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"Broken
Bow"
Production 001/002
09/26/2001
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Synopsis:
The Enterprise crew sets on a maiden voyage with a mission
to return a wounded Klingon to his people.
In the nine decades following Zefram Cochrane's visionary
warp flight in space and the First Contact that followed,
the human race has been slowly guided by the Vulcans
toward developing the Warp Five engine. Mankind is at last
able to explore the virgin depths of space with a
revolutionary new starship, the Enterprise NX-01, under
the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. Plans to launch
Enterprise are moved up when a Klingon courier is shot
down by unknown assailants and crash-lands in Broken Bow,
Oklahoma. Feeling that the Vulcans have been condescending
toward mankind for years, Archer insists it's the humans'
responsibility to return the injured Klingon to his
homeworld alive. Archer is fully backed by Starfleet
Command, and the Vulcans' objections fall upon deaf ears.
With the ship high above Earth in spacedock, Archer has
three days to assemble his crew, consisting of the
charming southern chief engineer, Commander Charles "Trip"
Tucker III; the strong and wary tactical officer,
Lieutenant Malcolm Reed; the eager helmsman who grew up in
space, Ensign Travis Mayweather; the linguistically
talented communications officer, Ensign Hoshi Sato; and
for his chief medical officer, Archer recruits the
unconventional alien Dr. Phlox. For the ship's first
mission, the Vulcans request that an advisor from their
ranks be present, and they assign the highly intelligent
but stubborn Sub-commander T'Pol. Anticipation and nerves
run high as the ship is fitted with the latest Starfleet
technology, such as the recently approved transporter,
which no one is very eager to test on themselves. Quickly
the historic launch arrives, and the Starship Enterprise
does indeed, in the words of Dr. Cochrane, "go boldly
where no man has gone before," warping towards planet
Kronos.
As Enterprise speeds along her way, the crew all learn
more about each other and strong bonds begin to form.
Under Dr. Phlox's care, the injured Klingon, Klaang,
regains consciousness and Hoshi tries to communicate with
him. Suddenly the ship experiences a power failure and
unknown chameleon-like aliens invade and kidnap Klaang
from Sickbay. Dr. Phlox examines a captured alien and
discovers he's a Suliban who has been genetically altered.
With the Klingon gone, T'Pol advises Archer to return the
ship to Earth, but he adamantly refuses. He then learns
from the tight-lipped Vulcan that Klaang's last stop
before crashing on Earth was a planet called Rigel X, so
Archer orders Mayweather to set a course for the Rigel
system. Meanwhile, a Suliban named Silik interrogates
Klaang, trying to find out why he was on Rigel X meeting
with a Suliban female named Sarin. At Rigel X, the
Enterprise away team discovers an amazing multitude of
alien life at a trading complex there, and their attempts
to locate information on Klaang's visit are constantly
interrupted by strange new sights and sounds. Archer
eventually meets Sarin, who tells him of a Temporal Cold
War in which the Suliban are being used to incite internal
strife within the Klingon Empire. Klaang was bringing
proof of this back to his High Council in order to avoid
the Empire being thrown into chaos. Hidden Suliban
soldiers suddenly attack, forcing Archer, Sarin and the
rest of the away team to fight their way back to
Enterprise. During the extremely intense firefight Sarin
is killed, and later Archer is rendered unconscious from a
deep blast to his leg while saving T'Pol's life.
As Archer recovers, T'Pol takes command of Enterprise
despite Trip's objections, and astonishes everyone by
enabling the ship to track the Suliban vessel from Rigel
X, rather than ordering the ship back to Earth. After
Archer resumes command they arrive at a gas giant planet,
apparently losing the Suliban's trail. But T'Pol is again
surprisingly helpful when she works with Archer to
determine that not one but 14 Suliban vessels have
recently entered the planet's atmosphere. Enterprise goes
in to follow, and discovers a huge Suliban mothership, or
"Helix," with 3000 lifesigns on board. They are attacked
by several individual Suliban cell ships, but manage to
capture one with the ship's grappler. Archer and Tucker
learn to fly the stolen craft and use it to infiltrate the
Helix while Enterprise hides in a dense upper layer of the
atmosphere and avoids the Suliban's depth charges. Archer
and Tucker find Klaang and release him while fending off
the Suliban with their new phase-pistols. While Tucker
takes the Klingon back to Enterprise, Archer stays behind
to set off a magnetic disruptor that dismantles the Helix.
Trying to stay alive while waiting for pick-up, Archer
discovers a Temporal Chamber used by the Suliban to obtain
their orders from a mysterious shrouded figure from the
future. Archer is found by the Suliban leader, Silik, and
the two struggle against each other in a time-shifted
environment. Realizing he's no match for the genetically
mutated Suliban, Archer tries to gain some distance by
exiting the chamber, where time returns to normal. As
Archer runs, Silik fires his weapon dead center into
Archer, but at that moment the captain dematerializes,
being unwittingly beamed back to Enterprise by a nervous
Tucker using the relatively untried bio-transporter.
Leaving the Suliban behind, Enterprise warps away and
successfully delivers Klaang to his homeworld. The Klingon
Chancellor draws blood from Klaang, and his scientists
find hidden within his DNA Suliban data proving their
conspiracy to undermine the Empire. The Chancellor turns
to Archer and acts hostile toward him, but Archer takes
his actions as a "thank you."
Back aboard Enterprise, Archer receives orders from
Starfleet that henceforth, he and his crew are to
officially begin their mission of exploration. Gratefully
acknowledging her assistance in the mission's success,
Archer sets aside his pride and convinces T'Pol to remain
on the ship as Science Officer. A course is laid in for
the nearest inhabited planet, and the crew of Enterprise
boldly warps toward the unknown.
Cast:
Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer
Connor Trinneer as Chief Engineer Charles Tucker III
Jolene Blalock as Sub-commander T'Pol
Dominic Keating as Lt. Malcolm Reed
Anthony Montgomery as Ensign Travis Mayweather
Linda Park as Ensign Hoshi Sato
John Billingsley as Dr. Phlox
Guest Cast:
John Fleck as Silik
Melinda Clarke as Sarin
Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Klaang
Vaughn Armstrong as Admiral Forrest
Jim Beaver as Admiral Leonard
Mark Moses as Henry Archer
Gary Graham as Soval
Thomas Kopache as Tos
Jim Fitzpatrick as Commander Williams
James Horan as Humanoid Figure
Joseph Ruskin as Suliban Doctor
Marty Davis as Young Archer
Van Epperson as Alien Man
Ron King as Farmer
Peter Henry Schroeder as Klingon Chancellor
Matt Williamson as Klingon Council Member
Byron Thames as Crewman
Ricky Luna as Carlos
Jason Grant Smith as Crewman Fletcher
Chelsea Bond as Alien Mother
Ethan Dampf as Alien Child
Diane Klimaszewski as Dancer
Elaine Klimaszewski as Dancer
Creative staff:
Director: James L. Conway
Written By: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
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