We’re back to more modern times (albeit still 20 years ago – I’m so old) with a couple of episodes of Enterprise season one starting with Fight or Flight. I haven’t found this one on any tapes, and it’s the 2nd episode of the first season, after the two-part pilot.
Hoshi found a slug, and is worried about its health. Trip: “We’ve been out here for two weeks, and the only first contact we’ve made is with a dying worm.”
Malcolm Reed is trying to improve their torpedo targeting.
Doctor Phlox overshares during dinner.
They find a mystery ship drifting, and it doesn’t respond to any hails. Archer wants to investigate, T’Pol urges caution.
On board the ship, they find a lot of dead alien bodies, attached to some kind of machine flushing out their corpses.
They leave the ship, but Archer is cross. He thinks they shouldn’t have just left the ship there. T’Pol argues that Vulcans wouldn’t even have entered the ship. But Archer wants to find out what happened.
Phlox determines that the aliens were being used to collect Triglobulin. He says it’s sometimes used as an aphrodisiac.
The aliens who were harvesting return in a very big ship.
Then, another alien ship, of the species in the harvested ship. Hoshi can’t get the universal translator to make them understand it wasn’t the Enterprise who killed their crew.
So, despite her worry that she doesn’t know the language properly, Archer tells Hoshi to communicate directly, and she’s able to make the alien understand the situation. I liked this bit.
And in case you were worried about Sluggo’s health, Hoshi gets to repatriate it on a planet more suitable for its biology. I’m looking forward to the ten part Paramount Plus series about Sluggo’s journey from dying slug to interplanetary hero.
After this episode, there’s a little bit of T4, featuring a video from Pink.
The next programme on this disc is another episode of Enterprise – Strange New World. This is one I’ve already looked at from a different recording.
Before it, I get a nice TiVo start screen. I wish I’d done this on more TiVo recordings.
After this episode there’s another blast of T4 Music featuring a band called Boniface. Then the TiVo playback stops, and you can get a glimpse into what I was recording in those days.
Adverts:
- Coca Cola
- Audi TT
- Virgin Holidays – Seaworld
- L’Oreal Nutrilift
- Chessington World of Adventures
- Daily Star
- Churchill Insurance
- Yellow Pages
- trail: Enterprise
- trail: Big Brother’s Little Brother
- Film Four
- Ford
- Direct Line
- Russell Watson – Encore
- Vauxhall Vectra – Ed Harris
- Tango
- Huggies
- Argos – Richard E Grant
- Lynx
- Direct Line
- Ja Rule – Pain is Love
- Pizza Hut – X Factor
- Volvic
- T-Mobile
- Head & Shoulders – Men in Black
- Nissan Primera
- X-Cite
- Pringles
- trail: V Graham Norton
- Film Four
- trail: Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights
- Sugar Puffs
- Chessington World of Adventures
- Arm & Hammer Extra Whitening
- Nivea
- Head & Shoulders – Men in Black
- Busch Gardens
- Imperial Leather
- M&Ms
- Churchill Insurance
- Renault Clio
- trail: RI:SE
- trail: Mornings on T4
- trail: Location, Location, Location