Episode Three: The More Things Change

Here is the Directors Cut for 'The More Things Change'








And here is Tom's outline...

T’Pol will have one more dream with seemingly dead Trip. In it she asks Trip if can remember anything about the Andorian girl he spoke of. Trip tries to remember something and says the word 'Talla', as he does T’Pol wakes.

Later T’Pol talks with Trip and says that since they lost their new Chief Engineer Enterprise really needs Trip, then goes further by adding that she needs Trip.

Trip, who realizes that Starfleet will need those NX ships, soon, is a bit hesitant because of his feeling of obligation towards getting the project done. He, however, agrees to stay but does not think Gardner will allow it. T’Pol says to let the captain deal with it as he has ways of being persuasive when dealing with the Admiral.

In act two, Archer will be having a meeting on Earth with Admiral Gardner and some other high ranking military staff (while Enterprise is in space dock) over the declared war by the Romulans (also discussing the status of the three incomplete NX ships). During the meeting the intercom will beep and the voice will say that there's been an accident at the Warp 7 complex (which is near Starfleet headquarters).

As Archer and Gardner get off a shuttlecar in front of the mammoth building that used to be the warp 5 complex which is now the warp 7 complex (since the Vulcans decided to share their warp technology with Earth), Archer stares up to the building and has a small flashback of himself as a child standing with his father, Henry, looking at the same building, Archer will also recall meeting Dr. Cochrane.

When they enter the complex Archer and Gardner are told that one of the scientists died during the explosion. This news will unsettle Archer because when he was 12 he found a dead body whilst he was exploring the then Warp 5 complex.

During this episode Archer will have flashbacks of when he was 12 hanging around the complex as Henry and Dr. Cochrane worked on the warp 5 engine. In his flashback we will see designs over the walls of the yet to be built NX Enterprise (which now show the designs and schematics of the new warp 7 ship, The Daedalus). We will also find out why Cochrane wanted to call the ship Enterprise.

As it turns out it was a Vulcan that did it and after a foot chase through some of the futuristic streets of San Francisco ensues. Archer learns that he works for a group called 'The Order of the Raptor' on Vulcan as he pins the assailant to the ground. As he lets the Vulcan back up the Vulcan taps a device on is wrist and a white glow consumes him with nothing but ashes left on the ground. At the end Gardner orders the Archer to go to Vulcan to get to the bottom of this group to find out if there is any other terror plot against Earth in the works.