Jason Bates' review of "Strange New Worlds" (this week's Enterprise ep); it has a couple of points, but really isn't a good review, and it actually miffs me off because of this:

"You'd think this would be a tremendous moment in human history, equivalent to Columbus' landing in America -- Earth is nothing if not horribly overcrowded, and a brand new, unclaimed planet with no inhabitants would be a panacea. Or is whatever government that exists at this early stage of the Federation so efficient that is has solved world hunger, poverty, etc. Or does Earth have colonies outside its system already, which is sort of implied by the 'boomers' they keep mentioning. These are important question that never seem to get addressed and whatever has been printed in some interview does NOT count since this is a review of the show, not what you read in a magazine somewhere. "

i say, dude, watch the pilot episode again and get over your (literal) masturbatory detox rub down scene fantasies and your (figurative) masturbatory "What I'd like to see in this series/what I don't want to see in this series" review. it's made quite clear in "Broken Bow" that Earth has taken care of it's poverty-war-disease-hunger thing.

what the heck do you expect? for Archer and crew take the shuttlecraft down and immediately begin surveying a location for the capitol of New Earth (they were there for less than two days)? or do you do a cursory exploration of the planet surface to compile a report to send back to Earth and let the bigwigs back home make the decision about further exploration and colonization while you continue your mission of exploration of space?

i think Mr Bates just didn't do his homework, like he threw something together at the last minute hoping teacher would go easy on him since he's done well before.

of course, i'm the lamoid asshole who's reviewing someone's review of a television program.