Thursday, August 04, 2011

Enterprise: Episode 20 - OASIS

"Archer, T'Pol, Trip and Travis find a crew apparently alive on a ship that crash-landed years ago."
The crew meet up with a trader about getting some needed supplies. The trader is a really nice guy and no wonder … it’s fucking Tom Bergeron! Yes that Tom Bergeron, the one from memorable New England shows such as Rap Around, People Are Talking and Granite State Challenge. Also as a high school teenager he physically called up Mo and Larry from the Three Stooges and interviewed them … on multiple occasions. He recorded these on a tape recorder and they were released last year on Sirius radio. They are amazing.  He’s excellent in this bit part.  

He tells the crew that there is a planet with a crashed ship on it that has the supplies that they need…..but the ship is haunted.  Come to find out that the ship is not haunted. The only survivor of the crash replicated his family and crew with hologram technology. And that’s about it. Also Rene Auberjonois appears in this episode, he’s a very underrated actor. Remember him from Benson and as Odo in DS9?? Rene plays the surviving crewman/commander named Ezral but he still looks just like Odo, which made me concoct the connection in my mind that this actually is Odo.  Odo is a changeling that typically takes humanoid shape, so it makes sense I guess. But really, who cares?
ST ENTERPRISE COUNTDOWN: 20 down 78 to go

3 comments:

capt.naps said...

changlings are such a stupid alien. how would that really work?

Mugato said...

.....how can any of this really work!!

capt.naps said...

We have humans, we have horse shoe crabs so logically they could mate and create klingons...right? but how does a shapeshifter exist? it can change it's size and mass?? how does it's internal organs work??