Star Trek movie, a story outline was written about prime-universe cadets Kirk and Spock, in a story inspired by TNG's "The First Duty"

The Enterprise crew went through a black hole, back in time and introduced primative man to fire in another 70's movie script

A TNG movie was written where Picard summons a hologram of James T. Kirk for advice

George Kirk was to be found in the pattern buffer of the wrecked U.S.S. Kelvin 30 years later and resurrected

Voyager's EMH was originally to take on the name of his creator early on in the show, and the first Voyager novels call him "Doc Zimmerman" assuming it would have happened by publishing time

There's concept art where the U.S.S. Cerritos is a Galaxy-class starship

Riker was planned to dislike Data, and treat him poorly because he was an android

They considered making Troi's loss of powers in "The Loss" a permanent thing, because of how much hassle they caused the writing staff

Harry Kim wasn't originally planned to survive Species 8472

[allstartrekgames]

The Roddenberry Archive

Original Release: 2023

Developer: The Roddenberry Estate, OTOY

Publisher: The Roddenberry Estate

Platform: Browser

The ultimate bridge explorer is finally here. The Roddenberry Archives brings up digital recreations of a ton of Enterprise bridges, including concept bridges brought to life. The website provides a lot of information about the various different version of the Enterprise, and what the digital recreation of the bridge is based on.

All of these bridges can be explored in full 3D. It uses cloud technology so that you get the full detail no matter what PC you’re running (although it does have to be a desktop with Chromium browser) and can walk around, interact with some objects, sit down in chairs or turn on a fly camera. With the vast amount of detail, it’s a phenomenal experience and it’s amazing to look at the bridges in detail.

It starts off with a concept bridge: the XCV-330, the ring ship Enterprise seen in pictures in films and in Enterprise. It uses an early concept for the original Enterprise, with a round holographic table and a science room above it before moving on to the NX-01, which I loved seeing in closer detail, even finding doors I never knew were there.

Then onto the NCC-1701, which gets by far the most love. It has versions of the bridge starting with a concept bridge from early production then showing us the set from The Cage, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, the TOS pilot, TOS Season 1, TOS Season 2, Mirror Universe, TOS Season 3, a live action version of the bridge from The Animated Series, the bridge from the cancelled Phase II show, The Motion Picture, Wrath of Khan and two versions of the Kelvin version bridge, each one showing different versions of the bridge.

Then we get a look at a recreation of a wild concept for a cancelled film called Planet of the Titans, which featured a redesigned Enterprise from Ralph McQuarrie, which ended up inspiring the USS Discovery. It’s a lovely bridge, but not very practical.

From there we see the Enterprise A, B, C, D and E (with the D having multiple extra rooms), all looking absolutely stunning, but it doesn’t end there. It’s fully up to date with the bridges of the Enterprise F and brand new Enterprise G, which looks absolutely glorious. It ends the Enterprises with a new version of the Enterprise J featuring a see-through hull with visible cities, parks and water inside.

But it doesn’t end there, there’s a bonus Voyager bridge, with more to come in the future – hopefully we see the rest of the hero ships as well as other locations on ships, and some non-hero ships as well as alien bridges.

I look forward to the future updates of this software.

[journodale]

Fan Theory: The miniaturization race

Ever since the JJ Abrams Star Trek film came out in 2009, I’ve been thinking a lot about the very different scale of the ship, the decision to use a power generation station and a brewery for different engine rooms, and why the USS Enterprise in that timeline would have been so much bigger than the one in the Prime Universe. Certain fan sites like Ex Astris Scientia went absolutely apoplectic about it, but I started thinking about what could have caused the differences in those timelines.

And then came Discovery, and after it Strange New Worlds, which introduced a whole host of much larger ships than we used to see in both the Original Series and the Star Trek movies, and the expectations that were raised in The Next Generation. To many fans, the progression of Enterprise designs getting progressively larger from the -A, -B, -C, -D, and -E suggested a linear pathway that as starships became more advanced, they got larger. But what if that’s not the case? And certainly, the fact that the USS Kelvin being a very large ship in the Prime Universe (again, to the apoplexy of EAS) suggests that the pathway was not, in fact, linear, and that we should consider what changed in the divergence of the timelines.

