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The Temporal Accords were an historic agreement to preserve the integrity of the timeline. Its principles were rejected by Vosk, who started an outright rebellion using stealth time travel. Unlike Earth's historical Cold War , the Temporal Cold War involves countless unknown factions, each with their own agenda. Humanity in the 31st Century is attempting to ascertain the identity of their adversaries and to thwart their efforts. Although the scope of the war was unprecedented, most of its casualties were unaware that they were involved in an organized conflict; hence the term "Cold War". Timelines were changed frequently, with history being rewritten or significant events being erased. Eventually the struggle broke out into full-scale war. The Temporal Cold War came to a decisive end in 1944 New York City when Captain Jonathan Archer , Silik (the leader of the Suliban Cabal), and the crew of the ''Enterprise'' destroyed a " Temporal Conduit " that Vosk and his radical faction were attempting to use. In the subsequent explosion, Vosk is destroyed, and the present timeline is restored. Some ) may have been involved with the Temporal Cold War, although this has yet to be confirmed on screen. (Seven is clearly aware of the concept of time travel, but there is little evidence that he made use of this technology himself.) MAJOR EVENTS IN THE TEMPORAL COLD WAR Millions of years ago
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Twentieth century
21st Century
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CONTROVERSY ''Star Trek'' executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have revealed in various interviews that at no time did they ever fully plan out the Temporal Cold War storyline, or even have rough ideas about its story or direction, or even the identity or back story of the 29th century leader of the Cabal (dubbed " Future Guy " and "Temporal Shower Guy" by fans), essentially making it up as they went along. At the end of the second season of ''Enterprise'', poor ratings and reviews led to a new attempt to revamp the show by creating the Xindi race. In any case, by the end of the Temporal Cold War arc, large segments of the fanbase was disgruntled at the entire storyline when its ''ad hoc'' story development started to become apparent. By the time of the end of the third season, the unpopularity among fans of the Temporal Cold War arc led to changes. A new executive producer, Manny Coto , was given the nod to join the series during the fourth season. This would mean that the last story that Berman and Braga could make independent of outside influence was the Season 3 cliffhanger/Season 4 premiere storyline. However, what could have been an ending of their sole control of the show on a high note was widely ridiculed. The third season cliffhanger revealed that time-traveling aliens were on Earth during World War II , allied with the Nazis , and interfering with the timeline. Many ''Star Trek'' fans were upset with this because the concept of some form of "evil alien nazi" has actually been done twice before on previous ''Star Trek'' series, and thus, had become a cliché (and one of the most prominent criticisms of the pair was that many of the episodes they wrote for ''Enterprise'' used recycled plotlines). With fanbase rejection of the Temporal Cold War arc, it became apparent to Manny Coto that it had to conclude at the beginning of the fourth season. Thus, what was originally meant to be a story arc spanning the entire duration of the series was ended prematurely to put the show on a new, prequel-oriented footing. EPISODES The following list of episodes are those episodes which have involvement of the Temporal Cold War story arc. A subplot of this arc involves the aftermath of Archer freeing a group of Suliban wrongly detained as a result of the Cold War. COMPARE WITH
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