That Vulcan had resigned her commission in the Vulcan High Command and had become an official member of the United Earth Starfleet well before the end of season four.
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Without attending any sort of Officer's Candidacy School or equivalent. Which means the Voyager Directive (slap a commbadge on anything that breathes) is already in effect well before the advent of commbadges.
Voyager Directive?
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One would think that T'Pol had attended a Vulcan space service academy. Starfleet would probably be aware of the curriculum and have no problem granting a commission to a graduate thereof. Sort of like several expatriate Americans were granted RAF commissions, and even a few commands, in 1939 - 1941 before the US entered WWII.
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(Why the shock? It's not like you're not advertising your stuff over here or anything...
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That's a good point. I hadn't considered that.
I do still think it unlikely that the Earth Star Fleet would hand over command of one of it's most advanced vessels to a non human, especially given that the Vulcans are not fully trusted at this time. But I accept it may be possible, under the right circumstances.
Sure, I like it when people read my stories. That's why I wrote them. I just had no idea you'd ever read them. You didn't strike me as the fanfic type anyway (which you confirmed).Wow, do I report this post as spam or something?
(Why the shock? It's not like you're not advertising your stuff over here or anything...
As for who would command Enterprise...I think Archer, always. That's where he belongs, at least until he moves into his later role as a diplomat and founder of the Federation.
Hypothetically though, if he were out of the picture, T'Pol would seem to be the better choice to command Enterprise. She's the XO, she's in Starfleet, she's had decades of training on Vulcan in many disciplines. And the Coalition would probably make a point of putting aliens on SF ships as a way of demonstrating the ideals of interspecies cooperation.
Pluswhich, Trip is an engineer. Sure, he has done well in the center seat, but I get the impression that his heart belongs to his engines, a la Scotty in TOS. He would make a good XO, if he had a great second-in-command to man engineering while he was on the bridge.
That's just it. Those canon stories of yours (the ones I read) don't even feel like fan fiction really. They don't contradict anything seen on screen, and they don't feel any less real that any of those licensed works. The one with Trip and Soval set during the Vulcan arc was great, so was that T'Les story (and as for the reason why I read those in the first place, well, it was just after I read TGTMD and I wanted some more of ENT).
Absolutely. Sure, T'Pol could have taken his place, so could Shran, but it would have hardly been the same. A.G. Robinson would have filled Archers shoes just fine though... To bad he died.
BTW, if Archer had gotten bumped to Admiral in season five, couldn't he have resumed command of the Enterprise? I mean, Admiral Riker commanded the "D" in AGT ("One of the advantages of being an Admiral is you get to choose your own ship.")
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Kirk kept finagling command of Enterprise after being promoted, after being a desk jockey, after being called on the carpet...
And Commodore Decker was commander of the Constellation in the TOS "The Doomsday Machine." So I see no problem with Archer remaining in command after being promoted. Perhaps near the end of Season 7, with the Romulan War won, Admiral Archer might step down as captain in order to focus fully on the new Federation...which would be a poignant but upbeat and optimistic ending for the series, in keeping with the spirit of Trek.
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