“Storm Entrance” Ended the Temporal Chilly Struggle—However Left A number of Questions
After dancing across the concepts of modified histories, “Storm Entrance” went into gonzo alternate historical past mode. The Enterprise arrives mysteriously in 1944 and finds that elements of the American East have been occupied by Nazi Germany. On this timeline, the Nazis have been aided by an alien race known as Na’kuhl, although in each episodes this species title is rarely spoken aloud. (It’s sort of just like the phrase “Ewok.” No person says it out loud in Return of the Jedi, however you already know what they’re.) The Na’kuhl are led by Vosk, whose title is spoken in each episodes, often. Due to the arrival of an ailing Daniels—a time agent from the long run—the crew of the Enterprise learns that Vosk leads essentially the most harmful faction within the Temporal Chilly Struggle. Daniels additionally reveals the struggle has develop into “…an all-out battle. Temporal brokers, dozens of them stationed all through the timeline…They’ve been given orders to vary historical past.”
The concept that there are different parallel time wars being fought whereas we’re watching all the pieces play out in “Storm Entrance” is fascinating. The viewer has to imagine that varied different unusual realities have been created in each Star Trek historical past and actual historical past, which we simply by no means see as a result of we’re caught with the POV of the crew of the NX-01 and their explicit entrance within the Temporal Wars. Daniels says, “Completely different incursions are inflicting paradoxes…” however by no means has time to specify what meaning. However, we are able to think about fairly a bit.
For one factor, the sequence Enterprise exists within the timeline that was created post-First Contact, through which the USS Enterprise-E traveled again in time from 2373 to 2063. In that movie, we’re briefly introduced with three attainable timelines: “the unique” timeline, the timeline that ends in an All-Borg populated Earth, and the “mounted” timeline through which Riker and Geordi rode shotgun with Zefram Cochrane, and primarily boot-strapped their very own future. As a result of Enterprise makes direct references to First Contact in its very first episode and within the season 2 Borg episode, “Regeneration,” one may argue that this sequence started within the altered chronology Picard and the crew haphazardly created. It may be argued that foundationally, a lot of Star Trek’s “Prime Universe” has been subtly modified ever since. What number of little butterfly results may presumably be accounted for with on a regular basis journey in First Contact and Enterprise? Uniform adjustments? Khan’s start?
However what Daniels tells Archer in “Storm Entrance Half I,” and what he suggests on the finish of “Half II,” is that all the pieces is again to regular. However what’s regular? And was he proper?
The Legacy of Star Trek’s Time Struggle
When the NX-01 swoops into 1944 New York Metropolis, Archer and the crew discover the situation of Vosk’s time conduit to the long run, lob just a few photonic torpedoes, and forestall the Na’kuhl from gaining dominance over the timeline. Daniels seems, restored and younger once more, and tells Archer, “The timeline’s resetting itself. You probably did it. Vosk is lifeless. He didn’t make it again. All the harm he triggered, it by no means occurred.”
That mentioned, Archer and the crew’s reminiscence of those occasions has not been erased, and Daniels doesn’t say, “On a regular basis journey from this present and all these adjustments have now by no means occurred.” Daniels additionally refers to the timeline, which by chance implies that the Temporal Brokers have a most well-liked model of historical past, not not like the MCU’s Sacred Timeline. This concept exists effectively into the ultimate three seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, through which Kovich (David Cronenberg) explains that by the thirty second Century, the “ironclad” Temporal Accords made time journey unlawful. By the sequence finale of Discovery, we be taught that Kovich is known as a future model of crewman Daniels from Enterprise, implying that for the reason that finish of “Storm Entrance Half II,” he’s been watching over a model of the Star Trek timeline.
