 While investigating a possible location of the superweapon in " Azati Prime " , Enterprise was severely damaged by several Xindi vessels and its warp coil was destroyed . This necessitates the crew stealing a warp core from an Illyrian vessel in the following episode " Damage " as without it the ship could not travel at warp and intercept the Xindi weapon . Following that acquisition , the ship and crew is approached by a version of Enterprise which had been sent 117 years into the past and has become a generational ship attempting not to disrupt the timeline . The crew of the two versions of Enterprise work together and enable the present @-@ day Enterprise to enter a subspace corridor to allow Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) to meet with the Xindi Council . The whereabouts of the future Enterprise are unknown , but there is speculation as to whether it was destroyed or ceased to exist . 
