Thursday, January 24, 2002
Anyone catch Enterprise this week and the Dear Doctor episode? It was pretty good and that's my take on the series so far, it's pretty good but no great episodes yet. But then it took the other incarnations of Star Trek awhile to get moving too and I'm not sure Voyager ever did unless you wanna argue that it immediately got better when Seven of Nine joined (and you'll get no argument from me LOL).
I digress, it featured Doctor Phlox in a diary episode. I find him to be the most interesting character so far although I'm sure there would be some votes for Tits'Po (we males are so easily brought into a show ehl. To nitpick some more though the idea has been rehashed how many times now? That's the only thing about each series is the sporadic similarity in stories. Who recalls the STNG episode where Data does the same thing where he's recording a message while we see him living the activities he's recording? The human characters are just never very interesting though are they? I'm not sure if that's on purpose or just the way we view the show? Maybe it's because they can write stories more easily with alien characters and how they interact with humans. Again, the similarities of Dear Doctor and the Data episode come to mind. Both episodes featured a part where they were struggling with what it means to be human. Oh, wait, some more nitpicking, you knew that the Prime Directive was gonna get a mention soon and I even predicted it in an email awhile back but that was like shooting fish in a barrel. But why would Archer say it's only a matter of time before they (Earth) tell him what he can and cannot do out there? Too obvious a reference...
I digress, it featured Doctor Phlox in a diary episode. I find him to be the most interesting character so far although I'm sure there would be some votes for Tits'Po (we males are so easily brought into a show ehl. To nitpick some more though the idea has been rehashed how many times now? That's the only thing about each series is the sporadic similarity in stories. Who recalls the STNG episode where Data does the same thing where he's recording a message while we see him living the activities he's recording? The human characters are just never very interesting though are they? I'm not sure if that's on purpose or just the way we view the show? Maybe it's because they can write stories more easily with alien characters and how they interact with humans. Again, the similarities of Dear Doctor and the Data episode come to mind. Both episodes featured a part where they were struggling with what it means to be human. Oh, wait, some more nitpicking, you knew that the Prime Directive was gonna get a mention soon and I even predicted it in an email awhile back but that was like shooting fish in a barrel. But why would Archer say it's only a matter of time before they (Earth) tell him what he can and cannot do out there? Too obvious a reference...
