As I said elsewhere, a good start to a good series. I liked the Captain's quarters - looked like Pike's quarters from the Cage in a way. Loved the fact that Cochrane didn't split his infinitive (to go boldly)!! The communications officer was a nice touch of the original series. Lots of good touches. Nasty weather, polarizing the hull plating, communication problems,...
Originally posted by Kayless elsewhere:
<STRONG> I like it that the new (or should that be old?) Enterprise's warp nacelles are appropriately similar to the original series in design. I actually thought that Enterprise’s premiere was the best of all the Trek shows’. It’s nice that they’re going in new directions rather than rehashing TNG’s era (which Voyager took the shine off IMHO ). I especially liked some of the continuity features, i.e. The Enterprise’s registration is NX rather than NCC signifying that’s it’s a prototype vessel, yellow is the color for command and red is for engineering like in the original series (next generation and subsequent spin-offs reversed them), and Zephram Cochran's cameo. And I almost didn’t recognize Vaughn Armstrong in role of the Admiral. He’s played dozens of different roles in Trek but this is the first time I’ve actually seen him play a human. All this aside there were a few slip-ups, as one of the Vulcans refers to Klingon Warbirds. Anyone who knows about Trek ships will tell you that Warbirds are a distinctly Romulan ship and Bird of Preys are Klingon. I suppose it’s possible that they were originally reversed since in the Original Series the term Bird of Prey was used for a Romulan vessel (oh, speaking of Romulans, who else here thinks the Temporal Bad Guytm is really a Romulan? </STRONG>
Okay, let me dredge my poor memory here for a moment. I was a Trekie before there ever was a TNG. I even recall watching the original series during the original run back when I was 5 years old. We saw it on an old black and white TV with rabbit ears sitting on a brass-colored TV cart with a magazine rack underneath. It was back in the family room in our house in Dallas... Ah, the memories...Originally posted by Kayless elsewhere but later:
<STRONG> During the Original Series the Klingons and the Romulans allied and the Romulans used Klingons ships (D7 class or the K’Tinga upgrade). An early draft for Star Trek 3 has Christopher Lloyd’s Klingon character stealing a Romulan Bird of Prey for his quest to thwart Kirk. Subsequent drafts dropped the Romulan connection but the ship somehow stayed a Bird of Prey. The term has been used for Klingon ships ever since (B'rel and K'vort classes) </STRONG>
But I digress. The problem, as I recall, was that in the Original Series the Romulans first (Balance of Power, I think) show up running around in those flat ships with the red birds painted on the undersides – called Romulan Birds of Prey, then later show up sailing around in clearly Klingon ships – called Warbirds. The lore, as I recall, used to explain why, was that the Romulans later stole the Klingon design. I seem to remember this from the old set of Enterprise blueprints I have. I would look it up, but they are in storage.
In otherwords, as I recall, the Klingon vessels were originally called Warbirds, and that the Vulcan on Enterprise got it right. I could be wrong, its happened before. I think the last time I was wrong was back in 1976.
Interesting thing about the temporal villain being Romulan (possibly), is that the Vulcans of this time (Enterprise-time) may not even know the Romulans exist, since they broke off from the Vulcans centuries before and were assumed to have perished, taking on a mythological status. Balance of Power, I think, was the first time the Romulans were seen, right?
