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archer is upset because attacking the bad guy could mean killing some colonists too which i agree is a serious matter
but hey, remember the time that archer and phlox decided to condemn millions of people to death because Evolution is Destiny or some stupid shit?
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so the xenophobe terrorists made the vulcan human hybrid baby using dna they got from an operative on enterprise
aren't there a bunch of humans and vulcans on earth? wouldn't that dna have been easier to get? why does everything have to be so convoluted?
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so the terrorists think the baby they made is a threat to humanity
so don't make hybrid babies then? like they chose to make it, it only exists because they made it? like if it makes you mad then don't do it
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omg this is the most boring shit
so tucker gets into a punch fight with some guy who doesn't matter, archer and the gang fly to mars in a shuttle or something and now terrorist guy is making another speech
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apparently everyone was super moved by archer's amazing speech
like this is kind of thing that maybe patrick stewart could pull off but not bakula, not bakula if his life depended on it
personal log supplemental, i near the end of my enterprise journey but i am determined to go out in a blaze of complaining, Western Imperialism and Terrorism
Kind of like how Terrorism primarily exists as a reactionary force against Western Imperialism and socio-economic domination schemes?
mic' drop
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@Taweret Tucker's only got one hand in a sling, he could at least snap or something instead of standing there like a dope, or fistpump or something, COME ON TUCKER GET WITH THE PROGRAM THIS IS ARCHER'S HEROIC HISTORIC MOMENT.
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@Taweret did he do the "slow, gradually speeding up while standing up" clap and then everybody else starts clapping and then it turns into thunderous applause? or was it just him clapping an embarrassingly long time like Citizen Kane?
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@troodon the first one
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@Taweret what the fuck they actually played that cliche straight, what am I saying of fucking COURSE they did, this show will NEVER miss any chance to slam straight into the wall of fuckery at maximum velocity
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@Taweret It's important to have a friend in the audience to get the applause ball rolling.
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@Taweret What's that thing Soval has got pinned to his chest?
Did he steal a wall-mounted air-freshener from the Men's Room?
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@Taweret that mural looks a bit awkward given the recent Xindi incident
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OK but would you really expect archer to write a good speech?
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@Taweret Oh, I see, they've all got silver things pinned to their chest. (Except Phlox. Looks like his is on his wrist?)
Were they translators or something? To indicate that Star Trek doesn't have magical invisible translators, yet?
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@apLundell yeah i think they said they were translators
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@Taweret I like how Phlox is wearing his on his wrist.
I assume that's his way of saying "I don't need this thing, but they told me I had to wear one."
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@Taweret Tim Heidecker?
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@Taweret just imagine it's Cadet Family Guy instead. :D
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@Taweret I'd feel a lot worse about that if not for, y'know, the whole "making a baby to murder and harvest its brain" thing, and the "let's abandon a whole shipload of babies to die and mutiny against the suggestion that we save them" thing. IT'S KIND OF A THING.
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@Taweret
Now that you bring that up, I remember being impressed by it.
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@Taweret You're supposed to feel smart for remembering, before the reveal, that "Carl Sagan Memorial Station" is another name for Mars Sojourner.
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Carl Sagan is cool and all but is he someone that people are going to be memorializing in hundreds of years?
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@mal i would be very surprised
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No, you misunderstand. The Martian Historical Society isn't honoring Sagan, They're honoring NASA/JPL.
"Carl Sagon Memorial Station" is now the official name for the Mars Sojourner, even though nobody calls it that.
It's entirely reasonable to assume that the "Mars Historical Preservation Society" would clean up Sojourner/Pathfinder and put up a plaque.
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I mean, I'm pretty sure if we get to the point where hybridization with an alien species were possible there will definitely be groups that will never consider the hybrids to be "real humans" or have "souls" or some other shit like that.
Fuck, this even happens now with people of mixed race in the West, Korea, and Japan.
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@Taweret Riker was supposed to name the kid too, but was doing dishes in the mess hall
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@Taweret [Somehow I missed a few of these Enterprise posts last night. Too busy shaking my fist at the Mozilla Foundation, I guess.]
I like how they put a hat on that kid so they wouldn't have to do her ears ... ... but in this shot the hat is not pulled down quite far enough.
You can tell she's not Vulcan.
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Terrorist guy speech doesn't have much impact unless you spend time building up the character to lead to that point.
Like Terrorist guy could have been a minor character in Season 3 that started rising in political power in the background. Hell, you could have introduced him by having Tucker listen to his Youtubish videos after his Sister was killed.
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@Tau_Leonis we don't develop characters on this show. what do you think this is? ds9?
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Like showing a fringe right-wing xenophobe faction starting to slowly gain more and more traction in United Earth (or whatever they call it in ENT.) as a background detail in Season 3 and 4 would have both been realistic and much better story telling rather than "Terra Prime" appearing as randomly as taco gas.
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@Taweret I'm just going to assume he's talking about the T'pucker terrorist baby here.
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@Taweret "and I for one will not let that baby get away with such a flagrant abuse of authority! I am taking this baby's behavior up with my supervisor right now!" like
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@Taweret Wasn't the implication that it was supposed to be a propaganda piece?
Like they were going to pretend it was legitimately a T'Poll/Tucker baby, but they got rumbled early by that dying woman?
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so this lady works for starfleet intelligence, and reed works for s31 and someone else on board is working for the terrorists
got all that? i;m sure it will all come together intricately to culminate in a satisfying payoff
haha no of course it won't