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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1118248" data-attributes="member: 5">Overall?  Liked it.  Good start to the new season and the rest of the series.  I have hope it will continue to shake up the status quo of ST in general and excel.  IMO ENT is like a prize fighter who was counted out soon after the match was announced.  Half of the detractors want it to be like the old shows (often varying which one) and the other half of the detractors want it to be totally new while respecting the old shows and canon (a difficult dicotomy to foist on a creative team, but one I think they knew they were going to have to tackle).  I think they've done both remarkably well and am often surprised by the reactions as they oscillate from camp to camp depending on which group of detractors they've attempted to please more readily from episode to episode.BTW, I get the feeling that the supposedly gratuitous scene is meant to be a metaphor.  Let's face it, it isn't Archer to whom she is closest, it is Trip.  Of all the humans she has been known (by us) to know over the course of her rather long stay away from her home planet, she is closest to him.  He even talked her out of her traditions and engagement to be married, IIRC.  Sometimes when you see someone hurting deeply over something personal to them, like the loss of his sister, and you know that the subject is not safe to discuss openly, the best thing to do is just be as close to that person as you can.  Given that the censors would have had a field day if she had just shagged him, I think they did the next best thing that they could do to show how that situation might have played out.  In the larger picture of the things they wish to accomplish with this series, it also shows us the beginnings of how vulcans and humans might one day become more intertwined genetically, thus laying the groundwork for the canon many of us want respected.  For myself, I am glad they are willing to explore the personal relationships between the crew members and fully understand that to treat them in a realisitic way they must address the sexual nature of beings in close-quarters for long periods of time.  I think it is far better to have these brief vignettes within episodes, perhaps setting up future episodes that revolve around these types of relationships, than to have them drop them on us whole cloth later in the series with no forewarning.More thoughts later...</blockquote>

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