Enterprise tries to find out what happened on Terra Nova, the first colonization attempt outside Earth's solar system.Enterprise tries to find out what happened on Terra Nova, the first colonization attempt outside Earth's solar system.Enterprise tries to find out what happened on Terra Nova, the first colonization attempt outside Earth's solar system.
- Novan Attacker
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- Female Crewmember
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- Ensign Billy
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- Engineer Alex
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- Ensign Tanner
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- Engineer
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- Engineer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe disappearance of Amelia Earhart is mentioned. In the Trek Universe, her disappearance was solved in The 37's (1995), which takes place in 2371, i.e. 220 years after 'Terra Nova'.
- GoofsArcher overlooks aid which the ship could beam down to help rescue Akary from the fallen log, such as ropes for descent and tools for cutting.
- Quotes
Sub-Commander T'Pol: "Terra Nova"?
Captain Jonathan Archer: I'm surprised you've never heard of it.
Sub-Commander T'Pol: I'm not familiar with the early years of Human space exploration.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Really? Every school kid on Earth had to learn about the famous Vulcan expeditions.
Sub-Commander T'Pol: Name one.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: [after a period of unsuccessful thinking] History was never my best subject.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek: Miri (1966)
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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I disagree with those that argue that 75 years is not a long enough time period for the Novans to disassociate themselves from the humans. 75 years is 3 generations. We know that only the children survived. We know that these children heard their parents tell tales of how the Earthlings are bad and are out to get the Novans. After the meteor crashed and wiped out the adults, do you think these young Novans would want to identify themselves as this terrible species that just killed their parents? If the incident didn't cause repressed memories, then these children definitely buried this knowledge deep and refused to tell their own children about the fact that Novans are indeed humans. They most likely told ghost stories of these terrible humans to their kids, ignoring the fact that they are all humans themselves. Receiving this doctrine for years, the new generations could easily despise humans with all their might and refuse to look at evidence and admit to themselves that they are indeed humans.
The end of this episode, the old "see? we are all alike" trope as the two leaders work together didn't do much for me. I rolled my eyes as they asked for trust from one another. Still, I like the premise and the episode went by fairly fast. Definitely not the worst episode thus far, but not the best either.
- Samuel-Shovel
- May 13, 2017
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1