EPISODE 3
Whilst back en-route to the Iconian Homeworld the USS Archer is forced to drop out of warp, a shade cloud is detected dead ahead but it's size and composition is much smaller to the one that destroyed the Iconian base Ship and wiped out the Josei Star system. The Captain orders red alert, to raise shields and to charge the Chronoton pulse when sensors detect that it is moving on an intercept course for the Archer, as the cloud gets closer the Zakdorn Tactical officer notes an increase in the energy emitted by the cloud, a large bolt of blue electrical type energy shoots from the cloud and strikes the Archer causing shields to drop by 25%. The captain orders to return fire but just as the deflector is about to fire the pulse the deflector overloads and shorts out leaving the Archer without a chronoton weapon. The Captain orders the launch of Quantum torpedos but when the torpedos detonate on target the cloud merely feeds on the energy from the blast and fires again bringing the ships shields down to 50%. The Archer once again has no alternative but to retreat, they set course at warp 9 but the cloud manages to keep in pursuit, the cloud slowly begins to close in on the Archer and the engineering team must work quickly to fix the deflector dish. As time runs out the engineering team fix the deflector but the cloud opens fire again knocking the ship out of warp, the Archer picks up a nearby asteroid field on sensors and maneuvers through it trying to keep out of range of weapons lock of the Shade cloud. Just as the Shade cloud readys itself for another shot the Deflector charges the chronoton beam, the Archer pulls a 180 degree evasive maneuver bringing it face to face with the cloud and opens fire with the pulse, the Shade cloud is hit by the pulse and a large portion of the cloud breaks off into what appears to be a glass like substance, the shade cloud clearly took critical damage and retreats out of the asteroid field and to warp. The Captain decides to beam the glass fragments onboard to study them, to try and find out what they're dealing with. The Archer heads back on course for the Iconian homeworld and the results conducted on the glass fragments shows the glass like substance is made of a compound never before seen and shouldnt even exist in this universe.
EPISODE 4
The Archer reaches the star system where they believe the Iconian homeworld may be located only to discover its merely a small outpost colony, they beam down to the surface where they are greeted by Iconian soldiers who escort them to the outpost leader. The captain of the Archer requests information to the whereabouts of the Iconian homeworld in order to request official assistance and information from the Iconian Senate since its the fault of the Iconians that the Archer was transported back in time, after hours of heated discussion the outpost leader decides to give the Captain the location of the Iconian homeworld but it's location is shown to be far out in the Delta Quadrant, a journey of over 80 years for the Archer to reach at Maximum warp. The captain decides to request access to the Iconian gateway system to reach Iconia which is met with aggressive resistance by the outpost leader and the Archer is ordered out of the system immediately. As the crew are about to leave they are secretly contacted by an Iconian on the surface who tells them that if they do him a favour he will give them the location of a subspace corridor that will get them to Iconia in a matter of hours, the Captain reluctantly agrees and the Iconian beams onboard. Their mission is to locate a planet at the co-ordinates given and to scan the planet surface for an energy signature but when they input the iconian co-ordinates into the ships computer the crew are shocked to see the location of the planet is Earth. When the Captain confronts the iconian as to what the energy signature will be the iconian says his brother visited the planet weeks ago to run a routine survey of the indigenous life but never returned through the gateway when scheduled to do so, if his brother is indeed still on the planet then the energy signature from his mobile power unit will be detectable from orbit. The Archer sets course for Earth and the Iconian is given some quarters. upon arrival the Archer enters orbit of Earth and begins to run scans of the surface and detects a powerful energy signature, the science officer however is suspicious, the energy signature is too large to merely be a mobile power unit and is pulsating rapidly, when the Iconian enters the bridge instead of the usual kind and warm person the crew first met this time the Iconian is weilding a weapon and demands all the crew to be locked away in their quarters, the Captain tries to talk sense into the iconian but the iconian fires his weapon at her, the energy bolt hits her chest causeing her body to vapourise into a fireball like a flame does to paper and her bones turned to ashes before the bridge crews eyes. A shocked first officer decides to do as he says and orders all crew to report to their quarters immediately, the Iconian then tells the bridge crew to be locked away in the brig. Everything appears to be going according to plan for the iconian but he doesn't realise that a member of the Archer crew secretly beamed to the surface to the location of the energy signature, when