Subj : Re: Was It Rally That Bad? To : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise From : rgorman Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 22:08:16 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:59:00 GMT, Gerald Meazell wrote: >Another thing is that we *know* from TOS that there >> had been a lot of cultural contamination back in those early days like with >> the Horizon; yet Archer is sprouting Prime Directive >> stuff eleven before the Federation came into existence. >> > >He never cited the PD by name and I think he only talked about having >some sort of guiding principle like that once. Outside of that, he >violated what would have been the PD several times. Oh yeah? Name just one of those times. >> I might have ignored those complaints if Archer had >> more humor or charisma, but his damn dog had more >> charm than Archer. The Menagerie had shown us Pike, a damn more interesting >> starship captain, his crew >> a group with great morale, wielding there laser >> pistols and that whup-ass laser canon. That was >> a first contact story with the Talosians: was there >> even one first contact story with anybody the >> Vulcans didn't know first hand? Sure. The hunters and their prey, the Xindi, the Ferengi, the Tholians, the Romulans. But the reality is, pretty much everyone you might meet has already been met by someone else sometime. .