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palfrey at 12:28am on 26/04/2005
palfrey at 12:28am on 26/04/2005You've probably seen bits and pieces of the failed attempt to save Enterprise. Despite it being the retarded step-child of the 'Trek family, it still has its fans. Heck, I'm still watching it (this says nothing about it's quality - I will watch practically any sci-fi series). While watching this weeks episode, I've finally figured out what they should have done. The major inspiration for this being the episode "In A Mirror, Darkly" (don't worry, this will be spoiler-limited), which is a semi-continuation of an Original series episode based in a mirror-Trek universe. In short, everyone's bad. And it's great. *This* is what they should have done. Sod the existing plotlines, give me a series or 7 of the mirror universe. Points in its favour:
1) Far better start sequence. The tune still isn't brilliant, but it's way better than the normal Enterprise one.
2) More explosions, more battles. They're the bad guys, so the general feel is "shoot first, shoot second, then make sure they're dead".
3) Women. None of this Orion slave girl crap, no hinted-possible-vaguely-defined-relationships. The women on this crew are having some fun here, and getting to be equally as evil as the male characters to boot.
4) No prime directive-lite morality. Series where the characters are often pretty much only out for number one are fun (ref: Farscape, Firefly).
I could keep going, but you get the drift.
1) Far better start sequence. The tune still isn't brilliant, but it's way better than the normal Enterprise one.
2) More explosions, more battles. They're the bad guys, so the general feel is "shoot first, shoot second, then make sure they're dead".
3) Women. None of this Orion slave girl crap, no hinted-possible-vaguely-defined-relationships. The women on this crew are having some fun here, and getting to be equally as evil as the male characters to boot.
4) No prime directive-lite morality. Series where the characters are often pretty much only out for number one are fun (ref: Farscape, Firefly).
I could keep going, but you get the drift.
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Ensign Type - Captain (Arse-face under breath), we've encountered a new alien lifeform. What should we do?
Captain - Are they hot? As hot as the triple breasted women from Fellatio Seven? Or do we just need to kill them all?
Ensign - They are rating 8.9 on the Hot-O-Meter, Sir. However, this is not taking into account an almost constant screeching noise this species produces.
Captain - Sounds like an excellent time to take up necrophilia again. Open Fire!
Hell... I'd watch it.
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I think that would get classified under "more ways to get the series renewed", but I'm talking more about less hinting and more direct mentioning of sexual relationships between crew members, rather than actual full-on sex scenes.
I actually really quite like the whole Trip/T'pol thing, especially in the more recent ones where they've occasionally gotten a bit less subtle. Admittedly, a major part of me is interested in it as a part of the wider Enterprise theme of the development of the Vulcan species into the people we knew from the later series, but that's just the Star Trek sociological geek in me....