Admittedly, I've only seen two episodes of this show. But from what I've gathered, Archer seems like a pretty unlikeable guy especially with the pilot and his treatment of vulcans. He seems stern and humorless to say the least. Does he change to be more likable as the series goes on?

Wonder what ever happened to the mutagenic virus they found after storing it?
Imagine unleashing that on the Xindi or on the Borg.

Currently rewatching Star Trek Enterprise, and always thought Shran and andorians were so interesting !

I think we need a show with him as the captain !

Double episode start:

It starts with Captain Shran leading some daring mission aboard an andorian ship.

Shran returns to earth, to attend an event at starfleet.

Admiral Archer is giving a speech to Starfleet in San Francisco, about the founding members of the federation and the first of its kind fleet, designed with the help from all member worlds. Shran and his crew are helping oversee installation of andorian systems inc weapons on the ship.

Archer boards a shuttle to meet with Shran in orbit of earth.

Cue montage of the new ships being built in orbit of earth.

Archer meets with Shran and thanks him for his work.

He mentions they are looking for non human captains, and Shran still owes him one !

Shran initially declines, but a situation develops in starfleet.

Archer convinces Shran to take control of the first of the new ships being built.

Shran heads off on his first mission.

Let me know your thoughts / comments !

I realize that the Star Trek community is quite divided on these are the voyages. When the episode aired, what were your expectations, (for instance, seeing Commander riker) and how did the episode let you down, or in the opposite case surpass them?

A little context if you're interested, totally new to Star Trek. I watched a selection of TOS episodes, the movies, then TNG, DS9, and Voyager in full, before coming to Enterprise, which I have a major soft spot for now.

It's not like a mail man can just pop in and deliver it. Also Enterprise wasn't back to Earth and Earth doesn't have any starbases at which enterprise could get them. So that brings me to just being set digitally, but it doesn't really strike me as if they would have any printers there since why would they have need for those. So how?

S2 E16 Future tense (the one where they find a ship from the 31st century or whenever

Watching for the first time and just finished season 3. The Xindi made a strategic error equivalent to invading Russia in winter on a galactic scale. They believed humans were an existential threat and were developing a weapon that could destroy Earth in a single shot. Meanwhile, humans had absolutely no idea they existed. So what do the Xindi do? Develop their weapon, launch a sneak attack and destroy Earth? Build smaller prototypes to test in secret within the mostly impenetrable region of space they call home? Of course not. They build a smaller prototype and launch it against the unsuspecting enemy. This let the humans know the Xindi existed, know they were a threat and motivated them to launch a counter-attack. It gave the humans almost a year to track down and destroy the full-scale weapon. If the Xindi had waited until the full-scale weapon was ready and attacked Earth with it, Humanity would have been caught completely off-guard. Earth would have been destroyed. Season 3 would have been 5 minutes long.