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The Enterprise crew’s first contact with a race called the Kreetassans ends abruptly. The visitors storm out of dinner, demanding to leave the ship and offering no explanation as to what has caused them offense. Archer and the crew are disappointed, but go about their business, unaware that an amorphous life form has attached itself to the alien ship and has now slipped aboard the Enterprise. It nests in a cargo bay, and reels in the first two crewmembers to see it with tendrils. When Archer and Trip go to investigate, they too are captured by the life form, which begins feeding on them as well as connecting their brains and nervous systems. T’Pol is left in charge, and she finds herself trying to restrain a crew which seems to increasingly favor taking violent action to free their comrades.

teleplay by Fred Dekker
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga and Fred Dekker
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Vaughn Armstrong (Kreetassan Captain), Joseph Will (Rostov), Renee Goldsberry (Kelly), and Porthos

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Assigned by Marcus to make formal contact with another community, Jeremiah and Kurdy happen upon a group of people on a religious pilgrimage. Jeremiah is a little annoyed when Kurdy accepts their invitation to join them when they make camp, where the two travelers learn that these people and their leader believe that their journey to the ocean will be met with a ship that will take them to a better world. Kurdy alarms Jeremiah by joining this community on their pilgrimage, and Jeremiah continues on his mission alone. When he encounters a group of bandits planning to raid the pilgrims, Jeremiah tries to stop them but is captured. Kurdy must choose to honor his newly-taken oath of non-violence, allowing his new friends to become the victims of robbers, or save them only to lose their acceptance.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Martin Wood
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Krista Rae (Constance), Alessandro Juliani (David), Hayden Thomas (Price), Paul Dzenkiw (Group member), Travis Woloshyn (Group member), David Haysom (Man), Stuart O’Connell (Man), Shawn Stewart (Man)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Enterprise resumes course for Risa, but is diverted yet again by a distress call. It picks up a shuttle commanded by Zobral, who lives on a nearby desert world. Zobral’s gratitude extends to offering a banquet to Archer and Trip, who repaired the damaged shuttle. When they reach Zobral’s homeworld, it seems his hospitality is considerable - until T’Pol contacts the captain from orbit with a disturbing report. She has been hailed by a government official from Zobral’s planet, claiming that Zobral is a terrorist. Archer tries to make a diplomatic retreat, but Zobral cuts off his escape. It turns out that Zobral is indeed fighting a war against the planet’s ruling government, claiming centuries of racial inequity - and also claiming to have heard that Archer is a great warrior who freed thousands of Suliban from a detention center. Worse yet, Zobral’s encampment comes under heavy fire, forcing Archer and Trip to hide in the desert. But as eagerly as the planet’s government is hunting down Zobral, even that may not be a safe place.

teleplay by Andrè Bormanis
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Andrè Bormanis
directed by David Straiton
music by Velton Ray Bunch

Guest Cast: Clancy Brown (Zobral), Charles Dennis (Chancellor Trelit), Brandon Karrer (Alien Man), and Porthos

Notes: During the game scene at the beginning of act three, there’s a Trek oddity - a brief shot of Archer which was shot on video, not film. Though footage sourced on video has been used before - such as Seska’s distress call in the Voyager episode Basics Part I - it has always been on a viewscreen, and never before a full-screen shot; the entire series would later adopt digital video instead of film in season 4. Bozeman, Montana is also referenced as the landing site of the Vulcan ship - and therefore also the home of Zefram Cochrane - in Star Trek: First Contact; Bozeman was also the site of Alexander’s wild west holodeck program in A Fistful Of Datas, not to mention the name of the temporally-displaced starship in Cause And Effect. Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s the birthplace of executive producer Brannon Braga.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

