Star Trek: Enterprise "Cold Station 12" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Fone Bone]

No talkback for the Trekkies? Here goes.

Star Trek: Enterprise "Cold Station 12"

Brent Spiner's three episode guest stint continues as Soong and the Augments take a research facility hostage to retrieve genetically engineered embryos as Soong learns just how ruthless his children have become.

Next week it's a Data and Geordi reunion! (Not a spoiler, Levar Burton is directing.)

Comments?

[SirLemming]

Ooh, Burton is directing next week? His work on Enterprise so far has been amazing (Cogenitor, Similitude, The Forgotten).


This week's episode was about as good as last weeks, which is very good. The hostage situation was played out a little differently than usual, which was cool. Archer didn't go all "I know you would never kill anyone" and keep flying Enterprise towards the station, because I guess he really didn't know Soong quite well enough to make that judgment. Of course, it did come into play later, but (I'm guessing) the hostage wound up dying anyway. It was a great scene, Soong trying to get Dr. Lucas to keep the hostage from dying, because you could tell ever-so-slightly that Soong was really just as concerned for the hostage's life and was starting to get frantic.

The weakness of this episode was the guest acting, Spiner excluded. The Augments weren't stunningly good or bad, but the human doctors (aside from Lucas, I suppose) were really cheesy. It was too easy to laugh at the one they were killing.

[DarkAngel]

Comments?Very entertaining. It's what I had hoped the first part would be like. "Cold Station 12" had my attention from the beginning, held it to the end, and left me wanting more. It wasn't groundbreaking, but it was a lot of fun. Hopefully, the conclusion will be as satisfying.

[AnimatedSnow47]

Wow. That was...intense! The teaser was certaintly unique, with the Superbabies (Thankfully, No Scott Baio here) being brainwashed by Soong. However, as the plot progresses, we find out that Soong isn't quite as evil...and Malick isn't quite as good...as we originally believed. The battle in the asteriod field was stunning and it was good to finally see Dr. Lucas from "Dear Doctor" and "Doctor's Orders" The scene with the Simolean Blood Burn (a disease previously mentioned on DS9, I believe) was quite intense. I, however, had a feeling that Udar (Smite) would end up dead. :( As for the cliffhanger, they know how to write them! Final Rating: ****1/2

Two little things...
1. Did anyone notice all the blinking lights on the bridge now? And, how the buttons are yellow, red, and blue. More and more, we're inching towards TOS.
2. Smite's mom ran the Decathalon? Actually, in the Olympics for Women, it's currently the Heptatlon!

[Fone Bone]

Okay that was just awesome. Not counting Dominic Keating and John Billingsly we had two Buffyverse actors here: Richard Riehle (Buffy's first Watcher Merrick; also Batai on TNG's The Inner Light) and the Indian dude in the disease chamber (an assistant Watcher whom Buffy threw a sword at.) Ironically Dominic Keating (Reed) played a Watcher in Helpless in which Zachary Kralick (Jeff Kober, a Voyager alum) turned him into a vampire. John Billingsly was a Wolfram and Hart doctor on the Angel episode that introduced Nina the werewolf.

But man, the REAL draw this week was of course Brent Spiner. The scene with him shoving his son up against the wall for killing his brother at the beginning was intense. You could tell as things escalated throughout the episode that he was getting worried about how deep in **** he was getting. Torture must not run in the Soong bloodline.

Good to meet Dr. Lucas. Soong's reply to his curse "Actually mother was a chemist" was VERY funny and would have been even better had the previews not spoiled it.

NICE cliffhanger. This episode was MUCH better than last weeks. The teaser flashback was very cool.

Smike dying sucked . I liked the kid who played him on The Commish. These other Augments are starting to piss me off although I liked where the females clothing was ripped. If they aren't careful we're gonna get into nipple territory.:D

I'm gonna give it **** and hope it gets even better next week.

[JusticeLeagueLegion]

I thought this and last weeks episodes were so good, three parts probably ain't enough. Soong's ancester, augments from the Eugenics Wars! All in one episode! How cool is that!

[SirLemming]

Oh, one other thing: I guess this episode confirms the continuity issues we've been wondering about. They referred to the Eugenics Wars as having already happened, which coincides with the original series (but not actual history, seeing as they're set in the 1990s).

[Fone Bone]

Oh, one other thing: I guess this episode confirms the continuity issues we've been wondering about. They referred to the Eugenics Wars as having already happened, which coincides with the original series (but not actual history, seeing as they're set in the 1990s).Oh, the Eugenigs Wars already happened. The mainstream media is just trying to keep it all hush hush. Biggest scam since the fake moon landing.

[raykremer]

1. Did anyone notice all the blinking lights on the bridge now? And, how the buttons are yellow, red, and blue. More and more, we're inching towards TOS.
TOS bridge noises too. In retrospect, it's surprising they didn't do that from the start.

[Temple Fugate]

They definitely overdid it with those blinking lights. I had to struggle to pay attention to the dialogue instead of gazing at the pretty new bridge decorations. If you were on Enterprise, wouldn't that drive you crazy after about ten minutes? And WHAT ARE THEY EVEN FOR??? Oh well. They're pretty.

The episode: Great. Fantastic. I love it.
They're doing what I hoped they'd do; take advantage of the story-arc format to go really in-depth with the guest characters. Nothing in this episode felt like "filler." The torture scene was disturbing, and the final shot with the camera tracking up the clear tube to reveal the blood was downright chilling. And the ending, while suspenseful, wasn't meerly a cliffhanger for the sake of a cliffhanger. The Augments had every reason to ensure everyone on the station died, and why not a slow, painful one? "Borderland"s cliffhanger wasn't unnecessarily suspenseful. I'm very pleased at how this arc is proceeding compared to the crazy WTF cliffhanger we had in "Zero Hour." My doubts about the future of this show are fading with every episode.

Star Trek: Enterprise 4x05 - "Cold Station 12" ****

To Be Continued...

[JusticeLeagueLegion]

I didn't notice the chirp noises on the bridge...are you guys sure it sounded exactly like TOS? I'll have to watch it again, I guess.

Oh, the Eugenigs Wars already happened. The mainstream media is just trying to keep it all hush hush. Biggest scam since the fake moon landing.
You should read the book "Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars." I think that's what it's called. The wars really weren't known to the public as far as I understand. Not too many people were involved with the war, and the book makes it seem beleivable that such a war could have taken place in the 1990s.

As most of you know, the center of the Eugenics Wars was Khan, who left earth in 1996, and 300 years later Enterprise-NCC-1701 discovers him and 83 other crewman in cryogenic freeze on bourd the S.S. Botany Bay.

He proved to be quite ruthless, so Kirk stranded him and his crew on the planet Ceti-Alpha-V, but later Khan returns...in one of Star Trek's greatest movies, "The Wrath Of Khan."

Which reminds me...I wonder if there gonna have Archer get mad and scream:

Soooooooooonnnnnnnngggg!!