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SFX Magazine has filled its pages yet again with detailed script synopses for upcoming ENTERPRISE episodes, this time "The Crossing" and "Judgment."
According to the information, transcribed by The Great Link, "The Crossing," will see the Enterprise NX-01 swallowed by an alien vessel containing non-corporeal beings.
"Archer and an away team go out to explore the massive ship’s bizarre interior and find answers to their predicament. They discover non-corporeal, mist-like, alien beings – wisps – inside the cavernous alien ship. The wisps claim they intend to do no harm and that making ‘the crossing’ – as they call the mental merging – will allow humankind to experience great wonders," the magazine reports.
As more of the crew become possessed, Archer confines them to quarters and those unaffected take refuse in the catwalk, which the aliens cannot penetrate. T'Pol ventures out in hopes of making communication and learns that the aliens are dying and seeking bodies to inhabit and maintain their existence.
Archer will have none of this and floods the ship with carbon dioxide, forcing the wisps out of the suffocating crew members' bodies, and then destroying the alien vessel before it can engulf the Enterprise again.
"Judgment" will be an event episode featuring a guest role by J.G. Hertzler, known for his role as 'Martok' on DEEP SPACE NINE. The episode features a plethora of STAR TREK continuity references, from the Klingon 'Duras' to the penal colony 'Rura Penthe'. The magazine offers a detailed summary of this script as well.
Archer is accused of aiding Klingon rebels and damaging a Klingon ship and when 'Kolos', a burned-out Klingon public defender played by Hertzler, is assigned to his case, there seems little hope. Kolos "gets Archer to testify that Enterprise was aiding starving colonists who were merely trying to leave the Klingon Empire and that the Klingon vessel fired first. Kolos points out that previously Archer saved the Empire from a Suliban plot and also rescued a Klingon ship," SFX writes.
The Klingon tribunal is not impressed and sentences Archer to life imprisonment at Rura Penthe, the penal colony from STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Kolos, too, is sentenced to a year for his insolence. Enterprise eventually bribes Klingon officials to earn Archer's release but Kolos opts to stay behind and finish his term before hoping to restore honor to the Klingon justice system.
It is worth noting that due to the nature of print publication, SFX's summaries may be based on early drafts of the episode scripts that changed by the time of production. You can read more about "The Crossing" here and "Judgment" here. Both episodes air in March on UPN.
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