Part Five, written October 7, 2002.

A note from the author regarding the Enterprise episode "Shockwave (part 1)".

By this stage in the story, you, the reader, are most likely thinking that Hoshi didn’t do a very good job of protecting the timeline when Captain Archer was sent to the 31st century, allowing the timeline to be so dramatically altered as it was.

There is only one simple explanation for this - it was supposed to happen. Archer was supposed to go to the 31st century, and the world as they knew it was supposed to be destroyed...so that it could be restored. If it were not for such a tragic occurrence, the people of Archer’s time would not have had the opportunity to discover time-travel, or gain any of the other knowledge that the experience gave them.

The timeline had to be altered so that Archer’s people could alter it back, and gain a greater understanding of the universe. Hoshi did her job extremely well in that instance...again, far better than Mr Daniels did his job. Never send a man to do a woman’s task...

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