OK everywhere I go and everywhere I look I continue to see people raging about continuity. Now, someone correct me if I am wrong but isn't this show's very purpose to redefine the Star Trek universe.
I hope that is not the reason why this series was made - I believe the series was created to flesh out the history of the Star Trek universe and give a snapshot of the Early days of human spaceflight.
The temporal cold war is, in my opinion just a long-term metaplot for the series. I don't see it has an excuse to rewrite continuity.
Lets put at this way - TOS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager all are part of a great history. I am pretty forgiving of glitches here and there and even more forgiving of Enterprises glitches (Phase Pistols and the Akiraprise being the most prominant in my mind).
I can appreciate rewriting of continuity to repair a glitch or to remove some silly, ill-advised, or asethetically unsound concept (like the modernizing of the Trek sets in Enterprise). I can even see a minor "tweaking" or bending of continuity in terms of a good story.
I cannot stand the ignoring of canon just because its inconvient to keep to continuity. Its a mark of a good writer that at least knows the subject matter enough to write a good script and not make major mistakes. The small ones are okay, its the big ones that bug me.
Now as to the Andorians, I can only say that there is no on-screen reference to first-contact with the Andorians and almost no information on them in canon Trek. So as long as they refrain from the cardboard-villian portrayl I cannot complain. Like I said in my thread, they had me suckered for most of the episode, only to force me to change my mind at the last minute. I liked the episode.
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