Storm Front

At the end of the season three finale, the Xindi super-weapon is destroyed and somehow Archer and the Enterprise (separately) are somehow shot back to WWII!!! And, when Archer awakens, he's in a Nazi mobile hospital!!! And, the shuttle approaching San Francisco is set upon by P-51 fighters!! Huh?!?!? Obviously this is one strange episode and it's so weird that you HOPE that this isn't a shadow of things to come. Fortunately, this and the following episode are the only Nazi ones and the reason all this occurs is interesting....though quite silly. The bottom line is that if you love "Star Trek: Enterprise", don't show your friends these two episodes--they'll think you're nuts. And, for fans, it IS enjoyably strange and very watchable.

After giving everything they had to get past the Xindi and destroy the weapon, how can they go on. The remaining crew thinks Archer is dead, but he is on earth, in the hands of an alien race that is in cahoots with the Nazi's who have invaded the West. Archer meets a black woman in Harlem who is friends with a bunch of gangster types. The talk to a man who gives them information about the clay faced aliens. These guys are going to mess up the time/space continuum. Trip and Travis take a shuttle to the surface and face the worst of the enemy. Meanwhile, Daniels shows up on board the Enterprise. He has been damaged by the travel he has done and lies dying in sick bay. I'm on a wait and see trip here.

This season has had its ups and downs. This episode certainly doesn't. It's cheez wizz all the way through: time-traveling aliens have come back to help the Nazis conquer America. Naturally, the only possible way to save the day is for Captain Archer to work with a couple of Brooklyn thugs and this episode's love interest to drive fascism and futuristic particle weapons from America's heartland. This is B-movie heaven. I always love media that takes its time and waits to throw the Nazi twist in. It's a staple of '70s and '80s B-movies. The fact that Enterprise waited this long to do this premise shows remarkable restraint.

Best moment is definitely the part where the Nazi alien says "When we get back, you'll never have existed!" and then the mob guy kills him. The alien costumes are outstanding.

I have, really, not seen a worse episode than this one! When a series does play with time travel it always does go baldy, with the exception of the comedy ones. First making historical errors is soooo easy. And in American series they make tons of those? can they never get a real historian of the period they try to act into?! Are "Nazis" always caricatures peoples and the USA depiction of resistance is so ridiculous. A person with fear in their belly do not think of anything else than their mission or self-preserves ion, the stupid are often dead before they can do harm to other. Second touching at even a detail in history can change a lot millions of years later. Or you can take the inverse theory and that history is self-Healing and any change does Nothing to history that shall health/correct itself. But in any case even the worse author know he should not make paradoxes and there are many, to many in this episode of this "B" series.

Manny Coro got handed one of the most cliched cliffhangers ever to deal with from the end of season 3 and should have wrapped that up with a 30 second "Archer was just dreaming". If you're pulling out the Nazis, you need a really good compelling reason, else it's just a very old tired cheap trick, and screams "just phoning it in".

Nazis have often been used as convenient evil villains that won't offend (hardly) anyone. But a show like Trek, set in space with Space Aliens doesn't need that. And the original series Trek episode where they used Space Nazis actually had a clever premise built on it.

Here, no.