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Post by andrewlee on Sept 30, 2008 18:40:26 GMT -6
In this episode the Ent-D and a Ferengi ship are held by force field that at first neither of them knows about. The Ent-D was pursuing the Ferengi ship because they stole something from a federation colony. The funny part was when Data was in a conference with the Senior staff got his fingers caught in a Chinese finger puzzle. They beamed down to the planet as did the Ferengi and encountered an entity of immense power, who through the process of quietening both the away team and Ferengi determined their intentions. The entity had been dormant for at least 600,000 years and was the last of its kind. Anyone have any thought comments on this episode?
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Post by Luke on Oct 2, 2008 9:15:34 GMT -6
I think its interesting that the Ferengi were presented as dangerous, their technology on par with the Federations. But later on, they were treated more like comic relief.
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Post by andrewlee on Oct 2, 2008 10:20:17 GMT -6
I noticed the very same thing about how the Ferengi were portrayed Lucius. They acted very underhanded when the portal entity was questioning Riker about their intentions and who they were. One thing I thought was interesting was the 3-D star chart of the T'Kon empire that had existed 600,000 years ago and find it hard to believe that one supernova could destroy such an advanced civilization.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Oct 3, 2008 7:43:23 GMT -6
I also don't understand how that could happen, Andrew (any more than I understand how the explosion of a single moon could bring down the Klingon Empire in "The Undiscovered Country"). I thought this episode was weak in many ways. The Ferengi were very interesting, and as Luke said, seemed quite a formidable enemy at first. But the ship being completely drained of power, and the Guardian that just appeared from out of nowhere didn't make a lot of sense. And what was the Guardian? A machine? A hologram? What? We never did find out!
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Post by admiralwhite on Dec 1, 2008 12:46:12 GMT -6
I never really thought much about the parallels between the earlier Ferengi and later Ferengi, but it raises a good point. Same with the TNG episode which introduced the Trill, who had forehead ridges instead of spots, and Riker survived hosting a symbiont after it was removed. Quite different to the Trill we know today! As for the T'Kon empire, a three part series of TNG novels by Greg Cox about the Q-Continuum reveals how the T'Kon empire met its end, which granted wouldn't be considered by many people as 'canon' but it gives a good and believeable explanation to that and other loose ends from Star Trek series and movies, while telling a good Q story
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 5, 2008 8:48:38 GMT -6
When you consider that the producers of the series have to take hours (and in some case days) worth of log entries and condense them down into an hour long documentary for each episode, it's no wonder we sometimes meet with what appears to be a contradiction.
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