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Hatchery - Official Review Thread; ****Warning Spoilers****
Topic Started: Feb 25 2004, 04:40 PM (477 Views)
Admiralbill_gomec
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From TrekToday:

Hatchery fails to draw strong overnights

By Michelle
February 26, 2004 - 8:31 PM
See Also: 'Hatchery' Episode Guide

The overnight ratings for last night's Star Trek: Enterprise episode, "Hatchery", show declines in viewership since last week's "Doctor's Orders."

According to Mediaweek.com's Programming Insider, "Hatchery" earned a 3.5 overnight rating/5 share. This means that approximately 3.5% of American households were tuned to UPN, while Enterprise was viewed by 5% of households watching television at the time.

"Doctor's Orders" brought in a 3.7 last week, while "Harbinger" earned a 3.6 the week before. Programming Insider Marc Berman returned the show to the loser's column.

FOX's American Idol, which began at 8:30, was the top-rated show for the evening and apparently drew viewers from Smallville as well as Enterprise, as the WB show's ratings dropped from a 5.6/8 last week to a 4.8/7 this week. CBS' 60 Minutes II ranked second for the hour with 8.2/13.

In the fast national ratings, published at Zap2It, Enterprise earned a 2.2/4.

Viewers reported pre-emptions in several cities from which metered market ratings are calculated, so the total ratings may not be quite so low.

The full Mediaweek report is here.

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Sgt. Jaggs
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How about a Voyager Movie
The theme of a character under some form of mind control is so tired in Star Trek as a whole. I would rather have believed that Archer had a plan not that he was sprayed and thus influenced. Weak.
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I thought the episode was rather good. It didn't seem to have the major plot holes like the rest of this seasons have. I thought Bacula played the mind control effects well. You felt like something was wrong with the way he was acting, but he made you believe everything was alright with what he said.
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I just watched this episode this evening. It's wasn't that bad. I liked how Scott Bakula acted in this one. I almost believed he was doing the right thing, until something in the back of my mind said, "This is a plot from another Star Trek show." I don't know which one , but I've seen something similar on one of the shows. I've only been able to see the show a couple times each season. The thing that bothers me the most is; how did vulcan females get so nice looking? If I were ten or fifteen years younger, I might have to go Vulcan. :yes:
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Okay, here is another episode I liked.

Interesting mechanism for self-preservation the Xindi-bugs have... If there is no caretaker present to look after the hatchery then the closest adult bug gets reporgrammed to do the job. At least that's my take on the purpose. Realistically it should not have been compatible with a human, but perhaps it has something to do with the diversity of Xindi forms...

I was kind of waiting for something to be said between Reed and Hays about how well Reed's in-need-of-improvement Starfleet Security personnel managed to take the Enterprise from the so much more adept MACO's. In the last bit of dialogue between the two, I was also waiting for Reed to say something about how Starfleet personnel are trained for dealing with the unknown (referring to Hays' comment about not being taught about such things as alien encounters at West Point).

If it turns out this is the final season of Enterprise then it looks like it should be able to say farewell with some shred of dignity if the story level can be maintained...
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I haven't been spending too much time at Startrek.com lately, but decided to go check out what has been posted there about Hatchery. I was quite suprised to come across a very long thread with a good discussion of the morality of this episode. I have to admit that I had not really thought about this aspect of the episode. I admit I have been very busy this week and have not had a lot of time to really think, but this thread has me looking at the episode quite differently now. You can read it here

Any comments?
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