Feb 08 | While his "Lost" co-stars prepare to pack up and leave Hawaii, Daniel Dae Kim can plan to remain there for at least a few more months. Mr. Kim, who plays the time-traveling tough guy Jin on "Lost," has been the first actor cast in a coming remake of the crime drama "Hawaii Five-O," The Hollywood Reporter said. He has been cast as Chin Ho Kelly, a detective played by Kam Fong in the original series, which began in 1968. The "Hawaii Five-O" revival is being developed by the screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ("Star Trek," "Fringe") and Peter Lenkov, an executive producer of "CSI: NY."
Feb 03 | William Shatner has paid tribute to his former Boston Legal co-star Justin Mentell, who died in a freak car accident on Monday. The 27 year old was thrown from his Jeep after swerving off the road near Madison, Wisconsin and died at the scene of the tragic crash. The Star Trek legend was saddened to hear of Mentell's passing - as he's convinced the actor was destined for a glittering career. In a post on his Twitter.com page, Shatner writes, "I'm deeply saddened to hear about Justin Mentell. There's no telling how far up the ladder he may have climbed. My sympathies to his family."
Feb 01 | Journalist Edward Gross posted an article at SciFiTVZone.com called "The Making of the Star Trek Pilots, Part 3: "Assignment Earth"" which takes a retrospective look at the making of the Gene Roddenberry unsold TV pilot "Assignment Earth" filmed at Desilu Studios as a second season Star Trek episode. The article feature rare interviews - including authors involved with the character of Gary Seven in comics and in novels.
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By O. Deus / 07:16, 14 May 2004 / ENTERPRISE Reviews
Synopsis: Archer arrives at the Xindi Council while maneuvers continue among the Xindi races and the Sphere Builders before the launch of the weapon.
Review: The Council is many things but not the least among them a compelling argument for Manny Coto being in charge of Enterprise rather than Berman and Braga. As a complete episode it often comes off a bit disjointed but that is because its real accomplishments are in the characterization of the Xindi. A characterization that is long overdue. Unlike some of the previous episodes, this is not one dominated simply by the character of Degra.
While Randy Oglesby does deliver another resoundingly powerful performance as Degra in his final appearance; Coto fleshes the Xindi out by giving the other Xindi council members depth as well and making their interplay ppear more than the cartoonish stereotypes they have been up till now. The Avian skull alone is a deceptively simple but excellent touch that does more to bring depth to the Xindi and their agenda than all the Council meetings have throughout this season and until now. Details such as this or Degra's revelations about the role of the Sphere Builders in their lives should have been a part of the show long before this to make the Xindi and their motivations plausible.
By contrast the Enterprise crew doesn't come off nearly as well this episode. Archer is still focused but a bit too casual. His principal's office exchange with Hoshi is clever and well played but it also clashes with the context of the situation. 7 million people have died and this is Archer's last ditch attempt to preserve the remains of humanity and it makes him seem far too lighthearted and casual especially onsidering the terrible things Archer has had to do up till now to the point that he sent himself off on a suicide mission only a few episodes ago.
The real purpose of these scenes seems to be to remind us of Hoshi's existence as a human being with a likeable personality so that we're shocked and saddened by her kidnapping. But of course Enterprise should not have neglected her or Reed or some of the other crewmembers this season as gratuitously as they did in favor of the compelling ideas embodied by T'Pol's erotic massage parlor. However as in E2, Reed gets another small but effective scene. This time with T'Pol. It's ironic that despite all the fuss and all the effort dedicated to T'Pol and Trip and T'Pol's unlocking of her emotions with Trip; one of her best scenes and unquestionably best demonstration of the empathic use of her emotions is in a scene with Lt. Reed.
Billingsley's Dr Phlox of course is always entertaining to watch even if he's given little to do. By contrast Connor Trinneer who was certainly never one of Enterprise's best actors but managed to give a pretty good performance in The Forgotten, phones in his scenes in The Council. Not that he'd really even be noticeable alongside Randy Oglesby's work but at least he could have made an effort to put some depth in his performance. In this episode Manny Coto manages to make even the proverbial doomed redshirt stand out but in an episode full of compelling characters; Tucker is strictly a no show.
All in all the human side of The Council is easily outweighed by the Xindi side of it. It would have been intriguing if the producers had the guts to tell this episode's story from the Xindi perspective. It certainly would have been doable as Degra was already on Enterprise a lot of the time. But "The Council" comes as close to that as it dares with an episode in which the Xindi rather than the humans are undeniably the key players.
Again the issue of proof is dubious since all Archer presents is a holographic mockup of the Sphere Builder. Considering what Degra tells us about the level of devotion of the Xindi to the Guardians, half the Council seems rather willing to turn on them with limited evidence at best. If T'Pol's mission had returned from the Sphere with compelling evidence to the Council that might have more credibly explained their willingness to believe Archer's story. Still the radical steps taken by the Reptillians help tip the balance.
Degra's murder is excellently directed, written and played and stands as the best part of the episode. Much of it could have been done as a cliche but the writing gives us two personalities with two different worldviews colliding with one another in that room. Both are fanatics of a particular kind with two different visions of the future that will rebuild and reunify the Xindi. Degra's vision embodied in that handshake with Trip is incompatible with the Reptillian dominated Xindi Council hunting down the very last humans in the galaxy. The launch of the weapon becomes a tug of war between the moderates and the jihadis with the seeming victory going to the Reptillians and Insectoids seeking to rebuild a destroyed way of life through mass murder.
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