- Enterprise discovers a mining colony of the Paraagans. The crew gets an invitation for a meeting on the surface and a shuttle pod tries to break through the atmosphere. All of a sudden just under the shuttle a giant explosion begins and scorches the earth beneath. All 3600 colonists are reported dead. After examination, Enterprise finds out plasma leaking from the pod's vents ignited tetrazine in the atmosphere. Lieutenant Reed, however, ensures he closed the plasma vents before the shuttle went of. After conversations with admiral Forrest of Starfleet Command, Captain Archer learns that Enterprise's mission is canceled and they must return home, not to return to space for another ten or twenty years. When the ship has altered course, crewman Daniels, a time traveler, pays a visit to captain Archer.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- While visiting an alien mining colony on Paraagan II (a matriarchal society), a shuttle accidentally sets fire to the large amounts of Tetrazine in the atmosphere, instantly incinerating the 3,600 colonists on the surface. Despite Lieutenant Reed's precautions (who closed the plasma ducts of the shuttle-pod 75 kms above the surface, even when the landing protocols stated that they should be closed 50 kms above the planet's surface) (The Tetrazine concentration is half of what was specified, the point of origin was the plasma duct (While every log indicated that both ducts were sealed shut)) (Probes find traces of Borocarbons, which is generated when Tetrazine is ignited by plasma exhaust), Captain Archer personally puts full blame on himself for all the deaths caused. He doesn't argue with Starfleet's Admiral Forrest (Vaughn Armstrong) when Enterprise's mission is officially canceled, and the ship is ordered to return home (on the advice of Vulcan Ambassador Soval (Gary Graham)). The Vulcans have also used this incident as an opportunity to tell Starfleet that human spaceflight requires another 20 years. T'Pol tells Archer that he is a capable captain and he should come out of his guilt trip.
Later, Archer is suddenly transported back 10 months in the past, when he was a space-dock and the Enterprise was still being constructed in Earth orbit. He then encounters Crewman Daniels (Matt Winston) who warns him that the Suliban are trying to sabotage Enterprise's mission. He wants to help Archer discover the truth, because events must go on to preserve the time-line. The accident on Paraagan was never supposed to happen as history had no records of it.. So, someone is trying to screw with the time-line Using information from Daniels, Reed finds a cloaked Suliban device on the shuttle-pod's engine manifold, designed to generate a plasma stream, and Archer directs Commander Tucker to build advanced quantum beacon detectors. Enterprise then travels back to an asteroid field near Paraagan II where a Suliban ship is hiding. They quickly cripple and board the ship, finding computer memory chips with proof of the Suliban's plan.
As Enterprise makes its escape, they are able to prove that the explosion wasn't their fault. They head back to the Vulcan ship (where the mission of the Enterprise was supposed to come to an end) at warp 4. Sub-Commander T'Pol is still skeptical about the time travel explanation, as Vulcan scientists say time travel it is impossible. Later the ship starts experiencing warp field problems, and soon detects 20 or 30 Suliban cell ships in pursuit. The ships de-cloak, and Silik orders Archer to surrender himself. Silik was ordered to bring Archer by his future masters and leave the Enterprise alone. The ship carry particle weapons and will destroy the Enterprise before it will destroy them all.. Archer puts T'Pol in command, but he never makes it to the Suliban shuttle, as he is time transported again, this time to a derelict 31st century building overlooking a devastated city. Daniels appears behind him telling him that bringing him into the future to protect him caused this dramatic change in the time-line. Archer asks to be sent back to repair the damage, but since all the time travel equipment is gone, they are both trapped.
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