My 3 takeaways were that it was an abrupt and unsatisfying ending, I don't know why the last episode was from the perspective of Riker 200 years later, and most of all, Trip's death was unnecessary, contrary to the optimistic theme of the show and a kick in the the teeth to all his fans, including me.

He wasn't prepared to break the rules in order to save the life of a colleague when the rule that would be broken involved releasing embryos that were of no immediate threat, would take years to grow into adulthood and might be recovered or rendered harmless before then. And he disguises his fake dilemma with lots of exaggerated blubbering. But when it's his friend who's threatened he caves in and blubs up the required codes. What a wanker!

We know that katras are the memories or soul of a vulcan, which can bypass a human in what they heal their body and then come back to life, but what if their body dies first? Would they leave the katra inside the human who owns it, transfer it to a katra urn, or let it die naturally? Also using cloning technology, couldn't they create a soulless clone of their old body and transfer it to it?

If the katra stays inside the human, would both minds eventually merge into one like a mental Tuvix? What if it's more than one? How many katras fit inside a person? Would it end up as someone with multiple personalities or as an individual Borg with memories of multiple minds?

Despite being a technique that could almost give immortality, it doesn't seem like vulcans use it much, so why? Does it only work with vulcans and humans, or with other species as well?

Apart from being used from a vulcan to a human, could a vulcan pick up someone else's katra for itself? Would it be used positively to save that other person or negatively to steal all their memories from them? It can also be used to change bodies, what other uses do katras have?

You can also move into a katra urn, but what would it be like to be inside one of those urns? Would you cease to have self-awareness or would it be like being locked in a box without being able to get out? Could that urn be connected to a robot as an external hard drive, endowing the vulcan with robotic immortality?

It always bothered me how fragile the NX-01 was throughout the run of Enterprise. I know they wanted to present the ship and Starfleet as the 'new kid' with a lot to learn about the far reaches of space, and all the various species, hostile or otherwise, that they have to deal with. But the Enterprise spent more time needing to repair its engines, shields and/or weapons than doing just about anything else!!

I thought it was cool to see how their weapons and shields (hull plating polarization) progressed during the series. But just about every skirmish they encountered on the show meant that the hull plating was easily depleted, their phase cannons needed repair, and they couldn't fire torpedoes. And, at best, they could maybe limp along at impulse engines, unless they too were now in need of repairs as well!

Obviously it wouldn't make sense for them to be technologically superior right out the gate. But it got to where I dreaded every time they'd run across a species who would attack them, or that they would need to attack for whatever reason, because I knew what was coming next. Either a loss or a draw .... occasionally a meek win, but, regardless, always at the cost of their weapons/engines/shields!

In S03E18 Archer flies to the Xindi base in a shuttle packed with explosives, hoping to blow it up in a last ditch effort to save the human race from total annihilation, only to get captured and then revealing that in the future humans and Xindi unite to fight another enemy. This reminded me of Babylon 5's Battle of the Line where Sinclair, through utter desperation because the humans were losing the battle with the Minbari, flies his ship into the Minbari lead ship, hoping to destroy them both, only to be transported aboard and probed, and then released because of a past connection with Minbari (in his future he gets transported into the past and modified to become a famous Minbari).

The military Xindi lizards remind me of the POTA gorillas, the clever sloths remind me of the orangutans, and the more friendly primates reminds me of the chimps.

I'm waiting for a "Red Dwarf" episode.

I dare

I'm watching The Breach on H&I, and the voice of the planetary governor (voice only, no actor credit that I can find) sounds a lot like General Martok. Does anyone know if J.G Hertzler provided the voice for the governor in that ep?