Storm Front (Star Trek: Enterprise)

"Storm Front"
Star Trek: Enterprise episode
A German Soldier and SS Agent transport the mysterious American in the strange uniform. Archer goes back to Earth's surface to complete a mission.
Episode no.	Episode 77 & 78
Directed by	Allan Kroeker
Written by	Manny Coto
Production code	401 & 402
Original air date	October 8, 2004 October 15, 2004
Guest stars
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
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"Storm Front" is a two-part episode (the 77th and 78th episodes) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the first and second of the fourth season. It centers around an alternate history scenario in which Nazi Germany controls the northeast of the United States.

Plot summary

Historical background

In the course of the plot, the point of divergence, where the Temporal Cold War led to the creation of this alternate history timeline, becomes clear: the murder of Lenin in 1916. In the aftermath, witnesses claimed Lenin's killer "vanished into thin air". At the time, Lenin was a rather obscure radical Russian exile living in Switzerland; nobody could guess that he could have played a major role on the global scene.

Removal of Lenin prevents the Bolshevik revolution from ever taking place, and Hitler does not regard the Russia of this timeline as a threat to the Reich; as a result, the full weight of the Nazi war machine is directed at Western Europe, including a successful Battle of Britain, and by 1944 Germany has even conquered the northeastern United States as far south as South Carolina and as far west as central Ohio.

Part I

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 U.S. Eastern Seaboard, it is revealed that an alien of the Na'kuhl species—the leader of 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 materiel and 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 Enterprise 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.

Part II

Captain Archer returns to German-occupied United States. The alien Vosk — member of 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 frees himself during the chaos and almost shoots Archer believing him to be Silik (Trip did not know Archer was alive). With the hull plating down, Enterprise achieves a completely unprotected atmospheric entry, flying 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.

See also

• Axis victory in World War II

External links

• Storm Front, Part I at the Internet Movie Database
• Storm Front, Part II at the Internet Movie Database
• "Storm Front, Part I" at TV.com
• "Storm Front, Part II" at TV.com
• Storm Front, Part I at The Trek Nation
• Storm Front, Part II at The Trek Nation
• Storm Front, Part I at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Storm Front, Part II at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Storm Front, Part I at StarTrek.com
• Storm Front, Part II at StarTrek.com