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Enterprise discovers a settlement of humans living a 19th-century Western lifestyle on a Delphic Expanse planet, so Archer and crew set out to learn how they got there.
Writer David A. Goodman says at the TrekBBS: "[T]his episode came from Brannon challenging me to come up with a 'parallel Earth' story like they had on TOS, but one that would fit Enterprise. My favorites of those TOS ones were 'A Piece of the Action' and 'Patterns of Force', since they didn't rely on impossible to explain things like 'Hodgkins Law of Parallel Planet Development.' [...]" -- Read more at the TrekBBS.
Previous Appearances:
Glenn Morshower appeared in two TNG episodes, as Ensign Burke in "Peak Performance" and as Orton in "Starship Mine"; he also played a guard in Voyager's "Resistance" and a navigator in Star Trek Generations. This is his fifth Trek role.
James Parks appeared as Vel in Voyager's "The Chute".
Tom Dupont has not appeared on-screen before, but he worked behind the scenes in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as a paramedic in the Yosemite Park scenes.