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"Cold
Front"
Production 011
11/28/2001
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Synopsis:
While Enterprise joins an alien pilgrimage to witness a
religious stellar occurrence, Archer finds himself again
faced against the Suliban warrior Silik.
Enterprise navigates into a stellar nursery hoping to make
contact with some of the alien vessels detected among the
colorful gases and protostars. Finding a transport vessel
escorting a group of alien pilgrims to the "Great Plume of
Agosoria," a protostar which emits an epic burst of energy
every 11 years, Captain Archer decides to caravan with the
pilgrimage ship, and invites the group for a social dinner
onboard Enterprise. Relations fare well among the starship
crew and the pilgrims; culminating with Commander Trip
Tucker giving a guided tour of the Enterprise engineering
bay. As the group listens attentively to Trip's
oversimplified explanation of the warp engines, one
pilgrim silently slips behind a bulkhead unnoticed. He
opens a panel and dislocates his limb in order to
disconnect a conduit within — he is a Suliban. After the
disguised invader rejoins the group, the entire ship is
suddenly rocked by a powerful plasma storm within the
stellar nursery. Unsuccessfully attempting to steer clear
of the storm, Enterprise is repeatedly hit with plasma
lighting, severely damaging the warp manifold and starting
a disastrous antimatter cascade traveling towards the
reactor. Instead of completely destroying the ship,
though, the cascade is suddenly stopped dead at the very
console the Suliban tampered with moments before.
After the jostled pilgrims return to their ship, Trip
informs Archer of the recently discovered separated
conduit, and that although it's what saved the ship, no
one is taking responsibility for its disconnection.
Perplexed, a sullen Archer is approached by Crewman
Daniels, a steward in the Mess Hall, who reveals he is not
really a member of Starfleet, but a soldier from 900 years
in the future. Taking Archer to his quarters, Daniels uses
a futuristic device to project a holographic "temporal
observatory." Daniels claims he was sent to track and stop
Silik — the same Suliban whom Archer fought on the Helix
during the ship's first mission — from altering history,
but he requires a portion of the Enterprise's power and
equipment to operate his futuristic tracking technology.
Archer discusses Daniel's proposal with a stunned Trip and
the ever-skeptical T'Pol, ultimately deciding that in case
a "Temporal Cold War" actually does exist, it would be
best to give Daniels the aid he needs. Trip and T'Pol help
Daniels set up his tracking devices in Engineering and are
amazed at his futuristic technology, particularly a device
that allows its operator to literally walk through walls.
Meanwhile a suspicious Archer attempts to seek out Silik
from the group of pilgrims, who have returned to the
Enterprise Mess Hall in order to gain a better view of the
rapidly approaching Plume of Agosoria. But when Archer
returns to his quarters he is ambushed by the awaiting
Silik. Insisting someone else is actually the one trying
to alter history, Silik claims to be there to stop
whomever it might be and needs Archer's help in
identifying the unknown soldier. In an attempt to gain
Archer's trust Silik confesses to having disconnected the
conduit and saving Enterprise, but while Archer denies
knowing who Silik is referring to, T'Pol announces over
the com that Daniels' modifications in Engineering are
complete, which unwittingly provides Silik with the
information he required. No longer needing him, Silik
stuns Archer into unconsciousness. While waiting for
Archer to arrive, Daniels' tracking device alerts him to
Silik's presence within Engineering, and he insists Trip
and T'Pol immediately leave to bring reinforcements to
help contain Silik. As the two comply and leave
Engineering, they witness Silik murder Daniels without
hesitation, then use his genetically enhanced camouflaging
ability to disappear from sight. Awakened by Dr. Phlox, a
sore Archer orders every outer door and hatch sealed, and
security posted on all decks to prevent Silik's escape.
Then confirming his suspicion, Archer takes T'Pol into
Daniels' quarters and discovers that the device Daniels
used to project the Temporal Observatory has been stolen;
deducing it was probably Silik's mission in the first
place. Silik is detected by Ensign Hoshi Sato as he
attempts to bypass the lockout codes for Launch Bay One,
while Trip helps Archer by giving him the phasing device
he witnessed Daniels use earlier. Archer uses it to walk
through a bulkhead wall, catching Silik by surprise, when
suddenly both men are violently rocked as Enterprise
experiences heavy plasma turbulence from the much
anticipated Plume of Agosoria. Silik seizes the moment to
escape inside the Launch Bay, quickly followed by Archer,
who, rather than letting Silik have it, opts to shoot
Daniels' device out of Silik's clutched grasp. Seeing the
device is destroyed, Silik camouflages himself and flees,
gaining enough time to open the Launch Bay doors. Holding
on to a handrail as the ensuing vacuum decompresses the
bay of air, Archer watches as Silik steps to the edge of
the opening and jumps out of the ship headlong into the
cloudy depths of the stellar nursery. Saving himself from
being sucked into space after Silik, Archer climbs into a
control room and repressurizes it so he can breath again.
T'Pol comes over the com, requesting to follow Silik who
has just been picked up from space by a Suliban cell ship.
Archer denies T'Pol's request, opting to let the conniving
Silik go as he failed to get what he came for anyway.
Before retiring to bed, the exhausted Archer orders
Daniels' quarters to be sealed off indefinitely, as a
safeguard against any other unknown powerful and
mysterious devices that may lie within.
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
Matt Winston as Daniels
Michael O'Hagan as Captain Fraddock
Joseph Hindy as Prah Mantoos
Leonard Kelly-Young as Sonsorra
Lamont D. Thompson as Alien Pilgrim
Creative staff:
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Written By: Stephen Beck & Tim Finch
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