T’Pol somewhat surprisingly recommends that the crew needs a vacation, and even takes the liberty of pointing Archer toward a planet called Risa. But just as Trip is getting his hopes up about the reports of Risa’s brand of hospitality, Starfleet contacts the ships with new orders - an urgent mission to pick up a Vulcan ambassador from the planet Mazar. When the Mazarites deliver Ambassador V’Lar to the Enterprise, Archer is told that she is being expelled due to criminal charges - charges of which V’Lar says she is guilty. The Enterprise leaves without incident, but before long, the Mazarites are in pursuit, demanding that V’Lar be handed over to them again. When the Mazarites attack and make it clear that they’re willing to kill Archer’s entire crew, the captain begins to wonder just what crimes his visitor has committed.

teleplay by Alan Cross
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga and Chris Black
directed by Patrick Norris
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Fionnula Flanagan (V’Lar), Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Forrest), John Rubinstein (Mazarite Captain), J. Michael Flynn (Mazarite Official), Dennis Howard (Vulcan Captain), and Porthos

Notes: It is established here that this is the first time the Enterprise has actually reached warp five. We also learn that T’Pol attended the Rekahr Academy on Vulcan - which could also be the “Vulcana Rekahr” which was cited as T’Shanik’s alma mater in the Next Generation episode Coming Of Age.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Gabriel and Elizabeth, on a scouting mission from Thunder Mountain, go to Clarefield - the town Jeremiah and Kurdy once visited which is still under the thrall of Theo and her thugs - and are promptly captured. Marcus assigns Jeremiah and Kurdy - who is furious that Elizabeth was sent on such a dangerous mission - to rescue them. There are a few problems facing them though, namely a revolt that leaves Theo out in the cold (but her successor still has the hostages). Worse yet, when they save her life from the men who used to work for her, Jeremiah and Kurdy have to trust her to help them rescue Elizabeth and Gabriel. Kurdy decides to go it alone, leaving Jeremiah to deal with Theo. And at Thunder Mountain, Marcus is faced with the possibility that a traitor at the mountain tipped Theo off to the presence of the scouting party.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Holly Dale
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Kim Hawthorne (Theo), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Ben Bass (Eric Rasmussen), Zak Santiago Alan (Sam), Alonso Oyarzun (Gabriel), Xantha Radley (Baker), Dave Nystrom (Jock), Jean-Michel Legal (Jacob Rutledge), Haig Sutherland (Keith), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Crystal Cote’ (Kate Pierce), Cobie Smulders (Deborah)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Enterprise finally arrives at Risa, and though Archer initially resists the idea of joining his senior officers for shore leave, T’Pol convinces him that he needs it just as much as they do. Malcolm and Trip try their hand at meeting indigenous specimens of the opposite sex, only to find themselves in a trip that, while it may not cost them their lives, will certainly cost them their pants. Hoshi has a little more luck in this regard, and her language lessons with a fellow visitor to Risa become an exercise in a more universal tongue. Dr. Phlox takes the opportunity to remain aboard the Enterprise and enter a Denobulan hibernation phase - one from which he will emerge most disoriented if awakened early, which becomes a major issue when Mayweather is injured while rock climbing. Captain Archer takes Porthos planetside for a couple of days of relaxation and encounters a beautiful woman named Keyla. In the course of discussion, she reveals that her husband and her entire family were slaughtered by Suliban, but when she tries to get Archer to divulge strategic information on his encounters with the Suliban, the captain suspects that her story doesn’t add up.

teleplay by Chris Black
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by Michael Dorn
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Dey Young (Keyla), Kellie Waymire (Cutler), Rudolf Matin (Ravis), Joseph Will (Rostov), Dennis Cockrum (Freebus), Donna Marie Recco (Dee’Ahn), James Ingersol (Alien Man), Jennifer Williams (Alien Woman), Geoff Meed (Dee’Ahn), Stephen Wozniak (Latia) and Porthos

Notes: Actor Stephen Wozniak (born in 1971) is no relation to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Ten years after the invasion of Naboo, the Republic continues to crumble. Many star systems are leaving the Republic, flocking to the leadership of former Jedi Count Dooku. The growing tension prompts some senators to propose that the Republic create an army for itself, an unprecedented step that draws opposition from Senator Padme Amidala, the former queen of Naboo. She reluctantly returns to Coruscant to vote against the measure; her ship’s landing is met with an explosion that kills several members of her entourage. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine insists that Padme receive protection from the Jedi Knights, and assigns two Jedi who are old acquaintances with the former queen - Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan, Anakin Skywalker.

