Captain Archer is stuck 1000 years in the future. Daniels surmises that removing Captain Archer from the past caused immense damage to the timestream and that the Federation never came into existence. Archer and Daniels go to the library to try and learn as much as they can. The library is only supposed to have electronic books but the one they find is an old school library, complete with dusty books.
The Suliban take control of the Enterprise. Tucker wants to fight back but T'Pol is in charge and she orders the crew to comply with the orders of the Suliban. She is interrogated but the Suliban don't get anything useful from her. She still doesn't believe in time travel, even though she can't explain the disappearance of the captain.
Archer and Daniels use Archer's communicator and scanner to manufacture a device to communicate with the past. Archer reaches out to T'Pol soon after her interrogation. He gives her information to help her deal with the Suliban. The crew are all confined to quarters but Trip figures out how to reconfigure the communications system. They form a plan. They need someone to crawl through the ventilation ducts and reach Doctor Phlox. Ensign Sato is the only one small enough. She suffers from claustrophobia but agrees to do it.
The crew free themselves from quarters. Lieutenant Reed retrieves a device from Daniels quarters. He is apprehended as he leaves Daniels' room. He is taken to Silik who beats him up and demands to know what the device is. Reed tells him it is a communication device that he was told to destroy.
The Suliban abandon the Enterprise and tow it out away from their ships when it looks like the engine is about to melt down. Silik doesn't have time to deal with that crisis and delegates it to his second-in-command. Silik is too busy trying to contact his superiors, now using the device that was taken from Reed. He thinks he is getting through to his leader when all of a sudden Captain Archer materializes and knocks him out.
This episode didn't seem to go too fast but it did seem like the crew of the Enterprise got out of a real pickle way too easily. Silik seemed much too concerned with getting instructions from his boss. It seemed to blind him to almost everything else.
Whatever Trip did to the ship's engine made it seem like the ship was in serious trouble, ready to blow at any moment, until it wasn't. After the ship was towed out of range, he reversed whatever he did and the ship quickly recovered. The Suliban are from the future and had no problem piloting the ship. It seems odd that they couldn't figure out how to reverse whatever Trip did.
Why didn't the Suliban break into Daniels quarters? It seems like that would or should have been one of the first things they did. They scanned the entire ship for Captain Archer before they accepted that he was not aboard. Shouldn't the lock on Daniels quarters have aroused some suspicions?
This was a fun episode but left far too many unanswered questions. The Suliban seemed like a very formidable opponent at the beginning of the episode but by the end that was no longer the case. The Enterprise escaped far too easily. Not a great episode but not bad enough to make me want to throw in the towel.
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