With the crew still reeling from Archer's supposed death
while halting the launch of the Xindi Superweapon, T'Pol and the others
determine that they now have somehow time traveled to the year 1944 during
World War II. However, they also realize that discrepancies loom for the WWII
they know and the current catastrophes taking place on Earth, particularly in the
U.S., which seems to have been invaded by Nazis.
The captain is assaulted by Secret Service agents, including
the sinister Ghrath – whom Archer suspects is an alien. Unbeknownst to Archer
at the time, Ghrath is a subordinate of Vosk, an alien of Ghrath's race and a
leader in league with the Nazis. Vosk is clearly troubled by Archer's
appearance. With help from insurgents named Sal and Carmine, Archer is rescued
from the agents, and taken to the apartment of Alicia, an African-American
woman who soon realizes that Archer may be from another time and place. She
convinces her friends Sal and Carmine to help Archer, as he tries piecing
together this mysterious new situation. Archer incredulously realizes that
Nazis have taken over the White House and nearly the entire Eastern seaboard
during a disastrous new version of World War II.
On board Enterprise, the crew faces visitors of their own.
First off, time traveler Daniels appears in horrific shape, giving details that
the Temporal Cold War has become an all-out conflict with dozens of agents
stationed throughout the timeline to wipe out others in a fight for complete
dominance. He warns T'Pol and the others that they must stop "him"
... but doesn't give any names before he collapses.
While Trip works to repair Shuttlepod One, he is assaulted
by the Suliban Silik, who escapes in the vessel. Believing that the "him?
Daniels mentioned must be Silik, T'Pol sends Trip and Mayweather after him,
which takes them to a U.S. locale near New York where Shuttlepod One has
crashed.
Meanwhile, Vosk is intent on helping the Nazis force their
reach — and their concentration camps — even further. Clearly, Vosk — who says
he is in total agreement with the Nazis that their race must be
"pure" — is receiving assistance from the Nazis in his own way and
has convinced the Germans that they are all helping each other. Still, he is
mysteriously obsessed with finding Archer, whom he regards as a threat to his
mission.
Vosk's command to find Archer is successful as Ghrath tracks
him down. During a fateful encounter with Archer, Ghrath reveals that his race
is trapped and the Germans are helping them construct a conduit so they can
return home. Ghrath also confuses Archer by referring to him as a
"temporal agent.? Sal, trying to save Archer from Ghrath, kills him,
convinced he is a Nazi who will only bring harm. Despite Archer's
disappointment in seeing his information source muted, he absconds with a
communicator that Ghrath had been holding. Shortly afterward, the menacing Vosk
also finds Archer. But Archer — using Ghrath's communicator to call for a
transport from a stunned Enterprise — escapes from him. Archer, with Alicia in
tow, is transported back aboard where a relieved crew welcomes him home.
On Enterprise, Archer meets with Daniels, who is near death.
Daniels explains that Vosk leads the most dangerous faction of the Cold War who
is violently opposed to the Temporal Accords. When almost captured once before,
Vosk had unfortunately developed a form of stealth time travel to escape into
the past. This particular World War II time juncture provides the only point
where Vosk can be stopped. When Archer reveals information he learned from
Ghrath — that Vosk's faction is building a conduit — Daniels urges him to
destroy it. Daniels knows the conduit's destruction will be the only way to
stop Vosk from destroying all other races.
And just as Archer is getting this information — and Daniels
trails off to his death — Vosk kidnaps Trip and Mayweather on Earth. With them
in his grasp, Vosk hopes to get — and kill — the one impediment to his grand
plan: Archer.
As the Nazi invasion of the U.S. continues in an altered
1944, Archer and his crew map out their strategy to stop Vosk from building a
time machine that will take him back to his own time and inflame the Temporal
Cold War, wreaking havoc upon the timeline. Having befriended American
resistance fighters intent on battling the Nazis, Archer has a ready-made force
on the ground to help with his cause.
But first, he is intent on bringing Tucker and Mayweather
back on board Enterprise. Vosk hails Archer, offering the chance for a
rendezvous to retrieve the two men, although the alien most certainly will
expect some sort of recompense. Indeed, at the meeting, Vosk clearly needs the
technology aboard Enterprise to accelerate his task in building the time
machine. But Archer has no intention of helping him, though Vosk insists that
he is changing the timeline for the better ... despite Daniels' ardent claims
otherwise. Back on board Enterprise with Tucker and Mayweather, Archer and
Phlox learn that Trip isn't actually himself: the Suliban Silik has taken on
his identity. Upon his exposure, Silik reveals that he has left Vosk's compound
with a disk that contains schematics and other information about the time
machine. Determined now to retrieve Trip — who is trapped inside the compound —
and armed with the new data, Archer heads back to Earth accompanied by Silik,
who shapeshifts into human form. T'Pol is left in command with orders to take out
the compound as soon as Archer deactivates the shields and he gives her the
go-ahead from the surface.
With the help of resistance fighters Alicia and Carmine,
Archer and Silik head into Vosk's compound to deactivate the machine which is
soon to be completed. Meanwhile, Alicia, Carmine and their cohorts fend off
Nazi soldiers working on behalf of Vosk. However, as Archer and Silik make
inroads to the machine's shields, soldiers descend on them. In the ensuing
battle, Silik is wounded and dies. Just as Archer bids a farewell to him, the
real Trip appears, having earlier freed himself from incarceration.
As German planes hover to protect the facility on Vosk's
orders, Archer and Trip are transported back to Enterprise. Once there,
Enterprise must do battle against the planes above the Manhattan skyline. Just
as Vosk is about to enter a time portal, Enterprise fires upon his compound and
destroys it, annihilating Vosk in the process.
Once Vosk's plan is foiled, Daniels — alive once again —
appears to Archer, showing him that the timeline is resetting itself, and that
all the damage Vosk caused never happened.
Within moments, finally, Archer and his crew are back to
their own time, on their way home after saving Earth from the Xindi
superweapon.
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