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Star Trek: Enterprise 4.14 FAQ

What’s it called?
“The Aenar.”

Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to Andre Bormanis (“Awakening,” “Babel One”).

What does TV Guide say?
“Archer and Shran visit a civilization populated by Andorian offshoots who could gain control of the renegade drone vessels.”

Is the nervous, slug-like albino Andorian an Aenar?
He is. His name is Gareb.

Why are the Aenar so pasty?
They live in the coldest part of Shran’s very cold ice planet.

Why are the Aenar so good at piloting those drones?
Their telepathy puts even the Vulcanians to shame.

What else is TV Guide not telling us?
The Andorians didn’t even know the Aenar existed until 50 years ago. “Blind ice-dwellers,” explains Shran. “For most of our history they were considered a myth, stories we told our children. But 50 years ago they were discovered living in the Northern Wastes. They’re extremely secretive. I can count on one hand the number of Andorians who’ve seen one face-to-face.” There’s only a few thousand of them left.

Any forward motion on the Trip-T’Pol front?
Trip confesses to T’Pol that he thought he was going to die aboard the drone ship last week. He asks T’Pol what was on her mind when she thought she was going to die trying to destroy Sphere 41 last season.

The big news?
The Enterprise never does make it to Babel. And the Tellarites sit this episode out. “A transport ship is return the Tellarite ambassador to his homeworld,” explains Archer early in the first act.

TV Tome says, “This episode ends with a startling twist that has important consequences in later episodes.” True?
There is indeed a twist. It involves the NX-02.

How does it end, spoiler-boy?
“I can’t.” “Alright.” “Thank you.” “Dismissed.”

What happens next week?
SUPERSPOILER! The start of a two-parter that closes out February sweeps. We learn that the Klingons of Kirk’s era all look like Rich Vos because they’ve started injecting each other with Arik Soong’s Augment DNA!

8 p.m. Friday. UPN.

I am – Hercules!!





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