Matt,

I agree that the crisis of faith was very intriguing. The shaman held the key to Parker's crisis. He said something like: "God created man, so everything man does can be God's work. IF his heart is pure."

This show reminds me of Quantum Leap more and more each week.

One nit: In the original time line, the antidote container is squashed in Parker's hand. The team works feverishly to determine how to counteract the posion in Rebecca (not Brittany). Why couldn't they just analyze the liquid on Parker's hand to determine what it was, and thereby have a clue to what the poison was?

Rebecca. Brittany. Whatever. Late. Tired. Distracted by the fact that the web site for the show puts the episodes in production order and I have them in airdate order. Had algebra to do. Sorry.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) How did James Rance know of Rebecca Mentnor's crush with Lt. Frank Parker? He mentioned how fickle women are, thus implying he possessed this convenient knowledge.
2) James Rance and Dr. Isaac Mentnor, the second go around, journey through the Crononaut grave site despite the fact that they had progressed directly to the sphere in the original time line and that Rebecca Mentnor appeared to Bradley Talmadge and Lt. Frank Parker alone and nowhere near her uncle.
3) The antidote Lt. Frank Parker placed into his Crononaut space suit's exterior pocket is miraculously transposed to his under clothing's chest pocket by the time the conclusion is reached.
4) Comdr. Craig Donovan was inexplicably absent once again.

Actually I believe Donovan is a captain in the US Navy.

The official Seven Days website (http://www.7daystv.com/) lists Craig Donovan as being a commander in the Navy Seals. Now, I have heard him identified as captain and I have noticed how he bears the silver eagles upon his uniform. These silver eagles, might I add, resemble more of a darker brown color when he is donning his BDU's. And out of all this obfuscatory material, I have confirmed that Navy personnel--particularly in the Navy Seals--do indeed bear the basic rank exhibited in the other three branches of the military (i.e., Marine Corps., Air Force, and Army). However, I believe the style alters around the time someone becomes an admiral or above. After everything is said and done, Comdr. Craig Donovan is still rather young to pose as a leading officer. I remain skeptical regarding his camaraderie with Lt. Frank Parker, considering Frank is the naval equivalent of a captain in the US Navy and is at least a solid two ranks below Comdr. Craig Donovan.

I didn't start watching this until a few months ago, so I don't know if this was covered in early episodes, but I take the contrast in rank between Parker and Donovan to be an indicator of their different personalities. Parker is the rebelious nonconformist, and has therefore wrecked his own chances at promotion, while Donovan has been the model officer and advanced quickly.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) For someone who has been inhabiting a primitive environment (i.e., based upon society's perception of "civilized" cultures) for the last twelve years, James Rance looks pretty well-primped by the time he arrives at Rebecca Mentnor's birthday party.
2) Lt. Frank Parker's hand apparently goes from raised to lowered numerous times during the scene in which he, Bradley Talmadge, and Nate Ramsey are surrounded by Amazon natives at spear-point.
3) How is it Lt. Frank Parker and James Rance's Amazon native mentor experience a bilingual communication between one another when they are alone and sipping some type of beverage?
4) As Nate Ramsey and the Amazon natives are attaching James Rance's sphere's port opening's corresponding door to James Rance's sphere, the lower section hinges connect and still the door clatters below when the upper section hinges are being connected.
5) Lt. Frank Parker's visor is abruptly up during the final, brief scene of Lt. Frank Parker's back-step.
6) James Rance appears to be in a different stance after he and Dr. Isaac Mentnor stroll through the Crononaut grave site and Dr. Isaac Mentnor comforts his poison-strickened granddaughter, Rebecca.

James Rance's room in the Hanson Island insane asylum contains items and paraphernalia (def.: belongings) that are potentially self-inflicting, thus contingently leading to suicide. Is the intent of an insane asylum not to seek methods of "normalizing" patients and not allowing them the means to murder themselves? Furthermore, I was half-expecting one of those two personnel members to inquire, "Do you remember that Parker guy who vanished not too long ago?" Then again, the declarative sentence "Parker was here" inscribed on the wall may say it all.

From what I understand this episode is called a dish best served cold. Act of God was not shown because of the Littleton shooting.

I don't think so. According to the little information the show's website provided, this episode is called Act of God. It fits with what was talked about in the show better.

I believe Matt is correct. I actually posed this question somewhere else on this board a while back and I think the bottom line is as follows:

The episode name IS called "A Dish Best Served Cold." I believe "Act of God" is just an alternate title (previous? working title?). The episode that was pulled was called "For The Children." I'm not sure what the plans are for that episode with respect to showing it eventually.