Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Josh Hill said:

> I really didn't like the constant revisiting of TOS aliens. I mean,
> you're going to have your Vulcans, sure, and Klingons, and the
> Andorians were fine, but they forgot HOW VAST space is! Not something
> with a handful of races in it. A ship with warp drive would have
> discovered new races by the bushel, races that never appeared in the
> other Trek series, races that were surpassingly strange.

I have no problem with that, for continuity reasons.  The reason why
the NX series Enterprise was so special was because it was the first
Human starship fast enough to not of just travel between stars, but do
so at speeds that would enable it to go beyond the immediate
neighborhood and back within a reasonable amount of time.  As such, I
would expect them to be doing the first discoveries of many of the
alien races we later take for granted in the Trek versions that take
place later.

But, that turned out to be a double-edged sword.  The Andorrans were
developed too much to jive with what little we knew of them in TOS.  In
Enterprise, we, and the crew, saw Romulans when it was established in
Kirk's time that even though a war was fought against them, we never
actually saw what they looked like until that episode, and their ships
in ST:E looked like their ships from TNG, not TOS or earlier.

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