Divergence (Enterprise episode)
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"Divergence" is the title of a Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...

television episode from season four.

Plot

As the Enterprise crew (aided by Columbia) race to prevent the impending destruction of the Enterprise (resulting from sabotage by a group of Klingon
Klingon
Klingons are a fictional warrior race in the Star Trek universe.Klingons are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and eight feature films...

-Augment hybrids), Phlox fights a desperate battle against time to come up with a cure for the virus before a Klingon
Klingon
Klingons are a fictional warrior race in the Star Trek universe.Klingons are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and eight feature films...

 task force arrives to stop the diseases by eradicating the colony.

Picking up from the cliffhanger Affliction, Enterprise's engine is sabotaged and is near overload. The Columbia sends Trip to reboot the reactor. Phlox rushes to cure the Klingon plague before the forced sterilization of the colony. With Reed in the brig, Archer contacts Harris for answers to the lieutenant's betrayal.

Captain Archer finds out the Klingon augments had booby-trapped Enterprise. The ship cannot drop below warp five. The Columbia comes to help. Trip has an idea to reverse the Klingon modifications, but at this kind of speeds, he cannot use the transporter. Reed is taken out of the brig for a dangerous plan. Meanwhile, Antaak and Phlox find a cure that will neutralize the virus without turning the victim into an augment. They fear General K'Vagh will not accept it and decide to deceive him. On Enterprise, Captain Archer finds out Reed was contacted by a certain Harris. He wants to know more, putting Reed in another dilemma.

Arc significance

Millions of Klingons are transformed into the type of Klingons seen in Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

, and it is stated that this condition will be passed onto their children, but may someday be reversible. The Klingons are restored to their original appearance some time between the end of The Original Series and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first film based on the Star Trek television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century, when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud called V'Ger approaches the Earth,...

" (1979). (Alternatively, the "TOS" Klingons may well last until just before the Khitomer Conference of 2293 as seen in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise and is the last of the Star Trek films to include the entire main cast of the 1960s Star Trek television series. Released in 1991 by Paramount Pictures, it was directed by Nicholas Meyer and...

" (1991). It is in the parallel events of the Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...

episode "Flashback", that we see the (chronologically) first canon evidence of a "TOS" Klingon- Kang, specifically -having reverted to "standard" Klingon appearance.) In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...

episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" it becomes clear that the reasons for the Klingons' altered appearance were never made public, and because the Klingons considered the transformation shameful they never discussed it with outsiders.

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