![]() “Zero Hour”: The finale to the third season of “Star Trek: Enterprise” has a Xindi weapon capable of destroying the planet pop out of a subspace vortex - and despite being (supposedly) on high alert in anticipation of the attack, no Earth vessels show up to stop it! A season earlier, when Enterprise returned to the Terran system and a Klingon ship attacked it, at least a couple of Starfleet ships lent a hand … Surely, someone would have been contacting Riker from HQ or from the Federation president’s office? And wouldn’t there have been other vessels (besides the lowly Mars defense ships) that made it to Earth that weren’t at Wolf 359? “The Best of Both Worlds”: Arguably, TNG’s pinnacle moment has always had a glaring hole in its final minutes. With the Borg vessel orbiting Earth, the Enterprise gets no help - and apparently no contact - from the surface. ![]() ![]() Sorry, to jump the timeline, but here are other instances: This happens a lot of times in Star Trek. There’s no direct indication that they’re doing nothing, but with all the scenes at Starfleet headquarters, it’s odd that there’s not a line of dialog about what the Vulcans or Andorians are doing to help, or about ships from other sectors heading to Earth, before it’s declared off-limits. ![]() In this film, one wonders what the rest of Starfleet - the parts on other planets or in ships in other parts of the galaxy not in the probe’s path - were doing (other than the few vessels we see incapacitated by the probe). When Earth is about ready to be destroyed - or, there’s some major threat someplace - the Enterprise crew is, effectively, all that’s left of Starfleet and completely on its own. This is an issue that happens in a lot of the movies and even in some of the TV shows. “Hello, computer. Canna ya tell me just how badly I might’n be messin’ with the future by givin’ the secret of transparen’ aluminum to this bogus frat with the bad tie?” What doesn’t hold up The fact that he’s out of sync is played for laughs - a good touch by the writers - but using Earth’s peril as a way to make him realize what’s important was really pretty brilliant. This movie is really partly about Spock’s recovery. to the Enterprise bridge and the return to form of Spock. Lastly, there’s the return of Kirk and Co. He has a big target on his back (a central point of “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”) and his participation in the peace process is so significant that Spock volunteers the Enterprise’s service on his behalf and the anti-peace conspirators frame him in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”. The idea that there will be no peace as long as Kirk lives is significant in the next two movies. The film also furthers the hostilities between the Klingons and Kirk. If not for the actions of Kirk and Co., Star Trek as we know it wouldn’t have continued - though it is interesting to think of a Federation and a Starfleet without Earth. “The Voyage Home” is another movie where our heroes save Earth, so, naturally, it’s hugely significant. The moment in the movie where a second ‘whale of a good time’ joke would have been perfect. Kirk is demoted from admiral to captain … and given command of the new Enterprise-A. face charges, and all but one is dropped. With the probe answered and gone, Kirk and Co. Kirk then takes the crew back in time - by sling-shotting around the sun - to 1986. After some adventures (Spock mind-melds with a whale, Sulu steals a helicopter, Scotty pisses all over the timeline to get some transparent aluminum) the crew is successful, and brings whales George and Gracie to the late 23rd century. Upon learning about the probe and Starfleet’s inability to answer it, Spock (who’s still a little weird since he was brought back from the dead and all) figures out that the probe is trying to communicate with humpback whales, which have been extinct for more than 200 years. are prepping their stolen Klingon Bird of Prey to leave Vulcan - where they’ve been for two months since the events of the previous movie - to face the music for stealing the Enterprise (which was destroyed) to save Spock. Starfleet is crippled, and Earth is marked off limits. I haven’t changed clothes since the Genesis Planet …”Īfter wrecking several ships in its path, a mysterious probe heads to Earth and starts wreaking havoc with the planet’s atmosphere.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |