Sleeping Dogs, Prod#ST:ENT 115
Synopsis: Crewmembers are stuck aboard a sinking Klingon ship.
MJC Review:
The Drama -
"Help! We're stuck in a Klingon ship and we can't get out!" Yep, that's how I
felt for about 3/4 of the episode - boring! Plus, Hoshi whines again, especially in the
Klingons mess hall - just like those bad whining scenes from Fight or Flight. Please!
Someone whip that girl into shape!! Well, there may be hope for her. T'Pol has shown her a
technique for mental control. As for the rest of the drama, well, ... let me just skip
through the boring parts of "we can't figure out how to operate this klingon ship,
but the Klingon female was able to steal our shuttle and figure out how to use it just
fine". Well, that's what you get when you send a security officer over to try and
revive a broken ship instead of the engineer! The last scenes were good. Archer actually
studied up a bit on Klingon culture. Maybe on his next Klingon encounter, he'll offer them
the head of a Romulan (oops TOS era, but what does Berman care) and a bottle of blood
wine. I like how Archer handled the Klingon captain - "take what little honor you
have and get the &^%$ out-a here!". So where was Porthos during all this? I guess
he was sleeping.
Tid Bits -
In the first scene, Hoshi broke the first rule of handling a hand gun when she handed it
to Reed - NEVER point a gun at anyone!!!!....unless they're a Klingon. Since when did
Klingons get Bird of Preys (the so-called two klingon ships coming in at high warp)? BOPs
weren't established until Star Trek III. Oh well, another BTI (Berman Trek Inconsistency).
I wonder why Keating didn't have a "situation" develop in the decontamination
scene like Trinneer did in Broken Bow. I guess the censors decided to do away with the
"gel" rubbing stuff. Say, that Raptor class ship looks similar to a mini Vor'cha
class ship. So much for being creative. It looks like that the network is showing episodes
out of order again. The next is is #14.
What it all means -
The humans still have much to learn about Klingons.
2 cool peace signs
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