Crewman Daniels Time Traveling Radio and the Thasians

[Albertese]

Watching Enterprise, and doing my damnedest to give it a fair chance.

I am watching the first episode of the second season, where Daniels derps up history by pulling Archer to the 31st Century at the wrong time. He uses his futurtastic high school education to jury-rig Archer's communicator to be able to open a line to T'Pol's quarters.

The visual effect of Archer's floating green "Wizard of Oz" head reminded me a lot of the floating green heads that sometimes crop up in TOS. Especially the Thasians from "Charlie X." This got me to wondering if perhaps the Thasians are utilizing a similar quantum whosi-whatsus gizmos that Daniels had in class and perhaps they are monitoring Charlie Evans from some distant place or time. After all, he can't even touch them.

I dunno, maybe the whole thing is very tenuous, but I thought it interesting.

--Alex

 

[Timo]

That's a cool connection to draw - and makes it all the stranger that Uhura would think the Thasians arrived on a ship...

I guess the strange thing is that it's Uhura making the assertion, coming and going. Spock is just vaguely commenting that maybe there's something there, maybe not. Is this an upside of Uhura having nothing much to do? While Spock concentrates on the life-and-death struggle between Kirk and Charlie, Uhura has time to notice plot-decisive events and indications.

Perhaps the Thasians went on a time picnic with their ship, expecting Charlie to stay put in his room - and when they learned of the escape, they couldn't be bothered to actually drive back, but projected images of themselves and their ship back or forward in time.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Albertese]

Perhaps the "ship" such as it was was also a form of projection. It would be necessary to convey Charlie back to Thasus by some means, after all. If the ship itself were not quite really there, it could help explain Spock and Uhura's difficulty in registering it. On the other hand, it could be present in a way that the ship's equipment is not capable of correctly identifying. After all, ship's instruments only register what they are designed to register...

--Alex

 

[Go-Captain]

This is a really neat idea. What if the Thasians just use that type of communication as a matter of course, regardless of time and space? That makes the ship fit, and fits with them being advanced, and allows the neat connection to Archer's Oz-headed communication.