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> Enterprise is stuck in an alternate timeline, in which the Nazis have
> conquered the Eastern United States with the aid of aliens with bumpy
> purplish, bluish, or brownish heads. In return, the Nazis are helping
> the aliens build a time conduit to return to the 29th century.
>
> Great moments: The news reel of Hitler receiving a hero's welcome in New
> York.
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> Archer shoving Silik against a wall after he is discovered masquerading
> as Trip.
>
> Vosk the alien leader firing a plasma cannon at Enterprise after Archer
> refuses to give him Silik.
>
> Vosk threatening to erase a Nazi general from history.
>
> Silik the Suliban squeezing through a slot beside a door.
>
> The battle between the American insurgents and the Nazis at the conduit
> building.
>
> Trip thinking that Captain Archer is Silik in disguise. Archer shows
> Trip the recently deceased Silik (who was killed by a German soldier
> while helping Archer take out the conduit).
>
> An insurgent leader saying that he's having too much fun fighting the
> Germans at the conduit building, so he doesn't want to withdraw.
>
> German fighter planes firing photonic torpedoes at Enterprise as it
> flies through New York, maneuvering around the skyscrapers. Since
> Enterprise's targeting scanners aren't working, it has a hard time
> hitting the more maneuverable planes. Only one plane got hit.
>
> The time conduit.
>
> Enterprise taking out the conduit.
>
> Archer and Daniels watching the timeline repair itself. Many historical
> scenes are shown, including Margaret Thatcher, Ayatollah Khomani, and
> the World Trade Center burning (why couldn't Daniels undo that
> attack?). Why no images of the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s?
>
> In part 1, the Nazis said that the Russians were trying to retake
> Moscow. In part 2, we learn that the timeline went off track when
> someone assassinated Lenin in 1916. As a result, the Communists did not
> take over Russia and industrialize it, so Hitler didn't consider Russia
> to be a threat. Therefore he concentrated all his resources on the
> West. Why then would German troops be in control of Russia at least as
> far as Moscow?
>
> At one point, Vosk returns Trip and another crew man to Archer, but Trip
> turns out to be Silik in disguise. Why did Silik try to escape when
> Archer mentioned the energy shields around the time conduit building,
> and not sooner or later?
>
> After the time conduit is destroyed, Daniels tells Archer that all the
> damage Vosk and his people caused "never happened" Does this mean that
> Silik's death has been unhappened?
No Silik would still be dead. It's similar to when the Enterprise was
implicated in the planetary disaster that destroyed a large part of a
planet because of a shuttle "malfunction." I think it was a Prime
Directive-type episode. After Daniels restored things, the planetary
damage was still there.
RCL
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