EPISODE: "The Catwalk"
   PROD#: ENT038
   TRAN#: 2.12
  RATING: PG
 AIRDATE: wed-18-dec-2002-20:00
  EPDATE: [8 days circa 18-sep-2152]
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    FROM: Phillip Thorne, thorne@underbase.org
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This technical overview is intended to support more detailed discussion of this episode and others, by specifically indicating who did what, and by indicating the spelling of proper nouns and technobabble, as attained through closed-captioning (CC).  The NOTES are listed in approximate seen-on-screen order, and ANALYSIS summarizes topics.  THESE MAY CONSTITUTE PLOT SPOILERS; continue at your own risk.  

Abbreviations used: (m/f/?) name belongs to mel/fem/unclear, (os) on viewer screen, (?) quote is uncertain, (sp?) spelling is unclear, (vo) voiceover, VHC Vulcan High Command, Vdb Vulcan database.  Captions use the spellings "Launch Bay", "Sick Bay", and "shuttle pod", but I sometimes abbreviate to one word.

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I. TERMS
TECHNICAL: SHIPBOARD AND GEAR


TECHNICAL: TRANSPORTER


MEDICAL


METEOROLOGICAL


CULTURAL

CHARACTERS 
Cpt.Jonathan Archer
Travis Mayweather
Dr.Phlox
Lt.Malcolm Reed
Ens.Hoshi Sato
Sub-Cdr.T'Pol
Cdr.Charles "Trip" Tucker
Porthos
Chef


MENTIONS


III. NOTES


ACT 2
[...]
T'Pol alludes to her "kahswan ritual", in which she was left to survive in the desert for 10-days.
Tucker had only 4-hours to prepare the catwalk for habitation.
Chef is seen.
Movie night in Compartment 5: "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
The aliens need sleep only once per week, and their rituals (chanting, walking in circles) annoy Tucker.  The have difficulty digesting human food.
Plasma manifold.
"Antimatter injectors" come online: the graphic shows five rectangles to each side of a circle.
Suit will protect wearer from radiation for only 22-minutes.

ACT 3
The aliens are able to interpret Ent's records, and discover the crew has traveled "over 100 light years from their homeworld".
2/9/2152
Vulcans, Mazarites, Amb.V'Lar
"Dilithium matrix"
Distress call from Torothan system
radiolytic isotopes
Class 5 neutronic storm
Over 20-Ly from their homeworld
Human, but for ridges on the cheeks
former officers of the "Takret Militia"
Commanding officers corrupt, seize alien vessels on pretext, kill deserters
"Palanti"(f)
For warp coils "to charge" takes "a while, 20 minutes tops"
they pulse orange, hum

ACT 4
Junction 42-alpha, third panel starboard side
cumulative exposure
Galley, Deck 5
NIT: ship shakes, but jars don't jiggle
Head for "plasma eddy"
Takret: green beam
"Dilithium sequencers"
Catwalk grows warm as coils charge
spatial disturbance
*Now* galley items fall
Glowing optic fibers, green and yellow
8 days
Movie night: a western, featuring a "Sheriff Boggs"
Movie night every Tuesday
Porthos
Gyrannan System, fugitives go there next


V. CONNECTIONS
[...]

VI. ANALYSIS
1. The Takret ship measures, in length about one-half the Ent's saucer diameter, and in width about one-sixth.  It resembles the "Batwing" aircraft from "Batman: The Animated Series": a fuselage suspended between long, bladelike wings, each (in plan) a semicircle, greatly stretched in the forward direction.  Beneath the plane of the wing are three oblong engine throats; above it is a horizontal "rollbar".
 
VII. NITS
1. When Archer first enters the galley in his EV suit, the ship shakes but the unsecured jars on the shelves don't.  Later, they do.

2. The corridors (around the closet-like ladder-access to the nacelle) don't make sense, given the reduced size of the ship there.  The closet is on the crossbar of a "H": at the midpoint of the 3-unit corridor section.

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