Archer:: "Could you read it when I'm done?"
T'Pol: "I'd be happy to."

Hey, Star Trek writers: Pay closer attention! This is a stupid mistake.

There are several explanations, two of which would be that it's a standard English phrase with a meaning slightly different than that which it's individual words convey, and that T'Pol was just trying to fit in culturaly with the crew. Or, she's spending too much time with humans and developing some bad, non-vulcan habits.

Frankly, when you're segmenting the quality of a show based on episodes NOT sucking, then something is seriously eff'd up.

Yeah the plot was a little familar. But it worked. Funny how Vulcans always seem to be imune to everything and all other species come down with the bug. Also that the Vulcan nerve pinch seems to work on EVERYBODY, and T'Pol is good at it. Now how about an episode where they run into Harcourt Fenton Mudd's grandfather?

I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I've come to the conclusion that the Vulcan nerve pinch must involve use of their telepathic abilities. After all, there's no guarentee nerves will be running in the same places in all humanoid species - but they do all seem to have spinal chords. It could be that the hand position is simply to get physical contact with a part of the body close to the spinal chord and the base of the brain, from where a telepathic wham can be delivered.

Not that those in charge of Star Trek today care anything about continuity. By the end of Enterprise's run, the ability to do a vulcan nerve pinch will directly correlate to the size of T'Pols Breasts. (ok yeah, so I'm a little bitter :)

While I did enjoy most of the characters particular obsessions; especially Yoshi's barking agrilly about the soup. I was dissapointed at the familiarity of the plot.

Yes, one can point out minor changes. It was radiation and not gravitational forces that forced the behavior. The Vulcan is somehow immune to this radiation. In the end, however, I saw a rehashed idea played out. Unoriginal and unimpressive.

With stories such as this I wonder what exactly are the requirements of a screen writer of Star Trek; Perhaps a knowledge of classical TV shows & movies?

What did we learn about the true character of any of the NX-01 crew? Only that Hoshi has a favorite Japanese soup. Opportunity lost, in my book.

I actually kind of liked this episode, mostly due to the "red alert" and clear tie-ins with TOS. I was half expecting the "fixed" captain's chair to turn out to be Kirk's box-of-a-chair. :-)

We may not have learned much "true character" types of things about the crew, but there definitely were some new character developments.

Regarding the plot recycling/derivation, this has *always* been a big trait of ST; I suspect even with TOS you could find traces of repetition from other shows (perhaps westerns) it drew from. I kind of consider it on the same level as remakes of old plays (e.g., Othello retold as a western, etc.)

So I expect we're going to get the "alien-influenced crew-member takes over the ship" plot, the "crew has to mutiny against the captain, but for a good reason" plot, "strange alien appears to be destroying the Enterprise, but really it's just a strange form of life and means no harm, and is just hungry|lonely|confused|lost", etc.

Also, is it just me, or with the promo for the next ep is it starting to seem like this this crew is a bit "clothing challenged"? ;-)

I actually kind of liked this episode, mostly due to the "red alert" and clear tie-ins with TOS. I was half expecting the "fixed" captain's chair to turn out to be Kirk's box-of-a-chair. :-)

Same here ;-) One thing that struck me at the end was: "there's a *lot* of present day engineers that need to learn Trip's lesson, and not just hardware engineers"

But even though it had its fun aspects, overall I thought it was boring and clearly the Naked Time for this series.

I still think that Trek could go original, but hey... we can't expect that. One good way to do something different would be to crash the ship, lose a few unimportant crew members (non-regulars), and stay wrecked on a planet/asteroid for a few weeks.

Was I the only one disappointed by the fact that while the men got obsessed with things pertaining to their jobs (except Archer), the only obsessive woman shown, Hoshi, was worried about her performance in the kitchen? Any way I look at it, it seems sexist. Is the only way to flesh out a female character to expose her feminine side? These writers seem to think so...

The master of commications has however been shown as a poster child for fear and uncertainty. That it happen to a female character may suggest such a thing except the other regular female character shows less emotional reaction. In fact she was immune. Would that not balance?

It was all just a dream ?? WTF ? !!! Could it ****POSSIBLY******** suck any MORE ???

I just watched it on tape. I should have turned it off during the last commercial. It still would have felt like a ripoff of the TNG episode (The Next Phase, if memory serves) but at least it would have been salvagable.