{"id":233,"date":"2001-10-18T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2001-10-18T17:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=233"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:16:42","slug":"enterprise-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/18\/enterprise-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise: Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16810,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.treknation.com\\\/episodes\\\/season1\\\/unexpected.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090106112929\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.treknation.com\\\/episodes\\\/season1\\\/unexpected.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:52:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:54:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 03:03:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 04:07:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:36:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 11:48:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 06:50:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 06:50:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16811,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com\\\/library\\\/ships.asp?ID=111915&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030720060949\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com:80\\\/library\\\/ships.asp?ID=111915&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:52:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 13:24:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 03:03:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 04:07:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:36:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 11:48:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 11:48:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16812,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com\\\/library\\\/ships.asp?ID=70474&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030706222344\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com:80\\\/library\\\/ships.asp?ID=70474&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:53:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 13:24:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 03:03:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:36:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 11:48:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 11:48:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Benefits to actually having a TV &#8212; while the reception is pretty cruddy, it does allow me to watch the single TV show I&#8217;ve got any real interest in, Enterprise. Last night&#8217;s episode was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treknation.com\/episodes\/season1\/unexpected.shtml\" title=\"TrekNation: Unexpected\">&#8220;Unexpected&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When Tucker is dispatched to assist an alien ship with its power source problems, he is delighted to have a friendly encounter with one of the ship&#8217;s female engineers. But after discovering that their special moment has resulted in his becoming pregnant, he realizes he&#8217;s had an unwitting experience with alien sex. Now it&#8217;s up to the Archer and the crew to return the rapidly growing alien baby to its mother.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definite mixed feelings about this episode, for me. It was enjoyable enough, and certainly fun to watch, but it definitely had a few moments that concern me a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Things I liked: Trip&#8217;s attitude throughout the show &#8212; I really liked the understated, very dry approach he took. Archer&#8217;s reactions were hilarious, the number of times he had to work to stifle a smirk were hilarious. I do have to admit, too, to a thrill when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/library\/ships.asp?ID=111915\" title=\"Star Trek: Klingon D-7\">Klingon D-7 Battlecruiser<\/a> appeared on the Enterprise&#8217;s viewscreen. I&#8217;ve always liked that ship (and Klingon design in general &#8212; though they were finally upstaged by the Next Generation-era <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/library\/ships.asp?ID=70474\" title=\"Star Trek: Romulan Warbird\">Romulan Warbird<\/a>&#8230;but I digress), and seeing it in action again was quite nice. On the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Things I didn&#8217;t like: We&#8217;re four episodes in, and they&#8217;ve <em>already<\/em> succumbed to the temptation to get some sort of Holodeck on the show. Okay, so the Enterprise didn&#8217;t end up with it, but still &#8212; is it that difficult to come up with original ideas? And would the Klingons really be appeased\/tempted by the possibility of being given holographic technology? Seems to me that they&#8217;d be more interested in the cloaking technology that the alien ship was using. Besides, they seemed far to easily dissuaded &#8212; it&#8217;s hard for me to believe that given the level of tension between the Federation and the Klingon Empire during Kirk&#8217;s time, that any Klingon 100 years earlier, with far <em>less<\/em> contact with Humans to draw from, would put up with Archer&#8217;s down-home &#8220;Aw, shucks, Paw,&#8221; attitude for any longer than the time it would take to send a torpedo up the Enterprise&#8217;s tailpipe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, taken as a whole, it was an okay episode, with some fairly amusing moments &#8212; but for someone who&#8217;s been watching Star Trek practically since birth, I really wonder how this show&#8217;s going to integrate its story arc with the known back story of the Trek universe. So far, they seem to be doing a fairly shaky job of that, which worries me. Ah, well &#8212; we&#8217;re also only four episodes in, and none of the Trek series have really hit their stride until somewhere between their second and fourth year, so I supposed it&#8217;s a little early to write &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; off just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Still&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And would the Klingons really be appeased\/tempted by the possibility of being given holographic technology? Seems to me that they&#8217;d be more interested in the cloaking technology that the alien ship was using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[924,1661,4097,8],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-ent","tag-enterprise","tag-star-trek","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}