Season 1 Cliffhanger "Shockwave"

Grundig · Post by **Grundig** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:25 am

I just watched this 2-parter, and wanted to post a few thoughts about it. Graham doesn't even list any YATIs for this episode! I thought it was a pretty solid episode too.

I really dig the idea of the Suliban "Helix" station, and the general design philosophy they use with their ships. Very original, IMHO.

I think one weakness was the sequence with Hoshi facing her claustrophobia to crawl through the ducts. It was meant to be exciting, daring, and all that but really wasn't (at least for me). The passageways were supposed to be too small for the men (hence sending Hoshi), but they weren't all that small, and Hoshi didn't seem to be phased by them either. Perhaps the entrance was the real tight squeeze - we don't see it on camera...

Overall, pretty exciting, especially this early in the series.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:12 pm

Well there may have been smaller areas that she had to crawl through, that we didn't see. I doubt those crawl spaces are uniform.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:18 pm

Was this the one with the Nazis invading the US?

Grundig · Post by **Grundig** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:32 pm

This was the one where Enterprise was recalled after accidently burning the atmosphere off of a mining colony, and when Daniels pulls Archer into the future, which disrupts the timeline and the Federation never forms.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:25 pm

Rochey wrote:Was this the one with the Nazis invading the US?

That was the season three cliffhanger.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:07 pm

This was the one where Enterprise was recalled after accidently burning the atmosphere off of a mining colony, and when Daniels pulls Archer into the future, which disrupts the timeline and the Federation never forms.

Hmm....don't recall that one.

Then again, I did purge most of ENT from my memory...

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:13 pm

It was also, IIRC, the one where Daniels built a cross-time transmitter from Archer's communicator and the 31st century equivalent of string and paperclips. A bit like a modern engineer building a nuclear reactor out of a mid 18th century steam engine.

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:37 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:It was also, IIRC, the one where Daniels built a cross-time transmitter from Archer's communicator and the 31st century equivalent of string and paperclips. A bit like a modern engineer building a nuclear reactor out of a mid 18th century steam engine.

Well, you've got some very basic shielding, some water to moderate the reaction, and some moving parts to raise and lower the... hm. Fuel rods. Hmmmm.

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:45 am

I liked it. And heck, Macgyver does what Daniels did all the time!

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:20 pm

But MacGyver doesn't bear a striking resemblance to male genitalia, as Daniels does.