Yeah, that would fellate with the utmost alacrity.
Perhaps it is a minor humorous mercifully brief scene that is being advertised for ratings by the guys-who-write-the-back-of-the-book.
Thankfully, there’s this too.
So, any bets that the alien from another dimension turns out to be Archer from the Mirror Universe, just alienified because of the expeirmental craft?
Really!? Did I miss the part where it said the alien had a goatee? 
I thought the alien would turn out to be Porthos!
maybe Porthos…but evolved 15 million years later into a man! Just like Cat from Red Dwarf!
… “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls”
It’s probably Shatner. Placed in a cryo-tank, blasted into space, he slipped into another dimension and is now looking to get rid of every other Enterprise captain.
I wish they’d put that A-story blurb up first.
Anyhow…on to “North Star.”
Move’em on, head’em up,
Head’em up, move’em out,
Move’em on, head’em out,
Star Trek!
Rope’em in, confuse the plot,
Start an arc, branchem off,
Suck’em in, tie up knots,
Star Trek!
… meanwhile, back at the ranch …
the thing that finally saves Archer is the fact that he was in the center of subspace implosion that is caused by the warp coils being over loaded.
in Quantum Leap it was theorized that the only thing that would bring Sam home was being in the direct center of an atomic detonation.
concidence? i think not.