User:Mak Thorpe/Blunders-ENT-E2

Premise weak

 * In other episodes, it would be pointed out that destroying the Weapon would be pointless, since the Xindi's could simply build another. So why is Archer's conclusion (after finding himself in the past) that their only course is to try to prevent the launching of the probe?
 * With 117 years to investigate a corridor that allows time travel, the dialog ought to have a line explaining why it could not be used to multiply Enterprise 5 or 10 times in a sort of Ground Hog day fashion building on what was learned in the prior 117 years- two Enterprises the second time, three in the third pass, etc etc until they have a fleet of NX class ships with weapons technology so advanced that they can subdue the Xindi or interfere with their past so that they never listen to the sphere builder's lies.

Weak writing:

 * The wise T'Pol has decades to figure out what advice she can give herself. All she can manage is the trite "Follow your heart"?  And then to top it off, the nonsense response to younger's "What if my heart doesn't know what it wants"?  Elder: "It will."  No, rather her heart already does know.  Her mother sees it when she first meets T'Pol.  T'Pol's problem is not that her heart doesn't know, but that T'Pol isn't listening.  If her mother could see such a thing, Elder T'Pol would have been well aware of that by then.

Broken Reality:

 * Enterprise was built for warp 5, not warp 6.9. Lorian states that they know how to make the necessary structural changes.  Uh huh.  They can make the necessary structural changes in one day, and yet didn't figure out how to repair enterprise's damaged hull given 117 years?
 * It is a trifle coincidental that out of all the crew, the captain and first officer happen to be related to the current senior officers. Rank by birth?
 * How is it that given 117 years, the enterprise couldn't even manage to fabricate a few more phase cannons? They fabricated 2 before they returned to Earth when they were recalled.  Yet Lorian's enterprise is an "even match" for heavily damaged Archer enterprise?  After 117 years in extremely hostile space, and have a large crew of scientist-engineers, one would think that even if they couldn't steal/ buy/ be given technology that they could have at least have developed some improvements to their own.