The Few, The Proud

You know, I like Star Trek: Enterprise, I really do. Yet I have a real hard time pointing at any particular element of it and saying that that's what I like about it.

For instance, for each Star Trek series I've picked out a model episode, a high-quality example of what it does and does well and does better than the others. For the original, Doomsday Machine (actually that was my mother's suggestion). For TNG, Measure of a Man. For DS9, In The Pale Moonlight. Even for Voyager: One Small Step. For Enterprise ... uh ...

The closest I can come to is Future Tense, which (if I even remember the title correctly) Twilight which is the third-season story set twenty years on from the Xindi War. It's set during the only Star Trek season arc, it's time travel which Enterprise was all over (but that's a different topic), it highlights the ambiguous relationship between Archer and T'Pol, and - whoa! - everyone liked it.

Edited for episode title 12/20/05

Point of information?

I realize that the Intelligent Design school of thought is the creation of creationists. Literalist Christians want equal time in the science class. Religion doesn't belong in science class, so this is what they came up with. But what does the doctrine of Intelligent Design specifically teach? Did they in fact remove all the religion from it? Does it teach only a theory that there may be a greater mind behind the universe - or does it teach that God created the world in six days, male and female made He us, and on the seventh day He rested? Because, if the former, what's wrong with it? How isn't it science to say there may be such a being? How is it even incompatible with evolution theory to say there may be such a being? Seems to me, a designer who could come up with evolution is pretty intelligent.

What are the details? Do you even know?