Untitled Star Trek Project

This week, so entranced is Nathan by the beauty of the Enterprise crew, the size and glossy finish of its sets, and the technological wonder of the effects wall that he completely fails to notice that basically nothing happens for about half an hour. Fortunately, Joe is here to help out.

This week, I refuse to put more thought into this blurb than the writers put into this episode of Voyager.

An unusual episode of Enterprise this week, with some satisfying serialisation, an inventive and inviting premise, and enough time to hang with the crew while they go exploring — all of which makes for a charming and entertaining 25 minutes. Sadly, the episode lasts 45 minutes.

– Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. The point is, you never know. You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can, but in the end it comes down to throwing one pitch after another and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape.

– And you have no idea what that shape is until it is completed.

– That’s right. In fact, the game wouldn’t be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen.

It’s the first pitch of the game, and something groundbreaking and historic is about to happen. Which is why we’re still here, thirty-three years later.