Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:05:13
From: "Andrew Venor" <alvenor@comcast.net>> 2) Apparently in season 4, there's no problem bringing up the T'Pau
> character from TOS, but during the initial development of Enterprise,
> there were serious issues over residual payments and copyrights. I
> guess early 21st century lawyers are still alive and well.
I guess it comes down to the studio doesn't mind paying Theodore
Sturgeons estate residuals to use his character for three episodes. As
opposed to having to send them a check for every episode of Enterprise
if they made T'Pau the first officer.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:05:48
From: "David Johnston" <rgorman@telusplanet.net>>2) Apparently in season 4, there's no problem bringing up the T'Pau
>character from TOS, but during the initial development of Enterprise,
>there were serious issues over residual payments and copyrights. I
>guess early 21st century lawyers are still alive and well.
A guest shot is one thing. A regular with residuals paid every
episode is another.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:06:32
From: "Eric Newman">The Vulcan planet seems to maintain is traditional representation has
>a hot, dry, and thin-aired environment. The dessert was cool to watch.
It's not a dessert, it's a floor wax!
>2) Apparently in season 4, there's no problem bringing up the T'Pau
>character from TOS, but during the initial development of Enterprise,
>there were serious issues over residual payments and copyrights. I
>guess early 21st century lawyers are still alive and well.
My understanding was that these issues precluded the use of T'Pau as a
continuing character. A one-shot (or in this case maybe two-shot)
appearance is probably different.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:07:42
From: "Al Smith"> 1) Mayweather finds a bomb.
Did you notice how long Reed kept him holding up that sheet of
building material over the bomb, while he dicked around with his
tricorder? I think he was deliberately taking his time, involving
Mayweather -- unwillingly -- in his death wish fantasy. And what
else could you call it? Reed just really wants to die in the line
of duty, that's the only explanation. He was hoping the bomb would
go off when he scanned it. The man is nuts!
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:08:42 -0500
From: "Slattery, Tim - BLS" <Slattery_T@bls.gov>> Finally, fans get to see some real developments on Vulcan
> society not seen since Star Trek IV or Amok Time!
Do you mean STIII:TSFS? Whatever, you're absolutely right! Excellent piece
of work here, excellent job of reconciling ENT Vulcans with "normal"
Vulcans.
> Surak's teachings
> seemed to have been obscured and misrepresented over the
> centuries. However, a small group of Vulcans called the
> Syrrannites still follow his original teachings and are
> determined to correct the mistakes over the centuries in a
> peaceful way.
My interpretation is that Vulcan is being ruled by the "High Command", a
military dictatorship that allows little or no dissent. They discriminate
strongly against mind-melders (there's an "ugh" factor that *must* have to
do with right-wingers reaction to homosexuals) and are not above staging a
disaster just to blame the dissenters for it.
> Coto seems to have been very creative with the
> writing staff in dramatizing why Vulcans behave so
> differently in the Enterprise series time-frame compared to
> what has been accustomed to in the 23rd and 24th century Star
> Trek universe. This is much better than just blowing off what
> has already been seen and calling it a mistake.
Oh yeah!!! This takes a nagging problem and turns it into an asset. A
*large* asset.
There are lots of tie-ins with what we know of Vulcans from other series:
the IDIC, T'Pol and her husband greeting each other by crossing fingers, the
whole idea of Katras, and T'Pau for crying out loud! I could hardly believe
I was hearing that name. It kind of gives away the game though: if T'Pau is
a Syrrannite, then they must be the good guys, and they must come out on
top. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been mistress of ceremonies in "Amok
Time".
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:14:18
From: "kathryn" <bob@bob.com>> There was also some good and interesting character development with
> Soval. In the previous three seasons, he has come across as very
> antagonistic with Archer and humans. Now, he has come out of the
> closet and become a champion of what is right for Vulcan society and
> no longer puts down so lamely Archer and his fellow smelly humans.
> He's actually become a likeable character.
>
Actually I thought his about face was a little unbelievable. He goes
from
not being able to restrain his distaste for humans to willing to get
himself
imprisioned for them in the space of one episode?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:16:23
From: "CheetoDust" <Stalky14@synonymforenthuse.com>> Synopsis: Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed, and the ensuing
> investigation puts Archer and T'Pol on the trail of a Vulcan religious
> faction hiding in a treacherous desert.
Maybe ENT will do for the Vulcans what TNG and DS9 did for the Klingons
and Romulans. (Develop them.)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:26:10 -0500
From: Zachary <zeeker@peoplepc.com>They seemed to have borrowed alot from the novel "Spock's World", including the fact that the native name for Vulcan translates to: "The Forge".
I too am saddened to see Forrester gone, he was a cool character, perhaps Soval's part will be expanded to make up for it.
Third season seems to be coming along quite well.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:21:00 -0800 (PST)
From: lord kolath <kolath@yahoo.com>the best part, someone gets to remove the katra, and
we get to see more of the sacred sites of vulcan.