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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 900495" data-attributes="member: 5">I think the writers have been very clever showing us the early versions of the weaponry and armor that we've come to know from series subsequent in the timeline.  Photonic Torpedoes as the precursor to straight up Photon Topedoes?  Makes perfect sense to me.  Seems to me that most weapons follow that sort of development and nomenclature.T'Pol's choice lends itself to future Starfleet usupring of the Vulcan's self-proclaimed superiority.  How else do we move from them nursing Earth in its cradle to Humans being the dominant force in the formation of a Federation of Planets?  It can't happen overnight and I am glad they have planted the seeds so well.I'm also happy to see some of the other vessels.  Remember our previous discussions on "How big is Starfleet?"  I think they are making sure to give us some idea how big it reall is and that bodes well for the detail and care the writers have been putting into the scripts of the show.  Did you catch the part where they mentioned that a second Warp Five ship was being built and should be ready in seven months?  That was prior to Enterprise leaving for the Expanse which means by the time the credits rolled they are four months away from a seond W5 vessel.  I am thinking we may well see that second ship speeding off to the Expanse by the middle of the next season to assist Enterprise.  Maybe they'll get blowed up!  Blowed up real good! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I didn't mind the dogfight move too much.  It certainly sticks to the premise that the Klingons capture technology but aren't too sharp when it comes to using it, eh?  Humans developed their own and know how to utilize the history of more primitive strategies, which makes a lot of sense even if the execution of it in this episode was "simplified for the masses" so to speak."Defies the laws of physics" is just what I would expect the Vulcans to say.  Let's face it, even T'Pol can't seem to wrap her mind around the idea of Temporal Phenomenon.  It's holding true to the premise that Vulcans use very linear logic and just aren't able to progress as quickly as Humans.  That little tape they showed Archer to scare him out of going on the mission sure seemed to have baffled and frightened the Vulcans.  They seem to simply deny the existence of anything they can't explain with their current logic and data.  All the more fodder for how top explain how Humans will stride foward to form the Federation and the Vulcans will become an "also ran" culture.I'm impressed by how they've moved ahead without completely abandoning the things that require some explanation for longtime fans.  I'm not sure that most of the longtime fans would be satisfied with anything that gets done anyway.  It's a horribly jaded fan base who seem to mirror the progessiveness of the Vulcan culture, isn't it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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