Talk:Observer Effect (Star Trek: Enterprise)

The Organians
Too bad one or both didn't drop the name of the other. It would have been nice continuity if one called the other "Claymare", "Trefayne"... or even "Ayelborne". Or mentioned reporting in to one of those three. GBC 15:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Re-write
A huge number of errors were noted in the plot, which has now been completely rewritten. Below are just some of the outright mistakes that were made.

[1] This seems to ensure their race is not discovered, because first contact never occurs with races with the intellectual capacity to combat the virus. – This implies that the aliens only contact lower life-forms when in fact the opposite is true: They only contact higher lifeforms.

[2] One of the aliens notes increased intelligence. - In fact, they stated that humans have not shown a greater intelligence compared to other species. Humans were candidates for first contact because of compassion.

[3] One fully expects the humans to destroy themselves, whereas the other believes that they should inhabit the doctor and the captain to observe the solution to this problem first hand. - They inhabited the doctor and the science officer to observe the solution first hand, not the captain. The captain was only inhabited when they realised the doctor had discovered the aliens’ existence, and used the captain has a figure of authority.

[4] The alien species moves beyond the physical world, which allows them to exist without host bodies. – There is no evidence of this and the contrary seems to be true. The aliens seem to need host bodies to communicate with each other. For instance, for talking in privacy, they took up the bodies of Trip and Hoshi who were isolated in decon.

And many more... ICEBreaker (talk) 13:21, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Startrek?
Shouldn't a scientific meaning of this word be the page that comes up when "observer effect" is searched. I doubt the star trek version of this term is the most usual; also, the scientific forms are likely to have more sources, meaning more information content; this page is, basically, an episode summary. Phoenix1177 (talk) 12:19, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Also, the episode in question is named after the physics sense of the term, which is another good reason this shouldn't be the primary version. Phoenix1177 (talk) 12:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)