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Future Tense - What happened to procedure?

Crewman47

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Was watching this earlier and I couldn't help but notice how naive they were when it came to them bringing the ship on board and opening it up and examing it.

I mean there unable to scan inside the ship so they bring it aboard into Shuttle bay 2, no one's there to check it out for any signs of contamination, radiation, etc and who's the first people to set foot, but the Captain and XO. He gives permission for Reed to take a Phase pistol to a piece of the hull to see if they can pry open the hatch, then Archer takes a pry bar (I think that's what it's called) and forces open the hatch. First thing, using the phase pistol could've triggered anything they might not've thought of and second opening the hatch could've released unknown and potentially dangerous gasses and/or bacteria but they went ahead with anyway.

With the whole examination I don't think they were very cautious at all. They could've pressed the wrong button, turned the wrong handle or even stepped on the wrong floor tile and the Enterprise, or all aboard, would've been dead.

I got to say that it was good episode but I think that Archer was lucky that he was on both a "hero" ship and an Enterprise. If it wasn't for that fact they'd probably all be dead.

Do you think they handled the situation badly and they just got lucky or should they have went through proper salvage(?) procedures and went about with caution?
 
Archer waves the flag at procedure whenever he wants, he gets to make the rules while he's out there and I think he quite likes that.

Reed and Trip could have gotten themselves in some hot water there by going into the ship without telling the Captain though.

I think I'm gonna agree that they got lucky. If there had been 29th/30th Century aliens there then they would have been skee-rewed.
 
It's the same sort of thing they always did on TOS. God knows how many situations Kirk nearly got everybody killed by just that sort of lack of common sense.

That's why it's so great.
 
It's the same sort of thing they always did on TOS. God knows how many situations Kirk nearly got everybody killed by just that sort of lack of common sense.

That's why it's so great.

Sort of what I was thinking. ENT is not the first series to bring things aboard. In fact, did any series NOT bring something on board?
 
It's the same sort of thing they always did on TOS. God knows how many situations Kirk nearly got everybody killed by just that sort of lack of common sense.

That's why it's so great.

Sort of what I was thinking. ENT is not the first series to bring things aboard. In fact, did any series NOT bring something on board?
 
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