My theory: The miniaturization race.

In the prime timeline, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers began a program of trying to miniaturize its technology so that ships became more efficient, and that meant that they didn’t need the enormous powerplants that we saw in the USS Kelvin, and ships could get smaller and more streamlined as a result. There is some suggestion pre-2009 film that this was already happening. In “The Cage,” the USS Enterprise had a crew of 203, whereas by the time Kirk took command, the crew complement was over 400. This suggests that equipment had become less bulky and there was more room for crew aboard. I will note that Deep Space Nine’s “Trials and Tribble-ations” episode had Dax remarking that they “really packed” the ships of Kirk’s era with crew, but again, that may have been possible with smaller equipment.

The USS Kelvin had an enormous powerplant, in part because JJ Abrams used the Long Beach Generating Station as the engineering section, to “give credibility to the engine room of an older Starfleet ship.” If we follow that the NX-01 Enterprise underwent a refit mid-life to include a secondary hull with a larger powerplant (which Picard Season 3 essentially made canon), that begins the notion that as ships got faster, they needed larger power plants to push past Warp 5, until we got to the monstrosity of the USS Kelvin.

The NX-01 Enterprise engine room

The USS Kelvin's engine room

But this is where Starfleet started focusing on making things smaller and more efficient. By the time we get to the first season of Discovery, the USS Kelvin is no longer wildly out of scale, but ships are around its size, but in some cases, getting smaller and more efficient. While there is some debate around the various refits of the Constitution-class, given that the USS Enterprise is larger in Discovery and Strange New Worlds than it was in the original series, there can be some assumption about refit cycles.

The Eaglemoss book on the Illustrated History of the USS Enterprise and USS Enterprise-A suggests that after “The Cage,” the ship underwent a major refit for its next deep-space mission, where the nacelles were reinforced and featured additional hull plating to give them a bulkier outline, necessitating reinforcing the pylons, and that other dimensions were increased in order to install the new equipment. Strange New Worlds indicates that this program seems to have been implemented across not only Constitution-class ships, but also Sombra-class ships (which used many of the same components), but it was also suggested in the Short Treks episode “Q&A” that the larger configuration was original to Pike’s mission, that we retcon the appearance in “The Cage,” and that after Pike’s mission that the refit was to a smaller silhouette, such as the USS New Jersey seen in Picard Season 3. In either case, the upgrade cycles were nevertheless evident in what we saw onscreen.

In the Short Treks episode “Ask Not,” we saw an expansive engine room aboard the USS Enterprise, which had been refit before Strange New Worlds to a much smaller space, with a smaller and more efficient warp core (though in the first episode, “Strange New Worlds,” we did get a glimpse that the core extended a few more decks upward, with fewer open areas and catwalks), which fits the theory of miniaturization. That again got even smaller by the time of TOS, and the lore would have it that the warp core was changed from a vertical to a horizontal one under the floor of the engineering set, but would again be vertical following the refit of The Motion Picture. This is also where the limits of the miniaturization program were reached, and things started to get larger again (but not brewery larger).

The USS Enterprise's engine room from "Ask Not"

The USS Enterprise's engine room in "Strange New Worlds"

The USS Enterprise's engine room in TOS season one

The USS Enterprise's engine room in TOS season three

The refit USS Enterprise's engine room in The Motion Picture

I would also posit that the Klingons were also engaged in the miniaturization race around this time, given that the original D-7 and K’tinga cruisers seen in Discovery and Strange New Worlds also started out much larger than they did in the TOS and The Motion Picture, and we could suppose that the early prototypes of those classes were larger but as the newer tech came into place, they were able to substantially reduce the cross-sections of those ships while still retaining their general configurations, leading to the smaller versions as they went into full production.

So what about the Kelvin-universe and the much larger USS Enterprise from those films? Well, after the Narada emerged and created the separate timeline, Starfleet was spooked at how powerful that ship was and how easily it destroyed the USS Kelvin, and focused their energies on building up their weapons and defences based on the detailed scans they took of the Narada, and not on the miniaturization of technology. That meant that the powerplants of ships stayed large (brewery large), and the ships stayed big and got bigger rather than smaller and more efficient.

