The New Road

Enterprise Plot

I dreamt a plot for Star Trek Enterprise last night. It starts on the Enterprise twenty years in the future. T'Pol and Archer are walking down the corridor, obviously older, Archer much more so, and discussing the diplomatic mission with Ambassador T'Pol. They get into the elevator and talk as if they are in a now cooling relationship. We cut as they agree to meet up for a game later.

Cut to the future Enterprise later in the day, where Archer, Trip, T'Pol and some other folks are playing poker like they did on The Next Generation. T'Pol looks absentmindedly at her cards (pocket aces) and is daydreaming...

Cut to the current timeline Enterprise where Trip and T'Pol are doing their usual massage thing and then getting pretty steamy. A distortion field waves across the ship and suddenly it's clear that the older T'Pol is now in the body of the younger T'Pol and vice versa. The old T'Pol now in the body of the young T'Pol quickly breaks them embrace as they both looked shocked at each other.

Cut back to the new Enterprise where the rest of the people are oblivious to T'Pol who is now the younger T'Pol. Not knowing poker she asks what to do. Archer is a little stunned and then says she can always fold. She flips up the two aces and folds. They all looked stunned and then the klaxon sounds as we go to commercial with 'Captain to the bridge'...

That's the teaser. The second act would follow the old T'Pol now in the current timeline as they also get into trouble because of the distortion wave. The third act would be in the future with the young T'Pol. The last act would bring the two together and restore the T'Pols. The younger learning a little of the wisdom of her older self, and the older coming to grips with her past and lighting a fire in her relationship with Archer.

(BTW, I know I said the Blog was on hiatus. It's on hiatus in that I won't feel the requirement to blog for the next three or four weeks. If I get one in mind I'll put it up. Like I did today.)