Wall Banger/Live-Action TV/Star Trek: Enterprise: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' damaged its credibility the moment it became clear that the communicators didn't work as well as the transporters. Working "cell phones" were beyond 22nd-century Starfleet, but disassembling living and non-living matter down to the sub-atomic level, flinging it vast distances, and having it reform perfectly was no problem. Seriously?!

** It's strange when you consider that many of the big transporter screw-ups happened in series that come later in the universe's timeline. Starfleet should have improved and perfected the technology. This is an overall, retroactive ''Trek'' wallbanger.

** T'Pol was slacking off on her [[Straw Vulcan]] duties. The instant it was discovered what effect the women had on the men of the crew, she should have immediately relieved Archer of command - by Vulcan Nerve Pinch if necessary. A few of the men were clear-headed enough to understand and go along with this almost to the end of the episode.

** Are there no rooms with separate ventilation systems on the Enterprise? Can't they filter the pheromones out of the air? Or put the Orion women in a big soundproof box with an opaque door or force field so they can't seduce anyone else? This makes less sense because [[Expanded Universe]] prisons are often literal boxes with life support that you are beamed into and out of for visits. Okay, so [[Star Trek]]'s [[Expanded Universe]] isn't canon (not even the licensed parts), but couldn't the writers have at least taken a cue from it?

* The biological changes made to female Vulcans and Orions are particularly noteworthy because they are technically Star Trek's two oldest species, mentioned all the way back in the 1963 pilot. The ideas were [[Canon Immigrant|Canon Immigrants]]. The reasons for making them up or making them canon were very likely these: ''Wouldn't it be awesome if every big boobed, incredibly attractive supermodel in the universe was compelled to have sex with you no matter how ugly you were? ooh! and what if they had pheromones that made you their sex slave... wouldn't that be awesome?!'' No guys, it wasn't.

** That isn't even half the problem. Would T'Pol have been required to return to Vulcan and fight with an axe like the males? If both sexes have Pon Farr, how come males have to fight themselves if it doesn't go smooth, but females can pick someone to do it for them?

** The crew interact in several ways with the Borg: they hear an audio communication from them (conveniently omitting the iconic "We are Borg" designation), they have nanoprobes obtained from Dr. Phlox and there's wreckage from the ship still present in Antarctica. Why, then, is none of this data (and there's a lot of it) factor in any way into the later ''Star Trek'' series like ''Next Generation'' (when the crew first discover the Borg)?

** Despite having vastly inferior technology and weapons at that point in the timeline, Phlox is able to successfully hold off the Borg nanoprobes he's been injected with and provide a countermeasure for it (though admittedly a highly dangerous one), something even Beverly Crusher couldn't do 150 years later. Meanwhile, Reed gets many more shots off with a simple phase pistol than current-era phasers do, and he wasn't even smart enough to rotate the frequency. He just gave it more power.

* ''Fortunate Son'' marks a rather impressive moment of utterly frustrating idiocy, as Archer insists that the Enterprise must stop human freighters that are constantly being attacked by alien pirates from doing anything to defend themselves, because self-defense against pirates is wrong.

** To make matters worse, several people very effectively call him out on how out of touch with reality his decision is, and he doesn't give any real answers to their objections beyond acting like a smug jackass.

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