↳ T'Pol being told that Archer was dead in Zero Hour (3x24)
↳ T'Pol seeing Archer alive in Storm Front (4x01)
philippageorgiou:
what am i supposed to do? fly a shuttle into the system and knock on the door? tell the xindi we want to talk?
This Enterprise rewatch is making me appreciate a lot the show, despite the failings and the stumbles, I feel like they were trying something, and I’m feeling a lot for the characters this time around, like
This time I actually feel very sorry for Archer? I think that despite the rough edges and the dumbassery, Archer is a very idealistic person, often to the point of naivety - often to the point of, quite frankly, foolishness.
Archer genuinely wanted to be an explorer, to honor his father’s lifework and to put humanity out there as peaceful explorers of the universe, and despite the mistakes along the way I think he showed it often that he had the heart (eh) in the right place.
And then the Xindi arc cames and the man gets destroyed. He goes from goofy captain who takes his dog in diplomatic missions and wants to befriend all his subordinates to hardened man with (quite literally) the weight of the world in his shoulders, commiting horrible actions on the way. By the time of Azati Prime, he is all but ready to commit suicide, and I don’t think he would ever fully forgive himself for the truly horrid thing he does with that innocent crew in Damage.
The direct comparition in the Trek universe I could make is with Sisko, but it doesn’t feel quite right because when we meet Sisko, we’re meeting him as a hardened man, as he loses his wife amid battle, so we meet him as he’s losing this innocence and becoming a man who knows grief and hardship quite well.
No, I think I feel more temped to compare Archer to Bashir - Bashir, who comes to the station wide-eyed and full of enthusiasm, talking about “frontier medicine” and “wilderness” without an once of tact, who gets a little more quiet, a little more taciturn and worn down as the Dominion war gets worse.
“Funny, I joined Starfleet to save lives”, Bashir sadly points out in Siege of AR-558 as he powers his weapon to hit the enemy. “Enterprise was designed to be a ship of exploration”, Archer wrily answers Degra in The Forgotten when he shows surprise that Enterprise had such detailed scans for a military vessel, like he still can’t believe this was what his mission has turned into. Two idealistic, cocky wide-eyed men, both hardened and worn down by their wars; two sides of the same coin.
We’ve had our share of disagreements, but you’ve never taken it out on my desk before.
Star Trek: Enterprise
Damage (3x19)
spockvarietyhour:
Star Trek: Enterprise “First Flight”
trek-daily:
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, 1.24
acecroft:
SCOTT BAKULA
as Cpt. Jonathan Archer in STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, Season 1
trekgifs:
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (2001-2005)
S02E14 • “Stigma”
star-trek-dumb-comics:
Star Trek - Strange New Dumb Comics #57
I’ll admit I’m starting to really enjoy Enterprise (even tho for now i’m not a huge fan of the Xindi plot, but I still have to see how it ends), so have a comic about it. I love how clueless Archer is sometimes
Also Archer and T'pol were surprisingly really quick and easy to draw (when usually I have to struggle every time I draw a new character) so I indulged myself to some colouring
