I’m always bugged more by individual moments than bigger things. So while T’Pol might be wearing an old fun center carpet as a uniform, and the temporal Cold War is both overly complex and excruciatingly boring neither of those things bothers me more than the following.
In season one, there is an episode titled ‘Unexpected’. In this episode Tripp becomes space pregnant from an alien space mama. During his pregnancy he is framed as becoming irrationally overconcerned about the safety of very minor or unlikely hazards.
At one point, he is in engineering and complains that if you hold onto the handrail of the elevator while it moves, your fingers will be sliced off against the scaffolding since there is no gap.
A crew member brushes him off by just saying, essentially, “Lol skill issue, just don’t hold the handguard.”
Again, Tripp is the one being framed as irrational in this discussion. Because he has a problem with a handguard that slices your fingers off.
Space hormones or not, he’s right that it’s a terrible design.
I just finished up the show and absolutely hate they decided to just kill off Tripp in the last five minutes because apparently four hostiles of some random species with unknown tech capabilities were able to get onboard the Enterprise in the exact area where the Captain and Ch-Eng were walking and no M.A.C.O.'s happened to be.
He didn’t even need to die for the show’s ending to make sense, cause there’s no further plot to explore anyways. They just did it because fuck it.
Clearly Tripp was recruited by Section 31, who tampered with the official records.
If the finale isn’t going to care about the show and just make it a big holodeck joke, then I’m going to write my own stupid canon.
I always took it as if the last episode is its own thing. A single standalone holodeck program used as a history lesson for the people who would grow up learning about the events leading up to Archer’s no doubt historic speech.