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[QUOTE]Originally posted by blssdwlf: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by blssdwlf: [qb] Hmmm, Wouldn't any of these arcs be better? - The Earth-Romulan war. The build-up to it, the actual war and the aftermath. - The founding of the Federation and all the diplomacy and politics of getting all the members to join. - They could have episodes between major points to show how big space is to them at the time. Imagine if it took 4 episodes to get to a destination and adventures interwoven in the between episodes. But its unlikely since, they've manage to be way out of continuity and showing no signs of correcting itself. :( [/qb][/QUOTE]OK, lemme clarify my thoughts about this: Foundation: Earth tech is primitive, limited to laser/particle direct fire weapons and nuclear missiles. Nuclear weapons (thermonuclear warheads, tricobalt warheads, etc) considered the most powerful weapons of the time. Warp speed is limited to less than Warp 5. Earth and Romulan offense and defense evenly matched, ex: Earth nukes will critically damage or destroy a Romulan ship with one hit and vice-versa. Close range combat ill-advised. Survival is from shooting down/intercepting incoming missiles. I base this mostly on how TOS referred to the Earth-Romulan War's "primitive atomic weapons" and TNG's portrayal of weak races which appear to be fairly backwards (lasers, merculite missiles, nukes, weak or no shields). Klingons are not as pivotal to the story yet. -- Earth-Romulan War. Ep 1: Earth colonists come to a Romulan-owned planet and are destroyed by the xenophobic Romulans. Ep 2: When Earth forces come to search for missing colonists, a battle ensues and the Romulans are damaged. They self-destruct rather than be captured. Intercepted radio transmissions lead the Earth forces towards the Romulan core worlds/colonies. Ep 3: Enterprise is assigned as part of a task force to negotiate with the unknown enemy. Tensions run high. Ep 4: The task force reaches another Romulan colony and a larger romulan fleet is there and an attempt at translating/negotiating begins. Tensions are high and conveniently, a weapons officer on one of the Earth ships lost his family from Ep1, and opens fire, sparking a running battle where most of the Earth ships are destroyed and the remaining must retreat. And so the war can rage back and forth with sneak attacks, recon missions, rescue/evacuation episodes, socio-political observations, etc. Many interesting stories can be done without Earth and allies having to see a Romulan face or body. Episodes could be devoted to showing the Romulan side of things also. This can go for a whole season or two until they come to fight to a bloody stand-still and negotiate the Romulan Neutral Zone and end up establishing a fairly powerful enemy. The advantage here is that us the audience knows more about the two warring sides and thats no different than writing great stories about historical adversaries such as battles like WW2 US destroyers versus German U-boats or any other scenario where enemy soldiers would not be able to be retrieved after the fighting was over. -- Founding of the Federation. Well, actually the problem with this lies in that Earth should be not too far behind and not too far forward in tech and currently they are moving along way too fast. The Klingons (and seemingly everyone else) already have photon torps and apparently so does Earth too. But, a major war (with the Romulans) would definitely spur the development of new technologies which altho might not make it to the front lines in time, would play a part in the emerging dominance of Earth and its allies. But, because Enterprise is too much out of continuity in my opinion, this would be an awkward arc to go on. --How big space is. This is more like how TSN interpreted it. Basically going from point A to point B is a mini-arc in the larger story arc that either supports the larger arc or is an independent arc. Afterall, ships are slower in Enterprise than they would be in the 23rd and 24th centuries. Example: If the large arc is "Founding the Feds", have the 4 or 5 episode mini-arc be "Make diplomatic contact with the Andorians by traveling to their homeworld." You can have supporting or independent adventures in between the getting started and before they arrive episodes and remind viewers during those episodes or recap the previous episodes to catch up viewers that Enterprise is heading to Andor and why. When they get there, we could have a couple of episodes where they interact with the Andorians and along the way, something happens where Enterprise's timely help boost good will with the Andorians. Springboard another story arc where the Vulcans accuse the Andorians of some activity and have Enterprise by chance have sensor logs of that exonerating the Andorians and puts the Enterprise on a hunt for the actual evidence and/or perpetrators to try and smooth over relations between the Vulcans and Andorians.(with Earth's blessing after the fact, since we would have subspace radio delay between Earth and Enterprise in the weeks if not months delay. Lets give Archer some real command responsibilities.) -------------------------------------- I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the producers of Enterprise has the opportunity to make really interesting and cohesive character or history driven stories without having to resort to breaking continuity. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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