The Kelvin timeline USS Enterprise's brewery-style engine room, which allegedly contained multiple warp cores

Lots of catwalks and pipes in the brewery-style engine room

The Kelvin timeline USS Enterprise's second warp core from Into Darkness, filmed at the experimental nuclear fusion reactor at the National Ignition Facility.

The Klingons, who captured the damaged Narada and had it in orbit of Rura Penthe for those twenty-some years would also have been learning the secrets of its technologies (which may or may not have included Borg tech, depending on how much lore you treat as canon). Yes, that also means the USS Vengeance from Into Darkness is ridiculously large, but again, that timeline focused on bigger and more power, and not on efficiency. It's my theory on how the two timelines' technologies diverged so significantly, and I hope that it makes sense.

[whatsabagel]

my favorite part of ed’s movie

[multiverserift]

Why do so many people not like Star Trek Enterprise?

Different reasons.

The theme song broke the rules Star Trek traditionally had big orchestral arrangements as intro songs. Enterprise tried something different. The song “Where my heart will take me” is a pop rock song with actual lyrics. It also sounds like country music, which many fans associated with a rather conservative mindset. Many fans criticised the song for being campy, right wing, not Star Trek. I personally like the song, but I'm not from the US. They ruined it with a horribly worse version from season 3 on, though.

Enterprise right-wing mindset 9/11 happened two weeks before the first episode of the show aired. Especially Enterprise's 3rd season gets a lot of criticism for being too right-wing, it's basically an allegory for 9/11. This assessment seems a bit unfair. in contrast to the real US, the Enterprise crew went out of their way to clear the air and explain a misunderstanding. Not let their emotions and rage control their actions. In that regard, it's very Star Trek.

Character development The show focuses on Archer, Trip, P’Pol. Phlox and Malcolm Reed get their (fewer) moments too. But Hoshi Sato and Travis Mayweather are totally abandoned by the writers. And those two are the black man and the asian woman. Malcolm’s actor wanted to play the character gay, which was shut down by Rick Berman. So what we get from ENT (Enterprise) ist straight white characters, others get left behind. The Original Series (TOS) did the same thing. The show focusses on Kirk, Spock, McCoy. But time moved on since then. We had DS9, with a great diverse cast, a black, widowed father as the captain. Voyager with Janeway and a (sadly, fake) native American XO. After this, ENT felt out of date. The focus on the core characters gets also critiziced on Discovery.

Sexism Also out of date and forced felt the blatant “sex sells” attitude. Decon gel. Hoshi falling out of an air shaft, losing her shirt so she has to cover her breasts. Shower scenes. Star Trek in the past liked to code their sex stuff into alien metaphors. ENT was more like “look, sexy straight white people in the nude!” No nuance. Gets critiziced a lot up to this date.

Simply bad episodes Star Trek always had episodes that are really bad, since TOS. Spock's Brain is a good example for that. But ENT did worse: They even copied previous episodes. In season 1, we have an episode where a man fills his home with fake hologram people, for his daughter. Ironically the man is played by Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo in the Deep Space 9 (DS9) episode where a man fills his home with fake hologram people. Phlox in season 3 has to stay awake while the whole crew sleeps. For weeks. He starts hallucinating. In a precious Voyager episode, Seven of Nine had to stay awake while the whole crew sleeps. For weeks. She starts hallucinating. Even in the (liked and well received by many) season 3, there are episodes that are just bad, like Extinction. And they are so bad that you can't even watch them and have fun, like DS9’s Move Along Home. And the there are episodes where the solution of the ethical dilemma just feels off and un-Star Trek-y. Cogenitor. Dear Doctor. Yeah, some episodes of ENT simply suck. More than usual.

Akiraprise The NX-01, the titular ship of Enterprise, is just an upside down version of the Akira class from the TNG (The Next Generation) era. Felt like copy-paste. People were upset.

Enterprise is still good Finally, I want to tell you that , besides the bad stuff, I like ENT. I love the design of the NX-01. They had to ruin it with the refit, though. Although this doesn't happen in the show. Just in extended canon. There are great characters here, great stories, great retro design. The interior design, the retro bridge, the retro warp core were actually of the most expensive assets created at the time. For all of TV. So I recommend to watch Enterprise. It's mostly nice. It has Shran. The final episode never happened.

