Monday, December 25, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 46 Horizon

 


The writers must have been desperate for content because another Travis Mayweather episode that required the horrible acting of Anthony Montgomery to carry the episode.  His performances never got better.  He desperately needed acting classes.  His dialogue delivery was always so telegraphed and fake.  It’s unclear how he got the job.  His character was best left to background support with one or two lines.  Anything more was always a fail.  Perhaps the creators thought Montgomery needed time to work out the bugs.  But really Star Trek should have recast the actor because Montgomery truly was life draining in everything he did on the show.  

 

The episode is about Travis Mayweather and his family.  Stuff happens.  Everyone lives happily ever after. It can be skipped.  

 

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Monday, December 18, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 45 Judgment

 


Another Kangaroo Court episode via the world of Star Trek.  It’s similar to the episode Tribunal in Star Trek Deep Space Nine.  But in this case Archer convinces the Klingon attorney to be a better lawyer.  Even though Archer is found guilty and sentenced to life on Rura Penthe, he’s easily rescued.  Best part of the episode is that Rura Penthe was the same prison Captain Kirk and Dr McCoy were sent to in Star Trek VI the Undiscovered country. It’s really the only thing that makes the episode worth watching.  Otherwise it’s fairly by the numbers and predictable.   

 

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Monday, December 11, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 44 The Crossing

 


Another, almost copycat episode.  This Enterprise episode is similar to Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Power Play.   On Enterprise a bunch of incorporeal aliens start possessing the crew and taking them over.  They claim to be nice but really they’re jerks.  On TNG a few of the crew get their bodies abducted by some jerk aliens who claim to be former federation souls who want to free their souls but it turns out they’re trying to escape a prison.  

 

While the Enterprise episode isn’t bad, it’s redundant.  When countless shows tackle these problems and beat them to death, it’s not very exciting.  The creators of Enterprise stated it ended before its time because of fan fatigue.  But when creators keep rehashing episode gimmicks from its prior shows, what’s supposed to be a fresh take on the franchise becomes tiresome.  

 

Written by
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Friday, December 8, 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water

This is a hard film to size up. I've always stated that James Cameron is the master of the sequel. His first feature film was Piranha II: The Spawning a film riddled with problems. Cameron was forbidden to edit the film so he broke into the editing room in Rome and cut his own version while the film's producers were at Cannes, he was caught though and the film was recut without his input. Decades later he would go on to say Piranha II is the best mutant killer Piranha film ever made. A claim that is difficult to disprove. That experience is probably what caused Cameron to be such a control freak on all future productions. 

 

Speaking of strictly sequels in his career, Cameron went onto write Rambo: First Blood Part II, which has better action and a happier ending.  It’s hard to go as far as to say Rambo II is better than the original First Blood which carried a more dramatic message but there were improvements from the first film to the second and the story wasn’t just a rehash of the original. 

 

He followed that with writing and directing the sequel to Alien called Aliens.  Because what’s scarier than one space monster? Multiple space monsters.  Cameron shows his depth of character development with this masterpiece.  In a film characters have to start one way and be changed by the end.  In TV they are never really supposed to change.   George Costanza is always cheap and scheming, Jerry Seinfeld is always callous and uncaring.   At the end of Alien the character of Ripley is the lone survivor of a horrifying ordeal, she carries that experience into the sequel. She goes back to the original planet of the Alien to confront her demons.  Antics ensue, we learn what type of guy Paul Reiser really is.  



In 1991 we get the best action film ever made.  Terminator 2: Judgment Day.  The follow-up to Cameron’s 84 hit The Terminator.  Another great sequel.  In the original film we have Sarah Connor another female who survives a traumatic ordeal.  Instead of remaking Aliens in early 90s California, he completely shifts the plot.  Sarah is a side character in the film.  John Connor and the T-800 are the main focus of this story.  The plot is brilliant.  Instead of just a survival story it becomes a story about changing your fate, family, overcoming tragedy.  

 

Cameron understands that a film is supposed to be a story about a life-changing event in character’s life.  From event the person is forever changed.  When you go into the sequel, you have to show how those people have changed.  Sarah Connor becomes an apocalyptic nut job.  Her son doesn’t share that trauma with her, he can easily friend a killer robot from the future.  

 

In 2003 James Cameron makes the documentary Ghost of the Abyss.  Many don’t see this as a sequel, just a documentary about Titanic.   But when coming off the biggest money making film of all time, you can’t make a direct sequel about a real ship that sinks.  Cameron figures out how to make a follow-up to the blockbuster by producing/directing a documentary about the actual Titanic.  



