I just think unfortunately the writers, including Sussman (who I think is one of the best ones from the first part of ENT), don't know how to write for women. Little did they know, all they had to do was focus on the character and let hair and makeup folks enhance the actresses natural beauty for men to probably find them hot babes.
Since I'm a chic, I'll assume for a moment men are like women ... or at least me. I like beefcake. Seeing bare, hairy chests with only jeans is sexy. I don't want male characters to be shirtless every episode or them to be constantly chasing after women for a romantic liaison. Instead, I want the writers to focus on making the guy interesting, smart and competent.
Take Hoshi. She seldom wore anything other than her Starfleet uniform. But I still found her to be far more attractive than T'Pol in a catsuit.
) If Archer had been written as more of a real 22nd C type and not just a 24th C type oddly displaced in time, then Browder would have been a great choice.
