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Ric Crossman
Jun 9, 202216 min read
6.1 "Good Try, We Don't Like It"
Star Trek Enterprise Season 1 Retrospective I hold in my hands a lede. Fetch me not a shovel, but a spotlight. This is not a season of...
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Ric Crossman
Jun 5, 202211 min read
6.1.25 "...All Your Desperate Displays"
Shockwave, Part 1 Our creation had strode out into the world. Which is to say both that it had legs, and that it lived. But much can live...
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Ric Crossman
May 29, 202216 min read
6.1.24 Court Martial, J Archer, Cpt, 18-19-22, 1.8.2152 - Expert Testimony (Bonus Post)
Summary We present below copies of the expert mathematical testimonies from Professors Field and T'Mont, submitted to the court martial...
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Ric Crossman
May 26, 202211 min read
6.1.24 The Weekenders
Two Days And Two Nights Today I tutor you in Trek's taxonomy of travel. Its list of leisure labels. The holiday-makers guide to the...
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Ric Crossman
May 19, 202212 min read
6.1.23 "...Our Feathers In The Wings Of The Final Songs"
Desert Crossing So here’s a fun little paradox. A story that’s fascinating in the ways by which it fails to be interesting. Trade Secrets...
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Ric Crossman
May 12, 202211 min read
6.1.22 Sad Ambassador
Fallen Hero Well, this is nice. To Reiterate... “Fallen Hero” continues an approach Enterprise introduced with “Vox Sola” last episode...
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Ric Crossman
May 5, 20229 min read
6.1.21 Unlike Steve McQueen
Vox Sola “Vox Sola” feels somewhat modest in its ambitions, especially after watching “Return Of The Archons”, which rewrote the book on...
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Ric Crossman
Apr 28, 202215 min read
6.1.20 All Hail West Texas
Detained This is the episode in which Enterprise does the inevitable, and references Quantum Leap. It does so in three ways. It casts...
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Ric Crossman
Apr 19, 20229 min read
6.1.19 Double Dipping
Oasis One of the guiding principles of IDFC is that there exists almost no value in judging an episode by how similar it is to those that...
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Ric Crossman
Apr 10, 20229 min read
6.1.18 Old Friends Are Gold-Pressed Latinum
Acquisition “Acquisition” really didn’t work for me the first couple of times I watched it. Having sat down and had a think, though, I...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 31, 20228 min read
6.1.17 "...In The Forests Of The Night"
Rogue Planet I guess technically this is our second rogue planet of the cycle. And like Kirk before/after him, Archer is going to find...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 20, 202210 min read
6.1.16 Anger Mismanagement
Fusion (Content warning: references to sexual assault.) OK, so. This one wasn’t much fun to write about at all. The Rage Mirage I think...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 6, 20228 min read
6.1.15 Trapped In A Leaky Boat
Shuttlepod One “Shuttlepod One” is an episode that gets a reasonable amount of love – comparatively speaking, at least, given season and...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 20, 202210 min read
6.1.14 Too Much Of A Bad Thing
Shadows Of P'Jem Given it was the stated intent of this series when I began it, it’s been rather a long time since I last really compared...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 6, 20229 min read
6.1.13 Before They Were Famous
Sleeping Dogs This is a tale of conditions that have no cure. Of infections you can’t fight, and so must wait for them to flare out....
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Ric Crossman
Jan 23, 202212 min read
6.1.12 Primarily, Do No Harm
Dear Doctor Things are going from bad to worse in the 22nd century. From bad to grotesquely appalling, actually. I can’t remember a...
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Ric Crossman
Jan 9, 20228 min read
6.1.11 Cake Or Death
Silent Enemy Silent but deadly, this one. Get it? Because it blows right past you, stinking of shit. "How English; Everything Stops For...
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Ric Crossman
Dec 23, 202111 min read
6.1.10 "Remember A Trash Can"
Cold Front One of the earliest conclusions we came to regarding our fifth generation was that it could not follow on directly from its...
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Ric Crossman
Dec 9, 20218 min read
6.1.9 "Star-Spangled Eyes"
Fortunate Son This is quite the turnaround. “Fortunate Son” isn’t just significantly better than “Civilization”, it expertly targets and...
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Ric Crossman
Nov 25, 20218 min read
6.1.8 Second Contact
Civilization Let’s lead with the conclusion: “Civilization” doesn’t really work. Perhaps appropriately for a story about the meeting of...
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