In 2022 we get Avatar: The Way of Water, the sequel to Avatar, which after 13 years people have forgotten about.  It’s as if Cameron realized people wouldn’t remember the first film so the sequel is almost a rehash of the first film.  But it’s not an exact retelling of the first film like The Hangover 2.  It makes enough changes for it to be interesting, then throws in a ton more characters.  He lazily brings back the villain from the first film.  From a writing standpoint it’s easier to bring back a familiar bad guy than create a new one.  But at 3 hours and 15 minutes, he probably could have devoted time to making a new villain.  


Is the story better than the first? No.  Is it worse than the first? No.  It’s certainly no Empire Strikes Back.  Cameron has 2 more sequels planned.  This film seemed like a long recap story of what is to come next.  It’s almost as if the real Avatar 2 is actually going to be Avatar 3.  

 

The film was certainly enjoyable to watch.  The story felt like it was a hybrid of a ton of other stories that have been told before.   The original Avatar felt like Dances of Wolves meets the Smurfs.  This diversified its derivative story telling with the expanded cast.  Sometimes you feel like you’re watching Jaws II with the kids stranding on the boat.  Other times it feels like you’re watching Free Willy with the outcast kid befriending a whale.  Then you have the original Avatar in there but instead of trying to mine a fuel source, they are killing whales for a brain fluid that stops the aging process. They just trade one McGuffin for another.  It feels a little like Star Trek IV the Voyage Home.  



Hollywood films are a ton of recycled ideas tossed in a blender with different genres, so there’s nothing wrong with the story formula.  Why does Avatar 2 feel off?  Perhaps it’s because if the over three hour runtime the audience doesn’t leave with a clear resolution.  None of the characters appear to grow significantly; the bad guy isn’t truly defeated.  It really is just one long story.  Streaming and binge watching have made people more accustomed to long narratives; those shows are still episodic in nature.  For a feature to try this is unusual.  

 

Like many franchise films these days, the true value of this film may only be determined by its follow-ups.  Star Wars: The Force Awakens may have been a more liked film if its successors were better.  Since The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were less than stellar, The Force Awakens becomes the intro into a trilogy that people are lackluster about.  

 

Does Avatar 2 stand on its own?  It’s almost impossible to determine.  James Cameron recycled every single trick he’s ever used in every other film he ever made to tell this new story. Look at the shots, story elements, special effects, actions, villains.  You can pick any of those points out of the film and place them into one of Cameron’s prior works.  Is that a testament to a brilliant filmmaker embracing his knowledge and style?  Or is it someone who’s lost his touch as a genuine director who would bring us something new and original in each of his films?  






Written by
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Monday, December 4, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 43 Canamar

 


Captain Archer and Commander Tucker end up falsely arrested and on a prison freighter.  Two of the prisoners revolt and they’re now helping the escapees outrun their pursuers.  Archer bonds with the leader escaping.  The dude plans to kill everyone on the ship.  Enterprise shows up in time to help save everyone.  

 

It is like the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Gambit but told in one episode.  Picard is investigating some shady criminal by pretending to be a criminal and then ropes Riker into the uncover opp. 

 

While Archer and Tucker aren’t undercover they certainly play-up their suspicion of being criminals.  The episode isn’t terrible, though a little derivative of other countless shows that have done the same thing with prison escape attempts.  

 

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Friday, December 1, 2023

Unboxing

Monday, November 27, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 42 Future Tense

 


This is part of the Temporal Cold War story arc which fans hated but this episode is spectacular.  Enterprise finds a derelict spaceship with dead human pilot and layers of mystery surrounding it.  Just about every random alien in the galaxy starts attacking Enterprise trying to get the spaceship.  It features the THOLIANS!!! Who were only ever seen in the Star Trek original series episode The Tholian Web.  Any episode that connected Enterprise to the original series was always welcomed.  It’s a huge mystery about why the ship is so important but it doesn’t matter because the action is was solid.   

 

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Monday, November 20, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 41 Cease Fire

 


ANDORIANS!!! We love any episode with the Andorians.  They were the best part of Star Trek Enterprise and this episode is no acceptation.  The Vulcans and Andorians are at war and want Captain Archer to mediate a cease-fire.  The action is great, Tucker acting as Captain is spot-on.  There is always a nice twist when it comes to the Vulcan/Andorian feuds in these episodes.  

 

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Friday, November 17, 2023

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - Innovative Failure

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (YIJC) is on Disney+ but the moron I am got tired of waiting and broke down and bought the DVDs about 3 years earlier. It's a very odd show, it had a massive budget for televison. George Lucas wanted to create films for the small screen. The stories were meant to be epic.  



