By Caillan
April 19, 2003 - 1:26 AM
See Also: 'Carbon Creek' Episode Guide
Enterprise yesterday received its first Hugo Award nominations.
The fifth Star Trek series nabbed two nods in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, the Sci-Fi Wire reported. This was the first year the Best Dramatic Presentation category has been split up into Short Form and Long Form sections to honour achievements in television and film separately.
"Carbon Creek" scored the first Enterprise nomination. The season two episode, which tells the story of an early Vulcan visit to Earth, was written by Chris Black based upon a story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Dan O'Shannon. James Contner directed the episode.
The second episode nominated was "A Night In Sickbay", a more personal story focusing on the relationship between Captain Archer and his crew. The episode was written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and helmed by David Straiton.
Trek's competition this year includes three episodes of Joss Whedon series. Buffy The Vampire Slayer's "Conversations With Dead People", the Firefly pilot, "Serenity", and Angel's "Waiting In The Wings" were also nominated in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
Previous Star Trek Hugo Award-winners include Star Trek: The Next Generation's "All Good Things" and "The Inner Light", and the orginal series episodes "The City On The Edge Of Forever" and "The Menagerie". In 1968 a special award was bestowed upon creator Gene Roddenberry.
Other Trek episodes and films which received nominations over the years include Deep Space Nine's "The Visitor" and "Trials And Tribble-ations", The Next Generation's "Encounter At Farpoint" and every Trek feature film with the exception of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek Nemesis.
The Hugos, which celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, are awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society to honour the best in genre literature, art and film-making. The winners of the 2003 awards will be announced at Torcon 3, which runs from August 28 - September 1 in Toronto, Canada. .
The full list of this year's nominees is available at the Sci-Fi Wire.
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B&B must have bribed the judges or Paramount has. But something does smell shit.
Master of Ossus wrote:Note that "A Night in Sickbay" is generally considered by almost everyone to be the worst episode of the entire series. Something's wrong with this.
Yes, that's an understatement
I think it's worse than "Shades of Gray," and definitely worse than "Spock's Brain" which, to this viewer's eyes as a youngster, was at least sorta spooky (Spock being remote-controlled, LOL).
"Carbon Creek" was okay. Not all that fantastic, really. Something's indeed amiss.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world, or despair, or fuckin' beatin's. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, ya got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man ... and give some back.
-Al Swearengen
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day.
-Ole' Shakey's "Richard II," Act III, scene ii.
You do realize that if Enterprise actualy wins it will run for the full seven seasons for sure and that B&B will stay firmly planted on the Throne of Trek.
Sir Sirius wrote:You do realize that if Enterprise actualy wins it will run for the full seven seasons for sure and that B&B will stay firmly planted on the Throne of Trek.
And this is why you don't watch anything produced by Ronald D. Moore after he had his brain surgically removed and replaced with a bag of elephant semen.-Gramzamber, on why Caprica sucks
Sir Sirius wrote:You do realize that if Enterprise actualy wins it will run for the full seven seasons for sure and that B&B will stay firmly planted on the Throne of Trek.
I should hope so, all the crap they spray had better be going into a toilet
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Master of Ossus wrote:Actually, this is mildly frightening. What if Enterprise really is the best sci-fi show on the air?
*coughSTARGATESG-1cough*
My work here is done.
The new Buffy season has been better than the whole Enterprise run. Or at least the eps I saw until I gave up.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Gandalf wrote:Does this mean that Darkstar may soon repent?
Hell hasn't froze over yet. But it may soon!
PS the Chicago Cubs need to win a world series first!
Hapan Battle Dragons Rule!
When you want peace prepare for war! --Confusious
That was disapointing ..Should we show this Federation how to build a ship so we may have worthy foes? Typhonis 1
The Prince of The Writer's Guild|HAB Spacewolf Tank General| God Bless America!
Other Trek episodes and films which received nominations over the years include Deep Space Nine's "The Visitor" and "Trials And Tribble-ations", The Next Generation's "Encounter At Farpoint" and every Trek feature film with the exception of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek Nemesis.
So for all you who were saying That Nemesis wasn't bad enugh to be mentioned in the same sentence as ST:V, well there you go.
PS the Chicago Cubs need to win a world series first!
U seen the way they've been playing? Something is not fucking right with the world. Same with the Mighty Ducks whoping the Red Wings and so on...
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." -George Carlin (1937-2008)
"Have some of you Americans actually seen Football? Of course there are 0-0 draws but that doesn't make them any less exciting." -Dr Roberts, with quite possibly the dumbest thing ever said in 10 years of SDNet.
...then someone needs to check the temperature in Hell! 
