What would you have done?

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

If Archer was the vindictive and near-cackling Future Guy something twisted him into that, or many somethings. Daniels dragged him behind the time ship in a capsule until time madness rotted his brain and turned him into every person he could have become in every possible outcome of his life.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Earth's weakness, it's lack of arrogance and capacity to suck up to get their hands on better tech was perhaps what they most brought to the table.

I might have liked to see more real aftermath of the Temporal War by following up with Enterprise being dragged into a Suliban Civil War.

the Network forced the war on Berman, and then forced the resolution on Berman becuase "You're not doing it right! Why arn't you doing it right!? Oh just stop, stop even pretending to try you muppets!"

Meanwhile, if Archer was Future Guy, doesn't that mean that he was encouraging the civil war by being a super prick on purpose, and thus betraying his allies? He knew it was doomed and liked it that his forces where going to splinter and fade away.

A self cleaning weapon.

Regardless of who Future Guy turned out to be, the remaining Cabal might well have become more aggressive after they were cut off from their benefactor. They might well have turned against unimproved Suliban, whose existence was only glimpsed at in a few episodes.

 

[Relayer1]

Most of the ideas in this thread have been addressed in the Enterprise and DTI novels if anyone is interested.

 

[RandyS]

I would love to have seen the Romulan war.

Me too, but while it would have been fine to use the ENTERPRISE characters for that, I wouldn't have wanted it on the ENTERPRISE series itself. After all, DS9 did the Dominion War for the last two years of it's series, and ENTERPRISE, had they done that, would have been accused of copying DS9, or something.

Plus, ENTERPRISE pissed away an entire year on the Xindi storyline, which, to this day, remains my least favorite season of Star Trek.

Personally, I think a standalone movie, or miniseries would be better for the Romulan War.

 

[F. King Daniel]

A small thing I'd have done. Have a scene where Malcolm is listening to "I Hate You", the punk song from STIV. Something so simple as giving him a taste in music would have added quite a bit to Mr. Cardboard.

 

[T'Girl]

It's always called the Earth-Romulan War, but Earth had only a handfull of actual starship by then, according to ENT. So how could they fight of fleets of Romulans?

Nu-BSG at one point simply skipped ahead a year between seasons, do something similar.

Create/mention a backstory how Earth fought a delaying campaign while a large fleet was hurriedly built, an opportunity to bring out the Daedalus design, same engine/power-plant as the NX, but with a smaller body. Mass production. Or it could be said that construction of a large fleet began during the time period the Enterprise was off looking for the Xindi.

A Romulan War in which Earth had only a tiny number of ships would create the difficult to believe situation where Earth basically would not lose more than one or two of it's ships, during the course of a major war.

After all, DS9 did the Dominion War for the last two years of it's series, and ENTERPRISE, had they done that, would have been accused of copying DS9, or something.

TPTB would have had to of found a way to creatively separate the Dominion War, from the Romulan War.

Both large conflicts, but that followed separate paths.

Most of the ideas in this thread have been addressed in the Enterprise and DTI novels if anyone is interested.

Interested ... in the current series of novels?

No, thank you.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Create/mention a backstory how Earth fought a delaying campaign while a large fleet was hurriedly built, an opportunity to bring out the Daedalus design, same engine/power-plant as the NX, but with a smaller body. Mass production. Or it could be said that construction of a large fleet began during the time period the Enterprise was off looking for the Xindi.

A Romulan War in which Earth had only a tiny number of ships would create the difficult to believe situation where Earth basically would not lose more than one or two of it's ships, during the course of a major war.

It might make sense that, caught off guard, they might construct a large fleet of frigate type ships in order to pursue a defensive war before building larger vessels. It's also possible that they purchased ships from allies (which most modern navies do).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I've always thought that the ships we saw in ENT were the best, the most advanced, the shiniest and newest of Earth's fleet. I'm sure they had thousands of more rough-and-tumble "blue collar" type ships in the bulk of Earth's forces - like these, for example.

 

[Rennick]

Perhaps the Vulcans and/or Andorians allowed Starfleet to use their ship-building yards to assemble a fleet more quickly?

 

[Guy Gardener]

A few weeks down the line... Unified fleet, staffed by a united integrated labour force from all the member races. A few years later... The Andorians and Vulcans are just as important as the Humans and they all contribute towards a standard design that incorporates the strongest elements from all the member cultures. Older slower ships, are swapped out, dumped into the moth ball fleets that are used to guard homewords, since even though the engines may suck, they are still very power powerful gunships.