They are both named Star Fleet.
Big surprise, since both of them
are star fleets. Is the Royal Navy the same organization as the United States Navy because both of them are Navies?
(Indeed, the world today is full of Royal Navies and Royal Air Forces. The Universal Translator would have a field day coping with those!)
And the argument that NX-01A or NX-01-A is a "holy" registry that should be reserved for ships of a specific name (be it
Enterprise or
Dauntless) is just about the most idiotic one I've ever heard. There's no logical basis behind it, and no precedent either from the real world or the Trek one.
The idea of inanimate objects being incapable of mercy sounds almost as fantastic; I've never come across anything approaching this sort of a limitation in the use of the English language. And it's an irrelevant concern anyway, because there are
no plausible alternate explanations to it: the act of fighting a war with primitive ships prevented either the showing of mercy, or the providing of accommodation, and the latter idea is so irrational as to be laughable. Primitiveness of vessels cannot prevent and never has prevented the
storing of captives; if there really is lack of accommodation, then prize crews are the solution.
The Major Errors
Disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire led to decades of war/ Yet Enterprise resolved it quite amicably.
What makes us think that this was the first contact with the Klingons? Or that we ever saw the war?
Picard doesn't speak of human first contact, and we never saw or heard of "decades of war" between the Klingons and the humans. The only such war ever mentioned lasted for a couple of days.
If anything, ENT steered clear of a potential continuity error here, sidestepping Picard's ill-written statement without contradicting it.
DS9 says only 6 Enterprises/ ENT shows us a 7th
DS9 says NCC1701 was the 1st Enterprise/ ENT says it's wrong
Those are valid points. And could have been avoided by designating the NX-01 anything but "starship", because the TNG and DS9 statements about
Enterprises were specific to starships.
Now we have to pretend they were specific to
UFP Starfleet starships, which is a clumsy patch.
I wouldn't have minded following the adventures of the starship
Endeavor, either. Or the
Dauntless for that matter. But really...
VOY says the NX-01 was named Dauntless/ ENT says it was Enterprise
This is utter bullshit. VOY only says NX-01A (or NX-01-A) was named
Dauntless. This creates no obligations on how the registry or the name, in whole or in part, should be used elsewhere.
The
Dauntless was supposed to be the first of her kind. Of course she'd feature "1" and/or "A" somewhere in her ID art!
Vulcans have 3x the strength of a human/ Yet Archer beats one up handily.
So do e.g. Ardanan Troglytes in TOS. Apparently, 3x human strength is no major advantage in combat. (Which really is intuitively clear: a guy capable of lifting 150 kg can readily be beaten/killed in hand-to-hand by a guy capable of lifting 50 kg, since the use of punches and kicks in combat is more or less independent of strength beyond a certain point, and humans in Trek always fight with punches and kicks. Spock is not impact-proof.)
No Phasers in the 22nd century/ Yet they had something pretty darn close
But Worf's statement in "A Matter of Time", if taken in the logical context, would establish that phasers were invented in the 22nd century (the question was, "what tech discovery do you appreciate the most"). Which is what we see happen.
The TOS Errors are mostly here in BoT.
Primitive Atomics/ Yet ENT is using antimatter war heads
Might be the same thing. But agreed that "The Expanse" need not have introduced AM warheads, just like "Minefield" need not have introduced invisibility devices.
Enterprise had lasers in the first episode/ ENT has phase canons and no sign of lasers.
False. The ship in "The Cage" did not use, show or brag on any sort of weaponry at all. For all we know, she was unarmed, or then armed with plasma guns, or with black hole generators. But since this is Star Trek, the natural assumption is that she packed phasers.
If technology was as limited as BoT suggest Romulans and Star Fleet shouldn't Warp Power
Bullshit. "BoT" never places any limitations on the past warp power capabilities of the belligerents.
Logically Romulans shouldn't have Cloaking devices
Logically, they should - how else could they remain visually unidentified? But
as per "BoT" dialogue, they shouldn't. "BoT" just represents a phenomenally bad instance of "concept" writing, dropping the wonderful invisibility ball it has when holding onto it would so nicely help explain the other "concept", that of a never-seen enemy.
Where clearly the ships in the 22nd century are capable of taking captives at the very least, and HAVE taken captives.
Yup, that's the major concern here.
Timo Saloniemi
Perfectly put.
