Summary
- Both Captain Archer and Captain Picard unexpectedly fall for women from pre-industrial worlds while defending them from hostile aliens.
- Captain Archer's romance with Riann is similar to Captain Picard's romance with Anij in Star Trek: Insurrection.
- The behavior of Captain Archer, leaving Riann and not promising to return, follows the traditional playbook of Star Trek captains who have no permanent relationships and are devoted to their starships.
Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) has a romance in Star Trek: Enterprise season 1 that essentially copies Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) romantic tryst in Star Trek: Insurrection. In Enterprise season 1, episode 9, "Civilization," the NX-01 Enterprise investigates the Akaali, a pre-industrial humanoid civilization whose population's water supply is being poisoned by another alien race, the Malurans. As Captain Archer, Subcommander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock), Ensign Hoshi Sato (Linda Park), and Commander Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer) get to the bottom of what's happening with the Akaali, Archer becomes attracted to a local apothecary named Riann (Diane DiLascio).
Star Trek: Insurrection, the third film starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, saw Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the USS Enterprise-E defy Starfleet to protect the Ba'ku, a long-lived peaceful race residing in the section of space called the Briar Patch that has regenerative properties. Picard put a stop to Admiral Dougherty's (Anthony Zerbe) conspiracy with the Son'a and their leader, Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham), to forcibly relocate the Ba'ku and take control of the Briar Patch. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc found a new love interest in Anij (Donna Murphy), who helped the Enterprise crew defend the Ba'ku planet from the Son'a.
