- Archer takes Degra's ship to try to prevent Earth from being destroyed and gets some unexpected help. Enterprise tries to destroy Sphere 41, but the Sphere Builders know about the plan.
- Due to the intervention of the Sphere Builders, the coalition of Humans, Primates, Arboreals and Aquatics was unable to stop the weapon from being launched. It is now only 10 hours before the weapon arrives at Earth. Only one ship is capable of catching up: the lightning-fast, but nearly powerless ship of Degra. While Archer and a team embark on a seemingly impossible mission, they get some unexpected help. Meanwhile Enterprise is send to keep their promise to the Aquatics. T'Pol and Trip still believe the destruction of Sphere 41 will do the trick, but the Sphere Builders are aware of their plans.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- Sub-Commander T'Pol orders Enterprise to 'Sphere 41', in an attempt to destroy the entire sphere network and to fulfill the promise to the aquatics in return for their assistance against the Reptillians. Tucker is not super enthused as the Enterprise is not in any shape to endure another fight. But T'Pol tells him that without humans, the spatial anomalies will engulf the entire galaxy.. so this is not about humans anymore, but for life itself. She wants the ship ready in 2 hrs.
They arrive to find that the Sphere Builders have created a distortion field around it. Doctor Phlox determines that 12-15 minutes exposure will kill the crew. Undeterred, T'Pol and Commander Tucker deduce a modification to the deflector dish that can be used to destroy the sphere. As they approach, 9 Guardians arrive and begin damaging the ship's systems, but they cannot prevent the sphere's destruction (T'POl and Tucker continue to fire at the Sphere with ll the energy the ship has). It implodes, setting off a chain reaction that successfully destroys the rest of the spheres, ending all spatial anomalies in the Delphic Expanse.
Meanwhile, Captain Archer, accompanied by Lieutenant Reed, Ensign Sato, and a team of MACOs, enters the vortex created by Degra's ship. During the pursuit, a recovering Sato is pushed by Archer to decipher Degra's schematics. Sato is still recovering and is not able to give Archer what he wants. So, he decides to take her into the weapon with him, so she can complete her work. Archer wants Sato to figure out the coded sequence to overload the weapon and destroy it.
Archer is suddenly pulled into the future by Temporal Agent Daniels (Matt Winston), this time to the founding of the United Federation of Planets, but Archer is again uninterested and returns back to his time-line. Daniels says that Archer should not enter the weapon as he is going to be an integral part of forming the Federation. If he dies, then the Federation wont exist.
Arriving near Earth, Archer receives an unexpected transmission from Commander Shran (Jeffrey Combs), who engages and then destroys the Reptilian ship (who was preparing to fire on Degra's ship). In the chaos, Archer and his team are able to beam aboard the weapon. A fierce fire-fight ensues, and as Archer and Sato try to disable the weapon, Commander Dolim (Scott MacDonald) attempts to stop them. Archer kills him and the weapon is destroyed after Sato guides Archer through the right sequence.. Archer makes Sato and Reed beam back to Degra's ship, while he was fighting Dolim.
Sato and Reed return to Enterprise with the sad news that Archer did not make it off the weapon. Ferried on an Aquatic ship, Enterprise arrives at Earth, but they are unable to contact Starfleet. Surprised, T'Pol orders Tucker and Ensign Mayweather to fly a shuttle-pod down to San Francisco, where they are suddenly attacked by what seem to be P-51s. The final scene switches to a World War II German field-hospital. A doctor summons some SS officers to examine the unfamiliar uniform of a burn patient who was recently brought in. The patient is revealed as Archer. One of the SS personnel steps out of the shadows, revealing himself to be a gray-skinned alien.
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