The One Thing You Could Change, ENTERPRISE Edition...

[Pumpkin Bread]

Even the ENT bible suggests that he should have been a lieutenant. It suggested Trip was to be one too, but we saw that in the flashback to before Enterprise's launch in "First Flight". We never saw Mayweather as a lieutenant, even in an alternate reality scenario.

Had they cast someone a few years older as Travis, he likely would have been a Lt.

My head canon is that Riker's holosimulation was either historically inaccurate (the way a movie set in 1810 might feature details from 1805 or 1815) or deliberately tweaked to include historically significant characters. Might've had a few outdated images, which is why no one looked any older despite six years having passed.

By 2161, Hoshi was certainly a lieutenant, while Mayweather should have been newly promoted to commander and assigned as first officer on one of the newer NX's. Phlox had probably returned to his practice and family on Denobula, T'Pol was commanding her own ship, maybe the same one Mayweather was on (that's why her romance with Trip ended; long distance relationships rarely do well). Reed was... I don't know. Maybe a commander working in a shipyard, refining ship armaments (and doing the occasional favor for his pals in Section 31). Trip had probably declined promotion so that he could stay with Archer, hence him being present for the events being reenacted.

 

[valkyrie013]

Transporter. Only used for cargo, Not for humans, especially not the first episode.
Maybe like Season 3, theres a reason that they can't use the shuttle, and Tripp say they can use the cargo transporter, they have a row about not being man rated, how it scrambles molecules, etc. but they use it, it works, but develops transporter psycosis, but is cured by the end of the episode. maybe Reed or Mayweather be the guinea pig. So shows its possible, but its got a while to go before being man rated.
Or something like the Daedalus episode, where they try to man rate Enterprise;s transporter, but there are problems.

Question is, do Vulcans, Andorians, Telerites have transporters too? In my mind, the vulcans after first contact would have given them watered down technology, safety stuff like artificial gravity, navigational deflector, stuff thats not classified. basically bare minimum stuff. and the Vulcans might have given them a cargo transporter, but not a man rated one? Maybe an episode where the Andorians give them some tech for safe beaming?

 

[Headless_Hysteria]

My head canon is that Riker's holosimulation was either historically inaccurate (the way a movie set in 1810 might feature details from 1805 or 1815) or deliberately tweaked to include historically significant characters. Might've had a few outdated images, which is why no one looked any older despite six years having passed.

By 2161, Hoshi was certainly a lieutenant, while Mayweather should have been newly promoted to commander and assigned as first officer on one of the newer NX's. Phlox had probably returned to his practice and family on Denobula, T'Pol was commanding her own ship, maybe the same one Mayweather was on (that's why her romance with Trip ended; long distance relationships rarely do well). Reed was... I don't know. Maybe a commander working in a shipyard, refining ship armaments (and doing the occasional favor for his pals in Section 31). Trip had probably declined promotion so that he could stay with Archer, hence him being present for the events being reenacted.

Or maybe it was Tom Riker playing around with the holotechnology seen in "Future Imperfect", which would also explain why there were two Rikers in Ten Forward.

Question is, do Vulcans, Andorians, Telerites have transporters too? In my mind, the vulcans after first contact would have given them watered down technology, safety stuff like artificial gravity, navigational deflector, stuff thats not classified. basically bare minimum stuff. and the Vulcans might have given them a cargo transporter, but not a man rated one? Maybe an episode where the Andorians give them some tech for safe beaming?

Technological capabilities were evenly distributed among the various species.

Humans have grapplers, transporter, and hull plating.

Vulcans have tractor beams, deflector shields and warp 7.

Andorians have tractor beams and deflector shields. They don’t have transporters in S1, but do by S4.

Tellarites have forcefields and freighters as fast as Enterprise that could haul 20x what Earth freighters could.

Klingons have tractor beams, deflector shields, dispersive armour, and transporters.

Suliban have tractor beams and cloaking tech.

Orions have grapplers/towing cables and advanced scanners.

