In David Greven 's book , '' Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek '' , the author states that the declaration by Daniels that Reed and Hoshi were unimportant to future events meant that " racial and cultural Others were not important to the future " . But by saying that Archer was indeed required for the future to proceed as expected , it was a statement about the need for " institutional white male power " . Greven asserted that this was part of the writing on '' Enterprise '' which changed following the new political direction after the September 11 attacks , whereas the previous post - '' Star Trek : The Next Generation '' series had been progressively multi-cultural during the period of the Bill Clinton administration
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