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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Futurama Guy: [QB] My problems with continuity: 1) Too many Klingons too soon. Their first contact wasn't as disasterous as stated in the ep. "First Contact" [TNG], nor did it have anything to do with SF changing its first contact policy. Disasterous usually means people die or ships explode, Archer got shot in the leg...wooo, disasterous! 2) The Ferengi (I shall let others comments speak for me). 3) Vulcans are too antagonistic. Initially they come across as "enlightened" creatures (in ST8), their interests piqued by the detection of a new race achieving FTL technology. Then within 100 years, like a nagging mother or girlfriend, they turn into the Vulcans we see on Enterprise giving you shit for going out with your friends and being independant, telling you you will never make anything of yourself. Personally I cannot see how they will evolve into being the Vulcans we see in TOS. To go from being telepathically repressed to being cabable of telepathically 'sensing' the deaths of a Vulcan starship over a number of lightyears in 100 years (and at that a half-Vulcan capable of it), it just doesnt seem feasable. 4) The Romulans. I dont have a problem with them, no continuity has been violated and they certainly have a place in that timeframe, ignoring them would be a stupid stupid mistake. I do however have a problem with B&B saying that no one was interested in the Romulans in Nemesis, Dina Meyer [i]was[/i] the only Romulan in Nemesis and her part in the movie was smaller than Guinans. I know not being able to have the Enterprise and Romulans meet face to face makes for difficult writing, but if they were capable of interesting writing it [i]could[/i] be done. It was nearly done with "Balance of Terror", it was done with "Starship Down", be it they are merely the 'token' fill in bad guys or not...[i]some[/i] interactions [i]need[/i] to occur for the contiunity of the Earth-Romulan war to be fulfilled. 5) The Borg. I can see where they were really grasping at getting a story out of the debris in ST8 for "Regeneration" and, in my opinion, they did the best they could with what they had, be it a stretch of not. To an extent it succeeded, the Borg were destroyed in the end and they turned into another unknown threat as seen in the 'wisp' alien episode or the season 1 'species 8579' wannabes that were never identified. As long as they never do it again, then I suppose all is well. Finally, the little "convieniences" that seem to make the show seem too futuristic. Most of it has been mentioned above, but just a recap: the weapons, the transporters, the subspace radio...it is, again, too much too soon. I realize they try to cut corners with those "relay bouys" and limited transporter use, but the weapons mentioned are unexcusable and pretty much everything else defies established TOS facts such as from "The Cage" and so forth. To top it off, what about all of those "Daedalus" class era ships always seemed to be so handicapped in retrospect of the people talking about them? The NX is 50years older than the Daeddys and it seems to be much more capable than those tin cans for starships Essex, Horizon, Archon or even the Valiant. C'mon, two of those ships were pulled from orbit, like that will ever happen to Enterprise, they already showed us that they take on 3 BoPs and survive...thats really a stretch in continuity if you ask me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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