U.S.S. Daedalus. That they had an episode called "Daedalus" and it wasn't about the ship really grinds my gears.
"Future" events/references from other series that you wanted to see in ENT?
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I too had always hoped Berlinghoff Rasmussen would have made an appearance on ENT, perhaps as an old college roommate of Archer's who was always cutting corners in class, which drove a wedge between him and the more straight-laced Archer's friendship that is brought up again when Rasmussen asks his old buddy for a tour of the Enterprise. While he's there, they encounter a time traveling historian from the 26th century observing the NX-01 because of its role in the Temporal Cold War, and while the historian is distracted Rasmussen steals a callback device from the ship. Once he returns home to Earth he uses the callback device to summon the time-pod and the historian to New Jersey, where he ambushes him and steals the pod, leaving the historian in exile in the past.
I would have also liked to see Guinan's journey from Earth back to her homeworld of El Auria, with the NX-01 being her transport on the first leg of the journey. Along the way they would encounter a more subtle and rule-following Q, observing humans incognito under an assumed name and without displaying his powers as they branch out into the stars and begin their age of galactic exploration. Guinan would see him for who he is though and we would get some backstory on their previous encounter as mentioned in Q-Who? and why Q actually seemed to fear Guinan somewhat, and treated her as if she posed some kind of threat.
The last one I would have liked to see is Captain (or more likely Lt. Commander / Commander at this point) Bryce Shumar as mentioned in TNG - Power Play. This wouldn't be any significant role as he would just be another normal human character, but it would be a nice little callout for fans to pick up on. Maybe use that as an excuse to introduce the ENT version of the Daedalus Class USS Essex into the show.
I would have also liked to see Guinan's journey from Earth back to her homeworld of El Auria, with the NX-01 being her transport on the first leg of the journey. Along the way they would encounter a more subtle and rule-following Q, observing humans incognito under an assumed name and without displaying his powers as they branch out into the stars and begin their age of galactic exploration. Guinan would see him for who he is though and we would get some backstory on their previous encounter as mentioned in Q-Who? and why Q actually seemed to fear Guinan somewhat, and treated her as if she posed some kind of threat.
The last one I would have liked to see is Captain (or more likely Lt. Commander / Commander at this point) Bryce Shumar as mentioned in TNG - Power Play. This wouldn't be any significant role as he would just be another normal human character, but it would be a nice little callout for fans to pick up on. Maybe use that as an excuse to introduce the ENT version of the Daedalus Class USS Essex into the show.
SNW could always make a sequel to that - a “Daedalus II” if you will - and link the experiments in episode to the Daedalus class vessel. Both the successful transporter test to beam something 40 000km away as something that ended up being important for the Daedalus class, and a history of transporter accidents resulting in anomalies haunting various vessels that plagued the ship class to its decommission. As well as early, unidentified cases of transporter psychosis.
I thoroughly enjoy the idea of "Berlinghoff" being a roommate of Archer
. Hell, I think Matthew Frewer would have had great chemistry with Scott Bakula.While I understand it's entirely in the spirit of what this thread asks for (and I would have liked to see this reference explored myself), I also think doing so would be a typical case of 'brief century syndrome'. All we know is that Rasmussen is from 'the 22nd century' - which could just as well have indicated 50 years before Archer ever set foot on the NX-01 as (almost) 50 years after that era.
First contact with species from TOS, TNG, DS9 that don't contradict what was on those shows, especially the underdeveloped ones like Betazoids. I choose to believe that TNG Cetacian ops is occupied by Xindi Aquatics.
TNG and VOY both referenced humans building colonies a long way from Earth at around this time. Perhaps we could have seen this? Or Travis could have talked about it?
TNG and VOY both referenced humans building colonies a long way from Earth at around this time. Perhaps we could have seen this? Or Travis could have talked about it?
I figured Cetacian Ops would just be regular whales and dolphins, since IV:TVH established them as sentient.
They could have had an episode of the TCW where Daniels either tries to stop him from leaving for the future, or stop's Archer and company from STOPPING him since the deed was already a part of history, and they had to let him go to the future.
That......
would have been AMAZING.
Wow.
It would have been controversial, but for completely different reasons. I love it.
My addition to this thread: I wanted a hint of a Sybok reference in the episode with the emotional Vulcans with the invasive mental powers. I know Sybok wasn't born yet, so I'm not sure how I would have worked in the reference, but I definitely spent the entire episode waiting for one.
I really wish Berman wasn't such a homophobe and Malcolm was gay as originally planned. All this kinda reaction would have been over long before 2022.
Why not introduce a gay character? There were numerous opportunities – Major Hayes, Kelby, a crewmember that’s always been a part of the crew but doesn’t get screentime until later a la Chekov, a Starfleet Admiral or someone else in Starfleet HQ. There was even speculation about Trip being gay because he wasn’t affected by the pheromones of the Orion slave girls. Even alleging Chef is gay was still an option. The show had plenty of opportunities during its run.
