"SAC 441" <SAC441@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> What gets me,is that after the test probe strike of the Xindi weapon,why
> didn't Earth send a counter-strike ship loaded with tri-cobalt devices
> and totally eradicate the Xindi threat? (Janeway used these devices to
> destroy the Caretaker array
> in Star Trek:Voyager).A few of these devices positioned around a planet
> and detonated,while not destroying the planet completely like the Xindi
> weapon,would turn the Xindi planet into a sterile ball of rock by
> annihilating the atmosphere.
> Federation ethics of investigation post attack are totally stupid and
> egregious as a plot point in my opinion.
Did you even watch the series? For starters, "Enterprise" was set long
before Janeway, or Kirk, so there were no "tricobalt" devices. For seconds,
Starfleet had no idea where the Xindi homeworld was.