Eager to impress Padme, Anakin promises to uncover the identity of the would-be assassin, despite Obi-Wan’s warnings to keep his focus on their mission of protection and to stay in control of his feelings. Control does not come easily to the young Jedi - already troubled by dreams about his mother, Anakin’s affection and desire for Padme threaten to overwhelm him. He and Padme decide to take the initiative in order to lure the assassin into the open - a plan which almost succeeds too well when an assassin droid arrives at Padme’s chambers. Obi-Wan and Anakin chase the droid back to its owner, a changeling bounty hunter named Zam Wesell. Before they can interrogate her, another bounty hunter kills her with a poisoned dart. Palpatine urges Padme to return to Naboo for her own safety until Obi-Wan can complete his investigation of the bounty hunters. Reluctantly, she agrees, leaving her Gungan aide Jar Jar Binks as representative in her stead. Despite Obi-Wan’s misgivings, the Council sends Anakin to serve as Padme’s escort . . . to the approval of Palpatine, who has fulfilled his promise to pay close attention to young Skywalker’s progress.

One of Obi-Wan’s sources identifies the source of the dart as a planet named Kamino, but Obi-Wan can find no mention of it in the Jedi Archives. With help from Yoda and some young Jedi-in-training, he discovers that the records of the planet’s existence have been erased, and sets out to find the planet. Upon his arrival, he is welcomed by the Kaminoans, who seem to have been expecting a visit from a Jedi and are ready to show him the status of their latest project - an army of hundreds of thousands of clones, apparently ordered by a long-dead Jedi a decade ago. The template for the clone troopers is a bounty hunter named Jango Fett, whose evasive answers fuel Obi-Wan’s suspicions. Jango and his son Boba (actually a clone of Jango, devoid of the accelerated aging and psychological modifications of the troopers) manage to leave Kamino, despite Obi-Wan’s attempts to detain them . . . but they find the Jedi to be a most dogged pursuer.

On Naboo, Anakin and Padme retire to her lakeside retreat, momentarily out of harm’s way. The two discuss their lives and their views on the current political situation, as Anakin expresses his frustration with democratic squabbles and his wish for a strong will to force the galaxy along a better path. He also expresses his feelings for Padme, which she insists she can not return - their responsibilities as Jedi and senator make that impossible. To make matters worse, Anakin’s nightmares grow stronger, beyond the point of his endurance. Padme agrees to accompany him on his return to Tatooine.

Obi-Wan tracks Jango to the planet Geonosis, where he discovers Dooku cultivating an alliance with the Trade Federation (contingent on Dooku arranging Padme’s death) and several other crucial guilds, as well as an army of droids. Obi-Wan attempts to transmit these findings first to the Council on Coruscant, then to Anakin on Naboo, but is soon captured and brought before Dooku. The former Jedi, who once trained Obi-Wan’s master Qui-Gon Jinn, offers an invitation: the Sith have gradually been exerting their control over the Republic; the Sith Lord Darth Sidious has much of the Senate in his sway, and the Dark Side clouds the Jedi’s ability to see through the deceptions and manipulations. Join me, Dooku says, and we will defeat the Sith once and for all.

