aadarshinah wrote:I suppose it's possible that we just weren't privy to the politcal debates and just got the "protect the homeland" mantra that EarthGov ended up deciding upon since it took so long for Enterprise to get back, but still.
This is exactly the reason I didn't get into it. With the limitation of 3rd Person Limited, I couldn't really go into a whole lot of detail as to what was happening in that regard on Earth during the 30 day period between the attack and ENT's return. Plus, they've never done a particularly good job at establishing just what sort of government is in place - it
seems to be a parliamentary one, but is it a bicameral one? A unicameral one? Something else? Do they have just a single executive (ala the United States) or do they have a president
and a prime minister (ala ... pretty much everyone else)? Sure, a lot of people would want to mount a response, but where? Against whom? This is the main sticking point -
they don't know who attacked. Put yourself in their shoes: you're a Senator or Congressman, and a nuke destroys a city in the US. Nobody has any idea who is
really behind it. (Ignoring the fact that a billion different anti-American organizations would claim credit.) How do you respond? Who do you attack in retaliation?
I think it's entirely logical to presume that there's a sizable portion of people who want to wreak some blood-soaked revenge (and perhaps these very people end up joining some of the extremist terrorist groups like Terra Prime
because Earth didn't mount a retributive response like they wanted them to), and I actually suspect that the entire EarthGov executive & legislative branches (whatever form they're in) would be voted from power because of this catastrophe. But as you point out, we (or rather, the readers) simply don't have the proper data for this. I'll look at figuring out a way to relate that info. Got a couple of ideas, but well...
Alelou wrote: The idea that Earth's space would be devoid of any even token attempts at defense when the Xindi weapon shows up is just bizarre. Did they run out of CGI money or what? Instead of the Xindi blowing up a station, why not a craft (or more) actually trying to defend the planet?
Perhaps the Xindi and FG had amazing intel as well and were able to slip through holes in their rudimentary planetary defense network?
But it
is the ST-universe, so....
Yeah ... has Earth in Star Trek
ever been shown to be properly defended? Or, for that matter, have
any of the homeworlds been defended?
panyasan wrote:I was very surprised that Earth Goverment decided to do nothing.
Did they? The previous NX-01 chapter was from Archer's POV and was shaded by his biases. For all we know, EarthGov may have approved a limited response that he didn't agree with and thought amounted to them doing nothing. And again, they're limited by their lack of knowledge about who was behind this attack. Remember, in this continuity, nobody has heard of the Xindi.