I wonder how they'll wrap this up (at least partially). I assume that Archer will be returning to the "present" in this episode.
Richie, in case you're interested in posting them, the other three episodes named after Shockwave partII are Carbon Creek, Minefield, which focuses on Reed, and A Night in Sickbay, which focuses on Porthos, who gets infected by an alien pathogen.
The "Odd Couple" in Sickbay (as in Archer and Phlox). That could be interesting. Or just weird.
Whether it's the 4th episode or not, there's an episode coming up called 'Marauders'.
I heard that Carbon Creek is A T'Pol episode.
Thanks, Phillip. Marauders will be the fifth episode. I forgot about it.
Now that would have been an appropriate title for the Ferengi ep- uh oh.
Maybe we see the "real" Marauder Mo?
Coming Soon in Season Two
SHOCKWAVE, PART 2: Deals with Archer returning to the past and stopping the Suliban.
CARBON CREEK: T'Pol tells the tale (to Trip and Archer) of her great-grandmother who served aboard a ship that crashed in Carbon Creek, Pa while spying on the Sputnik satellite.
MINEFIELD: Reed gets stuck to a mine and Archer must try to free him from it. First encounter with the Romulans.
A NIGHT IN SICKBAY: Porthos gets sick and must stay the night in sickbay so Archer moves into sickbay with him. Hilarity ensues. (Vaughn Armstrong reprises his role as the Kreetassan Captain from "Vox Sola")
MARAUDERS: The Enterprise heads to a Quonset mining colony to obtain deuterium supplies. Upon arriving, the Enterprise crew finds Klingons are forcing the colonists to give up all their deuterium, and Captain Archer decides to help the colonists.
See ya later
TUE
I believe Minefield is where we find out "Evil future guy" is Brannon Bragga. He's changing Trek history so he doesent have to worry about continuity.
Hey, someone had to encounter the Romulans before the war started. I mean, something has to start the war right?
Just don't show us the ears and it'll be all right. Got that, Bragga? DO NOT SHOW US THE EARS!
Actually, show us the ears, just don't show the crew the ears.
They shouldn't show the crew the Romulans' faces Merat. Balance of Terror(TOS) indicated that they never saw the Romulans, and had no visual communication.
Good point.
What is TOS?
It's that thing you said you said Roddenberry told you to avoid when you came to work on TNG, but watched in its entirety before starting work on ENT.
And for the umpteenth time, Brannon Braga's last name is spelled as such.
They can see their faces. They just can't realize that they aren't Vulcans.
No. Balance of Terror clearly established that they had NEVER seen a Romulan.
Hence Josh's statement. Balance of Terror still holds true if they see a Romulan, but don't know it's a Romulan.
Geez, I really hope people are not going to expect the creators to reuse that ridiculous rationlization from Acquisition over and over and over again, just to so that we can see whatever alien race the creators jolly well feel like sticking in the show. Mutilated continuity can be rationalized to some degree, but there's no reason the creators can't try to simply not mess with it in the first place.
I was merely explaining that Josm was absolutely right. I said nothing about my expectations.
But if you must know, I fully expect them to do it (they did it once before). But I don't necessarily want them to. Although I think it would work better than Acquisition in that the crew could always think they were Vulcans, rather than some unknown alien we don't bother to know the names of.
NO, it's true, 'Balance of Terror' did establish that the crew have never seen a Romulan before, by the way thier reaction to them was and then looking at Spock.
But I like the idea, of us seeing them. I want us to see them. I really like that idea.
No one is disputing what was established in Balance of Terror.
If Enterprise crewmen came in contact with a Romulan surgically-altered to look like a Klingon, and they never find out it was a Romulan in disguise, would that be a violation of the continuity? No, of course not!
Similarly, if Enterprise crewmen see Romulans, but think they're Vulcans, then the continuity still holds.
The Romulans won't been shown until the very end of the episode, where is a flash it will be revealed that the Romulan is the great, great, grandmother of Tasha Yar, officer from Enterprise D. Turns out the Romulans used to kidnap women from Earth for mating purposes....
By the way, the mines are invisible, regenerating mines used by the Romulans to block the wormhole to the Delta quadrant. They got sucked into something called the "Nexus" I believe...
Back on the new episde list (I'm sure these can be deleted once Richie gets the list up), Paramount have anounced the first 5 episodes of Season 2:
1: 'Shockwave', Part II - 18 September 2002
2: 'Carbon Creek' - 25th September 2002
3: 'Minefield' - 2 October 2002
4: 'Dead Stop' - 9 October 2002
5: 'A Night in Sickbay' - 16 October 2002
This presumably puts 'Marauders' as the 6th episode.