{"id":273,"date":"2001-11-28T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2001-11-29T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=273"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:38:02","slug":"enterprise-cold-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/28\/enterprise-cold-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise: Cold Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16687,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.treknation.com\\\/episodes\\\/season1\\\/cold_front.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090106134806\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.treknation.com\\\/episodes\\\/season1\\\/cold_front.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/trektoday.com\\\/episodes\\\/season1\\\/cold_front.shtml&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 09:46:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 22:29:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:21:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:21:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Just got done with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treknation.com\/episodes\/season1\/cold_front.shtml\" title=\"Trek Nation: Cold Front\">Cold Front<\/a>&#8220;, this week&#8217;s Enterprise episode. Haven&#8217;t had a lot of time to digest it just yet, just some first impressions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOverall, not bad &#8212; not bad at all. Nice to see that they&#8217;re continuing the Temporal Cold War plotline introduced in the pilot, though I&#8217;ve got somewhat mixed feelings on their choice of what to use for an ongoing plot. Time travel can be a fascinating thing to play with, but I&#8217;ve felt for a long time that Star Trek has tended to focus on that a bit too much, and a bit too freely, given the number of paradoxical situations that can arise all too easily. I&#8217;ll be quite happy if they can pull it off&#8230;but at the moment, I&#8217;m definitely withholding judgement.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in original Trek, time travel was shown as a somewhat simple, if not trivial, concept &#8212; most of the time, all you had to do was get going fast enough (usually by slingshotting the ship around a star) and you&#8217;d suddenly rocket backwards in time. Now, however, we&#8217;re being told that the Vulcans have &#8220;studied time travel extensively&#8221; and determined that it&#8217;s an impossibility. Admittedly, Enterprise is set before the original series, but it seems a bit odd that in however long the Vulcans have been hopping galaxies, they never encountered any sort of phenomena that would give them some experience in this area.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Daniels (the agent from the future) tells Archer that while his people (900 years in Enterprise&#8217;s future) have the technology to physically travel back in time, they only developed that after much work and study, and the Suliban&#8217;s conspirators (from an as yet undisclosed time between Enterprises&#8217;s future and the agent&#8217;s past) cannot do that yet, and are only able to send transmissions between the past and the future. Again &#8212; in all the years since Kirk, no-one else figured out the slingshot trick? He was able to bounce back and forth between various eras without much problem at all.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well&#8230;we&#8217;ll just have to see how things go from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In original Trek, time travel was shown as a somewhat simple, if not trivial, concept. Now, however, we&#8217;re being told that the Vulcans have &#8216;studied time travel extensively&#8217; and determined that it&#8217;s an impossibility.<\/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-273","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\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}