Would Enterprise be a better show...

[DarKush]

I wouldn't have minded if they had cast a Latino captain for Enterprise. It would've kept up the theme of breaking barriers and it might've brought more attention and potentially new viewers to Trek. Esai Morales did a good job in Caprica. I think he could've made for a good captain in retrospect. Same with Benjamin Bratt or Andy Garcia.

As for other "Archer" choices, Peter Weller might've made a good captain. Also, Neal McDonough and lately I've been thinking that Dennis Quaid might've made for a more kickass Archer than Bakula.

 

[Saquist]

Brat behave too much like Lou Diamond.
I think Esai is too crusty looking
Andy Garcia looked good when he was younger.

Neal is a definite YES

 

[milo bloom]

Something like that would have been extremely cool.

Like we frequently hear about the Romulans from the start and throughout season 1. How they are good friends with the humans and generally considered friendly people and big proponents of a future galactic alliance, and viewers would go "wtf is going on here [cannon violation!]"

then, maybe at the end of season one Archer is going over to some Romulan vessel and we see... some insectoids or something, who are presented as Rommies, and old acquaintances of the crew. And we'd go "wtf" again.
Then, we enter the war and humans realize they were fooled somehow and they were just fighting the Rommies' mercenaries and vassals.
The humans know the Romulans are somehow interested in Vulcan for whatever reason, but they can't put the pieces together. Then peace comes, the neutral zone is established, both sides mind their own business and the Romulans' true identity remains hidden.

That would have great and would have helped with the idea that "empires" often contain subjugated races.

How is it the community can come up with so many better ideas than the people being paid to make these things? I know someone will throw out the "hindsight is 20/20 argument" , but part of that hindsight should have been learning from the 24 seasons of Trek (25.5 counting TAS): both went wrong and what went right.

 

[Captain Robert April]

We don't have to worry about budgets, deadlines, or studio execs breathing down our necks regarding the previous two items, while chipping in their own brain dead ideas.

"Howzabout we throw in a few Mayans?"

 

[T'Girl]

"Howzabout we throw in a few Mayans?"

If they were actual Mayans? Sure, good idea, if they were from some fictitious "tribe" that doesn't really exist then no.