(from The Seventh Showboard)
Trike: Previously, my biggest concern about Enterprise was continuity with other Star Trek series. Now, it's plot logic. The past two weeks, there have been terrible plot holes in stories.
Sparrrow47: While I liked the core idea behind this episode, I was so very dissapointed at the plot holes. This episode was filled with enough plot holes that it could have doubled for the "Sea of Holes" set from "Yellow Submarine."
I agree with both of your comments, which worries me about an episode that centers around someone committing a bone-headed slip up like forgetting a communicator, and the whole concept of the Enterprise crew visiting a pre-warp civilization. I wonder if Archer is going to bring Porthos to the surface.
Boy, who could be so •••••• as to forget a communicator on a prewarp world?
Dat would be youse, Sawbones!
Sparrow47: This episode was filled with enough plot holes that it could have doubled for the "Sea of Holes" set from "Yellow Submarine."
"And though the holes were rather small,
They had to count them all,
Now I know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall..."
Hey, now, that's a hole other reference.
Hole-y cross-board mix-up, Batman!
I've got a 'ole in me pocket!
Yasu: I agree with both of your comments, which worries me about an episode that centers around someone committing a bone-headed slip up like forgetting a communicator, and the whole concept of the Enterprise crew visiting a pre-warp civilization. I wonder if Archer is going to bring Porthos to the surface.
Why does it worry you? This type of thing has happened before on Star Trek. Remember Chicago Mobs of the '20s? They didn't even go back for that one.
It occurs to me that according to the teaser the Trek website gives us, the crew will supposedly be fooling around with the Sulliban cloaking technology in this ep. This has the potential to really blow open the question of "Enterprise" being in an alternate universe or not.
Why? Well, assuming that they do fool around with the stuff, and it works, they would then have cloaking tech. of their own. So if the Federation had this so long ago, why would they sign a treaty with the Romulans later saying they wouldn't develop it?
What about the "Hotel Royale" book?
Couldn't that be considered contamination as well?
No. It was on the Charybdis. An unknown alien hitchhiker picked it up and used it as a form of penance. But it wasn't contamination, the NASA crew did not leave it on the planet, the alien took it FROM THE SHIP.