[weerd1]

ENT Rewatch Starlog, 21 April, 2024: Episode 3.19 “Damage”

The NX-01 continues to reel from the Xindi attack, when suddenly the ships break off. It is too late to save the warp drive however, as their primary warp coil has been damaged beyond the capacity Tucker can repair; they are trapped in this part of space.

The Reptilians rail at the other XIndi who stopped the attack, but the council has been at least partially swayed by Archer’s arguments. They insist on Archer being transferred to the council instead of the Reptilians holding him, and later reach out to the Sphere Builders to question if they had assisted the Reptilians in working behind the XIndi council’s back to go back to the 21st Century and try to drop a bio-weapon. The Sphere Builder admits it, but says it was to help hold the Xindi council together in this critical time, and to remember who the real enemy is. Degra is not convinced. 

Enterprise picks up an escape pod from a Xindi ship and is surprised to find Archer on board. As Hoshi translates the pod’s data, she finds evidence that the Xindi scientist Degra has arranged for Archer’s return, and he has provided a rendezvous point in space set for a few days later. With the warp drive inoperable, it’s impossible. 

T’Pol begins to become more erratic and have strange dreams; she risks her life to get into a damaged cargo bay and secure some Trellium D. We later her see her process the mineral and inject it into her neck.

Enterprise is approached by an alien vessel damaged in the Expanse. Archer offers to trade Trellium and other supplies for a warp coil. The alien captain refuses as it will strand their ship three years from home. After much deliberation and an almost violent argument with the unstable T’Pol, they go ahead with a plan to board and take the coil by force. They leave supplies and protections with the aliens; when confronted by the alien captain, Archer tells him, “I have no choice.”

T’Pol confesses to Phlox that she has become addicted to the presence of Trellium D, and he offers to help her through withdrawal, as the ship warps away with its stolen engine to reach Degra’s coordinates.  

Enterprise takes on some DS9 level ethical questions here, and for the most part it’s a pretty interesting study. There does not seem to be any other way to face the problems ahead, and Archer having to question his moral code, and even break it is itself heartbreaking. The idea of an unavoidable war would have been pretty solidly in the minds of the writers when this episode aired, and one can certainly debate if there is such a thing, or how we should or should not respond when we as individuals, or as a society, face that choice. 

Something that diminishes the overall argument though, and certainly T’Pol voicing her opposition, is my single most disliked story element in all of Enterprise: T’Pol’s addiction to Trellium D. The show certainly has its foibles, but Rick Berman and Brannon Braga making T’Pol an addict to subvert her strength infuriates me.  It’s a consistent theme in their era, subverting or diminishing women, and luckily individual writers and performers were able to keep these characters inspirational anyway. What really makes this all the worse for me in this rewatch, is there really isn’t a lot of lead up to this. Yeah, we know Trellium affects Vulcans from earlier in the season, but we don’t really get a slow burn of T’Pol suffering this addiction (unless we want to say her feelings for Trip ARE the anomaly, and I REFUSE that outright: T&T=OPT) that might warrant such a turn; it’s really just this episode when the ship is damaged and she can’t get her fix.  

What KILLS me here, is if you wanted to have something affect her for the drama, you could just as easily have said the damage to the ship, so many hull breaches, had increased her exposure to Trellium used to protect the ship, and had begun to change her mental state. Nope, we instead get a scene where she risks her life to get her drug and we even get the 22nd Century equivalent of holding a lighter under a spoon. Disgraceful, Berman and Braga, and bless you Jolene Blalock for managing to keep an engaging performance. 

There’s a neat moment in this episode though where Hoshi and Travis have a conversation about whether they will get home. Considering how criminally underused they both are this season, that was nice to see. And speaking of DS9, always good to see Casey Biggs who doesn’t get the grist that other show gave him as Damar, but glad he gets some more Trek under his belt. 

I would be fascinated to know though why in the age of computer models that ENT was already delving into, why the alien ship is obviously the repurposed main hull of a Romulan Warbird? 

NEXT VOYAGE: Funerals and a chance at halting the Xindi, if the NX-01 can remember “The Forgotten.” 

