John Byrne has completed his short run of this Easter Egg-loaded series of McCoy’s adventures just prior to TMP.
Just look at that cover up there and you’ll see what kind of fun this is.
Byrne is writing Trek comics right now for the hardcore fans and this one, including a moments shared between Number One and Christine Chapel, might be the one that takes the hasperat.
I never buy variant covers, but I bought these. Because they are awesome and hysterical.
Trip bangs T’Pol.
Some other stuff happens, too.
Stone cold yes.
Archer continues to go BSG and think about just how he plans to defeat the Xindi. He capitalizes on a lucky break and puts Degra through an Inception-like rigamarole to try and get secrets from him.
After many reversals he succeeds and, best, sets him loose none the wiser for possible future benefit. That is hardcore. This is quite possibly the best Enterprise episode yet.
Worf, Wesley, a comatose Riker and a bunch of others (Lt. Selar!) are on a shuttle mission and get zapped to somewhere far, far away.
How long is it right for Picard to hold out hope?
How will the members of the shuttle crew get back?
Seems like an average episode of TNG, but the drawn out nature of this book allows for some real depth, as well as some expansive heavy nerdass shit when a giant floating city of disabled ships with all your favorite species (including Gorn!) are discovered.
The tradepaperback I have includes an opening essay by Ronald D. Moore that is touching and sweet.
Somewhere in the contract it says that your characters must come to “the present.”
Unlike ST:IV, however, this is a little more serious – as they must stop the biological Xindi weapon that’s getting ready to be deployed in the past. A local douchebag is aiding the Xindi by kidnapping people by blood type. Why he can’t just steal their blood (he works in a blood bank) isn’t explained.
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These shows just can’t resist finding a way to go to the old west, can’t they?
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A zap to Archer’s brain from an Expanse anomaly leaves him unable to form short term memory. As such he’s out of commission and can not save Earth. Survivors become a BSG-like group of refugees on Ceti Alpha V.
Future-Phlox, however, figures out that killing the parasites in Archer’s head will alter the timeline, or something – it kinda makes sense when you see it.
The core of the story, though, is of T’Pol becoming caretaker (and lover) to Archer in this future timeline.
There aren’t too many episodes with Hoshi as lead for good reason. She’s a drip.
Anyway, here beauty (allegedly) gets trapped with Beast in an old castle loaded with telepathy. Not very interesting, but new knowledge gleaned about the Xindi help move that arc forward a bit.
What’s more awesome than Vulcans? Zombie Vulcans!
Also throws a wrinkle in Archer’s plans for the Expanse. T’Pol will go batty if exposed to anomaly-busting Trellium-D. Ruh roh!
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Lady Saucypants makes her way to Enterprise and uses here Siren skills to get intel for the Xindi. You gotta stop trusting people in the Expanse, Archer!
It ends with one of the funniest Unitards in the entire series.
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This is not quite the disaster some would lead you to believe.
It is, though, a bit of a missed opportunity. TNG shoulda gone out on a better note.
Consider this, though – had this movie been fantastic, there would have been additional TNG movies. Heck, maybe Enterprise would have gotten that fifth season.
If that were the case, would Paramount have set the engines in motion for an Abramsverse reboot in 2006? Perhaps not, but that’s what Myriad Universes are all about.
Season 2 ends with its 9/11 parallel and mission statement for the future. Exploration is out, search and destroy (and defend) is in.
This episode is very plot heavy and keeps a brisk pace. The performances are pretty solid. Gets ya ready for Season 3.
