Given the abundance of time traveling that Jonathan Archer does in Enterprise, I think it makes a huge amount of sense to bring Archer ibto the future 100 years, to cross paths with the crew of SNW! Totally okay that Archer has aged (just as Scott Bakula did). Scott's only 70 years old and in great shape. Spock appears as a much older Vulcan, Scotty reprises later life after a transporter restores him in his future, McCoy puts in an appearance as a 100+ year old at the beginning of TNG... there are more examples. So, c'mon, let's bring Archer/Bakula back for a season!!!

I wss thinking exactly the same thing whilst reading the article, with which I largely disagree. George's transformation is monumental, making the McFly family dynamic FAR healthier, and the money is a superficial byproduct of the underlying theme of healing, self-awareness, and growth. Bob Gale grew up in University City (St. Louis), in a middle class, Jewish family. Yes, I know this because I attended school with his brother, Randy. I can assure you, the message of the movie wasn't "let's be rich, because rich = happy." Recall that Marty's girlfriend was still his girlfriend in the beginning of the movie, even though the McFly family were lower middle class and dysfunctional. Right?

What I do not understand: it's the distant future...I work in Plastic Surgery research and we are already making phenomenal strides in burn and wound damage repair. Why show a Christopher Pike whose face looks like raw meat? It simply does not wash with the clearly advanced capabilities medical science would possess in more than 200 years from now. Yes, ToS was in the 1960s and it's possible no one could envision 3D tissue-printing, then. However, as this is already a reality, and the technology will only exponentially improve in the coming decades (imagine the leaps in a century or two), it makes sense for canon to be bent, just a bit, here. Okay, Pike may well still be wheelchair bound - though with assistive technologies already in use that enables spinal cord injured patients to stand alone and even take a few steps - that seems anachronistic and unlikely in a distant future. C'mon Star Trek, SOME things shall have to be modified as our science catches up with the science fiction universe created by Gene Roddenbery, et al.