(Images taken from the main website for @trekcore; I am happy to remove the images if asked.)

[whovianwatchingstartrek]

A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 072 - The Ship that Waited

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 3 Episode 21 - E²

Somewhat unusually we open with some old Vulcan Woman. Apparently, another 7 million people are dead, and this Vulcan needs to find Archer. What is happening?

After the intro, we cut to T'Pol on Enterprise, and Trip is stopping by for Neuropreasure, but because of T'Pol's heightened emotional state, she's reluctant to spend time with him. Apparently she hasn't left her quarters unless she's on duty.

Really really strangely, Enterprise encounters another Starfleet NX class ship. It can't be the NX-02, because it's still under construction, and then, the name of the ship comes on Screen: It's another Enterprise.

The crew of this second enterprise, captained by a Vulcan warns them that they'll be thrown back in time if they travel forwards. A perfectly reasonable explanation for how this has all come about, even if the attempt to stop it happening transgresses the First Law of Time.

Apparently the Lorian's Enterprise has ways to modify Archer's Enterprise to reach speeds as high as Warp 6.9, which definitely gonna be helpful! Archer and T'Pol don't believe Lorian however, so they got o Phlox to check DNA and apparently Lorian is Trip and T'Pol's child, which is a bit of a huge reveal!

Lorian got a nice scene with Trip. Apparently Lorian's Enterprise's Trip died when he was young, and the scene is kinda sad. Archer also got to spend time with his great granddaughter, and even with a much older T'Pol.

Lorian is an absolutely amazing character. He's sort of a reflection of the path Archer started going down in Damage. Just like Archer there, he's filling to sabotage Archer's Enterprise in the name of his mission, and justifies it with "We have no other option". Hopefully, this serves as a wake up call for Archer.

A firefight between both enterprise ensues, and Archer's solution of Transporting Lorian's Enterprise's key components onto our own enterprise was a genius way of getting around their equal firepower.

Lorian's Enterprise's sacrifice at the end, to keep fire off of Archer's enterprise was a really touching ending, and redemption for his character. I hope this isn't the end for him, but it seems like he either went down or it's mission erased itself from history. I would make a Faction Paradox reference, but not even most Whovians would understand that.

This episode was really good. Both crews interactions with eachother were brilliant, and the premise of this episode was a very creative way of furthering Trip and T'Pol's relationship. This episode feels a lot like Eleventh Doctor episode "The Girl Who Waited", just with less tragedy to it, and that is a high compliment. This was a really good episode.

[northernexposureonly]

LIST OF EPISODES

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 3.03 “Oy, Wilderness”

“Five-thousand-some-odd years of recorded history, centuries of thought and planning, trial and error, research and development, finally, indoor plumbing is perfected. And, in one fell swoop, I’m reduced to squatting in the woods like a German Shepherd!”

[isagrimorie]

for the reverse unpopular opinion – 12 Monkeys and Star Trek Enterprise? (thought i'd give you one easy one and one hard one)

for this ask game: Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme

Let's start with something hard:

Star Trek Enterprise:

This is... going to be interesting. I'm not a fan of this show and it has alienated me from the first time I've watched it.

But I will give this the good old College Try.

Things I like about Enterprise: I appreciate that as a show, it was trying a new thing and that it was experimental. They tried to distance itself from the Star Trek franchise by not using 'Star Trek' at first, but they returned to it.

I appreciate NX-01's sparse interiors that gave it a more submarine look showing it's one of the first ships out in space. It reminded me a bit of SeaQuest but for space.

I appreciate seeing an Asian woman in space! I wish there was more of Hoshi just like I wish there was more of Toshi Sato on Torchwood. But also there are more Japanese surnames than Sato.

T'Pol was really interesting and I appreciate T'Pol and Trip's love story and how hard it is for them as the first Vulcan/Human pairing. Jolene Blalock is also a good actress.

Braga and Berman handed-off the show to Manny Coto who did a really good job for season 4. Only good things can come from that except for the finale.

Phlox is a fun character.

Now for the easy one!

12 Monkeys

"Death Can be Undone. But Love cannot."

I wish 12 Monkeys was more popular than it is.