Romulan had various cloaking tech and telepathic control. The drone ships were using holographic cloaks, while the BoP cloak was the traditional version that was either on the vessel, or possibly was being transmitted from the surface, like the shields for the Death Star II in ROTJ.

And everyone has particle beam weapons, though only Enterprise called their version phase cannons.

So, its safe to say that Enterprise at the very least inspired Andorians to develop transporter tech within three years.

 

[Vale]

So, its safe to say that Enterprise at the very least inspired Andorians to develop transporter tech within three years.

That's bloody terrifying if you think about it, isn't it? Given that it took humans decades to go from "inventing the transporter at all" to "making it safe for people to use", based on dialogue in ENT: "Daedalus" and ENT: "Vanishing Point" (though I concede the information in "Vanishing Point" might not be entirely reliable). It seems more likely (or at least less terrifying for anyone using an Andorian transporter) that the Andorians already had them but didn't put them on starships, or at least only had them certified for cargo, until after they saw Enterprise using them. Wasn't Enterprise the first starship to feature a transporter certified for living organisms?

I think that the more I think about it the more I'd ditch transporter technology completely for any equiv-tech race in Enterprise, including the Vulcans and the Klingons. Keep it the province of the scary advanced aliens, like the Borg in "Regeneration", or something the Suliban acquired from the future but don't understand the operating principles for. I imagine we could get a line from T'Pol about the Vulcan Science Directorate concluding that teleportation is impossible because "there's no way to compensate for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle".

 

[Headless_Hysteria]

That's bloody terrifying if you think about it, isn't it? Given that it took humans decades to go from "inventing the transporter at all" to "making it safe for people to use", based on dialogue in ENT: "Daedalus" and ENT: "Vanishing Point" (though I concede the information in "Vanishing Point" might not be entirely reliable). It seems more likely (or at least less terrifying for anyone using an Andorian transporter) that the Andorians already had them but didn't put them on starships, or at least only had them certified for cargo, until after they saw Enterprise using them. Wasn't Enterprise the first starship to feature a transporter certified for living organisms?

Its information relayed by T’Pol. Taken at her word, the Andorians did not have transporter tech in “The Andorian Incident”.

Now, considering that she worked for the Vulcan Ministry of Security at one point and was placed on Enterprise to keep an eye on them on behalf of the Vulcan High Command, its possible that she wasn’t telling the truth. Or its more complicated, in that some treaty signed between the Vulcan and Andorians barred the use of transporters between them and it had a sunset clause that allowed for use of it to resume as of S4. Or use of it to beam Soval over to Shran’s ship was still illegal in S4 and it was Shran’s belligerent and arrogant behaviour towards Vulcans that prompted its use, like the sacking of P’Jem and invasion on Paan Mokar/Weytahn before hand.

But since T’Pol also acknowledges that Andorians only agreed to treaties that benefitted them a couple of seasons later when Enterprise was in the Delphic Expanse, it begs the question as to why Andorians thought it would be a good idea to get rid of transporter tech. It doesn’t seem like a strategically or tactically sound idea, as they can’t even beam supplies back and forth, let alone commando units. Are Andorians more susceptible to transporter psychosis than other species and were looking for a perfect excuse to get rid of it, at least for a little while?

 

[Simba]

The series finale!

 

[Pumpkin Bread]

Welcome, and damn right. With some tweaks, it would've been an OK midseason fan service episode. As a series finale, it was an abomination. Even Jonathan Frakes, who is Trek's answer to John Ratzenberger, admits that he shouldn't have been there.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Wasn't Enterprise the first starship to feature a transporter certified for living organisms?

I think this in itself is daft. It makes little sense that races like the Vulcans don't have transporter technology.

Everyone should have had it except for humans. No shields means the NX-01 could be very vulnerable to transporter technology... A lot of drama to be mined from "how the Hell can (insert alien here) come and go as they please?". Maybe an episode where Mayweather has to trade for the tech so humans can reverse engineer it, or an episode where Archer and co. have to engage in a covert operation to steal it from someone.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

We Washingtonians (1) aren't interesting enough and (2) we're into coffee, not catfish. And coffee had already been done.

