Friday, January 3, 2014

Enterprise S1E19 - Oasis

Archer, T'Pol, Trip and Travis find a crew apparently alive on a ship that crash-landed years ago - Wikipedia.

The good:

The opening scene was great. The space trader D’Marr looked really awesome. I’m glad they didn’t explain where he came from or how the Enterprise crew met him; it added texture and avoided unnecessary exposition. Sometimes less is more.

It was very creepy when Trip and T’Pol were exploring the engineering deck of the ship before they caught Liana.

I remember thinking that it didn’t seem believable that a crew that large could have survived for years on one small hydroponics farm and re-routed power from the ship’s core. I’m glad that wasn’t an oversight but rather a clue to the real situation.

Once it was evident that some of the crew members were holograms, it was fun to try and figure out who was real. I totally thought the mother was the only real one.

Computer core reminded me of computer on the Nostromo in Alien.

The bad:

It was immediately obvious that a bunch of the crew were holograms as soon as Ezral freaked out when T’Pol fiddled around with the main computer.

Ezral turned his entire ship into a holodeck…including creating an incredibly sophisticated AI to preserve the memories and personalities of his crew. All by himself. On a disabled ship with limited resources. Sure, why not?


Let’s just address the elephant in the room, OK? It’s a liiiiiiittle creepy that a dude is trapped alone with his daughter for two decades and as soon as help comes along, he’s like, “Nope…Everything’s fine. I like my life here. Go away.” Cue the banjo music.

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