Just read that Gary Graham who plays the arrogant, po-faced Vulcan Ambassador, was on the shortlist for playing Benjamin Sisko on DS9, also considered as Capt of Voyager. Maybe he would have been OK on Voyager, maybe, but I shudder to think of him as Sisko. DS9 is my fav Trek and Sisko my fav Commander - he was The Man and in large part for me that was because of Avery Brooks.

McCoy was grumpy, Crusher was plain annoying and couldn't smile, the Holo Doctor was patronising, and Bashir was straight out of Carry On Nurse or Doctor in the House. Dr Flox, though his medikit may be less advanced than all of the others, has the best bedside manner, plus a very endearing chuckle. I hope there's an episode all about him some time where we learn more about him and his species.

One of the advantages of the Enterprise series is that stories are not ruined by technology. Yes they beamed the alien reactor out of the basement but not without some difficulty because it took time to lock onto it and avoid being blown up by the alien ship. Whereas Janeaway would have somehow managed to beam it through the alien ships shields (in one episode they managed to use their transporter through their own shields which was actually impossible), beaming it into space close to the other vessel where it could be blown up causing some damage to the ship but not destroying it was a sensible solution. I actually like the fact that nobody died in the episode, not any of the aliens, nobody on their ship and not the nice apothecary either.

The discussion about what would eventually become the prime directive It was interesting and the decision to go down in disguise seemed very sensible and no different from what happened in many next generation episodes. I do hope that Jonathan Archer doesn't develop any strange growths on his arm after kissing that nice alien woman!

In Picard season 3 NX refit appeared in Episode vox, why are so many fans convinced that ship is Enterprise NX 01?

Ship registry is unreadable and that ship didn't participate in frontier day.

When Seven and Jack were talking about old ships in museum they didn't mention that ship at all.

Travis once said they were planning to build three more NX class ships. (ENT: fortunate son)

So this ship could be Enterprise or Columbia or some other NX ship that was built later.

Just saw the Andorian Incident and recognised Jeffrey Coombes immediately despite my presbycusis. Funny thing, I looked him up online and would definitely never recognise him if I saw his picture again. But I do remember the voice, inflections and mannerisms of the actor, which I guess must be how I realised it was him.

This episode deviates from all previous Star Trek episodes in two important ways: Vulcans never had any difficulty serving with humans in other Star Treks and certainly didn't require "nasal numbing agents". And I'm pretty sure that we never saw the Andorian homeworld close to the planet Vulcan.

From what I've been told, the Andorians play a major part in Enterprise and I look forward to seeing Coombes again and seeing whether his character repays his debt to Archer.

But aren't the Vulcans going to be pretty annoyed (or whatever the non-emotional version of annoyed is) at Archer revealing a big Vulcan secret to the Andorians?

That’s it, that’s the question.

Also- I don’t remember the “humans smell bad” thing in any other series, unless I’m mistaken? Is that just an Enterprise thing?

I guess this is going to be a constant theme in Star Trek Enterprise where impatient, rookie human space explorers have to contend with the cold logic of a Vulcan officer. In the future, Starfleet protocols will regulate the appropriate action to be taken, but in the frontier times when Enterprise is set, there are no rules. Withdrawing, avoiding confrontation with a clearly superior enemy whom they knew would be returning to claim their grisly prizes was clearly the right course of action, and the arrival of the second alien ship was a Deus Ex Machina without which Archer and his crew would all have died in a similarly barbaric manner. But Logic and Morality aren't the only ideals in this show. I have a feeling they are going to be surpassed by a third creed, Curiosity and the desire for exploration. Entering a strange spaceship without the permission of its crew and thereby potentially committing unforgivable breaches of privacy against an unknown species offended both Logic and Morality. Archer's speech to T'Pau and Reed may have sounded like it was about Morality. But I think it was really about scratching the itch of Curiosity, even if it meant taking risks. And that, I think, is what will lead to humans in the Star Trek universe ultimately overtaking every other species in the Alpha Quadrant.

let's say in future tense archer was successful at evading hte tholians and retrieved the 30th century ship. He brings it back to earth intact with the pilot.

How much of a boost do you think this will be to human technology now that they have a 30th century ship on their hands to study and reverse engineer?