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"Terra Prime" Production Report Goes to the Moon and Beyond - SPOILERS

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By Steve Krutzler / 20:44, 1 March 2005 / Enterprise

The official STAR TREK web site has posted the penultimate ENTERPRISE production report. For "Terra Prime," the second in a two-parter (with "Demons"), a human named 'Paxton' threatens to obliterate Starfleet headquarters using a Mars-based weapon repurposed from terraforming efforts on the Red Planet.

Continuing his guest role is Peter Weller in the Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Manny Coto penned episode, from a story by the Reeves-Stevenses and Andre Bormanis. Eric Pierpoint continues as the Section 31 operative 'Harris' and Harry Groene will be back as 'Samuels', the Earth politician trying to forge a proto-Federation between species.

"Paxton has moved his Orpheus mining complex - which, it turns out, is detachable and has warp drive - from the Moon to Mars, where he has tied his reactor into the 'verteron array' there," reports the site. "That array is a huge row of particle cannons used to redirect comets for terraforming purposes, but Paxton has turned it into a formidable weapon against any target in the solar system. He lays down an ultimatum: all non-humans must leave the system within 24 hours, or Terra Prime will "defend the rights of every human." And he'll start by destroying Starfleet Command in San Francisco with a verteron beam."

Helmed by director of photography Marvin Rush, "Terra Prime" is slated to air Friday, May 13th at 8 PM just ahead of the currently untitled series finale of ENTERPRISE.

You can read the full detailed production report here.



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By: Tupperfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 02:47:05 on Mar 02, 2005

Yes, but when you look in a telescope, you just observe, your sight isn't sent at light speed towards a precise target...Between Mars and Earth, there is a few lights-seconds(don't know precisely), and that would have to be taken into account. And it's not because the position of the Mars (insert Dr.Evil fingers here) "Laser" is facing Earth that Earth would show the face where San Francisco stand...

The Moon could also be in the way and so much shit could go wrong...I personally think the distance is to great if your beam is limited to light-speed...And anyway, don't you think a weapon that powerful wouldn't have been used by Starfleet, it seems much more powerful than 24th century ship-mounted phasers...

Okay, okay, it's a show, and I'm also not a scientist, I'll shut up...

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