And adding to this, why have Malcolm played by someone who isn’t gay? Why not someone who is actually gay? Especially as its an issue now if a straight person plays a gay person, so it actually suggests great foresight to not follow through with that idea back then.
And adding to this, why have Malcolm played by someone who isn’t gay? Why not someone who is actually gay? Especially as its an issue now if a straight person plays a gay person, so it actually suggests great foresight to not follow through with that idea back then.
Rick Berman, apparently.
Ummmm watch Trekkies 2. Dominic Keating at the very least would have zero issues playing gay on TV, whatever his personal leanings are.
Why the hell is it suddenly so important for the actor's sexuality to match the character's? That's why they call it ACTING. 
No reason you can't both be right. We know one of you is thanks to Lower Decks, but no reason there wouldn't be plenty of alien cetaceans in Starfleet as well.
Yeah....all of it! That is, all of it that was supposed to happen in the 22nd Century.
Instead of introducing a new rubber forehead race each week, they should've used more TOS races for their "alien of the week"--races that were already known to the Federation by Kirk's time, whose introduction in a prequel would actually make sense. The show did do this well with the more famous TOS races, but in between that, the bit-aliens should've largely been TOS-esrablished as well. There's plenty to choose from. Like all the races seen in that conference in "Journey to Babel," for example.
I'd also have liked if more of the main cast had backgrounds that spoke to the time period, instead of just being literal versions of regional stereotypes. For example, Trip should've been from the space "frontier," one of Humanity's early offworld colonies. And Dr. Phlox should've been a Tellerite, or at least some other preexisting alien race that could've used more development. Treebeard Mayflower, or whatever that potted plant was named, should have had a bigger role, with his life experience as a "space boomer" coming up more often.
Instead of adding the Xindi and the Suliban, and creating continuity errors, why not make the Romulans, Tholians or Gorn the Big Bad? Instead of bringing in holodecks already, why not simple have the characters marvel at the progressing transporter technology, or food processors?
On the other hand, if we are going to stick with the George Lucas style of prequel and keep introducing the wrong races at the wrong, they may as well have Porthos mark his territory in Fluidic Space, the Celestial Temple, and Dr. Soong's in-progress android.
Instead of introducing a new rubber forehead race each week, they should've used more TOS races for their "alien of the week"--races that were already known to the Federation by Kirk's time, whose introduction in a prequel would actually make sense. The show did do this well with the more famous TOS races, but in between that, the bit-aliens should've largely been TOS-esrablished as well. There's plenty to choose from. Like all the races seen in that conference in "Journey to Babel," for example.
I'd also have liked if more of the main cast had backgrounds that spoke to the time period, instead of just being literal versions of regional stereotypes. For example, Trip should've been from the space "frontier," one of Humanity's early offworld colonies. And Dr. Phlox should've been a Tellerite, or at least some other preexisting alien race that could've used more development. Treebeard Mayflower, or whatever that potted plant was named, should have had a bigger role, with his life experience as a "space boomer" coming up more often.
Instead of adding the Xindi and the Suliban, and creating continuity errors, why not make the Romulans, Tholians or Gorn the Big Bad? Instead of bringing in holodecks already, why not simple have the characters marvel at the progressing transporter technology, or food processors?
On the other hand, if we are going to stick with the George Lucas style of prequel and keep introducing the wrong races at the wrong, they may as well have Porthos mark his territory in Fluidic Space, the Celestial Temple, and Dr. Soong's in-progress android.
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For the longest time, I honestly thought his surname was Merriweather.
I believe I read long ago (sorry, no citation) that the showrunners were saving the Romulans because they were planning to do the Romulan War on the show. (The 4th season Romulan stuff did seem to be setting up the Rommies as the Big Bad.) Then the head honcho Trek powers that be decided to do a Romulan War movie and took it away from ENT. Then the Romulan War movie didn't pan out, and we all lost out on the war. Just another reason to be sad that we didn't get those last 3 seasons.
There was a rumor that ENT would do a Rasmussen episode - set prior to his trip to the 24th century - in which he and Archer were said to have been roommates (at MIT) although that was probably all it was, just a rumor.
Me, I'd just like to find out who exactly the hell that guy in the pod in "Future Tense" was supposed to be. Although we'll probably never know - DSC probably won't do an episode about it, as the pod came from over a century in that show's past, so it's probably already done its thing by now.
Although...
The pod's "present" is, AFAIK, roughly about the same time as The Burn... 
I recall reading somewhere about a script that would have had NX-01 encountering TanRu. Maybe the episode would have ended with the probe damaged and it coming across the equally damaged Nomad and merging with it.
