-: This is First Officer Archer.
In accordance with Starfleet orders, this date,
I relieve Captain Forrest of duty
and assume command of Enterprise.
My orders are to take the ship into Tholian space
for a mission of vital importance to the Empire.
I can't reveal the details of our assignment
but I can tell you this,
if we're successful,
Starfleet will crush the rebellion once and for all.
No crew in Starfleet has been tested more in battle.
I know I can count on each of you
to perform your duty to the best of your ability.
Nothing will impede our march toward victory.
Long live the Empire.
Crew: Long live the Empire.
-: A parallel universe.
The science directorate has examined all these theories.
They've found no evidence of alternate realities.
-: The Tholians are a little more open-minded
than your people.
They detonated a tricobalt warhead,
here, inside the gravity well of a dead star.
The explosion created an interphasic rift.
A doorway into another universe.
-: A doorway?
-: My contact transmitted these images
before his signal was jammed.
(console beeps)
-: An Earth ship.
-: According to some theories,
everything that exists in our universe
should also exist there.
-: Another Terran Empire?
Another Starfleet?
-: So what?
How does this help us?
-: The Tholians quantum-dated a piece of the hull.
This ship is not only from another universe,
it's from another time.
About a hundred years into the future.
Imagine the technology we can find on that ship.
New tactical systems.
Advanced bio-weapons.
Engines that can reach speeds we can only dream of.
All of it, ours,
for the taking.
-: This is ludicrous, Captain.
Commander Archer is guilty of assault and mutiny.
-: That's enough, Commander.
-: Sir, I believe we should-
-: I said, shut up, we're investigating this.
Get that cloaking device working.
(suspenseful orchestral music)