I officially began my journey through all Star Trek on October 9th...

Stay strong. Most of the early Season 2 episodes are of the "utterly meaningless. Like, why am I still watching" variety.
Watch Nemesis when you just can't take it anymore. After watching that... "movie", any Star Trek will seem like a masterpiece of cinema.

 

I like to think of it as Archer was the REASON Captain's Logs were mandated throughout Star Fleet. "If we don't leave a paper trail they can't convict!"

 

Archer is so boring nobody could bother sitting through his logs.

 

Carbon Creek is rather like DS9's "Little Green Men". It's a fun story so long as you don't actually think to hard on it, and just go with it. (Actually the same can be said for pretty much any ST Time Travel plot with the possible exception of "City on the Edge of Forever" which actually holds up through complex thought. And yes I know Carbon Creek isn't really a Time Travel story, but it fits the mold.)

 

The actor that played "that Vulcan creep" played a Nazi officer on the holodeck during Voyager's Killing Game. And Seven's "son" in the episode Drone.

 

I'm telling you, read Watching the Clock. It'll shore up the logic of the whole lot.

 

It's not the first time. See also Kennedy and Clinton.

 

Isn't this the one where Phlox had to actually TELL Archer that he had sexual tension with T'Pol, because the writers were doing such a bad job that none of us viewers had noticed any?

 

So he didn't do it with the shapeshifting slug on the rogue planet?
And the lady on Risa was a spy... as they always are on Risa.

 

If it makes you feel any better. One Night in Sickbay probably stands as Enterprises second to worst episode, and would have taken the prize if Berman and Braga hadn't pulled a last minute Hail Mary of horror for the finale.

Oh and if you want to understand who or what the dog is, go research Marvel's actual comic book origins of Rocket Racoon. It will suddenly all make sense.

 

I get it!

 

We really haven't prepared you. You have no idea...

 

I'll just leave this here

 

I was going to post a Swear Trek gif for the Nemesis viewing experience, but I couldn't pick just one.