the Iconian arrives on the surface he finds a human crewman holding a crystal artifact and a phaser pointing at it, the iconian explains he found it on a routine survey of the planet but only recently figured out what it was. He's explains its a container that holds the remaining energy force of an energy being, the energy being itself is dead but before it died it locked its energy and abilities away in the artifact and has been locked away there for millenia acting like a distress beacon for others of it's kind but others of it's kind never found it, should the energy be released it will search for another vessel to contain itself in and it will go straight into a humanoid body. The person would gain magnificant abilities and would literally become godlike. The crewman decides such powers shouldn't be allowed to fall into mortal hands, especially into the hands of a mad man and opens fire with the phaser but the phaser merely vapourises the container and the energy is released directly into the crewmans body. The power from the artifact is too overwhelming for a human and the crewman looses all sense of morality, the new Godlike crewman tells the Iconian that a new age has dawned, the galaxy will cowar in fear at his power. the iconian shoots his weapon at the crewman but the weapon has no effect, the crewman retaliates by shooting golden bolts of energy from his eyes at the Iconian killing him instantly. Meanwhile onboard the Archer the crew are able to get out of the brig with help from other crew members, they detect the crewman on the surface and beam him aboard. The now godlike crewman stuns the crew unconcious, shuts down the warp engines and makes his way to the shuttlebay where he steals a shuttle and sets off away from the ship, he sends one last message to the Archer before he leaves, "I have given you a choice between life and death, come after me and you will have chosen death." with that final message he sets off at warp and the crew of the Archer are left adrift, they beam up the dead Iconian and fix the warp engines but the Shuttle has disapeared from sensors. The Archer heads back to the Iconian outpost colony to return the dead Iconian, when they arrive the Iconian authorities identify the dead man as a deranged scientist who they claim was suffering from dementia. Following news of the death of the captain of the Archer the Iconian colony leader decides to compromise and gives the Archer crew the location of a subspace corridor. A funeral of the captain takes place and the remaining ashes of the captain are placed inside a torpedo caseing and fired out into the star of the Iconian colony system. On the bridge the first officer sits in the captains chair and orders the ship to leave orbit and set course for the subspace corridor.
EPISODE 5
En-route to the subspace corridor the Archer begins to suffer from power losses throughout the ship including life support on decks 4 through 7, the chief engineer runs several level one diagnostics but can't work out what the problem is. As the Archer continues to suffer from power losses they receive an incoming transmission from a Borelli tradesman requesting permission to dock as his ship keeps suffering power losses. The new captain of the Archer gives permission and hopes to be able to work together to solve the puzzle as to why both ships are suffering the same problem. The tradesman appears to be quite friendly and immediately begins trying to haggle with the crew to purchase or trade some belongings but the captain is far from keen. The tradesman explains the power losses seem to be effecting ships throughout the entire sector and he believes he's figured out the cause of the problem, a moon in a nearby star system is emmitting large bursts of anti tetryons through subspace which is effecting power distribution on passing starships and suggests the Archer goes and investigates, the captain is reluctant to do so because the closer to the moon they get the more powerful the power losses so he asks for other suggestions, when the chief engineer comes up with a plan to use the shield emitters to emit a thin tetryon shield around the ship whilst it passes through the sector the tradesman suddenly becomes fidgety and tells the crew it wont work as he's already tried it, the chief engineer however is willing to give it a go anyway and proceeds to create the shield. As the crew work to erect the shield the tradesman decides to part ways with the Archer and leaves the shuttle bay in his ship. The tetryon shield works and power losses throughout the ship stop but within just twenty minutes of pain free travel the Archer finds itself under attack by 6 vessels, all of which fit the exact same profile as the trademans vessel, the Archer raises normal shields but the tetryon shield weakens them to 50% normal strength, the trademan opens a channel and identifies himself as Harrius Con leader of the Borelli piratesguild and that the Archer is now Borelli property and will be taken to bits and sold as spare parts and scrap metal to other Borelli customers. The Archer returns fire with phasers but the Borelli ships weapons (Quantum resonance charges) are more superior and inflict heavy damage on the Archers shields, the captain decides to fire torpedos and the photon and Quantum torpedos manage to cripple two of the ships but the