 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.