River Phoenix declined to return to the role after his appearance in the Last Crusade.  Sean Patrick Flannery stepped in as teenage Indy, Corry Carrier as child Indy, and George Hall as old Indy. Harrison Ford was offered the part of old Indy but turned it down because…he’s one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.  

 

The original broadcasts originally had a bookend segment featuring Old Indy in modern day (the early 1990s) and then would cut to a flashback of this crazy old man yammering on about some adventure he had when he was a child or teenager.  The broadcast versions jumped around in the timeline, much like the show This Is Us.  




The show’s huge budget and lack of ratings got it canceled after two seasons.  After its cancelation four TV films were made in an attempt to rework the format into something sellable to other networks.  

 

YIJC wasn’t aired on a consistent date or time when originally broadcast which made it impossible to find its audience.  Network decision errors aside, the problems with implementing the show are numerous.  The Old Indy scenes are just painful to watch.  Indiana Jones shouldn’t be some crazy old man wandering museums harassing kids about the time he went to Egypt and fought a mummy. The pacing of the stories are agonizing when trying to work around a television format. 

 

The Young Indy stories are not fun or interesting.  Indy as child growing up, nothing exciting happens to him.  The stories aren’t compelling, have no action, no drama, no heart, no humor. 

 

The Teenage Indy stories are better.  But those don’t pick up until he runs away from home and starts meeting random famous people in history (eye roll).  Sean Patrick Flannery does not bring the same flair to the character that River Phoenix brought in The Last Crusade but he does an adequate job.  Crafting stories around an older character does help create more excitement and allows you put him in more adult scenarios.  That doesn’t excuse the failure of Young Indy.  He could have had his own level adventure.  Lucas really lacked the vision of what could have been done.  


 

A modern issue with the show stems from how the stories were “retold.”  Lucas reedited the entire show into mini movies in hopes of selling them into syndication and also on home video.  The four TV films post cancellation were meant to entice network affiliates into buying the package.  It’s a rather interesting endeavor and not crazy idea in relations to 1990s television.    Ultimately it was a failure as the show wasn’t picked up.  Lucas’ attempts to redefine the standard of television failed. 

 

In classic George Lucas fashion, he recuts the entire show with no care for what preceded it.  The reedit cuts out all the Old Indy scenes which everyone hated.  But ultimately helped fit a pacing for television that included suspenseful act breaks.  Without the Old Indy scenes the episodes are left to stand on their own with no contexts. In the original format certain episode stories started with Young Indy and were resolved with Teen Indy.  In the new format the viewer doesn’t get a resolution to certain stories until well later in the series chronology.  The story telling becomes completely inconsistent.  The Young Indy episodes are hurt most by these changes.  The Teen Indy episodes had enough dramatic content on their own to survive these changes. 

 

The show has some exciting moments but overall is not very compelling.  What’s supposed to be a story about how a young man grows into the larger than life character Indiana Jones lacks any real footing.   It’s certainly worth watching but don’t feel guilty for fast-forwarding the boring parts because we all have lives to live.



You have to give George Lucas for always trying to be innovative.  He doesn’t just make a product.  He pushes industry boundaries and is willing to fail in the process.  Young Indiana Jones is Lucas’ attempt to keep a franchise alive while trying to increase the scale and quality of TV production.  If you look at shows like Lost, Game of Thrones, Wanda Vision, The Mandalorian these are all fairly recent big budget television that have cropped up.  Lucas was trying to set the bar higher in the 90s.  He failed with YIJC but the idea resurged as technology evolved.  

 

Also, the TV culture changed.  Lost was a show which had an interactive fan community.  Creators were looking at fan web boards and reading their theories and adjusting their stories based on that fan feedback.  It was an almost interactive show which allowed them to adjust stories mid-season.  The new streaming culture has high budgeted TV shows with less episodes per season.  So instead of 20 – 26 episode seasons with some of the writing forced or phoned in to fit a production order.  A viewer is given 8 – 12 quality episodes, character based, and story arc driven.  



Lucas understood TV needed to change but he just wasn’t sure how to implement that change.  Ultimately his vision wasn’t the future of television but he did see the current format was eventually going to die out if it didn’t adapt.  




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Monday, November 13, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 40 Stigma

 


Such a powerful episode and well within the realm of Star Trek teaching morality via science fiction allegory.   T’Pol ended up contracting Pa'nar Syndrome from the Vulcan douche-bag who forced mind melded with her in the episode Fusion.  Phlox tries to get data on how to treat the disease from Vulcan doctors who refuse to supply him with any information because Pa'nar Syndrome can only be contracted by mind melds which are illegal or taboo (unclear) on Vulcan during that time period.  Archer wishes to reveal the origin of how T’Pol got infected since it was special circumstances but she refuses because her belief that people shouldn’t be ostracized from treatment because of their beliefs, practices, conditions, etc. She almost loses her job over it but Another Vulcan steps up and defends her and thus Phlox is able to get the limited data in hopes of treating condition.  

