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Agreed. Even in their early seasons, the potential for excellent storytelling was there. TOS hit the ground running like a motherfucker. For TNG, it was season one's "The Big Goodbye," that showed great promise for the rest of the series. For DS9, it was "Duet." I can't say I recall, offhand, any of the season one episodes of VOY (save for "Caretaker"). ENT was very hit or miss its first season, and then second, and third, and the fourth started getting good, but it was too late.

Enterprise had some good 1st Season episodes -- The Andorian Incident, Silent Enemy and Shadows of P'Jemm were all pretty good, IIRC.

I didn't like any of those.

To be honest, about the best one's I can think of in the first couple of years were "Dead Stop" and "Carbon Creek".

Ironic that "Carbon Creek" would be so good when it featured almost none of the main cast

The first season of Voyager was probably its best, when they at least paid lip service to the premise.

I finally watched "Carbon Creek" not long ago. So wrong...

Has your account been hacked, or are you trying out a new voice for writing practice?

Sorry, neither. It was really just so wrong...

I loved those two actors who played the two Vulcan crewmates of T'Pol's grandmother.

"She keeps calling me 'Moe'" (The Three Stooges)

"There is a resemblance"

"I'm going to repair the ships high gain antenna. Lucy's on tonight."

Okay, I have to vent a little about this. Three Vulcans, alive and uninjured after crashing a highly sophisticated interstellar craft loaded with technology on an alien planet, in a forest, in either spring or summer, and they can't find food?

Really?

There's nothing at all strange about it.

In order to be sure of the quality of the food, Vulcans only eat at T'Donald's. There weren't any nearby. Therefore, they couldn't find anything appropriate to eat.

It's all very logical, actually.

Vulcan don't eat meat, so T'Donalds is out.

Speaking of "effective trolls," this thread is an excellent example. The Red Room as a whole has rejected the OP and gone off on a Trek sidebar that has so overshadowed the original premise that the thread-starter is now participating in a troll of his own thread.

How do you know what they serve at T'Donald's? When was the last time you ate a Vulcanburger?

They bought TV dinners. Not exactly vegetarian cuisine.

Must not have been very good Vulcans.

They probably hang around with people like Spock's brother.

Vulcans can eat meat. Spock was shown doing so in "All Our Yesterdays"

Yeah, on a planet in the middle of an Ice Age with no access to vegetation. These lazy-ass Vulcans had a whole forest of options, and they sat there starving for five days.

If only Texas had been successful, Sulu wouldn't have had to spend all those years in the closet.

Wow. Volpone has just descended to a Flashlight level of Can't Tell the Difference Between the Actor and the Role.

Sad...

That reminds me of a little-known-fact of Star Trek Lore.

We all know that years ago, Leonard Nimoy wrote a very successful book called "I Am Not Spock."

What is less know is that, shortly afterwards, William Shatner wrote a book that was significantly less successful, entitled "I Am Not Spock, Either."

^That would certainly be in character.

Spock told Zarabeth they could build a greenhouse.

That would've been true of Vulcans only. Dr. McCoy wasn't changed in the least. Spock was eating meat and gettin laid. Two things somewhat out of character.

The fact that someone thought this made sense is a whole 'nother issue, but then, this is the show that thinks alerting your DNA will instantly morph your appearance...

Whereas humans who'd undergone SERE training or even Boy/Girl Scouts would not have starved in the forest in the middle of summer.

Neither would any Vulcan over the age of seven.

As if I needed reminding of why I only ever watched 3-4 episodes of Enterprise...

In the James Blish adaption of "Mirror, Mirror" there is a line by Spock included that is interesting.

When mentioned by Kirk and McCoy about how much alike the two Spocks were Spock says "I am a savage doctor. Both here and there. But someday I hope to outgrow it"

Let's not forget what Spock's "teddy bear" looked like.



I think if a Vulcan kid can handle one of those, then an adult Vulcan can figure what to do if they're shipwrecked on an alien planet.

When I create a thread, I release it into the wild and let it evolve organically. Threads that spontaneously switch topics are among the most interesting for me to read here. So the fact that this thread is now discussing Enterprise and Vulcan evolution is quite satisfying to me.