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Enterprise
Twilight
original airdate: 11-05-03

When the producers said they wanted to focus an entire season on the same mission, they weren't kidding. Since the last season finale, the Enterprise has been on the hunt for the evil Xindi. And even though this week's episode takes place twelve years in the future, that mission remains the focus.

The opener shows a confused Archer stumbling out of bed as his ship is being attacked. When a security guy tries to keep him confined to his quarters, Archer knocks him out Kirk style and breaks into the bridge. There T'Pol, in Star Fleet garb, tells him to go to his room just as the ominous spinning Xindi Death Star blows Earth away like it was Alderaan or something.

Blackout.

Happy theme song.

The commercial break is so long Archer ages twelve years. He wakes up again, gray haired and wrinkled. His forehead is a little higher, too. Dazed and confused he makes his way into a post-modern kitchen where a slightly aged, long haired T'Pol fixes breakfast. Her Star Fleet uniform has given away to a more traditional red casual.

And it's story time.

Once upon a time in a dangerous expanse on the edge of known space, Archer and T'Pol walk the corridors of the Enterprise. Just then an anomaly strikes the ship. It's so powerful they're knocked back, and then frozen in mid air momentarily. This anomaly escaped from the Matrix. T'Pol is trapped under a piece of something and Archer risks his life to free her. Just as he lifts the "thing," another Matrix blast ripples through the ship, knocking him flat on his back, leaving some CG effect to ripple through his face.

T'Pol further explains that the anomaly left behind a infestation of space/time parasites that cloud his brain, and stop him from forming long-term memories. Now he can only remember what happened up until the point of the accident.

ACCESSING STAR TREK DATA BANKS….

PLOT MATCH IDENTIFIED…

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
EPISODE: FUTURE IMPACT (NO. 182)
SYNOPSIS: RIKER AWAKENS TO FIND 16 YEARS HAVE PASSED
BUT IT NOW ON VHS OR DVD ON AMAZON.COM

In "Future Impact" Riker was told he'd contracted a disease that stopped long-term memories from forming anytime after his accident. But in reality he was a play-thing on a child's holo-deck. So this episode is totally different. Really.

T'Pol's tale continues. Without Archer around T'Pol makes some questionable choices, including performing an impressive kamikaze move which blows out their warp nacel. With low power they're unable to stop the Xindi attack - which we saw in the opening. All of humanity is destroyed. Galaxy wide. Only 600 humans remain on an outpost guarded by the last remaining human ships.

So everyday Archer relives the same thing, with T'Pol re-explaining the events. She'd devoted her life to him, because he destroyed his memory saving hers. How Vulcan.

Dr. Phlox shows up, and after ten years, he finally feels he's discovered a cure to the memory clouds. They have to use a warp drive to erase the parasites. Fortunately, Enterprise still orbits their outpost. Now captained by the aged Trip, they set up Archer in the engineering room.

JUST THEN!!! An alien spy shows up, as a scout for the Xindi. Enterprise is forced to stop the experiment to defend the outpost. But they were able to pull off one of the procedures and they make a startling discovery. One that will create a loophole in space time if you really think about it, or if you just accept it, you can move on with the plot.

Once a parasite is removed from Archer's brain, they pull a Back to the Future and are removed from every picture ever taken. Living outside of the space time continuum, if they're killed they're removed from time. But ah, then if they were removed from time how did they know they were there? And how did they remove them if they were never there? Chicken or egg?

There isn't enough time to complete the procedure since the Xindi are swarming the Enterprise, so Archer blows a subspace bomb in his head, removing the parasites from his head and from all timelines.

So, back in the present, Archer wakes up, and they rehash some of the dialogue because to them they've never said it before. And the episode ends with a dash of irony as T'Pol plays nurse to Archer.

THE END

Next week we may actually get a real break from the Xindi as Enterprise pays homage to the "paraleal Earth" episodes of the original Star Trek, visiting a planet where the old west is still new.

In the meantime, this week's episode achieves an alien ranking score of…

WORMHOLE ALIENS (or the Profits) for the delightful aliens that live outside of time, and screw up any sort of temporal logic in the story line.

 

Kevin Miller

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