Title: 4x12 Babel One (1 of 3)
Crichton Kicks - November 6, 2004 04:58 PM (GMT)
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Enterprise's twelfth episode this season will reportedly pay homage to the original Star Trek outing "Journey to Babel".
In the episode, currently entitled "Babel One", Earth has volunteered to mediate in a dispute between the Tellarites and Andorians. Enterprise must transport the Tellarite delegation, headed by the rather portly Ambassador Gral, to the peace talks on Babel One. While Jonathan Archer wears his new diplomatic role well, not all crew members take so kindly to the demands of the Tellarite guests. Their constant criticism and nit-picking soon grates on Trip, not to mention the need for rooms to be heated to a higher temperature than humans are used to.
The NX-01 is also transporting the Andorian party to Babel One, which leads to on-board tensions. But the tense atmosphere is exacerbated when Archer is contacted by the Andorian authorites claming that one of their ships was recently destroyed by the Tellarites. Ambassador Gral denies all knowledge of the attack, and suggests that the Andorians may have fabricated their ship's sensor logs to incriminate the Tellarites. Nevertheless, the Andorians demand to be returned home.
Gral and his aide Naarg soon become paranoid that Archer is not truly an impartial mediator due to his friendship with Shran, and the pair even start to believe that the captain is conspiring with the Andorians. The fact that Archer has ordered guards to be posted outside the Tellarite quarters doesn't do much to ease the tensions.
With the Tellarites and Andorians at each other's throats, this situation would be enough to give anyone a headache of inter-galactic proportions. But soon a third species enters the stage, the Romulans...
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ken1701e - January 30, 2005 03:06 PM (GMT)
Well some of you wanted the romulans on the series and now you have got them in a very interesting first episode of a new 3 part mini arc and another plus for season 4!!!
Not the greatest first part that has ever been produced perhaps but with a lot of promise and an interesting way in allowing the ENTERPRISE to encounter the ROMULANS without actually seeing any of them.
I am sure that some people will be able to find something negative to say about this but I for one cannot wait for next week.
Crichton Kicks - January 30, 2005 05:16 PM (GMT)
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| I am sure that some people will be able to find something negative to say about this but I for one cannot wait for next week. |
Don't want to disappoint :p
When people made clear their wishes to see the Romulans on Enterprise, I'm fairly confident they weren't talking about 2/3 episodes :rolleyes:
Still, small steps ;)
ken1701e - January 30, 2005 05:58 PM (GMT)
It has to start somewhere....
Crichton Kicks - January 30, 2005 06:04 PM (GMT)
Preferably not at the end though ;)
Phillip Culley - February 13, 2005 11:19 PM (GMT)
This episode is showing potential.
There's nothing inherantly wrong with it, however the cliffhanger felt a bit 'so what'?
Maybe I'll have to wait and see the final two parts, but this feels like it could have been done as a tighter 90-minute TV movie (like Voyager's Dark Frontier and Flesh and Blood).
Hovis - May 25, 2005 08:16 AM (GMT)
Watched this episode before heading in to w**k this morning, and I enjoyed it. On the whole, I enjoyed the plotting and the story line but for some reason, it didn't quite hang together as well as it promised.
I have to say that I found the attempts Archer was making to be argumentative/diplomatic with the Tellarites was rather cringeworthy to say the least.
The Romulan's level of technology seemed far too high for the time period... have we ever seen a ship controlled remotely like that before, even in the TNG era? Don't remember ever seeing anything like that. I'm embarrassed to say I never twigged it was remote controlled... I thought the guy in the Virtual Reality kit was somehow being exploitedor tortured in order to control the ship. Well, it was early when I watched it!
It's always a pleasure to see Shren and the Andorians though. And I love the look of the Tellarites. Excellent make up for both races there.
This is the kind of thing I wanted from Enterprise Season 4... stuff relating to the foundation of the Federation. Yes, I wanted to see the Romulans too, but not in this context. Seeing them in this episode just didnt feel right somehow.
It's easy to be overcritical... after all, this is part one of three, and I'll be in a better position to comment when I've seen part three. But this episode has got me looking forward to next week. Roll on Part two!
Andrew (HM) :yahoo: