I was apprehensive about this episode as the story of three Vulcans crash landing on Earth in the 1950's was too much f*&%^&g with Canon for my liking and pretty much made the epic events of the film 'First Contact' seem obsolete.
In actuality the episode is quite enjoyable and it's actually rather cool to see the situations the Vulcans get in but I'm afraid Berman and Braga pushed it too far by suggesting one of them stayed on Earth for the next hundred years amongst the humans.
Another slap is that they gave the episode the perfect opportunity to rectify the situation by suggesting T'Pol told a made up story to affectionately fool Archer and Trip but they went and ruined it by showing concrete proof that it did in fact happen.
A well made episode it may be but screwing with canon this way is the kind of dangerous and arrogant writing that makes hardcore fans give up and by 2002 they really should have know how rabidly picky Star Trek fans were about their franchise and this was probably the start of the show's gradual drift from popularity.
In actuality the episode is quite enjoyable and it's actually rather cool to see the situations the Vulcans get in but I'm afraid Berman and Braga pushed it too far by suggesting one of them stayed on Earth for the next hundred years amongst the humans.
Another slap is that they gave the episode the perfect opportunity to rectify the situation by suggesting T'Pol told a made up story to affectionately fool Archer and Trip but they went and ruined it by showing concrete proof that it did in fact happen.
A well made episode it may be but screwing with canon this way is the kind of dangerous and arrogant writing that makes hardcore fans give up and by 2002 they really should have know how rabidly picky Star Trek fans were about their franchise and this was probably the start of the show's gradual drift from popularity.