Things go from bad to worse when Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society on the brink of war to retrieve a communicator that was lost during an undercover survey mission.
"Quite frankly, the only real hurdle we had to overcome when trying to get Enterprise off the ground was that some people weren’t totally sold on the idea. There were a few individuals at the studio who wondered, and perhaps rightly so, ‘Shouldn’t Star Trek be a show about always moving forward? Shouldn’t it be in the 24th century and beyond? Is it the right thing to go backwards? The audience knows what happens already’ If you stop and think about it, though, the latter comments doesn’t hold water. It’s all fiction, and Sci-Fi to boot, which means that anything can happen and at any point in time. As a result of all this it took a while to get the programme going but it was a blessing in disguise. It would have been a real shame had this series premiered while Voyager was still on the air. The show definitely needed its own space, and that’s what it got."
"The contact that I’ve had with fans has been terrific. It’s from the very casual—the cab driver the other day on the road who honked his horn, I looked over, he saluted me and drove on—to the pilot who’s getting on the plane saying ‘you’re my favorite captain’ and it’s like ‘wait, you’re a real captain!’ I haven’t sat down with any long, in-depth conversations with fans. But I have friends who tell me what their friends are saying: ‘We hate the dog, we want you to kick some ass, we want you to kick the Vulcans’ ass!’ People are always compelled to give you their opinions so I get a lot of feedback even though I haven’t been out there much."