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| Synopsis: | |
| T'Pol tells Archer and Trip a story about her great-grandmother T'Mir and three other Vulcans who made first contact with humans after crash landing in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1950s. |
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| MJC Review: | |
| The Drama - | |
| I've heard plenty of tall Texan tales in my lifetime, but this Vulcan tale
was a whopper. Let's see: engines just happen to malfunction, Vulcans lying, a Vulcan actually wants to stay on earth, and
Velcro for cash. How ludicrous can one get?? The next thing you know, Scotty will travel back in time to show some guy how to make transparent aluminum on a
Macintosh! Hmmm... On the whole, the story was OK. I had some big reservations at first about a story that tries to rewrite first contact, so I tried to keep everything in the context that T'Pol is just trying to "amuse" Trip and Archer. There were some good interaction scenes with the Vulcans and humans in the pool hall.
Nice pool playing by Mestral, too. T'Mir was not too inclined to
assist or rather not interfere with the humans, like Mestral was.
However, after some time with these emotional barbarians, T'Mir comes around to
seeing their "potential" and actually wanting to help the humans (amazing!). I think that the trio's "logic" was
definitely put to the test when there were forced to survive on this barbaric planet.
I wouldn't have expected that they did what they had done in order to
survive till they were rescued - not exactly within the known
characteristics of Vulcans. The Mestral character did turn out to
be a good strong and important character in this episode. I wonder what
else T'Pol was not telling? If Archer wants to know more Vulcan "secrets", maybe
T'Pol should drink more wine. So, to sum it all up, a Vulcan ship
crashed on earth in 1957 and the crew was rescued about 3 months later. Everything else you saw was a Vulcan tale. |
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| Tid Bits - | |
| 1). I guess Vulcans consider
Velcro very low tech. I wonder how Mestral is going to handle Pon'far on Earth? Stay near Vegas?? 2). Amazing how T'Mir looks like T'Pol. 3). I guess Vulcans use their limited telepathic abilities to instantly learn the local language. 4). Did anyone notice that a 1957 American town was stocked with 1940's automobiles? 5). And how come alien encounters always seem to happen in America (Broken Bow, First Contact movie, Little Green Men, City on the Edge of Forever, others?). Why not Poland for change. They could use some attention over there. 6). So do the other actors still get paid even though they didn't actually have a scene in this episode? 7). I wonder how many other "visits" the Vulcans have made in addition to this one and First Contact. 8). Nice plug for the Twilight Zone by Trip. |
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| What it all means - | |
| It's just a story. | |
| 3 cool peace signs MJC 200209.29 |
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