This has just been posted on the TREKTODAY board

:angry: dont read any further if you dont want to know what is going to happen :angry:


Plot Summary: As the Xindi weapon heads toward Earth, Archer asks a weakened Sato to decrypt Degra's schematics to force the weapon to self-destruct. Yet after telling Reed of his plan to board and disable the weapon, he suddenly finds himself seven years in the future with Daniels, witnessing himself giving a speech at the founding of the United Federation of Planets. Daniels tells Archer that it is too great a risk for him to be part of the weapon boarding party, but Archer insists that his place in history is saving Earth. His resolve only increases when he and the Xindi on Degra's ship witness the Reptilian destruction of one of Earth's orbital stations.

Meanwhile, T'Pol and Tucker prepare to take Enterprise to disable Sphere 41, though the Guardians have surrounded it with powerful anomalies that Phlox says will kill the entire crew in less then 15 minutes as they approach. While the crew's skin begins to decay from the anomalies, the ship successfully approaches the sphere and uses the deflector dish to emit a pulse intended to disrupt the sphere's systems. Several Guardians appear on Enterprise, attack the crew and attempt to sabotage engineering, but Tucker is able to compensate from the bridge and the Guardians disappear from the ship - and from the Expanse - as Sphere 41 implodes, destroying both the sphere network and the anomalies transforming the Expanse.

The Reptilians attack Degra's ship as it attempts to put Archer's team on the weapon. Unexpectedly, Shran arrives on an Andorian vessel and defends the friendly Xindi, then destroys the Reptilian ship, though not before its commander has followed the humans aboard the weapon. With Reed and the MACOs to defend him, Archer follows Sato's directions to invert the weapon's firing platform and sends the crew back to safety on Degra's ship. The Reptilian commander attacks him before he has finished destroying the reactor; Archer kills the Reptilian with a charge he detonates remotely, but Degra's ship cannot get a transporter lock on him. The weapon explodes in space, leaving Earth safe.

The surviving Xindi rendezvous with Enterprise, where Reed unhappily tells Tucker that Archer did not survive the destruction of the weapon. While the Aquatic ship transports the damaged Enterprise back to Earth, T'Pol thanks the Xindi for their help and says that she is pleased to hear the Xindi Council plans to reconvene, though the Reptilians have not yet accepted that the Guardians' promises were empty. "Your captain's sacrifice will not be forgotten," one of the Humanoids promises her. Back on Enterprise, Phlox assures her that her skin will recover from the ravages of the anomalies in time, and Porthos, too, will recover in time from the loss of the captain.

Approaching Earth, Sato cannot hail Starfleet, nor any of the orbital platforms, nor the lunar base. When T'Pol sends Mayweather and Tucker in a shuttlepod to San Francisco to find out what has happened, their vessel is shot at by World War II airplanes. On the surface, in a hospital displaying a Nazi flag, a German-speaking doctor shows a burned, unconscious Archer to a Nazi officer. No one can identify his uniform. An alien wearing a Nazi uniform steps forward to examine him.




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Sounds Great :thumbsup:

I'll let you know in a couple of hours Ken, I'm just off to watch it in a sec :)

Ok, now that cliffhanger came right out of nowhere !! :lol:

Luckily I didn't read all of your original post Ken, so that last bit caught me a bit offguard, but honestly, where did that come from ??

To the episode itself, not bad. Considering this was the episode that the entire season has been building toward it's difficult to live up to the expectation. It does a good job, and it does represent a fairly satisfying end to the Xindi arc, however for action I have to say I prefered last week's episode COUNTDOWN.

There's plenty of drama, some good performances, most notably from Jolene this time it has to be said, and yet another appearance for JC's Shran and the Andorians.

But I guess the only thing we'll be talking about for the rest of the summer is that ending, WTF ?? :lol:

I know sounds very very wierd.

Guess thats the reason they have done that so we will be talking about it and longing for the new season - not that I am not already doing that.

They planted the mental seed of the Federation again as well through Daniels. It's looking highly likely that next year will now see the first movements towards creating the Federation.

Daniels reveals that the original members (Earth, Vulcan, Andoria and the Tellarites - what no Alpha Centauri ??) sign the Federation charter seven years from the events of ZERO HOUR.

In normal Trek timeframes that would put it somewhere in ENT's 10th season.

Thank god I'm disappearing for a week and won't get much time online, as it's becoming bloody impossible to avoid spoilers on this episode! :)

The only real spoiler is the cliffhanger news, the rest went pretty much as expected ;)

Oh, hells tits :) That's the one thing I've been unable to avoid (thanks to several pricks on the Trek Today forums putting it in their headers, which hem came up on the 'recent threads' bit on the main page :angry:

I managed to avoid nearly all of it. The only one that tipped me off slightly was that w*nker on the BBC Trek board :rolleyes:

Yes, he didn't help either :)

I should really have waited with the Farscape CDs you know, I finished Season 2 this evening as well :)

Well, feel free to ship 'em on - unless you want to do S3 as well :D

May as well wait until Season 3's done :)

Right, that's me off. See ya sometime over the weekend, and all being well FVS1 should be anytime now :)

Well, I've just finished it.

And, on the whole, I enjoyed it. Except for the bloody awful ending.

While it's an applaudable WTF moment, was it necessary? I would have much rather had Enterprise get home, and Archer and co get a pat on the back, Hayes and all the other dead crewmen get a memorial, and generally just for once give us a happy ending. Instead we get more timeline screw-arounds, and quite frankly a disappointing ending.

Thank god Enterprise got renewed though; God knows what they would have done had this been the series finale...

I've stated before that as an episode I actually thought COUNTDOWN was the better episode myself. However, I still think it's probably the best cliffhanger Enterprise has had. And the first time in years where we didn't know exactly what was going to happen, that ending actually caught me by surprise.

I'm not so sure about a happy ending to the season, you always need something to provide the momentum through the first few episodes of the following year otherwise you'll find it's episode 4 or 5 before the series starts hitting it's stride again.

On the whole, enjoyable, and ultimately a satisfying conclusion to the Xindi arc for me at least :)

I've only just got around to watching Zero Hour. I enjoyed this episode a lot, although I agree with you Angel - the previous episode was better. Don't know what to make of that cliffhanger, though. :huh:

I don't know if a happy ending would work, but I think other series like Buffy and Angel have proved that you can do something different with the final episode (Restless, Home etc) and have it work.

Archer's fight with the reptilian while the weapon was exploding was good fun, although it reminded me a hell of a lot of Picard and with the alien whose name I can't remember at the end of Insurrection.

And I don't know about any of you, but that cracked skin makeup made me itch! :lol:

A good end to a very enjoyable season. :D

That cliffhanger was pure WTF :lol:

Since this was broadcast 5 months ago, and added to 4 months ago, do we still need it pinned? :)

Erm.......no :lol:

Isn't it about now you say 'Pinned? No idea what you're talking about :)'

:lol: :lol: :lol:

...eh ?? :unsure: :lol: