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![]() First of all, YEEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH! Â IMBECILES! Â DNA DOES NOT CONTAIN MEMORIES! Â Phlox's comment that this is a "new discovery" placated me for a few seconds, but not for long. Â First off, a "new discovery" on [i ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writer 1: "Hey! Â What if Trip's clone had his memories?" Writer 2: "Yeah! Â That would be great! Â Then he'd be all asking questions, and freaking everyone out, and he could help the crew, and even hit on T'Pol!" Writer 3: "Um, guys? Â He's a clone. Â He wouldn't have memories." Writer 1: "Who cares? Â Conflict! Â Tension!" Writer 2: "[i ![]() ![]() (Writers 1 and 2 give each other high fives) I won't be surprised if our resident chemists were similarily hysterical at the "nucleonic particles" attacking the hull, but I'll leave that for them to butcher. As for this week's topic of choice.... The good news is, we got a little more subtlety this time around than we did with, say, "Stigma." Â ("What's this? Â You mean prejudice against AIDS is [i ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One twist that I did like was the revelation (a rather convenient one, but meh) that "Sim" had a chance, albeit a slim one, to live out a normal human lifespan. Â Then again, this led to the "Even if it means killing you" conversation, which seemed harsh -- whether it was deservedly so, I'm not sure. Â I actually wondered whether they were going to pull a "Deadlock" and have Trip's clone replace him -- which would have explained their stupid "DNA has memory" thing since they'd need it as a fallback. Â I did like the conflict created, but I'm not sure it was handled as well as similar issues have been on other series. I'm surprised it took them fifty minutes to get T'Pol and the clone locking lips. Â I kept debating which would win out -- common sense (T'Pol is, after all, Vulcan and hasn't ever shown definitive interest in Trip) or UPN. Â I guess the fifty-minute delay can be explained if you consider it took them under two to have T'Pol leaning over Trip in a provocative position. Â (And that scene was going so well until then... sigh.) Overall? Â I'm not sure. Â The episode was far from a disaster, but I'm not entirely certain it was a roaring success, either. Next week: [i ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() As far as the memories in DNA thing. I saw a program on the discovery channel or somewhere, about a universal memory that is passed down to every human. I can't remember much about it, but that's immediatly what I thought of when they said Sim had Trips memories.[/color ![]()
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![]() As for the episode... whatever. It didn't really appeal to me. I didn't buy T'Pol kissing Sim. I didn't buy Sim's memories. It had some good scenes, but for whatever reasons, I wasn't invested in it. Oh well.[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() More later. I need a bit of time to start liking stuff again.[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Remember the big explosion that harmed Trip in the first place? And how they spent the entire episode trying to repair the engines? Â They weren't stuck, they were just without propulsion. Â (Why they didn't have impulse is something I'm a little fuzzy on.) Â They needed to get out of the cloud so the shuttlepods towed them.[/quote ![]() It's not having to tow them, it's the acceleration pattern that's all wrong. Â They tow, the enterprise doesn't move, they tow harder, still doesn't move, they tow hardest, a shudder and suddendly it moves, and they need less traction for more acceleration after that point. Problem is, only adhesion forces have this kind of pattern, countering the force you apply exactly until you reach a limit where all the countering force dissapears. Â Pressure from the gases around would be proportional to v squared (i.e. pulling would be harder as they accelerate with no resistance at startup), magnetic field would be position-dependant only and independant of the towing forces. So the enterprise was stuck on something, but there is a annoying lack of something around.... Of course only B5 seemed to care about space movement physics anyway :-) Â OG.[/color ![]() |
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![]() The show brings up a very important question: Was Sim's life as valuable as Trip's? This question parallels some significant political/social/religious questions here in the States (I don't know about you canucks) about abortion, stem cell research, cloning, and euthanasia. Who counts as alive, and whose lives are more important? I also am looking forward to how this affects Archer. Sure, he got Trip back, but at what cost?[/color ![]() |
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![]() I liked it personally. But right now I have to get over hating the world...and resist the urge to shoot the writers for making Archer a jerk in this one... Trip is my favorite character. Killing any version of him means pain for them. Especially if Malcolm goes does too, which means 'Twilight' is a double death for B&B.[/color ![]()
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