Spoilers---Let's go Mind the Store

So....

This takes place during the Enterprise D's missions...

Brent must have recorded "Data's" lines either while doing his own guest stint or as a later unanounced bit.

If the entire episode had been about the NX 01's crew I would have liked it better... I'll take what I can get. Shran and his beautiful little daughter. Tucker and Malcom speculating about possible future Enterprises. Archer being self deprecating and gentle, both about Tucker's death and his own speechmaking ability. T'Pol was written grossly emotional (for a Vulcan) and I agree Jolene Blalok and John Billingsley who went on record as being dissatisfied with the way their characters, indeed the whole NX crew took a backseat to the framing Riker/Troi story.


I was all ready to hate the framing story with the hottest hate I could muster, but Riker's just so damn congenial it's hard to dislike him. After all it's not Frakes and Sirtis' fault they've been asked to upstage Phlox's compassion, T'Pols prickly behavior, or the worst upstage of all, Tucker's death being marginalized by making the whole thing just a holographic simulation...

The only thing that made the framing worth it was the end sequence and even that was two shots shy of perfect...The ships (but where was Voyager?), the spacescape (but where was DS9?) and the complementary voice overs.

Ah, well, engage...

Halfway through

Loved the rocking, rolling shuttle ride...to the end emphasizing the fact that this is not the cushy 23rd or 24th century..."When *I* walked to school through twelve feet of snow," etc. These ancestors of the Starfleeters we know had to have it rougher or one of the few positives of a prequel just falls flat.

"Her name is Elizabeth."

Perhaps some of Phlox's record keeping gets studied by the Vulcan geneticists when a certain Vulcan diplomat and his human lady wife decide to have a child :)


Tucker's emotions at the end of this episode were/are right on target.

And Archer's final speech at the conference. Lord, no wonder Kirk was such a pompous **** by his time.

One down One to go.

These Were The Voyages

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"It's happening Captain....the rift showing the past, the future....that we've had access to for decades now. Decay rate constant. Closure imminent."
"Isn't there anything that can be done for them?"
"Your concern is noble and notable Doctor, but they have sealed their fate. Outside this rift their reality lies on a perilous course. It is logical that," he paused and admitted, "many...positive things...would be left behind."
"It's just one of those moments in history," the Captain(s) said,"We've tried every scheme possible, and we are simply unable to stop it."
"Do they forget," asked the Prophets of the Sisko, "Or do they reject?"
"I am uncertain," said Ben.
"Today," rumbled Worf, "Is not a good day to die."
"Like my people though, " noted Myles, "They'll keep on writing."
"And dreaming," murmured Janeway, "Perhaps too much."
"I believe," said the machine, "That there are always alternatives."
"Intriguing," opined the Vulcan.
"We'll go on whether they do or not," said the youngest of the Captains.
"And you wouldn't have it any other way," interrupted the Frenchman sourly.
He had never gotten used to the other's pronouncements. And where in the hell was Q?
Archer was bemused and annoyed by turns "You say that, " he quipped to young Kirk , "when your voyages ended before their time as well? At least yours weren't hijacked by a pair of-"
"Temper, Temper, " said the Denobulan, smiling. He turned to the Southerner and asked, "How do you account for such volatility in a leader?"
"Comes with the territory," the Southerner answered gruffly. "Hush now. It's beginning..."