XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From: cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com
In article , Snake
wrote:
> Mark Nobles wrote in message
> news:151220031436162906%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com...
> > Last night they reran the horrid episode where the virus changed
> > Archer, Reed and Sato into the native species. In the end, Archer told
> > Phlox to save the last of the virus. That fits with what Daniels said
> > about there being no Xindi in his time. Also, the Xindi don't have a
> > homeworld. Suppose Archer gives them a new homeworld, and eliminates
> > the Xindi without exterminating them, by engineering the virus to
> > affect only Xindi (requiring 5 different versions to affect the
> > different races of Xindi) and infecting them?
> >
> > All the parts seem to be adding up to a whole.
>
> :-) But still 'episodic'. Archer, Tripp, Reid ant T'Pol end up almost all
> cured at the end...typical. Why can't they prolong the recovery, as in
> 'real life', into the 'next' story and have that slightly effect their work
> performance? I know that they did indeed 'do' that, but only a character
> saying "Oh, I still feel it a little" instead of seeing a bit of physical
> issues, not just vocal. Draw out the facial changes to disappear over time,
> etc. Even medical issues are (for the most part) neatly contained inside an
> episode.
>
> Almost dead? Don't worry, it's Trek!! You'll be healed in time for the next
> episode for sure! :D
>
Heh. Yeah, it would be better if the continuing story actually affected
each episode as you say. Things like Reed's upset stomach, or Archer
dropping by Medlab to rehab his shot up shoulder. But still, the fact
that there is even a little thought going into an arc is good news.
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