[ENT 4x2 Reactions] DEN OF GEEK: "The Star Trek Enterprise Time Travel Episode That Fixed the First Time War - Or Did It?" | "“Storm Front” Ended the Temporal Cold War - But Left Several Questions" | "In other words, the current “Prime” Star Trek timeline is different than the way it was during TOS"
"In Strange New Worlds, La’an is an unwitting Time Agent, just like Archer was in Enterprise. But because of the timey wimey-ness of the Temporal Cold War, it’s easy to imagine that all of this is happening at the exact same time. This means that even though Enterprise ended the temporal wars 20 years ago, for modern Star Trek, those conflicts are still very much alive."
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-enterprise-storm-front-time-war/
DEN OF GEEK:
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After dancing around the ideas of changed histories, “Storm Front” went into gonzo alternate history mode. The Enterprise arrives mysteriously in 1944 and finds that parts of the American East have been occupied by Nazi Germany. In this timeline, the Nazis have been aided by an alien race called Na’kuhl, though in both episodes this species name is never spoken aloud. (It’s kind of like the word “Ewok.” Nobody says it out loud in Return of the Jedi, but you know what they are.) The Na’kuhl are led by Vosk, whose name is spoken in both episodes, frequently. Thanks to the arrival of an ailing Daniels—a time agent from the future—the crew of the Enterprise learns that Vosk leads the most dangerous faction in the Temporal Cold War. Daniels also reveals the war has become “…an all-out conflict. Temporal agents, dozens of them stationed throughout the timeline…They’ve been given orders to change history.”
The idea that there are other parallel time wars being fought while we’re watching everything play out in “Storm Front” is fascinating. The viewer has to assume that various other strange realities have been created in both Star Trek history and real history, which we just never see because we’re stuck with the POV of the crew of the NX-01 and their particular front in the Temporal Wars. Daniels says, “Different incursions are causing paradoxes…” but never has time to specify what that means. But, we can imagine quite a bit.
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When the NX-01 swoops into 1944 New York City, Archer and the crew find the location of Vosk’s time conduit to the future, lob a few photonic torpedoes, and prevent the Na’kuhl from gaining dominance over the timeline. Daniels appears, restored and young again, and tells Archer, “The timeline’s resetting itself. You did it. Vosk is dead. He didn’t make it back. All of the damage he caused, it never happened.”
That said, Archer and the crew’s memory of these events has not been erased, and Daniels doesn’t say, “All the time travel from this show and all those changes have now never happened.” Daniels also refers to the timeline, which accidentally implies that the Temporal Agents have a preferred version of history, not unlike the MCU’s Sacred Timeline. This idea exists well into the final three seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, in which Kovich (David Cronenberg) explains that by the 32nd Century, the “ironclad” Temporal Accords made time travel illegal. By the series finale of Discovery, we learn that Kovich is really a future version of crewman Daniels from Enterprise, implying that since the end of “Storm Front Part II,” he’s been watching over a version of the Star Trek timeline.
But, as fans know all too well, there is no one set version of the Star Trek timeline. And as much as Kovich/Daniels may have prevented any new time wars post-32nd century, the nature of time travel creates tricky cause-and-effect issues. In Strange New Worlds season 2 episode “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” it’s made clear that at least one temporal war is still raging. With the help of an alternate universe Captain Kirk (Paul Wesley), La’an (Christina Chong) learns that Romulans are trying to change history in the year 2022.
In a sense, Enterprise allowed this to happen. When Daniels told Archer that there were dozens of fronts in the Temporal War, one of those could include what we’ve seen recently in Strange New Worlds. In fact, as undercover Romulan agent Sera (Adelaide Kane) reveals: “So many people have tried to influence these events…delay or stop them…it’s almost as if time itself is pushing back and events reinsert themselves. All of this was supposed to happen back in 1992…”
In other words, the current “Prime” Star Trek timeline is different than the way it was during the time of The Original Series or even the classic films. In Strange New Worlds, La’an is an unwitting Time Agent, just like Archer was in Enterprise. But because of the timey wimey-ness of the Temporal Cold War, it’s easy to imagine that all of this is happening at the exact same time. This means that even though Enterprise ended the temporal wars 20 years ago, for modern Star Trek, those conflicts are still very much alive."
Ryan Britt (Den of Geek)
Full article:
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-enterprise-storm-front-time-war/