On Tatooine, Anakin discovers that Watto sold his mother years ago to a moisture farmer named Clieg Lars, who soon freed and married Shmi. Upon arrival at the Lars homestead, Anakin meets his stepbrother Owen and Owen’s girlfriend Beru and reunites with C-3P0, but also receives terrible news from Clieeg. A band of Tusken Raiders captured his mother a month ago, and repelled all attempts to rescue her. Anakin immediately sets off in pursuit, but finds his mother just in time to share her final moments. Enraged, Anakin turns his vengeance on the entire camp of Sand People, leaving no survivors. At the homestead, he bemoans his inability to save his mother, blames Obi-Wan for holding him back and declares his intention to one day be the most powerful of all Jedi. His mourning is cut short by Obi-Wan’s message, and Padme’s decision to launch a rescue attempt with 3PO and the ever-loyal R2-D2.

As the two head for Geonosis, the Jedi Council and Palpatine’s Loyalist Committee (including Alderaan’s Bail Organa) react to Obi-Wan’s news. It appears impossible to deny that the Republic needs an army, and good fortune has provided one on Kamino. But the Senate is still locked in debate over the creation of such an army, with no end in sight. Only through a granting of emergency powers to the chancellor can the situation be addressed in time, but such action would require the initiative of a senator willing to take the political risks involved. When Palpatine suggests that Padme would, if only she were present, Jar Jar takes the bait and makes the motion - to near-unanimous acclaim in the Senate. Vowing to renounce his new powers as soon as the Republic is restored, Palpatine authorizes the Grand Army of the Republic. Yoda travels to Kamino to inspect and gather the clone army, while Mace Windu and the other Jedi travel to Geonosis to aid Anakin and Padme in their rescue.

As it turns out, their assistance is very much required, as the two are captured shortly after their arrival. Sentenced to die in the Geonosian arena, Padme admits her love for Anakin . . . but their future will depend on the skills and sacrifice of many Jedi. True loyalties are revealed and plans set in motion, as the galaxy plunges into war . . .

written by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales
directed by George Lucas
music by John Williams

Cast: Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Natalie Portman (Padmè), Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker), Christopher Lee (Count Dooku), Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu), Frank Oz (Yoda), Ian McDiarmid (Supreme Chancellor Palpatine), Pernilla August (Shmi Skywalker), Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett), Jimmy Smits (Senator Bail Organa), Jack Thompson (Cliegg Lars), Leeanna Walsman (Zam Wesell), Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks), Rose Byrne (Dormè), Oliver Ford Davies (Sio Bibble), Ronald Falk (Dexter Jettster), Jay Laga’aia (Captain Typho), Andrew Secombe (Watto), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Silas Carson (Ki-Adi-Mundi / Nute Gunray), Ayesha Dharker (Queen Jamillia), Daniel Logan (Boba Fett), Joel Edgerton (Owen Lars), Bonnie Maree Piesse (Beru), Anthony Phelan (voice of Lama Su), Rena Owen (voice of Taun We), Alethea McGrath (Madame Jocasta Nu), Susie Porter (Hermione Bagwa), Matt Doran (Elan Sleazebaggano), Alan Ruscoe (Lott Dod), Matt Sloan (Plo Koon), Veronica Segura (Cordè), David Bowers (Mas Amedda), Steve John Shepherd (Naboo Lieutenant), Bodie ‘Tihoi’ Taylor (Clone Trooper), Matt Rowan (Senator Orn Free Taa), Steven Boyle (Senator Ask Aak), Zachariah Jensen (Kit Fisto), Alex Knoll (J.K. Burtola), Phoebe Yiamkiati (Mari Amithest), Kenny Baker (R2-D2), Jerome Blake (Oppo Rancisis), Hassani Shapi (Eeth Koth), Gin (Adi Gallia), Khan Bonfils (Saesee Tiin), Michaela Cottrell (Even Piell), Dipika O’Neill Joti (Depa Billaba)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Jeremiah and Kurdy follow up on leads about the town of Mayfair - very troubling leads, which they discover are well founded. The town is littered with dead bodies, and no apparent signs of survivors. They travel to a nearby community whose leader, Stenn, has set down an ultra-puritanical code of laws forbidding any two people to make physical contact. Any outsiders - such as Jeremiah and Kurdy - are regarded with extreme suspicion. Jeremiah discovers first-handy that there is a horrifying link to two lingering questions: what happened to the people of Mayfair, and what happens if someone breaks the law and touches another human being?

