Most meaningful event

[commodore64]

Lots of big stuff happened in Enterprise, and this is just the short list: Vulcans and humans becoming equals, having 7 million people die with the potential that Earth could be destroyed, friendship between the Andorians and humans, trying to stop the augments from causing interstellar war, starting to do battle with the Romulans, etc.

What in your mind was the biggest, most meaningful event?

 

[pookha]

the realization that the humans could create alliances between races that previously didnt get along too well.
no wonder the romulans saw them as a threat.
also the revaltions along the way about degra. what started out as a one note villian became a very complex person.

 

[JiNX-01]

Enterprise events are like Lay's potato chips. You can't get by with just one.

-- T'Pol telling off the Vulcans in Shockwave II. She was ashamed of her government at the end of The Andorian Incident and she got it back when she stood up for a crew she had come to respect.
-- T'Pol telling off Archer in ANIS.

-- Archer fighting to keep T'Pol onboard in Stigma. He came a long way, baby! And we would really see how far in the Vulcan arc.
-- Archer putting his life on the line -- and risking the loss of his friend, Shran -- to preserve the greater need -- the coalition -- in United.
-- Archer and Degra deciding to trust each other.
-- Archer's speech at the end of Terra Prime. He came a long way since boring, rambling stories about gazelles, baby!
-- In The Expanse, Archer promised Trip they'll do "whatever it takes" to save Earth. And Damage demonstrates he meant it.

-- Sim's sacrifice.

-- Hoshi poisoning Archer.

More to come.

 

[Jaro Stun]

Well, that point has been made in B5 as well (I think it was G'Kar's observation).

Now I'm asking, is it really true? Is this the human nature?

If we were to encounter intelligent alien lifeforms some time in a forseeable future (hundreds, not thousands of years), would we really be the glue, to bring different factions / races together? Or would we be just "another race of the week" that needs to be patronized and "brought into the club" by some more advanced civilization?

I'm just curious because ENT is already 2nd show to claim this mankind quality. Is it just a coincidence, or, in a long term view, is this the way we expect mankind to evolve, in time?

 

[Timo]

I'd bring forth mankind's supreme ability to wreak often unintentional havoc.

The dispersing of the Delphic Expanse must have reworked local politics quite a bit. Why, the thing was something like 2,000 ly across... Many TOS era blood enemies were probably originally separated from each other by this anomaly.

Exposing key Vulcan secrets in the Vulcan/Andorian conflict must have weakened the position of this apparent local authority, possibly not only to Vulcan's disadvantage, but to that of its protegé Earth as well. OTOH, telling Vulcans how to properly follow their ancient faith must have had big direct and indirect influence as well.

And telling everybody and his idiot cousin that time travel was possible must have launched quite a few research efforts, witch hunts and strange new religions.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[SFRabid]

the realization that the humans could create alliances between races that previously didnt get along too well.
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I would choose that but it is a continuing theme since TOS and not new to Enterprise. This show just showed how it started. I think showing a "less than perfect" Vulcan society was major and new to the series.

 

[Non-Trekkie Trekkie]

Archer and Enterprise defeating the Xindy weapon.

 

[ialfan]

The formation of the Coalition of Planets as seen in Demons/Terra Prime.

 

[EnsignRicky]

It taught us that seven seasons was a privilege and not a right.

 

[Garth Rockett]

the realization that the humans could create alliances between races that previously didnt get along too well.
no wonder the romulans saw them as a threat.

This would be my pick as well. It was a key piece in showing the transition from the humans of Zephram Cochrane's time to the humans of Kirk's time (and beyond). That, in a nutshell, was what Enterprise was about to me (or at least, what I wanted it to be about).

 

[Bak_and_Blue]

It taught us that seven seasons was a privilege and not a right.

Amen Ensign Ricky


The formation of the Federation and all that entailed.