In the year 2151 Earth has been united with the invention of Warp Drive and the discovery of intelligent alien life. Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew aboard the S.S. Enterprise are dispatched to take a Klingon back to his homeworld when his ship crashes on Earth; however a new species called the Suliban under the command of a mysterious time traveller plan to stop the Klingon's homecoming causing political strife between the Klingons and Mankind.