At least that would be honest…
Porthos wakes up, sees Archer in the shower, realises it was all a bad dream brought on by eating bad cheese.
works for me.
Sorry for the lateness, but I just finally watched the season 3 finale. Anyway, I recently manage to uncover Manny Coto’s first rough draft of Season 4, episode 1, act 1:
I’ve come across Manny Coto’s first draft of episode one, season four, act 1:
T’Pol: Primitive Earth airplanes? Are you positive?
Trip: Shuttlepod’s got the bullet holes to match. What the hell’s going on?
T’Pol: Ensign Mayweather, scan for any remaining anomalies, particularly temporal in nature.
Mayweather: I’m detecting one off the starboard bow. But it doesn’t look related to the spheres.
T’Pol (looking in her little scanner thingy): It’s increasing in size and approaching the ship.
Admiral William T. Riker: SHIELDS UP! RED ALERT!
Trip: Who the hell are you?
Daniels: My apologies. I think I can explain… If you’ll just give me a moment.
[Daniels fiddles with the PADD he’s holding. Riker disppears, and is replaced by a Gorn.]
Gorn: Arrrrr!
Daniels: No, that’s not it either. Hold on.
[The Gorn disappears, and is replaced by Archer, who is wearing a flowery Hawaiian shirt and holding coconut containing some enjoyable beverage and a little paper umbrella]
Archer: Aw, Daniels, I was just starting to feel relaxed.
Trip: Will someone PLEASE tell me what the hell is going on?
Daniels: My apologies everyone. As soon as the Xindi sphere exploded, I managed to remove Captain Archer from the timeline. I figured he needed a vacation, so I sent him to Tahiti for a week.
Archer: Sort of.
[Daniels stabs at the buttons on his PADD]
Daniels: Unfortunately this THING isn’t working very well, and he went on a few… detours. As, I understand, have all of you. Anyway, everything’s back to normal now. I think. Well, I must be going. Captain, you probably won’t see me again. It’s been nice working with you.
T’Pol: What about the “Temporal Cold War?”
Daniels: Oh, that little thing? We fixed that all up last week. I thought I mentioned it.
Archer: No, but I’m glad to hear it. Now if you don’t mind, we’d like to go home now.
Daniels: You got it. [Disappears]
Hoshi: We’re being hailed by Starfleet!
Archer: On screen.
Admiral Forest: Congratulations to all of you. I have new orders for Enterprise. She is to dock at the shipyards for a complete overhaul while her crew relaxes on Earth.
Trip: About damn time!
Admiral Forest: But don’t relax too much. Once the Enterprise is back to 100 percent, we’re sending you to the Tellarite homeworld. It seems they’re having some difficulty with the Romulans.
[commercial break]
And I previewed the hell out of that, too. :o