Jason Bates' review of "The Andorian Incident," last week's Enterprise. by the time i reached the middle of the article, i was asking "does this guy even watch the show?" he asks questions that have been answered in the same episode!. he does crap like that every week.

They ought to have dozens of little smart "grenades" that fly themselves around corners and follow the enemy and go boom with a big blast of stun energy that knocks out the tentacle-headed opposition without punching a bunch of holes in some old Vulcan masonry.

they've just developed phase pistols, but they should have flying guided stun grenades? also (this may be a bit picky, or just insignificant, but...), there is a difference between a tentacle and an antenna.

C'mon, having antennae on your heads is so Marvin-the-Martian/Stan Lee it's not even funny. It's just bad camp.

other ST shows have had species descended from non-mammalian (and non-primate) lineages, and they have features of their repitilian, canid, feline, and ickthoid ancestors (and for god's sake, some are rocks! cf. the original seies "Devil in the Dark." or puddles of Quaker State 10W-30 [TNG "Skin of Evil"]! or gaseous entities! or electrical clouds!), and he complains of an insectoid species having antennae (or maybe they're gastropods. snails have antennae like the Andorians. have they been established in canon as insectoid?).

Spying on other societies that could be a threat to you is as logical as watching space for potentially large asteroids that could hit your planet.

is it logical for a race that doesn't lie to violate a treaty they made willingly, and to lie about doing it?

And letting Archer give away the location of the Vulcan listening post -- and thus end the protection to Vulcan created by that spying -- to the Andorians is a broach of every single diplomatic and military directive a starship captain presumably would be given before he sets out that I can only shake my head in disgust.

hmm.. the Vulcans, who Archer (and many other humans) believe held back humanity's progress, who withholds information from the humans, who look down on the humans as childlike and blah blah blah, who also have an enclave near Starfleet headquarters, are lying about spying on the Andorians, and he doesn't think Archer would believe them to be doing the same to the humans? he doesn't think Archer would be really pissed and vindicated in his mistrust? Mr. Bates needs to forget about all the Original Series crap and everything set in years after Kirk. Humans and Vulcans are barely friends, and some people on both sides wouldn't even go that far. They don't go skipping around the galaxy hand in hand preaching love for other species yet. there's a working relationship, but very little trust. and the hypocritical Vulcans are violating a treaty they signed! they deserve to have their listening post revealed. and diplomatically, it was a good move by Archer. he earned a boon, and possibly a willingness to trust, from the Andorians.

Later, the Vulcans and Andorians are all part of the Federation, so presumably they're pretty close together

do the words "neighboring system" mean nothing? why presume? it's stated clearly!

And yes, I am still completely and totally against that cheesy song... Anything would be better than that 80s reject trash.

it's been six weeks. it's been talked about to death. get over the friggin' theme song already.

threat of four, yes four Andorian guards armed with phasers and bad attitudes -- something Kirk, Picard, Sisko, or Janeway could've gotten past in five minutes.

suck it up, geek boy. this isn't TOS, TNG, DS9 or Voyager. besides, i'd like to see him escape from room guarded by four guys with guns.

if the guy doesn't want to review Enterprise (does he even want to watch it? "if I wasn't writing these reviews, I don't think it would hold my attention all that well"), he shouldn't be the one doing it. his disinterest shows.