:: Star Trek 1964 - Today ::

:: Saturday, September 27, 2003 ::

Series 3: 053

The "I Have Faith" introduction music, or theme has been jazzed up with the begginning of season 3, a most unfortunate eventuallity. The promise to bring more adventure to the stories has been honoured. T'Pol's new uniform is no less modest than the previous episodes, white, light blue and red are the three colors I've seen so far, as well as her two piece night attire. A short commnet: Although Jolene Blalock is an attractive and young rendering of a Vulcan, I find it extraordinary that such figure hugging uniforms would be warn by a member of the "High Command" and protoge of Ambassadore S'Val. There you are, just one of he anomalies that cause some cerebral disonance in this reviewer.

We are advised that Enterprise has been six weeks into the Expanse with only the unreliable evidence of a suspect freighter captain to a planet with a Xindi on it. This planet is a mining concern, apparently run by slavers to which the crew of the Enterprise are a tempting target. Here they have been told there is a Xindi, to whom they have to pay to see by an unscrupulous slaver/mine mamager. The Xindi is differnet from the dead example from the probe that destroyed large sections of Florida, enough to be a differnet species, as Captain Archer says to Dr. Flox, when he is trying to explain the difference, "Like the diference between Neanderthal and Human?". "A good analogy", says Flox.

The task to interview this Xindi is complicated by the fact that he refuses to co-operate unless they help him escape. This they do, and leads to some life threatening events, with the military unit onboard Enterprise showing its skills to rescue them in the end, of course. The Xindi gives the co-ordinates of his homeworld before expiring due to injuries sustained in the rescue.

Observations

I've already mentioned T'Pol's attire. We are to assume that their translter machine found the languages of the Xindi and the Slaver/Manager not a problem. The environment on this planet which seemed only for mining was only marginally livable, the miners themselves looked like they were suffering from the effects of the gas and/or dust of the mining operation itself, much like today's underground mines. Being slaves, I gues a union was out of the question.

We were also intoduced to a bold and uncompromising Captain Archer, determined to find the Xindi and prevent the forecast (predicted or observed by whoever it was that gave the Suliban the information) of the Earth's destruction. Whether this urgency in the currant episodes is related to the 911 incident and the following search for Osama bin Laden in the real world I don't know, but it does sort of point to it.

:: Clifford 7:34 am [+] ::
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