If you want to know what happens before it happens, the script for "Broken Bow", the pilot episode of Enterprise, can be found here, with some amusing annotations.

I'm not usually one to correct spelling errors, when it's obvious what someone meant to say, but just for clarity, it's called "Broken Bow." Thanks for the info, though. I'll be avoiding that script as best I can.

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das Monkey - thanks for the correction (unlike many, I'm not offended by that). It is, in fact, "Broken Bow", and I've corrected my spelling errors as well.

Looks like Paramount got to it.

I remember when the Generations movie came out, and the script was posted to USENET, and I read it weeks before the movie came out. I went on USENET again today to try to find the Enterprise script. It's such a wasteland there. Found a couple links to webpages with the script, but they had all been pulled. At least Paramount can't get USENET postings yanked (easily), but I couldn't find it there.

Thanks, Bandwoman!

The above link was to a pdf file, about 679k... I downloaded it rather than reading it online...

And just finished reading it-- The best thing about the script was the humorous joke "annotations" which the original poster marked the script up with...

Not that it's god-awful, but it's definately same-old-same-old Berman/Brana crap... Not one original thought in the 2hr script...

Agreed, but it's still going to be fun.

My favorite annotation: "No matter what period of Trektime you're in, technology saves the day. [These writers] could write a Civil War movie and still have the characters realign their muskets to the Rebels' cannon frequency."