You can never have too much coffee, it is the bittersweet nectar of life!

When I add up all the unused concepts for Enterprise and put them together…

• Captain Jackson Archer, intellectual who has lived on Vulcan
• Sub Commander T’Pau
• Spike Tucker from Oklahoma
• Lt. Joe Mayweather and his space boomer experience utilised
• The conflictual relationship Hoshi Sato and T’Pau
• 30-something Hispanic comms officer
• Asexual Denobulans
• Reed being gay
• No transporters, and no phasers
• Boybands
• No Klingons whatsoever
• First season set entirely on Earth
• Different NX-class design
• Romulan BoP with its bird aesthetic
• Archer's girlfriend Becky and friend Tommy
• First contact with the Orions in the Delphic Expanse
• Archer removed by the end of the third season for a younger face
• The birth of the Federation lasting several seasons instead of being rushed during season 4
• Starfleet Command destroyed by Terra Prime, while baby Elizabeth lives
• Trip lives and survives TATV
• The Kziniti, and the origins of the Borg Queen in season 5
• The Earth-Romulan War starting by season 5
• Shran joins the crew by season 5
• Some story connecting Reed to Colonel Green
• A whole season in the mirror universe
• T’Pol being revealed as half-Romulan
• William Shatner, either as chef or appearing in the mirror universe
• A full seven season run
• Archer’s theme as the intro theme

It sounds like a very interesting show. I would have liked to have seen this Enterprise.

Some very interesting ideas in there.

Cast Nathan Fillion as Archer.

YES!!!!!

 

[Qonfounding Ghooool]

Welcome, and damn right. With some tweaks, it would've been an OK midseason fan service episode. As a series finale, it was an abomination. Even Jonathan Frakes, who is Trek's answer to John Ratzenberger, admits that he shouldn't have been there.

Frakes did have a good understanding of his character and show. (Well, "Deep ____ Nine" notwithstanding, though I'll admit it was giggle-worthy and he very probably said it in jest, the cast were known for on-set antics and jovial and jocular attitudes. )

 

[gweeps]

More Daniels.

 

[flandry84]

The jumpsuits.
To the casual viewer the blue jumpsuit must’ve resembled(superficially at least) BSG,Seaquest and B5.
I thought the crew looked great in their purloined Defiant uniforms.

 

[gweeps]

The jumpsuits.
To the casual viewer the blue jumpsuit must’ve resembled(superficially at least) BSG,Seaquest and B5.
I thought the crew looked great in their purloined Defiant uniforms.

A+ for using the word 'purloined'.

 

[flandry84]

Aw shucks.

 

[Pumpkin Bread]

The jumpsuits seemed nicely practical to me, unlike their 24th century counterparts. I know locks are voice printed and money is outmoded, but surely there's SOMETHING you would want to put in your pocket, even in 2370.

 

[Vale]

The jumpsuits.
To the casual viewer the blue jumpsuit must’ve resembled(superficially at least) BSG,Seaquest and B5.
I thought the crew looked great in their purloined Defiant uniforms.

The irony being that SeaQuest DSV's original uniforms were very reminiscent of the DS9/VOY uniforms...

...Though I think the casual viewer wouldn't have been familiar enough with any of those three series to notice. SeaQuest DSV came to an end in 1996 and Babylon 5 in 1998, and the Battlestar Galactica reboot wouldn't start until the miniseries in 2003, by which time Enterprise had already finished its third season.

 

[Frightscape One]

I always preferred the original uniforms of SEAQUEST DSV.

 

[Vale]

I always preferred the original uniforms of SEAQUEST DSV.

The first season of SeaQuest DSV is vastly superior to everything that follows in all sorts of ways.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

I'd have, of course, introduced the Earth-Romulan War into the show and greenlit a fifth season. I'd also have shown the Augment Klingons at least one more time before the end of the series.

 

[JesterFace]

One change to Enterprise series.
Answer can be just one word, Trip.