Sunday, August 14, 2011

Enterprise: Episode 26 - SHOCKWAVE PART 1


"The Enterprise is recalled to Earth after the crew is blamed for the accidental destruction of a colony world."

I must say, this episode was awesome. I guess I must explain the whole Suliban thing better as this is the main plot of the show. So the Suliban race has a faction of terrorists called the Kabal. They are bent on altering time/the future (why,? I don’t know). Nearly every race that Enterprise has encountered has met and currently fear these terrorists. Daniels (the time traveling waiter) is from the future and is trying to prevent the Suliban from altering history. This whole thing is known as the Temporal Cold War. 

Now, in this episode. Archer and the crew are heading down to a planet in the shuttle craft. This planet has an atmosphere that is very unstable and they need to turn off the plasma boosters. They do, but unfortunately something goes wrong and they ignite the entire planet killing 3,000 people. Archer’s reaction to the situation is very genuine, he is pretty depressed. Starfleet finds out and they pull plug on the mission (suggestion of the Vulcans). Archer is ready to accept his fate. He goes to bed … and wakes up in Episode 1!! Very cool. Daniels shows up and explains that he has taken him back in time so that they can talk in private. He explains that the Suliban set him up, it was them that blew up the planet. The Suliban ship had been following them the entire time, but they are cloaked. Daniels gives Archer the schematics on how to see the cloaked ships and how to get proof of their innocence.  Through all of this, T’Pol still fails to recognize that time travel is possible, she stands firm to the Vulcan belief that time travel is impossible.

In a great battle the crew succeeds in boarding the Suliban ship and getting the evidence. But soon they are surrounded by 30 more ships. The Suliban want Archer as a prisoner. Suddenly Archer disappears. He is thrown into the future and appears with Daniels on Earth in the 31st Century . Except Earth is a wasteland. Daniels is confused and doesn’t know what happened. Archer suggests that Daniels send him back and maybe this will reverse Earths destructive future. Unfortunately, all technology in this timeline has been destroyed. Leaving Archer trapped in the future! What will happen?  Well you will have to wait until next season. 

Or tomorrow.

So ends Season One.

So the Warrant singer Jani Lane died. I saw on the news that his real name is John Kennedy Oswald. If this is true, why would he change his name to Jani Lane? He already had the coolest name ever ... except for Martin Luthearl Ray

2 comments:

capt.naps said...

I really thought the guy from warrant died awhile back. I was a huge fan of all their song.
thats a pretty good cliffhanger and I don't remember ever watching it. Was it really a time travelling waiter??

Harry bellafonte said...

Hey mister suliban
Suli me banana
Daylight come and
Me wanna go home