Threshold - great up until the lizard part?
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REG is actually SPIDERMAN. In a crossover. Maybe.
Actually the script alleged him to be an Australopithecine, which was silly, because those were 4-foot-tall herbivores, not big angry brutes.
It IS possible to have "science" that is pants-on-head retarded but still have a good episode out of it (Macrocosm comes to mind). Threshold is not one of those episodes. It's not JUST the lolwut science. Every single scene manages to fit in something so monumentally stupid that it takes me out of the episode. It's almost impressive. Like a layered cake of idiocy.
Threshold is a masterpiece of badness. Everyone should stop dissing it.
I've said this before but..
It was a good episode, perfectly normal plot right up to the lizards. At that point it morphed into a Guy Gardner post. The effect of this transition is dizzying.
I'm now quite fond of it, lol.
It was a good episode, perfectly normal plot right up to the lizards. At that point it morphed into a Guy Gardner post. The effect of this transition is dizzying.
I'm now quite fond of it, lol.
It's concept that is the killer IMO. The acting is OK, but Trek steadfastly uses real scientific theories/ideas and loosely converts them into stories. To me, considering the work people such as Okuda and co. do in that respect, makes this episode drop the ball in a serious way. 
But.. but.. Janeway and Paris have babies!
That's a very good point actually.
I thought Macrocosm was mostly boring. As for Threshold, the oddness of the supposed warp barrier aside, the first part of the episode has some appeal. I thought it was a creepy concept, and it turned really interesting when Paris started getting sick. Then he started mutating.
Then he started becoming a reptile.
Then he kidnapped and procreated with Janeway.
I think, had they gone for a grander story that explored the altered state of consciousness Paris experienced, rather than going with the '50s b-movie route they took, it could have been considerably better.
Then he started becoming a reptile.
Then he kidnapped and procreated with Janeway.
I think, had they gone for a grander story that explored the altered state of consciousness Paris experienced, rather than going with the '50s b-movie route they took, it could have been considerably better.
The thing that gets me is...at some point before hitting 'infinity' the shuttle must have been doing Warp 9.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999etc..
which is gonna be stupidly faster than warp 9.9....if they'd gone as fast as they could without breaking the threshold then surely they could have gotten home much faster than normal that way?
It certainly didn't look as though it went into warp 10 while skipping the acceleration...
which is gonna be stupidly faster than warp 9.9....if they'd gone as fast as they could without breaking the threshold then surely they could have gotten home much faster than normal that way?
It certainly didn't look as though it went into warp 10 while skipping the acceleration...
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