Storm Front (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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| Star Trek: Enterprise episode | |
| "Storm Front" | |
| Episode no. | 77 & 78 |
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| Prod. code | 077 & 078 |
| Airdate | October 8, 2004 October 15, 2004 |
| Writer(s) | Manny Coto |
| Director | Allan Kroeker |
| Year | 1944 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Zero Hour" |
| Next | "Home" |
Storm Front is a two-part episode (the 77th and 78th episodes) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the first of the fourth season. The first part initially aired on October 8, 2004 on the American television network UPN. The second aired on October 15, 2004. It centers around an alternate history scenario in which Nazi Germany controls the northeast of the United States.
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[edit] Plot summary
[edit] Part I
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In "Storm Front (Part I)", shuttlepod crewmen Trip Tucker and Travis Mayweather arrive back on Enterprise, unharmed from the P-51 Mustangs that had attacked their shuttlepod earlier. Back on Earth, Captain Archer narrowly escapes from the Germans when American resistance fighters ambush the truck that Archer and his Nazi handlers are riding in. He finds his way to a resistance safehouse.
Meanwhile, Silik, the leader of the Suliban Cabal, has secretly boarded Enterprise and hitched a ride to Earth.
With the Swastika-draped White House, and the Germans controlling the US Eastern Seaboard, we learn that an alien — a faction of the Temporal Cold War — named Vosk (the same alien present at the closing scene of season three's final episode), has formed an alliance with the Germans, providing them with advanced technology in exchange for material supplies to build a conduit that will take them back to their own time.
In the meantime, Captain Archer, after finding a communications device being carried by one of the aliens on Earth, contacts T'Pol and is transported back to Enterprise.
Near death, Crewman Daniels appears on the Enterprise, admitting that he brought the Enterpise to the 20th century to help end the Temporal Cold War, along with a warning that Vosk has altered the timeline with grave consequences. Before dying, Daniels requests Captain Archer to stop Vosk and his band from building the conduit to take them back into their time, where they will become even more dangerous.
Silik, after a hand to hand fight with Tucker, steals a shuttlepod and lands on Earth. Tucker and Mayweather are sent to Earth to find the shuttlepod along with Silik.
We soon learn that the aliens have captured Tucker and Mayweather.
[edit] Part II
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Captain Archer returns to German-occupied United States. The alien Vosk — a faction of the Temporal Cold War — releases his Starfleet prisoners Travis Mayweather and Trip Tucker (later to be revealed as Silik) in hopes of forging a new alliance with Enterprise.
Silik and Captain Archer, along with the help of American guerillas, defeat Vosk and his temporal agents by destroying the conduit being built to carry Vosk back to his own time.
Before the Silik-Archer duo can complete the mission, Silik is shot and killed by a guard near the conduit, Trip freed himself during the chaos and almost shoots Archer believing him to be Silik (Trip did not know Archer was alive). With the shields down Enterprise flies in right over New York City and destroys the building with 3 photonic torpedoes fired at point-blank range.
The episode ends with Daniels showing Archer the timeline resetting itself back to normal, as the Temporal Cold War ends, and is at least partially negated, with the death of Vosk. One thing is certain, the full scale temporal conflict never happened. Daniels tells the captain that he does "not know how many lives you saved". Archer demands that Daniels never visit the Enterprise ever again for he's tired of becoming a pawn in the war.
The Enterprise arrives back in their proper time period, where they are greeted by an entire fleet of Earth vessels.
[edit] Guest Cast
- Golden Brooks as Alicia Travers
- Jack Gwaltney as Vosk
- John Fleck as Silik
- Matt Winston as Daniels
- Christopher Neame as German General
- Steven R. Schirripa as Carmine
- Mark Elliot Silverberg as Kraul
- David Pease as Alien Technician
- Burr Middleton as Newsreel Narrator
- Joe Maruzzo as Sal
- Tom Wright as Ghrath
- J. Paul Boehmer as SS Agent
- John Harnagel as Joe Prazki
[edit] Trivia
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- Star Trek: Enterprise, with these episodes, became the first Star Trek series to start a 4th season without having any cast changes since its inception - Star Trek: The Original Series never had a 4th season, and had added Chekov in the second season, Star Trek: The Next Generation had already seen two cast members come and go (Denise Crosby and Diana Muldaur), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine added Michael Dorn to the cast at the start of the 4th season, and Star Trek: Voyager replaced Jennifer Lien with Jeri Ryan at the start of its 4th season.
- Daniels claims that preventing Vosk from returning to the future would prevent the temporal cold war from ever occurring and restore the timeline to its original form - however, this would invalidate much of what happened in the first two seasons of Enterprise, including the pilot episode. It would also affect events in season three, as Daniels claimed the attack on Earth was the result of temporal interference (in the second season finale, The Expanse). However, the crew of Enterprise are given a heroes welcome in the next episode, suggesting that the corrupted timeline is still in place.
- This two-part episode "Storm Front" is reminiscent of a strikingly similar plot in the (1980) Battlestar Galactica episode "Galactica Discovers Earth", in which the enemy goes back in time to give Cylon technology to the Germans.
- Vosk wears the SS uniform of an Obersturmbannführer (senior storm unit leader), equivalent to an oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel).
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[edit] References
- Episode information from STARTREK.COM
- The Trek Nation - Storm Front, Part One
- Episode information from STARTREK.COM
[edit] External links
- Storm Front, Part I article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- Storm Front, Part II article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
