T’Pol tells Archer and Trip the story of the first Vulcan contact with Earth. But it’s not the same story that everyone thinks (Cochrane meets the Vulcans in Bozeman Mt.). She tells of the unknown incident of her grandmother (+ 2 male crew members) that crash landed in Carbon Creek Pa. in the 1950’s. The rest of the episode is a flashback of this incident. I’m sure many people hated this episode and found it goofy, but I loved it. It seemed like it was an attempt at a Vulcan sitcom spinoff. They live in Carbon Creek for a year, they get jobs (a miner, a handyman and …. A woman). They manage to hide their ears, but nobody ever seems to notice their ridiculous eyebrows and eye makeup. One of the Vulcans is very taken with humans, he falls in love with a woman (Ann Cusak) and ends up staying on Earth, he also likes the show I Love Lucy. T’Pol’s grandmother finds promise in a very smart teenager, unfortunately he can’t afford college. In the end she manages to come up with the money for the kid. How? By selling a piece of Vulcan technology to a company. This technology is now known as Velcro. Finally help arrives and the two Vulcans leave Earth for home. Very very entertaining episode.
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5 comments:
those ears cause more problems for vulcans. always need an excuse to hide them.
I guess just grow your hair out?? plus would someone in the 50s automatically assume aliens? I'd just think they had pointy ears for some reason. Its not like I think a black person is an alien because of their crazy hair and dark skin!?!?!
Actually wasn't UFO/alien conspiracy huge in the 50's? Also they did just put their hair over their ears. Very creative. But everyone kept calling them Mo because of the stooges-esque hair style.
Ya I guess, they looked like regular humans for the most part. I probably wouldn't think alien right from seeing them. Plus what did they think aliens looked like back then?
Anyways sounds like a nice episode. Enterprise was a decent series
Jeez where is Donald?
I'm right here.
This is one of those episodes that... I dunno. What were they thinking? From every point of view, it's stupid, illogical, and makes no sense either as a story or as a piece of Star Trek mythology.
And yet, it's pretty entertaining. Somehow it works. Not only because I want to bang T'Pol every time she comes on screen, but because it's a fairly charming little story.
That's a perfect explanation. And also they did such a great job making T'Pol incredibly sexy and also still a lame Vulcan.
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