Was the Xindi arc well thought out?

[King Daniel]

Also, who writes a plot that has Earth facing the threat of destruction in the prequel when we all know Earth is around later?? With that alone, you kill suspense, and run the risk of driving viewers away.

Much like the last movie, the Xindi arc made a big deal that the timeline had gone horribly wrong and all bets for the future were off. I thought it worked really well, even if they obviously never would have destroyed Earth.

And then, of course, season four decided that those changes to the timeline led to the Treks we know, not away from them.

[Gaith]

DarKush wrote:

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And the expanse never turned out to be the wild, crazy patch of space it was advertised to be.

Yeah - it wasn't even purple!

[R. Star]

Why didn't they just send that huge fleet of ships you see against Earth instead of bothering with the doomsday weapons? 1 NX-class was clearly demonstrated to be unable to stop em.

Gaith wrote:

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Yeah - it wasn't even purple!

And yeah it was! For like 5 or so episodes, until they found the magic metal that protects the ship, doubles as crack and turns you into zombies! That's some good stuff there.

[FFunctionalData]

they should have made the xindi arc about half a season.

[stj]

The real reason the "Xindi" attacked Florida was because of 9/11. Of course, the end, where the attack was all about the Sphere Builders' conquest of Lebensraum, had nothing to do with any notion that 9/11 happened just because Muslims hate our freedoms. Dropping 9/11 propaganda instead of self-flattering fantasy a la BSG (BSG finale: It's us that God loves, he smote your sorry asses to death!) is one of the reasons people decided they were dissatisfied with the Xindi arc.

Since they were dissatisfied they tried to rationalize it with a logical analysis. One favorite talking point is the claim that it made no sense for the Xindi to "warn" Earth with an inadequate attack by a single probe. Unfortunately, this is an error. There were at least two aspects in the test that could not be replicated at a testing ground. First, there was making the journey from a secure launch site through the Expanse, through the barrier, then through an unknown (to the Xindi) space to a distant planet. Second, and more important, the probe tested Earth's defenses, as well as the weapon.

Sorry, but the insistence that the Xindi attack makes no sense is an error.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Had the Xindi season aired before Deep Space 9, I think fans would be crazy about it.

[RandyS]

Bry_Sinclair wrote:

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Why didn't the Xindi just do something simple and build a dreadnought-type fleet of missiles and blow up Earth. Or open up one of those portal things in the middle of the sun, destablise the star and let it go nova and destroy the system.

I did like the concept and serialised nature of S3 (it's what VOY should have tried, given their circumstances), but the Xidi were a bit too sterotyped, in that the evil-looking reptilians were the bad guys, why not the primates? Also how realistic is it that six sentient species would evolve on the same planet?

It's science fiction. Realism doesn't count.