It's so damned good. 12 Monkeys has a really great cast of characters, I love the awesome women.

I love how everyone is so complicated and messy. The first season, admittedly, is slow because it was building blocks for what will happen but also if you watched the last season and the first season -- it legit blew my mind because it contextualized a lot of moments in season 1.

Season 2 is when 12 Monkeys becomes the show it wanted to be from the start. (SyFy forced Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett to rebrand their show idea from something original to 12 Monkeys).

IMO, 12 Monkeys is the best Time Travel show I've ever watched. It also had such a great soundtrack!

It is also such a romantic show, in every sense of the word. The whole beating heart of why the characters do what they do. Right or wrong and right and wrong. Because of love.

Cassandra Railly

Goes through a journey from the beginning to the end -- she starts thrown into the middle of a time travel story. She cares so much for people but ends up hardened and cynical.

She always, always is about owning her own agency. (Season 3 starting episodes are rough because of that). Right or wrong, she owns her decisions and she doesn't want anyone to take that from her.

Jennifer Goines

The Artist Currently Known As Primary! Jennifer started out very lost in season 1 and first half of season 2, she's had a tragic childhood but when she finally knows who she is in this 'verse and what she can do, she slowly gains power.

And, essentially, Jennifer is the most Important Person on this 'verse

Dr. Katarina Jones

She's the leader of the Splinter program. Katarina Jones is like Kathryn Janeway except a lot more morally gray and more willing to be ruthless. She will do whatever it takes to fulfill her goal.

And she starts off unlikable (but I actually liked her from the jump). She is complicated and thorny. And she has hubris for days.

And, of course just like Janeway -- she has a moment when Jones meets her past self and it's just as fun when Past and Present/Future Janeway meet!

In the beginning, Team Splinter didn't even like each other much but by the end of the series they are a family.

It's a serious show but 12 Monkeys also has time for levity and fun, a fun time travel heist in the 80s is one that comes to mind. Or when some team member gets stuck in the past and has to find a way to earn some money.

Or when the team realized they had to steal from their past selves.

Anyway, I highly recommend this show:

"Iniate:"

"Splinter Sequence."

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Star Trek Explorer Issue 3 (2003)

Weapons Overload With a new complement of weapons at his disposal (including photon torpedoes!), the Enterprise NX-01's armory officer and all-round tough guy is looking forward to entering the Delphic Expanse in the third season of Enterprise. Filming has just got underway on the Paramo8utn backlot as we went to press, but Reed's alter-ego, British actor Dominic Keating, is already aremed, Dangerous and in the mood to kick some Xindi butt! Over the next few pages, he gives Nick Joy the low-down on what's to come in Season Three.

You've started work on Season Three. What can we look forward to?

We now have a crack team of SAS-type military bods on board who are called the MACO. They are Starfleet's finest GI's, and that's put the spanner right up Reed because he's being undermined and having his position jeopardised. A new character, Major Hayes, is in charge of them and looks like he'll be Malcolm's arch nemesis. He's played by Steven Culp, who played Bobby Kennedy in Thirteen Days and has a recurring role in Jag. (Significantly, he also played Picard's new first officer Martin Madden in the deleted scene from the end of Nemesis). There's a lot of action in this first episode and a particularly good scene with these bright young MACO lads. I have a feeling that when they show the first episode, and the fans react favourably to these big action sequences, then we'll see a lot more of these guys.

Are there changes to the principal cast?

T'Pol has had a big makeover to make her more prettified and feminine; it was quite a revelation when Jolene (Blalock) walked on to the set yesterday with longer hair and in her sexy new coloured outfit. There were a lot of 'ooohs' and 'aaaahs'.

Has Malcolm Reed been given a makeover?

No, I'm the only one who didn't get touched! I'm kinda hacked off about it to be honest. Connor (Trinneer) has a slightly new hairstyle, and so has Scott (Bakula). So has Linda (Park), now I get to think about it. I can never tell with Anthony (Montgomery) whether he's got a new style, but he assures me that it was changed!

So, do you foresee an increase in conflict this year?

