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selenakDay 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
If I'm allowed to cheat, I'll go with the three parter from s4, "The Forge", "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara". If it has to be only one of those, I'm going with "Kir'Shara". Aside from being suspenseful with good roles for both the Enterprise regulars and the guest stars (which include Shran being reliably excellent in "Kir'Shara", Soval suddenly being three dimensional instead of "stuffy Vulcan annoying Archer", and newly introduced a young version of T'Pau, last seen hosting Spock's aborted wedding in Amok Time, as a female Vulcan Martin Luther), said three episodes manage to both make sense of the previous Enterprise characterisation of Vulcans and bring it in line with the TOS and onwards characterisation. (It pays that the Garfield-Stevenses, who wrote The Forge, previously wrote many a TOS novel with prominent roles for Vulcan characters.)
What's more, it also improves on something which highly irritated me about the Xindi arc in the previous season. By which I mean that wereas the Xindi arc (a very blatant way of dealing with 9/11 in fiction) started by Earth attacked out of the blue by a previously unknown race (who, as it turned out, themselves were manipulated into doing it) , and our heroes deciding that the Jack Bauer way of morality was the way to go, the Vulcan trilogy had the Vulcan High Command dominated by a guy who claimed that the Andorians were in possession of a weapon of mass destruction and that totally asked for a preemptive strike at Andoria. Rather satisfyingly, it ended with the guy in question being deposed and Vulcan society undergoing a moral reformation. But then, it was clearly fiction.
Day 1 - Favorite TOS Episode
Day 2 - Favorite Federation Race
Day 3 - Favorite Starship
Day 4 - Favorite Captain
Day 5 - Saddest Event
Day 6 - Happiest Event
Day 7 - Favorite TNG Episode
Day 8 - Favorite Federation Enemy
Day 9 - Favorite Character
Day 10 - Most Shocking Moment
Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Want
Day 12 – Crew Position You Wouldn’t Want
Day 13 - Favorite DS9 Episode
Day 14- Favorite Time Travel Episode
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 20 - Character You're Most LIke
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series
If I'm allowed to cheat, I'll go with the three parter from s4, "The Forge", "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara". If it has to be only one of those, I'm going with "Kir'Shara". Aside from being suspenseful with good roles for both the Enterprise regulars and the guest stars (which include Shran being reliably excellent in "Kir'Shara", Soval suddenly being three dimensional instead of "stuffy Vulcan annoying Archer", and newly introduced a young version of T'Pau, last seen hosting Spock's aborted wedding in Amok Time, as a female Vulcan Martin Luther), said three episodes manage to both make sense of the previous Enterprise characterisation of Vulcans and bring it in line with the TOS and onwards characterisation. (It pays that the Garfield-Stevenses, who wrote The Forge, previously wrote many a TOS novel with prominent roles for Vulcan characters.)
What's more, it also improves on something which highly irritated me about the Xindi arc in the previous season. By which I mean that wereas the Xindi arc (a very blatant way of dealing with 9/11 in fiction) started by Earth attacked out of the blue by a previously unknown race (who, as it turned out, themselves were manipulated into doing it) , and our heroes deciding that the Jack Bauer way of morality was the way to go, the Vulcan trilogy had the Vulcan High Command dominated by a guy who claimed that the Andorians were in possession of a weapon of mass destruction and that totally asked for a preemptive strike at Andoria. Rather satisfyingly, it ended with the guy in question being deposed and Vulcan society undergoing a moral reformation. But then, it was clearly fiction.
Day 1 - Favorite TOS Episode
Day 2 - Favorite Federation Race
Day 3 - Favorite Starship
Day 4 - Favorite Captain
Day 5 - Saddest Event
Day 6 - Happiest Event
Day 7 - Favorite TNG Episode
Day 8 - Favorite Federation Enemy
Day 9 - Favorite Character
Day 10 - Most Shocking Moment
Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Want
Day 12 – Crew Position You Wouldn’t Want
Day 13 - Favorite DS9 Episode
Day 14- Favorite Time Travel Episode
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 20 - Character You're Most LIke
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series
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Date: 2019-09-08 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-08 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-08 03:21 pm (UTC)Her reply is both in character and nicely accounts for how dated some of TOS looks. It basically boils down to "It may be clunky, but this will hold together when you drop out of warp 5 in the middle of a battle when your modern stuff will fall apart"
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Date: 2019-09-09 04:15 am (UTC)