Damage Ep

[Bluejay]

Was checking up on ENT bks and roving around the other sections. Discussions about Ceti Alpha V brings to mind of the ep Damage. Kirk was irresponsible for promising to check in on Khan but never did, leading up to events in ST III.

It'd be interesting to see if any of the authors would be able to create an event out of this. Afterall, Archer condemned the Illyrians to 3 years of snail pacing back home. He didn't leave them defenceless but he did make them that much more vulnerable. I'd sure would like to know if he'd done anything once the Xindi crisis was resolved or would he just forget about the entire thing, like Kirk. Until the consequences of his actions rear up to bite him.

 

[Lashmore]

Humans are flawed creatures now and in the future, despite any so called 'maturity' the human race supposedly gains in the future (in my view doubtful within 200-400 years) I would say he kindly deleted it from his logs so the Vulcan's didn;t nit-pick at him when he got home.

"Another headache avoided."

"Good work cap'm!"

"More whiskey?"

"Please."

 

[KendraW]

What kirk did, i don't think was all that bad, he left them on a nice planet to start a new life. I can see how checking up on them could have easily been put on a back burner with everything else going on.

Archer and crew MUST have had sleepless nights about leaving them without warp power. I can't imagine that they would have just forgot about them. I like to think they went back out there and helped them out, or at least tried looking for them and didn't find them.

If the series had continued maybe there would have been a story to build from it down the line.

 

[commodore64]

I agree, this should've been followed up on in season 4 and my biggest beef about season 4. Rather than continue character development, they decided in many instances to do a character reboot. (Oh, forget what happened in season 3, we're not sure how to approach it and don't like it.)

Too bad.

 

[SFRabid]

Considering how the Klingons, Romulans and so many other species treat strangers in space was it really that bad on a galatic scale?

 

[Captain X]

Yes, since humans are supposed to be the "good guys" and above all that.

 

[SFRabid]

That is a bit too idealistic for me considering human history.

 

[Captain X]

Not really, especially considering everything else they grilled him for in Home.

 

[SFRabid]

Not really, especially considering everything else they grilled him for in Home.

Not really? You should review world history sometime. The things that humans can do ...

 

[Captain X]

Yes, but we still punish them for it when we can, and in this case they could have at least brought it up. It was a forgone conclusion that he wouldn't get much in way of punishment over it since he saved the planet and there were midigating circumstances anyway, but it would have been nice to have it at least mentioned again whatever happened to those people he stranded.