question about cold front

[SheerQuality]

just rewatching the series (its actually better the second time around) and just finished the episode cold front. quick question....why does silik stop the antimatter cascade that would destroy the ship? does he do this to trick archer into gaining his trust? was silik the one who caused (and then stopped) the cascade to happen in the first place?

thanks for any help

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Unfortunately we never found out the answers to any of those questions.

 

[JiNX-01]

^ Unfortunately we never found out the answers to any of those questions.

Tight, thoughtful writing.

 

[Lady Conqueror]

Whatever FG was up to it seems he was more interested in stopping Enterprise's mission rather than destroying Enterprise itself.

Personally that's why I doubt the "FG was a Romulan" theory - surely the Romulans wouldn't care about the ship and would have been quite willing to see it destroyed. The future in FG's remaking might not be as wholly different as we might think.

 

[Timo]

One might argue that all of the Future Guy's acts were to the benefit of the Federation: igniting wars amongst current or future Earth enemies, nudging NX-01 towards places and times where she'd be of the greatest benefit to Earth... Also, when the future Federation goes kaboom in "Shockwave", Future Guy suddenly ceases to exist (or at least ceases to communicate with the Suliban). For all we know, then, FG was a Fed himself.

"Cold Front" is the most aimless temporal war episode of them all, though. It's difficult to assign either sinister or benevolent motivations behind Silik's (or FG's) actions there, or to observe any longterm effects of those actions. One might almost think that FG was constantly out to protect Earth and our heroes, but did this by pretending to be a villain so that Silik would more readily follow him - and that Silik acted on his own in "Cold Front", misunderstanding his role in the greater game.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[pookha]

Whatever FG was up to it seems he was more interested in stopping Enterprise's mission rather than destroying Enterprise itself.

Personally that's why I doubt the "FG was a Romulan" theory - surely the Romulans wouldn't care about the ship and would have been quite willing to see it destroyed. The future in FG's remaking might not be as wholly different as we might think.

unless there was some threat that would be so great to harm romulus.

 

[Lady Conqueror]

One might argue that all of the Future Guy's acts were to the benefit of the Federation: igniting wars amongst current or future Earth enemies, nudging NX-01 towards places and times where she'd be of the greatest benefit to Earth...

Except of course for trying to get Enterprise's mission cancelled by blowing up that colony in Shockwave. On face value it doesn't seem like something that would help the Federation in the long term (but of course he might have wanted them temporarily out of the way so he could perhaps set up some other scheme to destabilise the other powers in the quadrant).

unless there was some threat that would be so great to harm romulus.

Possible I suppose, but why get so convoluted - a threat to Romulus that only NX-01 can fix - so much easier to go with the simpler explanation that FG was probably a human. At least to me anyway.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Future Guy may have been a 29th century time cop as seen in VOY's "Relativity". I didn't get the impression that FG was actively working against Earth's interests, for example. He did help Archer figure out the whole Xindi thing.

For all we know, FG could have been a Starfleet officer working to make sure the timeline unfolds as it should.