Welcome to Season Two of Star Trek Enterprise, guys! We made it!
Archer and Daniels are poking around a library in the 31st century while back in the 22nd, the crew of the Enterprise is desperately trying to survive a Suliban occupation of their ship. Shockwave Part 1 was one of the strongest of the series so far, will part 2 keep it going?
Enterprise 02×01 – Shockwave Part 2
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Guest Stars: John Fleck, Matt Winston, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham, Keith Allan, Jim Fitzpatrick
There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Chris Keeley, Jason Allen, Joe Heiser, and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 1st episode of season two of Star Trek: Enterprise, Shockwave Part 2.
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Music credits:
Faith of the Heart/Where My Heart Will Take Me – Written by Diane Warren, performed by Russell Watson, Jerry Lubbock, and the New York Trek Orchestra
Archer’s Theme – Dennis McCarthy and New York Trek Orchestra
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Show Notes
Cold Open
After Archer disappears, T’Pol offers to drop out of warp so that Silik can come aboard and verify he’s truly not there. Trip protests her foolishness in agreeing to such a thing, only to realize there are no other options and that he was the one who was being truly foolish.
Act I
Archer and Daniels trapse through the Future Ruins as the Captain becomes increasingly frustrated with the time traveler’s inability or refusal to clarify much about what’s going on. After becoming concerned that it looks like the monument to a federation was never even built, Daniels and Archer make their way to a library. Upon entering, Daniels is surprised to learn that the library is not filled with electronic storage like he expected, but instead good old fashioned paper books that they get to work looking through in order to piece together what went wrong.
Back aboard the Enterprise, the Suliban are unable to locate Captain Archer but do detect a temporal signature in the turbolift where he was last seen. The Suliban take control of the Enterprise and the ship warps away.
At Starfleet Headquarters, Soval is scolding Admiral Forrest for the fact that Archer and the Enterprise are three days late in following their orders to rendezvous with the Vulcan ship. He tells Starfleet that since it’s obvious that Captain Archer has gone rogue and must be holding T’Pol against her will, he has no option but to send a Vulcan ship to get her back.
Act II
After taking the Enterprise back to The Helix, Silik finds himself unable to contact Future Guy. While Silik’s buddy strongly advocates for blowing up the Enterprise, Silik advises him to have the surgeons get ready and to deliver him the Vulcan for some drug-assisted interrogating.
Daniels’ research in the library has him realizing that taking Archer from the 22nd Century is what caused Daniels’ time to be destroyed, and the only way to fix it is to find a way to return the captain to his own time. Using Archer’s communicator and scanner, Daniels thinks he might have a way to communicate with the past and Archer goes to collect some materials.
Trip found a workaround that allows him to use comms, and he reaches Reed and tells him to sit tight until he can get the rest of the crew on the line.
T’Pol is returned to her quarters after her being drugged and interrogated by Silik, when a disembodied Archer head appears and tells her that she needs to find a way to make it over to Crewman Daniels’ quarters.
Act III
A conference call among the Enterprise crew via Trip’s comm system hack has everyone agreeing that the claustrophobic Hoshi is the perfect person to send through a cramped conduit shaft. After swinging by Phlox’s quarters to pick up some hypos, Hoshi shows up at Reed’s quarters topless after a “comedic” series of incidents. Later, T’Pol is feigning craziness in a hallway as some Suliban walk by, and then BOOM — Enterprise crewmen fall from the sky and knock them out with drugs. Reed makes his way to Daniels’ quarters and pulls out a device from a secret compartment. Upon exiting, he sees some Suliban waiting for him, who proceed to rough him up something fierce. Under pressure, he tells Silik that Archer told him to destroy this device before he left to prevent Silik from contacting someone. After he’s returned to his quarters, T’Pol and Travis successfully take over engineering and initiate a core breach. The Suliban drag the Enterprise away from The Helix and scurry away, and then the Enterprise shuts off all the fireworks and goes into warp. Silik is using the device Reed recovered trying to communicate with Future Man, when the typically stationary fella jumps out of the projection and reveals himself to actually be Archer.
Act IV
Archer drags Silik out of the room with a gun to his head telling him to call off the ships he sent after Enterprise. The Enterprise itself is taking a helluva pounding, which all stops suddenly, confusing the bridge crew. All of the Suliban vessels break off, save one, which turns out to be carrying Captain Archer and his prisoner Silik. The Enterprise docks with the Vulcan vessel and phone home where Soval tells them that even though they didn’t kill those 3,600 miners, they still kinda suck and should be brought home. Archer gives a speech about gazelles in Africa being better than humans before T’Pol steps in andlaunches some torpedoes of truth about how the Vulcans aren’t that great either. Starfleet will meet to discuss the future of the mission, and holler back at them shortly.
Archer shows up in T’Pol’s quarters in the middle of the night wearing his PJs to let her know that everything is awesome and that she’s probably what made the difference. T’Pol still doesn’t believe in time travel.