 

The depth of this story reverberates on so many levels.  The first that comes to mine is how AIDS patients were treated back in the 80s. It shouldn’t matter if T’Pol got Pa'nar Syndrome though consensual contact or via a sci-fi rape allegory.  What matters is a person is sick and needs help.  Those who refuse to help those in need are wrong. 

 

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Monday, November 6, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 39 Dawn

 


Tucker ends up stranded on a planet with yet another Alien.  This one isn’t as good looking as the one in Precious Cargo.  He’s a bit more hostile and they have to work together to get saved.  It’s a little too similar to the film Enemy Mine starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset Jr.  Spoiler, they get saved at the end. 

The writers must have kept throwing Tucker in with aliens because he was a more adversarial character.  Archer always tried to be buddies with everyone while Tucker didn’t mind putting a person in their place.  This episode can be skipped. 

 

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Friday, November 3, 2023

Untitled Poem

Here I am, solidarity confinement within a mental prison. Accepted morbid blissful cell, something's wrong, give me a pill, or a line, or a glass full of never mind, make me forget this. 

A gossiping world of lost souls trying to point the right path to others they never found. 

A mouthful of junk food is nourishment for the hungry ear, and I want to fast forever. 

Here I am, solidarity confinement within a mental prison. I must find a way… 

Release me from this hell.


 

By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, October 30, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 38 The Catwalk

 


This is a solid episode with some nice tension.  The entire ship must seek refuge in the two nacelles while some fancy shmancy sci-fi mumbo jumbo anomaly happens.  The prep to move the entire crew before the storm hits is nice drama.  But of course like all Star Trek shows, when the entire ship is emptied out an alien species, team of criminals, or random riffraff end up trying to cause shenanigans on the ship.  

 

The crew has to fight off the bad guys while making sure they don’t turn the engines on and kill everyone hiding in the nacelles.  Overall the episode, while a bit copycatted, works.  The way the story plays out is original enough and has enough excitement to sustain itself for its runtime.   

 

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Friday, October 27, 2023

Untitled Poem

You say you're a gangsta, you think you're a don? 

Wanna approach me with a knife or a gun? 

Fist full of money and a gat in your hand, when you were a child, was that in your plan? 

You must've made mama oh so damn proud, looting and shooting while running your mouth. 

Holding a weapon to steal what you want, 

You ain't no damn gansta, you're a pussy ass punk. 

Fight like a man, hold up your fists. 

Stop actin' so hard cuz your weak ass ain't shit. 

Tough guy you are? Strappin' your stuff; 

You gotta ACT hard cuz you can't get it up. 

Go get a job! Stop actin' a fool. 

I pay my taxes, how about you? 

Talking a game that you can't even play. 

Quit actin' so stupid, just go away. 

If he was alive, I guarantee this... 

Capone would've shown you who's the real bitch.

 

By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, October 23, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 37 Precious Cargo

 



Tucker saves a woman who was kidnaped but she’s a bit stuck-up and they don’t get along.  As per TV law they develop a thing for one another.   She’s returned to her home planet to become queen or something.  

 

Anyone who ever watched Quantum Leap would recognize it as very similar to Leaping of The Shrew.  Brooke Shields is stranded on a boat with Sam (Scott Bakula) trying to get rescued.  It would have actually been a stellar callback if they had Archer find the beautiful woman and she was Brook Shields.  

 

Ultimately its not a terrible episode since Padma Lakshmi is so easy on the eyes.  

 

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Friday, October 20, 2023

Untitled Poem

She grows in dark cascades of light, the sun glistening as the moon rays guide her. 

A pathway of meandering wonder, the shadows of the past follow in consequential jest. 

Lalligagging in poppy fields only to find time did not wait for her. 

Awoken from clandestine dreams, only to find nightmares in reality. 

There's no place like home, clicking heels until her soul bleeds to infinity. 

She beckons the demons to summon the gods. 

Twisted karma unravels the now, searching past lives to figure it out. 

Searching, learning, growing, knowing. 

At the end of her journey, she'll eventually see, 

She is dead... but finally free.

 

By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, October 16, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise

 

Season 2

Episode 36 Vanishing Point

 


Horrible, boring, redundant.  Ensign Sato has to use the transporter despite her fear but an accident happens, she disappears from existence.  But wait it was all a dream.   She just took an extra moment to transport because of some weird storm.  Thanks for wasting an hour of our lives. You take one of the most least liked characters, and give her an episode where she is let lose to whine and complain.  

