We all will have to reserve judgment on Ent.'s season three until it actually arrives, but from what I'm learning about it, I'm not too hopeful. As a Trekker, its annoying enough when B/B mess up small parts of established Trek history, but their plans for Ent.'s season three seem intent on destroying much of what has been established over the past thirty plus years. Paramount makes most of its Trek money off of Trekkers, and the reason why most Trekkers are fans of Trek is by and large because of our love for the long, rich history of Trek. There's little else in t.v. or movie sci-fi that's nearly as wonderfully complex as Trek. So B/B's plans for Ent.'s third season, where it appears as if they are going to significantly alter major portions of Trek history, are more than a little upsetting. What about the Earth/Romulan war? Why have we never heard of these Xindi (or whatever the heck they're called) and their horrible attack on Earth? Why have we never heard of this Bermuda Triangle of the Alpha Quadrant? And, to get a little off topic, what the heck is up with the Borg appearing on Ent.? How in the world can anyone in the Alpha Quadrant fight the Borg when, hundreds of years in the future, the good guys need a whole heck of a lot of luck in order to beat them? Perhaps B/B's intention with Ent. is that whatever happens on this show replaces established Trek history, due to interferance from the future. If this is the case, they should somehow make this clear to Trek fans.

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the fact that the continuity is not correct may be the basis of the story itself it, just needs time to unfold

This new threat is a precursor to the Romulan Earth war. The Xindi will be the emissarys of the Romulans much like the Zentradi were for the Invid for those of you who follow Robotech saga. For those who didnt heres how it went, The Zentradi were sent ahead of there masters to soften up and measure any type of resistance that humans might put up againt the eventual evasion by the Invid themselves.

Remember the Romulans are a paranoid race, they claim all that they see and think that all other races will have the same approach towards them. It makes since that they themselves would not be the face of the initial threat but would ultimatly be the ones behind it.

How does Bermans claim that the Temporal Cold war has something to do with it all fit into it?

The Romulans posess things that they should not have in this time period, Cloaking devices, the ability to cloak mines, and although it wasnt evident in "minefield" they probrably have warp speed. So if the timeline is being honored, some one is giving these items to them, some one from the future. who? someone who is adversly affected by the original out come of the war. My bet is that it is the Romulans themselves from some point in the future, remember in the pilot, the Future Guy is trying to in some way shape or form affect the klingons, possibly to breed or mutate them into a slave race for the romulans, if this were to happen or something even similar to it, then the balace of the Romulan Eath war would have been dramatically shifted before it even began.

The mention of an unknown, uncharted and dangerous sort of bermuda triangle area of space most likey refers to what will become known as the Neutral Zone. It meets all the criteria, The human-starfleet presence there is what spikes the war, If Im right, then Archer and crew will eventually come to the conclusion that all involved have been manipulated, they will go the source of the aggrivation, the Nuetral Zone were they will find thier true enemy, thus the war begins in earnest, but not the way we know it, there are new variables involved dont cling to continuity for it will and shouldnt do any good, Star Trek history is changing before our very eyes, and if I am right its for the better.

Timing

By the time season 2 ends we should be in 2153 and although historically the war doesnt start until 2156 it doesnt mean that in between that time there arent skirmishes and confrontations all they way up the official declaration of war .


I am interested in seeing how this unfolds and if certain factors that I think do play in this, it will justify alot of the complaints about the C word.

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The thing I am most curious about is the talk new recurring characters. There did not seem to be any new actors in the list of guest stars already released. With the exception of Archer's old girlfriend. Maybe they will be introduced in the first 3rd season episode.

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I've read all this in an earlier interview, but it really sounds good. The choices are sensible and nothing seems to have gone overboard. I'm confident that it will turn out well. Maybe not increase ratings dramatically, but it will be good enough to convince a few percent of the "naysayers" that ENT is worth watching. I also don't think ENT will loose other parts of the audience, so this will unify fans to some degree.

I'm so glad that we have Star Trek on the air. :o) Lets be grateful. How empty things would be without it.

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Enterprise was just starting to get into it's groove, and now B&B are going to reset it into some post-9/11 Space Above & Beyond.

Now when I think of Enterprise, I think of a child with a stick poking a rotting, dead corpse in morbid fascination.

Will it spring to life and shock everyone? Or will it just lay in the sun and stink all the worse until at last there is nothing left?

We shall see, Season 3.

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"...and a class 2 comet, Wow, this is certainly worthy of our attention."
-Picard

"A comet! Drop us out of warp, we'll study it for a few weeks, what do you think Trip?"
-Archer

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"We've been very pleased with the episodes from the last two seasons, but we feel it's time to make a course correction. It hasn't really come from any specific influence, like the fans or the network or the studio, but I think it's a good thing for the series and it's going to be a good thing for us.

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