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Brensec pal, you're thinking of "Ballance of Terror" from the first season of the original Trek. I'm talking about the last show of season one of TNG. The episode is called "The Neutral Zone". Y2Craigie has already spelled out the plot so I won't add to it.

Craig, I agree about a few things you've said about Enterprise there. They do seam to be re-writing Trek history a tad, but the Romulons and Klingons turn up quite early in Trek history. Even in the first season of the Original Trek we find out that Earth and Romulus have been at war at some point in the past and this lead to the Treaty of Algeron that set up the Neutral Zone and banned the Federation (but not the Romulons) from developing cloaking technology. Enterprise seams to have re-written this. Also in TNG (can't remember what show, but it was the one where Ryker is in disguise as an alien on a pre-first contact observation mission and is captured by the native population) Picard states that a disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire over a century before lead to seventy years of un-remitting hostility. So we know that these two races turn up quite soon in Trek history. TNG however does introduces the Ferengi and so to have Archer and co meet them in Enterprise is incorrect. And with all that Borg wreckage on Earth by the time Picard and co meet then the Federation should know all about them!
Quite a few Enterprise shows have been directed by former Trek cast. LeVar Burton has done several and so has Robert Duncan McNeal and Roxanne Dawson. Can't remeber seeing Johnathan Frakes name as a director yet though.

Since the subject was mentioned. Why doesn't the Federation have cloaking technology, at least by the end of Voyager series or DS9.

You mentioned the treaty with the Romulans, but surely by now the Federation should be able to develop their own, a hundred or more years after the Romulans and Kligons managed to do it.
They even have access to the one on the Defiant to study, if it's all been to difficult to come up with on their own.

With all the advancements that have taken place over the length of all the series you think by now they would have something so valuable.  

Don't worry too much about letting me in on future 'Enterprise' episodes. I'll watch them and enjoy them anyway, whether I have an inkling of what might happen or not.
I continually watch all the others over and over, so if you let something out about episodes that I haven't seen yet, it really won't matter. You'd have to go into quite alot of detail to spoil an episode for me.
Thanks for the thought though.

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That's OK pal, it's very easy to get confused with so many shows. Both shows have a similar theme.
Trek is famous for re-writing it's own history and Rick Berman once said that events from the original Trek need not be taken for granted.
You know, I've not noticed if Jeri Taylor is involved in Enterprise but I would guess she would be.

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The Klingons got hold of cloaking device technology through a sort of technical treaty/exchange they had at one time with the Romulons. The Romulons got hold of some Klingon star ship designs (Original Trek, season three-" The Enterprise incident") The Federation has developed a cloak of sorts but it was a phasing cloak that altered the structure of the vessel enabeling it to phase out of normal space. (TNG, season seven-"The Pegasus")

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I agree with you here Craig. If Picards quote is accurate, Archer and co meet the Klingons at least 50 years too soon! I thought that Star Trek six movie rip off was a bit weak. It was much harder for Kirk and McCoy to escape also. Archer just walked out!

It's perfectly understandable that Gene and Co had obsolutely no idea that Star Trek would go on for so long, in so many different series and movies and that so much would be dependant on getting the 'Original' history right. For instance Gene explained that the star dates had no significance whatsoever. The production team, after a while, tried to have them sequential, but some ended up out of sequence because of episodes going to screen in the wrong order. So, officially, there is no sense or formula to relate the stardates to any year or time.
I understand the Original almost didn't go to series. There was a year gap between the pilot and the beginning of the series.
Also TNG was a bit of a worry to begin with too. There was alot of 'resistance' fron the 'hard core' Original fans that just couldn't see Kirk and Spock etc replaced. Especially after the Movie. But of course they were never replaced. They played there parts, and still do (God rest McCoy) in the new series and the movies.

I think. maybe the 'Enterprise' series is partly an attempt at trying to re-tell some of the history so it fits a little better with the later series. Kind of a re-organising of events and historic moments. I think First Contact was a good start to that process.

well since you asked, it was explained that an escape pod from the borg ship crashed in a polar ice cap. and a team of scientists found them years later still frozen. I havent seen first contact ina  long time so i cant remember to well what actually happend, but they explained it from the battle between the enterprise and the borg over earth, they even mentioned it in the episode, something about cochran being visited  by men from the future trying to stop his first warp test then another group of men from the future actually helping him. but everyone dismissed the claim by cochran thinking he was insane:). what i dont understand is in the first series archer was given information from the future containing tons of ships and species, when going through that one time you could even see the borg ships and enterprise A through E. and various other ships from future, why he didnt just check that about the borg i dont know, well i do know they try to pass it off as the temperal prime directive, but so far picard and janeway have broken that more times than the rest of starfleet combined:)

Star Trek is full of these errors brensec old pal. You would think that with a show so big with so much information available they would get their own history correct!
I remember reading that Rick Berman (the new big boss at Star Trek) said that events from the original (ie. from before his time in charge) should be taken with a pinch of salt and not considered as officially correct. Reading between the lines here, he is saying that the film exploits of Kirk and Co are OK, but the first series is not really part of Star Trek history.