Bah.

[cellio]

Two identical VCRs, two shows to record. One records Enterprise just fine. The other records less than one minute of West Wing and then stops. Naturally, the one that failed couldn't have been the one picking up the show with a rerun later this week. Bah.

No idea what happened. It's not a programming glitch, and there's no obvious physical problem with the tape.

Last time this happened (cable outage, not hardware failure) one of my west-coast friends came to the rescue (because we were within the three-hour window caused by prime-time airing), but I'd feel awfully sheepish about asking again.

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[cellio]

As it happens, we got West Wing but not Enterprise, thanks to a power outage.

You won. Stop while you're ahead. Really. I haven't even seen West Wing, but I have complete confidence in this.

I just finished watching Enterprise. Words... fail me. Not only was it astonishingly bad, but they have written themselves a blank check on science and consistency for the entire season. And next week's episode looks insipid from the trailer. Ugh.

You know things are bad when you find yourself desperately hoping for "and then they all woke up".

[goljerp]

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Isn't it convenient that every time they run into something that affects humanoids, the Vulcan is immune? Especially in this episode, where it's made clear that it effects all humanoids.

What about the way that they're able to solve, in about 24 hours, a problem which another space-faring race has been working on for years?

The way they expressed no curiosity about who this other space-faring race actually is, and what they know.

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A race willing to spend the time to send a couple of ships out to a "quarantined" planet and not keep one lousy satellite in orbit broadcasting "warning, infectious virus: use airtight suits and complete sterilization procedures".

Ah, I so wish that Crusade hadn't been cancelled. Wait, before I use up that wish, let me specify: I wish that Crusade, without TNT's medddling had been able to continue. Or that LOTR got beyond the pilot.

[cellio]

All that was problematic, of course, but what really did it for me was when someone said something like "well, we already know the laws of physics don't work in this place, so it's not surprising that laws of biology don't either". They're outright telling us that they don't give a hoot about science, with a flimsy, bogus excuse. Bah. Back when Trek did technobabble and pseudo-science it was often wrong, but at least they made the pretense. Now they're not even doing that.

I completely agree on your (modified) Crusade wish.