Enterprise 11-05-03

Mirsky · Nov 13, 2003

i don't think they went into enough detail about the ships to for adequate answer. they probably would have pulled off an equally questionable stunt to get out of the fight.

Sirius_Black · Nov 13, 2003

Orius said:
The episode does have one major weakeness: anyone who's a long time Star Trek fan knows that the Earth isn't going to get destroyed by the Xindi, since all other Star Trek series are set in the future. That's an overall weakness to the entire Xindi stroyline, actually. So long time fans will see the beginning of the episode yet know that the episode will have a huge red button labelled RESET before it gets to the end.

Actually I recall reading a comment from the show's creator Rick Berman. He was responding to some criticism about events in the Enterprise show that didn't match up with past Star Trek series. He basically stated or gave the impression that with the Generations crew going back in time, a differernt timeline has been put in place. Basically, it sounded like he was giving himself creative license to make some changes if he so desired. Just an FYI although I do agree with you that, any fan knows, the Earth isn't going to be destroyed so a great deal of suspension of disbelief is required.

After all Earth can't be destroyed because Neo has to save it centuries into the future.

Orius · Nov 13, 2003

Sirius_Black said:
Actually I recall reading a comment from the show's creator Rick Berman. He was responding to some criticism about events in the Enterprise show that didn't match up with past Star Trek series. He basically stated or gave the impression that with the Generations crew going back in time, a differernt timeline has been put in place. Basically, it sounded like he was giving himself creative license to make some changes if he so desired. Just an FYI although I do agree with you that, any fan knows, the Earth isn't going to be destroyed so a great deal of suspension of disbelief is required.

So First Contact supposedly changed history? I thought they did what they did to preserve history, or even that's how history really happened, though most people didn't know it (and Zephram Cochran later thought he was merely drunk).

See some of these changes don't bother me. It depends on the actual changes themselves. Some people griped about Ruomulans showing up last season. I don't see that as a problem. The Romulans are going to be a threat soon enough. Some people griped about the Klingons being in the season premiere and later. That doesn't bother me too much either. However, havign the Ferengi show up is a problem, because they were supposed to be a relatively new race in TNG.
But I do understand the need for creative license. A lot of Star Trek fans have their own preconceptions out of what the early days of the Federation was like, even though we've never seen them on TV or in the movies. Berman has to work against some of those preconceptions, yet still keep it Trek.