Enterprise review: "Carbon Creek".
(Episode 28)

Gold Star Bonus!

On occasion the Producers behind Enterprise gets something right. They didn't get anything right in this episode, but unlike the previous 27 episodes, this one is actually partially watchable, once they stop showing Bakula and the catsuit having dinner, and up until T'Pol invents Velcro, watchable due in large part to the lack of Enterprise and the Enterprise cast.

If we're lucky, we may get many more episodes of Enterprise like this one that don't actually feature any of the Enterprise actors.

Afterall, this is the attitude Berman and Braga have towards current established Star Trek continuity.

Archer says T'Pol's age is classified. It's probably for the best, since these same stupid writers did an episode of Voyager that revealed Tuvok was over 100, only to have him turn 100 several seasons later.

Starfleet takes notice enough to report that a Vulcan went rogue and spent five days in Dumpwater Florida for an unexplainable reason, but they don't even bother to follow up on it. This alone was worthy of a major investigation.

The Vulcans were already wearing uniforms that fasten in the front. But when Grammy T'Pol puts on a dress, she believes it now fastens in the back and puts it on backwards? This must be why T'Pol is a tard. She inherited it from her great-grams.

To give a quote from a "Married with Children" episode:

"Well shoot. Our town's only got two tourist attractions. The serial killer and the man who met Andy Griffith. We may be willing to give up one or the other, but we'll be damned if we're going to give up both."

The Vulcan said "at least 20 miners" are trapped in the cave-in. But after he found them, T'Pol said they rescued the twelve miners.

Twelve? Twenty? Which is it? Did anybody actually read this script twice?

Uhm, excuse me. But a real man invented Velcro. He really existed, and may still be alive.

Berman and Braga not only rewrote established Trek history, but they also just rewrote historical facts in (Swiss) history. Damn it they've got to be fired!!!

It was also our great revered Vulcan Ambassador Spock who assassinated your American President Kennedy, as proclaimed in the ancient unproduced scrolls of R'denberry.

Not only does Archer and Trip NOT report this, they seem to not even care. If neither B&B nor the characters take rewriting established Star Trek history seriously, why should I? It's almost time to shut the show off as so many other Trek viewers have done. Where's my remote?

Yeah, okay. They cremated the body of the dead Captain. Fine. But the ship? I didn't see the Vulcan rescue team picking up the pieces.

All that time of Archer and Trip whining because the Vulcans refused to give up their technology, and there's the wreckage of a Vulcan ship in the town of Bugtussle or something, and they don't even bother to contact Starfleet or Admiral Forest about it.

Even the Vulcans whined about contaminating the culture with their dead bodies, yet they leave their ship behind. At least on "Galactica 1980", when the Cylons crashed outside New York, Troy and Dillon destroyed the ship.

And how do you have a fire so great to cremate the dead Vulcan Captain and not be seen by the locals? Surely to risk that with such a fire would be... illogical.

This ending with the Vulcan staying behind has so much potential. Too bad it was downplayed and will be forever forgotten by Beavis and Butthead.

There were so many things that could have attracted the Vulcans to Earth at a later time, like the moon landing, the nuclear bombs, or that dead chimp drifting through our solar system, that it would have been justifiable to have the Vulcans land later, in order to have that mysterious lost Vulcan still be alive on Earth today as an old man, that even the Vulcans don't know where he is. This could have brought him into Archer's time period.

Further more, he may have very well been alive when the Vulcans landed and met Zephram Cochrane, that this would have further added to the potential stories, raising questions like, why did he remain hidden? Where is his body? Who knew of him?

So much potential for great stories. And it's all thrown away.