Ent: Minefield

[Dînadan]

http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/e129.php


Just had a thought about the cloaking device plothole while thinking about how the Xindi arc was robbed of tension by the squandering of the Temporal Cold War plot. If the TCW hadn’t been squandered it would have been so easy to have worked the cloaking device a century early into the TCW plot by explaining it in a later episode as one of the TCW factions giving the Romulans the tech early to manipulate events to their advantage.



As for other parts of the review/episode, adding to what Chuck says about Archer going out to help Reed when it should have been someone more qualified: there’s such a simple fix that could have been worked in to justify his impulse to go out there; they could have had Archer having served as an armoury officer on a previous assignment when he was a Lieutenant or Lieutenant Commander. That way, when you work Chuck’s fix of the other two armoury officers being injured and unable to go out you can justify Archer deciding to go out as now he actually is the most qualified to go out to help Reed.

[Archanubis]

As for other parts of the review/episode, adding to what Chuck says about Archer going out to help Reed when it should have been someone more qualified: there’s such a simple fix that could have been worked in to justify his impulse to go out there; they could have had Archer having served as an armoury officer on a previous assignment when he was a Lieutenant or Lieutenant Commander. That way, when you work Chuck’s fix of the other two armoury officers being injured and unable to go out you can justify Archer deciding to go out as now he actually is the most qualified to go out to help Reed.

Yes, but that would have required the writers to actually think and make an effort; I think it's pretty clear in S1 & 2 of ENT, they were pretty much winging it.

[SuccubusYuri]

Archer is just some twisted amalgam of Kirk and Tom Paris from the mirror universe. He inserts himself into everything, imagining he is a renaissance savant, but everything he touches goes to hell.

Though frankly if the idea even occurred, I doubt they'd have done it. Archer's career path is more the diplomatic and gazelle side. Although later they just make him a pilot, though I guess more in the John Crichton NASA-style.