April 16th, 2151: Chased by two Suliban, the Klingon Klaang is shot by farmer Moore in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Against the advice of the Vulcan Ambassador Soval, Starfleet Admiral Leonard decides to take the Klingon home, using the new Warp 5 ship Enterprise. Captain Jonathan Archer, whose father conceived the ship, gathers his crew, including Vulcan science officer T'Pol who is going to supervise the mission. They soon lose the Klingon patient to the Suliban. On Rigel X the crew learns that the Suliban are genetically altered and equipped by an unknown enemy from the future. They are supposed to cause a Klingon civil war, for which Klaang carries the proof. The crew tracks the warp trail of the Suliban ship to a space station inside a gas giant's atmosphere. Archer and Commander Tucker manage to free Klaang, but Archer has to stay behind. Using the newly installed transporter, Archer can be rescued from the station too. After successfully delivering Klaang to Qo'noS where the Klingons extract the information that was encoded in his blood cells, Starfleet approves of a prolonged mission of Enterprise.

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