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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] This was a pretty fine episode, and it actually handles the whole Temporal Cold War thing WITHOUT pulling a Voyager. It was pretty cool. In short, there are a number of "factions" involved in time travel as part of their regular operations. The plot of this episode revolves around Silik, our nutty Suliban buddy from the pilot show, and crewman Daniels, who claims to be from the 31st century. The beauty of this episode is that it really deosn't establish a good or bad guy side, as Daniels' sole motive was to capture Silik, and Silik's job was apparently to *save* the Enterprise, and possibly to capture some technological doohickey of Daniels'. But Daniels' story is thus: he works for a group that enforces the "Temporal Accords" governing time travel. Silik's pals are from a time before his, and can only project themselves into the past - they can't interact with it. Anyway, Daniels brought with him a variety of technological doohickies including a "temporal observatory" which apparently kept track of various peoples traveling in time, such as some people observing the construction of the Giza Pyramids - but at least they were "following the rules". He also had some sort of phase-shifting gadget which lets him walk through walls and stuff. FutureGuy makes an appearance here, and supervises the *removal* of some of Silik's genetic enhancements as punishment for not getting the Klingons to go to war. FutureGuy does promise to restore them however should Silik succeed in his mission. Oddly, Silik's mission was to save Enterprise from an antimatter cascade, and does so. However Archer prohibits him from sneaking off with the observatory gadget, but he does escape. But where does this leave us? Or rather, when? If Daniels really is from the 31st Century, this is a couple centuries after Braxton's adventures on the Relativity and Aeon. Daniels comes from Illinois, but on an Earth that's allegedly not the Earth that the Pre-E crew is familiar with. Also, what about FurtureGuy? By the 23rd Century people knew enough to slingshot around the sun in order to travel through time. Couldn't he just do that? Or possibly, he was sitting in the future at some point, and could only communicate in real time in the temporal chamber thing. So, it's possible he came from a point in the futre sooner than the 29th Century, when Timefleet could easily transport people through time, and probably later than the 22nd. Point being, that Daniels' organization apparently could not track FutreGuy and stop him at his origin time. Strange, that. So, as you can see this episode raised a bunch more questions than it answered, and at this point I think that's a good thing. We have here a time travel episode that doesn't distinctly involve time travel, but does. Cool. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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