I also like Archer in Enterprise, despite most of the fandom really not liking him.
I feel it’s completely unrealistic to expect him to be as much of a polished and perfect Starfleet officer as, say, Picard or Pike are.
He’s doing all of this stuff for the first time, with completely inadequate training, very little in the way of standard procedures imposed by the Earth government, etc. he also doesn’t have captain’s logs from others to pore through and learn from.
People complain that he’s out of his depth half the time, but that’s the entire theme of the show.
It’s a great shame we never got to see the Earth-Romulan war and more of the political back and forth between the Federation founder worlds.
I also like Archer in Enterprise, despite most of the fandom really not liking him.
I feel it’s completely unrealistic to expect him to be as much of a polished and perfect Starfleet officer as, say, Picard or Pike are.
He’s doing all of this stuff for the first time, with completely inadequate training, very little in the way of standard procedures imposed by the Earth government, etc. he also doesn’t have captain’s logs from others to pore through and learn from.
People complain that he’s out of his depth half the time, but that’s the entire theme of the show.
It’s a great shame we never got to see the Earth-Romulan war and more of the political back and forth between the Federation founder worlds.