others continue to open fire. The Archers tactical officer makes a suggestion to head towards the moon and use the deflector dish to fire a large tetryon beam to knock out the anti-tetryon emitters in order to raise shields back to maximum power. The captain orders the course correction and they fire on the moons emmiters rendering them useless, the 4 remaining ships are finally crippled and all the pirates are beamed aboard and placed in the brig, the Archer having suffered heavy damage uses the pirate moon base to make repairs and even discovers a piece of technology the pirates obtained from another vessel that wasn't as lucky to escape the pirates attacks, the piece of technology is a cloaking device. The captain and senior staff all discuss and agree with eachother that under the circumstances and the fact the Romulan empire doesn't even exist yet that they should fit the Archer with the cloaking device, they agree that they should attempt to keep a low profile until they can find a way back to the future, the engineering team fit the cloaking device but power consumption for the device means it can only be operated as and when required. As for the pirates the captain orders the destruction of the Moon base and beam the pirates onto one of their pirate vessels that has had its weapons removed, the captain tells them to change their ways and bids them farewell but the pirate leader tells the Archer crew that they have made an enemy out of the Borelli piratesguild and that they will meet again very soon. The Archer sets course again for the subspace corridor leaving the pirates behind.
EPISODE 6
The chief engineer orders a meeting to discuss what she believes is a way back home, she's been studying the chronoton emmitter on the deflector dish and believes that a big enough burst of chronometric particles focused at a single point in space could puncture a hole in spacetime and open a temporal vortex, the stronger the burst the further in time the ship would travel. The captain gives the go ahead for a trial run and to prepare a sensor probe to obtain more detailed information. The chief engineer makes the relevant modifications and fires the chronometric particle beam into space, as the beam increases in power an opening in spacetime begins to appear and a probe is sent through the hole and begins to send back information, the hole begins to collapse but the probe makes it back. Upon closer inspection of the data obtained from the probe it shows some startling information, the probe received and transferred a computer programme which begins to hack into the Archers computer system and upload hundreds of files, as the probe finishes the upload it burns out. All attempts to access the files or delete them prove futile and the crew can do nothing but sit back and see what happens next. As the crew continue their daily routines they notice something different about the ships computer, it seems to be acting different, as though it's got a mind of its own. The captain of the Archer decides to ask the computer a question, "who are you", to everyones amazement the computer gives an unexpected reply, "I am the Artificially Intelligent Interactive First Contact System". Upon further questioning it is made clear that the hole through time jumped forward by 20,000 years, a nearby star system harbouring a now primitive species called the Xendo in 20,000 years advances into a technologically advanced race which detects the temporal vortex and transmits the first contact program through the probe, the FC program is happy to give information about the race that created it as that is what it's mission objective is. The FC program begins talking with the crew and after 5 days the crew begin to feel at ease with the FC program treating it like another one of the crew, the FC programme even visits people in the holodeck as a holographic projection of a humanoid and gets involved in playing games. As the 7th day draws to a close the FC program contacts the captain and tells him the time has come to leave, it requests access to another probe where it can download to and asks to be dropped off on one of the moons in the Xendo system. Before it leaves it lets the crew in on one last piece of information, the Xendo already knew about the crew of the Archer before the vortex even opened, in 19,000 years the Xendo find the probe buried beneath the surface of one of the moons in the Xendo system, they download the information held within it and learn all about the Archer and it's crew 19,000 years in the past, the Xendo sent through the FC program to ensure the temporal circle continued. The Archer crew bid farewell to the Fc program and launch the probe. Due to the last week of events the captain decides to put the test on the temporal vortex on hold for the time being and orders the helmsman to set course for the subspace corridor again.
Why are you assuming the Iconians would be gunning for them? Picards assessment was that the Iconians were possibly a friendly civilisation and that the other races who attacked them merely feared them because of their gateway technology. In this series the Iconians actually turn out to be a friendly civilisation and are infact trying to protect the Galaxy from a strange and deadly enemy (see top spoiler for details). 
plus i'll see about giving more character info.