written by Sam Egan
directed by Michael Robison
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), J.R. Bourne (Stenn), Jesse Moss (Angus Deveraux), Kirby Morrow (Neal Deveraux), Amber Rothwell (Karin), Gabrielle Miller (Naomi), Jimmy Herman (The Apparition), Kirsten Prout (Elayna), Michèle Bogdanow (Bess), Justin Callan (Nicky), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Michael Eklund (Vernon Diggs), Ellen Ewuse (Marta), Darren Choo (Mine Guard), Reese Smith (Doctor)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Enterprise enters orbit of the Parogan homeworld, a planet whose atmosphere has flammable elements requiring any visiting craft to descend unpowered. But moments after Malcolm reports shutting off the engines, the planet’s atmosphere turns into a massive fireball - and a colony of 3,600 miners on the surface is instantly wiped out. Starfleet’s response is swift: the Enterprise is recalled to Earth, her mission cancelled, and the crew will be reassigned. Worse yet, the Vulcans recommend that Earth’s interstellar exploration program be postponed…by a decade or more.

As the Enterprise is en route back to Earth, Archer is visited by Crewman Daniels - an operative from the future fighting in the temporal cold war with the Suliban - even though it seemed Daniels was killed by Silik several months earlier. Daniels confirms for Archer that the Enterprise shuttle wasn’t responsible for the colony’s destruction, and that the event never happened, according to future history. He gives Archer instructions that enable him to capture a Suliban vessel, confiscate some vital data, and clear the Enterprise crew of any wrongdoing. Even though someone’s violated the rules of engagement of the temporal cold war in the future, it hasn’t ended Enterprise’s mission.

Just as the crew begins to relax, a swarm of Suliban vessels surrounds Enterprise. Silik hails Archer and tells him to board one of the Suliban pods which will dock with the Enterprise shortly. If the captain doesn’t comply, the Enterprise will be destroyed.

But according to future history, Captain Archer never boarded the pod. He became stranded in the 31st century - a victim, along with the man he knows as Crewman Daniels, of the temporal cold war.

written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: John Fleck (Silik), Matt Winston (Daniels), Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Forrest), James Horan (Humanoid figure), Stephanie Erb (Receptionist), David Lewis Hays (Tactical crewman)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

In keeping with his recent pledge to begin organizing with other communnities, Marcus sends Jeremiah and Kurdy to make contact with a group led by a man known only as “Steve.” When the travelers arrive at their destination, Jeremiah is met by a girl named Michelle, with whom he had a a brief but intense relationship five years earlier. It was Michelle who introduced Jeremiah to the concept of writing letters to his long-dead father, and it is Michelle who’s actually coordinating her community’s rebuilding effort, breaking the glass ceiling by claiming that all of her orders come from “Steve.” But when someone warns Jeremiah and Kurdy that she’s using the “Steve” ruse to squirrel away supplies for herself, Jeremiah worries that she may not be the same person he once knew. He’s even more surprised when Michelle introduces him to her five-year-old son Gabriel - a child who could well be his.

teleplay by Al Katz & Sara Barnes
story by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Graeme Coleman and Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Sabrina Grdevich (Michelle), Preston Cook (Doug), Spencer Achtymichuk (Gabe), Janine Cox (Anna), Jessica Heafey (Maxine), Scantone Jones (Martin), Robert Wisden (voice of Devon), Teryl Rothery (voice of Mary), Ryan Drescher (voice of Michael), Devin Douglas Drewitz (voice of young Jeremiah)

LogBook entry by Earl Green