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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1402570" data-attributes="member: 11734">Enterprise takes place in the 2150s. TNG is the 2360s (a second season episode mentions that it's the year 2364), 400 years after Archer would be the 2550s, give or take.I don't think they're sticking to continuity all that much. They've met the Ferengi and the Borg, changed first contact with the Klingons, and generally taken a hatchet to the continuity. I think it's more that they're constrained by the sensibilities developed through TNG, DS9, and Voyager - always find the diplomatic solution, always take the moral high ground at all costs, always fight non-destructively, and always have a deus ex machina that lets them win despite those restraints.Time travel can be very effective when done right; the problem really is that modern Trek writers treat it as a cute gimmick rather than an opportunity to tell a meaningful story. By chance, the original series episode "City on the Edge of Forever" is on as I write this... if every jaunt through time was even half as well written, nobody would ever complain about time travel episodes.</blockquote>