Captain Jonathan Archer has been chosen to command the groundbreaking starship "Enterprise" NX-01. But before the ship can leave Earth's orbit, a mysterious alien -- a Klingon -- eeing the attack of another race of aliens is nearly killed on a farm in Broken Bow, Montana. The Vulcan Ambassador Soval suggests that in light of these events "Enterprise's ""Enterprise's "depature be postponed. A Vulcan ship, he assures Star eet Command, will take the body of the Klingon home. Pointing out that the Klingon is still alive, Archer counters that Enterprise is ready and that he will see the Klingon home -- "alive."
Star eet gives Archer the assignment with one proviso: a Vulcan observer, Sub-Commander T'Pol, will work as his science of^cer. Eager to get under way, the captain reluctantly agrees. It should have been a quick and easy mission, but when the Klingon