Absolutely. Already we're off to the save the captain, again. Some things never change! He's in a fix and we're going deeper into the Expanse to find him and meet the Xindi. I think this is going to constitute our mission for at least this year. Rather than being an episodic show, Enterprise is now going to have a theme running right through a large part of the season.

Is Malcolm looking forward to deploying those new weapons?

Oh yeah! And at least I know that they are now. One fan asked me at a convention whether I had photon torpedoes in my armoury and I went, "Dude, I don' t know anything about them, except that they're grey".

How do you see Malcolm developing this year?

It seems fairly self-evident that one of my main dramatic tensions this year will be with Major Hayes, and I'm noticing a brewing dissatisfaction between Malcolm and the captain. He's upset by the captain's silence in allowing this team to be put on board and it's speaking volumes to him that the captain doesn't think Malcolm is up to the job for this mission. And this, of course, gets right under his skin.

Have the producers shared with you Malcolm's longer-term story arc?

They keep us completely in the dark about what's happening. I've got no idea what next week's episode is about and whether or not I'll even be in it. I do hope that they give me some more stuff with Tripp as they've set all the groundwork. We've got a friendship and a professional respect, but we also rub each other up the other way, so there's plenty of scope to develop this as this expanse of space starts testing us all.

After two failed attempts, might Malcolm try to seduce T'Pol again?

That's not going to happen, They've left that up to Trip, the swine! No, the blonde hunky boy gets the hot love interest. There's a scene in this first episode where Trip can't sleep because he's ailing after his sister's death and Phlox suggests that he Trip goes to see T'Pol. There's a very sexy scene, which I think they are filming even as we speak at twenty past eight in the morning. It's heavily implied in the writing that there will be some sexual frisson between these two characters this years.

Do you enjoy being the 'Englishman abroad' for Star Trek?

Yeah, but I've been in America for ten years now and I don't feel like an alien, if you pardon the pun! I'm very much at ease and au fait with how Americans are. I really like them; you just don't want to eat with them (laughs)!

Are you happy that Malcolm has developed from being this uptight 'stiff upper lip' Brit?

I think Brannon (Braga, Enterprise's executive producer) proved that when he wrote 'Shuttlepod One' and that scene with Scott in Minefield. I know he likes writing for Malcolm, but I think he's also aware that the main thrust of our show is the Captain, the Vulcan babe and an American blonde six-foot guy. They're writing an American show for an American audience and I think I'm a nice salt and pepper flavour to mix up the taste here and there. They've seen what I can do and they're happy with that. I'm a good gun on their hip that they can throw in whenever they want, and I'm quite happy with that.

Are the hours really punishing on the show?

Jolene and Connor work very long hours, and to some extent so does Scott. Scott is there a lot of the time but they do try and make is as easy as possible for the star. I sometimes get four or five days off in a stretch and I love that. I've just come back from hiatus after travelling round the world and to be quite hones I'm looking forward to getting back to work to have some rest! I don't mind that they only throw me three or four good episodes a year that are really meaty for me - I'm a good filler for them.

Have you been in any other projects?

I haven't gone arduously looking for other work this hiatus. I think my main thrust now is to direct. Most of last year when I wasn't actually acting I was sitting in the edit suite, shadowing directors and going to the LA film school. I already know how to act - I've done it since I was ten years old - and I'm kind of intrigued about starting a new career at this point in my life.

Could you be following in the directorial footsteps of such Star Trek stars as LeVar Burton and Roxann Dawson?

I just directed a little public access show here in LA called The Heartbreak Café, and a couple of past Star Trek incumbent have done it - Roxann Dawson and Tim Russ. LeVar Burton works very quickly; he doesn't mess around with umpteen takes and I really respect that.

To date, Malcolm's inventions have included the red alert sirens and the ship's shields. Any aspirations to invent anything new this year?

God, I don't know. Maybe some x-ray specs for when I'm looking at T'Pol? Next question!

Finally, if you had a wish for this year, what would it be?

I just hope that our ratings pull up, it would be nice to be sitting on a bona fide hit show, and not some old horse that it still on the race track. I've been around the world meeting fans at conventions and God knows the fan base is healthy. The trouble is that there's so many channels on cable and satellite these days. There's even a horse channel and I'm convinced we've lost a lot of our regular viewers to that station!