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CONTINUITY WATCH Keeping watch over how well the pre-quel Enterprise fits in with the rest of the established Star Trek universe. THE ENTERPRISE INFANCY Archives on the early production stages of the fifth Star Trek series, from early rumors to confirmation to the early looks at the new series. THE CAST AND CHARACTERS Find out about Captain Johnathan Archer, Sub-Commander T'Pol, Charlie 'Trip' Tucker III, Dr. Phlox, Hoshi Sato, Travis Mayweather and Malcolm Reed here.

ENTERPRISE CREW  FIRST SEASON PORTRAITS
 

JOHNATHAN ARCHER - SCOTT BAKULA Archer against grid Archer on ship T'POL - JOLENE BLALOCK T'Pol against blackness T'Pol on ship CHARLIE TUCKER - CONNOR TRINNEER Tucker against grid Tucker on ship

MALCOLM REED - DOMINIC KEATING Reed against grid Reed on ship PHLOX Phlox against grid Phlox can't get enough of the grid TRAVIS MAYWEATHER Mayweather against grid Mayweather on ship HOSHI SATO - LINDA PARK Hoshi against grid Hoshi on ship

First Season

COLD FRONT

Written by Tim Finch & Stephen Beck.  Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.

After making contact with an alien ship carrying passengers on a spiritual pilgrimmage, Enterprise unknowingly takes on board an unexpected guest-- Silik (John Fleck)-- Archer's Suliban nemesis from "Broken Bow".  Again taking directions from Helix Man, Silik boards Enterprise in disguise not to destroy the vessel, but to save it from destruction.  After Silik prevents a warp core breach, a conflict between different factions in the temporal cold war is set in motion within the Enterprise's hull when Crewman Daniels, one of the crew, declares himself to Archer to be a human from 900 years into the future sent to the past to prevent the temporal cold war from rewriting human history.

CONTINUITY WATCH
POINTS OF INTEREST: Crewman Daniels responds coyly to Trip's queries about the future.  Part of his cover story was that he was from Illinois.  After Trip remarks that it's good to know that Earth will still be there in 900 years, Daniels responds that it depends on how you define 'Earth'.  Of course, it's hard to know whether Daniels was even who he claimed to be and how much he was playing with Trip's mind, but we know from Voyager's "Future's End", at least, that Earth is alright into the 29th century, when in one averted timeline, Henry Starling's time-warp flight caused a disastrous temporal explosion in the planet's solar system.
POINTS OF CONTINUITY: Daniels claims that Helix Man is from an earlier century, using less refined technology to influence the past.  Because his technology is less refined, Helix Man can't manifest himself completely in the past, hence the reason he appears in silhouette.  Daniels claimed to be from an era where the technology was perfected, and where people can be sent back to the past in complete physical manifestation.

It's known from just about every other time travel episode from Trek that sending people physically into the past is not a huge difficulty.  In the 29th century, sending people to the past can be done with ease, but "beaming" them through time can only be done a few times before sensory aphasia sets in ("Relativity").  Of course, since little is known about the methods used by the temporal cold warriors coming into the past, this could be consistent.  And of course, Daniels might have been lying about everything.

SILENT ENEMY
 

Written by Andre Bormanis.

On the way back to Jupiter to have its weapons upgraded, Enterprise comes under attack from a mysterious and seemingly invulnerable enemy which chases them back to their home system, while Tucker and Trip try desperately to implement the upgrades before their arrival at Jupiter.

DEAR DOCTOR
 

Guest Starring Kellie Waymire as Ensign Elizabeth Cutler.

Phlox relates the observations he has been making about the Enterprise, its crew and maiden voyage in a letter to a fellow colleague, and meanwhile discovers that Ensign Cutler ("Strange New World") has a romantic attraction for him.

SHADOWS OF P'JEM
 

Written by Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong.  Guest Starring Jeffrey Combs as Shran.

A sequel, of sorts, to "The Andorian Incident".  Archer and T'Pol get themselves taken hostage when they visit an alien planet whose corrupt government has connections to the Vulcans.  When citizens of this planet rise against the government, Archer is caught in the crossfire.  Meanwhile, as Trip plans a rescue mission, Shran, the Andorian terrorist from "The Andorian Incident" arrives, and true to his pledge to return a favor for Archer, helps rescue the captive Enterprise crew members from the tense revolutionary situation.

SLEEPING DOGS

Enterprise discovers a small Klingon vessel whose crew has died-- save for one, the female cook who is taken aboard the Starfleet ship.