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For some reason, this idea is quite interesting to me.
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Unfortunately, with the wrap up of the TCW this season, it seems unlikely that they'll revisit the idea enough to make the connection.
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The voice and manners of Berlinghoff Rasmussen was one of the most smug and annoying I've heard on television yet. Almost worse than Khamal Khan in Octopussy.
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Temporal Agents from the 26th Century dump him back in the 22nd century. Knowing this was about to happen - researched events that he might not normally have known about for the 22nd century - got on to the NX Enterprise and started toying with them - all with the express purpose of getting back to the future? Like the 26th century to aquire a new time pod?
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Why don't we just have the episode go with how the whole situation got started in the first place. An out-of-his-luck Rasmussen (that hasn't gone through time) meets up with the 26th century traveller and takes his timepod.
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That would do it. Is FG supposed to be from the 26th century? Or any of the other factions we've heard of?
The crew could be after the time traveler, maybe get some information from Rasmussen (who doesn't know first what's going on), in the end when Archer and co. think the traveler has managed to escape them, they find him unconscious, and no trace of his timepod... something should hint at what has happened, like Rasmussen expressing a remark like "if I had a chance to actually making a historically significant breakthrough/discovery" os somesuch...
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Mabye introduce a rogue time traveler that screws with the NX-01 crew, gets a bit toasted by Enterprise's weapons while escaping and- in the episode's final scene, runs into Rasmussen just as he finishes repairs on his timepod...
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TPTB would never do something where Rasmussen shows up right at the end and leaves the audience hanging because what about all those people watching Enterprise that have never seen TNG!? We can't have any serious cross-series stuff happening that will disenfranchise the casual Trek fan, now can we?
That said, they might do something where he's in most of the episode liek they're doing with *cough* a certain TNG character's ancestor this season.
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Rasmussen should show up early in the episode, and often, and in the end, after finding the traveler and no signs of his timepod, someone should realize that Rasmussen has vanished too. Those who have seen the TNG episode will know the reference, those who haven't will be left thinking "well, they got their guy, but that other guy outsmarted them all, ha ha".
(Or a much simpler thing would be to show on any episode when they are back on Earth an ad saying "Berlinghoff Rasmussen, wanted for fraud".)
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As I recall, they never did an historical search or anything, as they didn't know he was from the past until end of the ep. But that's always what he called himself. He did say his clothes belonged to the time pod's former owner, though.
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Perhaps you could have a jokey little ending where the time traveller IS Future Guy, who makes a daring last-minute escape, cackling evilly as he taunts Archer & Co, saying "You'll never get me!" and "I shall return, mark my words!" and things of that ilk. Then before he can be stopped he flees through time and space - not very far, just far enough to be away from their clutches - before stopping to take his bearings, assess his situation etc. Then along comes BR. . .
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