One hundred years before Kirk, mankind takes another step out of its infancy. Earth"s fate rests on the shoulders of Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew as they embark on their first mission to deliver Klaang, the fallen Klingon warrior to his homeworld. The "Broken Bow" incident thrusts the prototype Enterprise NX-01 starship and her crew into the frontline of a temporal cold war with a strange new enemy, the Suliban.