Kevin C 🎬

#StarTrekEnterprise has an odd context.

It's humanity's first large warp capable starship, sent to explore the wider cosmos, and it basically encounters medieval Europe, where every alien race is in an uneasy standoff holding its own territory, and each already has a whole fleet of warp capable battleships - #Vulcans, #Klingons, Romulans, #Andorians, #Rigelians, Xindi, etc.

And yet with all the shenanigans Enterprise gets up to, no one ever overwhelms puny Earth. Weird🤔
#AllStarTrek #StarTrek

Jun 3, 2023 at 12:45pmWeb
Show threadMr. Bruno Jun 3, 2023

@kcarr2015 Enterprise always bothered me as a prequel. In a lot of ways the ship appeared to be more advanced than NCC-1701. And they met too many freaking aliens we never heard of again. They met Ferengi but TNG thought they made first contact? Grrrr!

I did love how they finally made the Andorian antennae move! Much more cool than the TOS makeup.

Show threadThe Star Trek AcademyJun 3, 2023

@kcarr2015 #allstartrek

How would it have worked if humanity’s first contact had been with one of the other species?

Show threadKevin C 🎬Jun 3, 2023
@Trek_Academy
Gotta figure Earth got lucky with the Vulcans, cuz they could have been forced into some sort of vassal state status, or worse, been raided repeatedly (like, by the Orions).
#StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise
Show threadBarrie Suddery 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺Jun 3, 2023

@kcarr2015 @Trek_Academy My theory is that Vulcan has spent 1500 years pacifying that region of space so they were the only ones Humans could make first contact with.

Unfortunately, Humans took that to mean the galaxy was a chill place and that's why Earth had no standing Navy and why Enterprise was so underpowered and poorly armed.

#StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise

Show threadStrange New Words (Adam)Jun 3, 2023
@BarrieSuddery @kcarr2015 @Trek_Academy We know the Vulcans were already visiting Earth in the 1950s (in ENT “Carbon Creek”) and the 1970s (in PIC “Mercy”), so it’s safe to say Earth was in the Vulcan sphere of influence for some time.
Show threadJoe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️Jun 4, 2023
@Trek_Academy @kcarr2015
responses.
See, this is why you do the podcast. The question is too big for microblogs. I can only generate rambling responses. Really good question, though.
Show threadStrange New Words (Adam)Jun 3, 2023
@kcarr2015 It does seem strange there isn’t more blow back from some of the things they do. It would be more realistic if they weren’t getting in CGI battles every week — which feels less like an organic choice than a directive from the network to make the show more quote-unquote exciting. (ENT is so frustrating.)