 

The redundant "transporter malfunction causes problems" in Star Trek aside, it’s near identical to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Realm Of Fear where Lieutenant Barclay has a fear of transporting.  He has to overcome his fear for a mission.  While doing so there is of course a malfunction.  He becomes obsessed he got sick or didn’t comeback complete.  As he investigates, he somehow saves a bunch of people trapped in the transport buffer. A better character who actually learns and grows from his experience.  Also, his neurosis is entertaining, not boring.  And it wasn’t a lame dream sequence episode. 

 

Written by
Joseph Ammendolea
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Friday, October 13, 2023

Misunderstood Butterfly

 Lost in translation, scared little girl; striving to live in a lost, senseless world. 

Addicted, restricted, conflicted with pain, knowing that growing will happen with change. 

She thrived in excuses, backed by her shame; 

A one person party, marching in vain. 

No one can help her, she’s all on her own 

No one can tell her what flatters her soul. 

A nudge or a punch won’t jostle her mind; 

Her path is hers, it’s her path to find. 

She'll meet many characters while acting in play, 

Dressed in rehearsal just for today.

 

By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, October 9, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise

 

Season 2

Episode 35 Singularity

 


Everyone in the Enterprise crew accept T’Pol goes crazy after being exposed to some weird space radiation.  It’s a nice budget minded episode that keeps all the action on the ship.  It’s also a been there done that Star Trek story.  It’s similar to the Star Trek original series episode The Naked Time where everyone loses their ambitions through a virus spread by touch or sweat or something.  Then Star Trek The Next Generation brought the virus back in The Naked Now. 

 

What’s even more tiring about the story is how many times did a popular Star Trek alien avoid the affects or radiation, a virus, anomaly, alien mind-wipe?  It’s a tired Star Trek trope that the ship is saved by the one alien or android who is immune to the condition that humans are susceptible to.  

 

 

Written by
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Friday, October 6, 2023

Just Me

All I really need is me,

No man-made God can set me free. 

Intentions, fears and thoughts alike 

Create perceptions in shredded light. 

Soul inception, spirit infection. 

I exist to resist in a societal direction. 

Clean streets exist when collective minds resist dirty myths. 

Confounded by bounded minds who can't mind their minds. I wonder why? 

They can keep their shackled existence in a matrix that craves resistance. 

The sun retires and darkness sheds light upon the sea, 

And finally I see, it's reality, all I need to do is just be, all I really need is me.

 

By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, October 2, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise


Season 2

Episode 34 The Communicator

 


A nice return to form to the theme of a legitimate Star Trek prequel.  This episode captures that and in the most subtle way.  The Enterprise goes in disguise to investigate a pre-warp alien world and accidentally leaves technology behind.  They have to go back to retrieve it or risk contaminating the world with tech it cannot really manage, antics ensue, they get their technology back.  

 

Even though all the technology is recovered Archer admits they still managed to corrupt the civilization because of the technology the aliens witnessed and the lies they tried to tell to cover it up.  It sets the framework fro what will ultimately become the Prime Directive in the greater world of Star Trek.  

 

Written by
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Friday, September 29, 2023

Strange Reflection

 


By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, September 25, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise

 

Season 2

Episode 33 The Seventh

 


T’Pol is trying to settle an old grudge from some dude she tried to arrest years ago.  There is some doubt if he’s a douche-bag but in the end it’s determined he is a douche–bag.  T’Pol debates murdering him but with the help of Captain Archer ultimately decides not to. It seemed Season 2 ran out of steam.  Their strongest episodes behind them.  Marauders was a tired story trope, The Seventh is another tired TV trope.  

 

With a 26 episode season, it can be difficult to make every week’s episode shine.  Enterprise had batted four episodes in a row out of the park until The Seventh and Marauders.  

 

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Friday, September 22, 2023

Untiled Poem



By Kristin Smith 

©2023 Kristin Smith

Monday, September 18, 2023

Episode by Episode - Star Trek: Enterprise

 

Season 2

Episode 32 Marauders

 


Enterprise tries to get some sci-fi resource from a group of the people who are the sci-fi equivalent of oil drillers or farmers or something.  The simple folk are being harassed by a group of Klingons and all their supplies stolen. Enterprise teaches the colony how to defend themselves.  They fight and win out in the end.  A rather tired story that has been told a million times in films like The Three Amigos, The Magnificent Seven, every single episode of the A-Team.  

 

Written by
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