10 Awkward Things That Must Have Happened After Star Trek Episodes

Cold Front was one of the most embarrassing moments in Captain Archer's career. This Enterprise episode revealed that Crewman Daniels was actually a fighter in the Temporal Cold War, originating from the 31st century.

After the episode, Archer would've had to explain to Starfleet Command that, not only was Daniels able to hide his identity and his futuristic technology, but he also claimed to be from the future, something that the Vulcans firmly believed was impossible at the time. Then, Daniels' future tech, the Temporal Observatory and his phasing device, were both destroyed and Daniels was thought to have been killed, leaving no evidence for the story he gave.

The Vulcan scientists and authorities were probably even more shocked than Starfleet to hear Archer's report. Their scepticism of time travel came up again later in the series, but the fact that Daniels was presumed killed before he could even face questioning must have made some Vulcans suspect foul-play, or some sort of cover-up on Archer's behalf to hide the mistakes of Earth's most famous crew. Basically, it would've been pretty hard to convince anyone who wasn't there that the Temporal Cold War was real and the events of Cold Front actually happened.