The Enterprise finds a small spacecraft floating in space. There are no life signs aboard the ship. They take it aboard and open it up. Inside they discover what looks like a dead human. Dr. Phlox analyzes the body and discovers that it is a hybrid of several races, including humans and Vulcans. Commander Tucker and Lieutenant Reed investigate the ship and discover that it is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Captain Archer and T'Pol visit Daniel's quarters. They look through his database and discover that the ship they found is from 900 years in the future.
The Suliban show up and try to take the vessel forcefully from the Enterprise but they are repelled. A Tholian space ship also tries to take the ship from the Enterprise but they also leave empty-handed. Captain Archer plans a rendezvous with a Vulcan ship but before they can get to the rendezvous point the Suliban return in force. The Vulcan ship is attacked and disabled by the Tholians. The Suliban and Tholians start to fight.
Captain Archer decides that they have to destroy the small craft. Archer and Reed put a warhead with a remote detonator in the ship. They encounter some difficulty in getting the job done when they get caught in a time loop, temporarily. The small craft from the future is pushed out of the Enterprise. Lieutenant Reed tries to detonate the warhead but it doesn't explode.
The Tholians defeat the Suliban and grab the small craft. They are leaving when the craft disappears with everything that arrived with it including the corpse of the pilot which was still aboard the Enterprise.
This is the kind of episode that makes me hungry for more. It teases. It pleases, to a degree, but I want more. I waned to see more exploration of the time travelers spacecraft. Even if they had not revealed much more than they did I would have like to see them play with the elements they introduced a little more. It felt rushed. This one probably could have been stretched into a couple episodes. According to Memory Alpha this is the last appearance of Daniels' quarters.
It is a little weird that the Tholians and the Suliban show no interest in the body of the time traveler. Presumably they could have learned from that as well. How is it that the Enterprise is able to keep Daniels quarters and the future tech within it a secret. That has to be at least as valuable as the ship. This also bugged me about 2.01 (Shockwave, Part 2).
I really enjoyed this episode. It isn't perfect but I thought it was a lot of fun. By far my favorite episode of the four that I have watched from season 2.
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