Humanoid Figure The Humanoid Figure was a mysterious individual who acted as benefactor to the Suliban Cabal in his role as a representative for a faction in the Temporal Cold War . Unable to physically travel through time , he could only partially materialize to deliver information from the 28th century . As payment for their services , he provided the Cabal with the technical expertise to perform genetic enhancements on themselves , including the ability to shapeshift , enhanced senses , and the ability to survive in extreme environments . He also gave them advanced technology such as biomimetic garments and cloaking device s . Activities . Plots of his included staging attacks on the Tandaran s , trying to start a civil war within the Klingon Empire , and sending Silik , leader of the Cabal , to steal a 31st century Temporal Observatory . ( ) In 2152 , he ordered the Cabal to frame for the destruction of the Paraagan II mining colony . When Captain Archer stole evidence of this plot from a Suliban stealth cruiser , he ordered Silik to bring Archer to him . In an attempt to protect Archer , the 31st century temporal agent transported Archer forward in time nine hundred years . Daniels ' actions had disastrous consequences , however , in that removing Archer from the timeline changed history in such a way as to destroy his own civilization . This also had the effect of removing the Cabal ' s benefactor from the timeline , as Silik discovered when he unsuccessfully attempted to contact him . Eventually , Archer was able to return to his own time , restoring the flow of history . ( ) In 2153 , after Earth suffered a devastating attack which resulted in the deaths of seven million people , he ordered Silik to retrieve Captain Archer and deliver him to a temporal chamber . There , he provided Archer with intelligence that the Xindi were behind the attack , and that they were working for another faction in the Temporal Cold War . This gave Starfleet the information it needed to mount a mission to stop the Xindi from destroying Earth . ( ) One year later in 2154 , he assigned Silik to stow away on " Enterprise " , when he learned that Daniels would be sending it back in time to 1944 to stop the Na ' kuhl , another Cold War faction , from constructing a temporal conduit . Wanting the ability to physically travel through time rather than just communicate through it , he ordered Silik to steal the conduit ' s specifications and deliver it back to him . Silik was discovered , however , and eventually teamed up with Captain Archer in order to stop the Na ' kuhl . They were eventually successful in destroying the conduit before the Na ' kuhl had a chance to use it , but Silik was shot to death in the process . The defeat of the Na ' kuhl and the destruction of the conduit led to the end of the Temporal Cold War . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The Humanoid Figure , aka " Future Guy " , was played by actor James Horan . In the series bible for " Star Trek : Enterprise " , this character was referred to as " an unseen leader [ of the Suliban ] from the distant future " and " someone from a distant century who is providing them with technology in exchange for [ . . . ] [ something which ] involves a ' Temporal Cold War ' . " The ENT bible also likened the character to " the devil " ( as the Suliban were referred to as having made a " deal with the devil " ) . Silik actor John Fleck once also made the same comparison regarding the Humanoid Figure ( as Fleck believed Silik ' s devoted attitude towards the mysterious person was similar to Silik " selling his soul to the devil " ) . ( ) In the revised final draft script of ENT pilot episode , the Humanoid Figure was initially described as someone whose image was barely discernible . A subsequent scene description in the same teleplay elaborated , " " The Humanoid Figure [ . . . ] is a male of indeterminate age ; we can barely make out his appearance or his words . " " James Horan had little idea about precisely who this character was , apart from that he was from the future and was using the Suliban to manipulate the past . In fact , Horan was given only pages of the character ' s dialogue , rather than the full script of " Broken Bow " . At a time when the character had appeared in no other episodes but that series pilot , Horan recalled , " " They weren ' t telling me anything , so I had to pull what little info I could [ . . . ] At the audition I said , ' Who is this guy ? ' and they just said , ' We don ' t know ! ' I said , ' Well , is he a hardass ; is he a commander ? What does he do ? ' And they said , ' Yeah ! ' So I gave it a go , and I said , ' Something like that ? ' They said , ' Yeah , exactly like that ! ' I gave him a bit of a stentorian tone to his voice because the lines seemed like he was in charge , and he was admonishing this Suliban to keep him in line . I just played him with a little bit of an edge , I suppose . " " ( ) For " Broken Bow " , Horan spoke the character ' s dialogue on the set . ( ) After " Enterprise " entered its first season , Rick Berman and Brannon Braga remained unsure about the Humanoid Figure ' s identity . At the time , Braga admitted , " " We have several possibilities . But we have not settled on any of them and we may come up with yet another one . I think we ' re going to see how it plays out … . We have some ideas , but honestly we don ' t know for sure . We ' ll find out along with Archer . " " ( " " , paperback ed . , p . 258 ) This character was known only as " Humanoid Figure " and continued to be referred to as that in the episode scripts , as well as in press releases . Given the character is from the future , fans began referring to him as " Future Guy " . ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ) He is also sometimes called " Doctor Claw " in some fan circles , after an " Inspector Gadget " villain ( voiced by Frank Welker ) of the same name who speaks in a distorted voice and , despite appearing in every episode , is ( almost ) never clearly shown . John Fleck once remembered how the Humanoid Figure was filmed for the character ' s reappearance in ; " " It was a stand - in , and he was just standing there while somebody read the lines offstage because he wasn ' t going to be reading the dialogue . You can ' t really see his lips move . " " Concerning both the actor who played the Humanoid Figure on the set for " Broken Bow " and the stand - in who substituted for " Cold Front " , Fleck concluded , " " They ' re dressed in a " Star Trek " - ian type outfit , [ but ] they were just themselves , because they knew we wouldn ' t see their faces [ on screen ] . " " ( ) The writers of ENT originally planned to reveal this mysterious character ' s identity in the first season finale . During the interim between that season and the next , Brannon Braga stated that doing so " just seemed too soon and it didn ' t service the story . " ( ) The name " Future Guy " became so popular that , by the end of ENT ' s second season , Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were referring to him as " Future Guy " in interviews , as did Paramount ' s press release for Season 2 finale . Because the identity of this mysterious figure was being kept secret , fans meanwhile theorized that he had to be a character who was already established . They primarily suspected he was a future version of Jonathan Archer . However , posts on Internet lists and message boards suggested virtually every character , male and female , who had ever been depicted in " Star Trek " . ( " Beyond the Final Frontier " , p . 363 ) Because Romulan s hadn ' t appeared in the series yet , some people were hoping Future Guy would turn out to be a Romulan . In hindsight , Rick Berman and Brannon Braga once joked that another theory had been that the character ' s identity would actually be revealed as J . J . Abrams . ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ) Rick Berman has stated in interviews that at no time was the identity of " Future Guy " ever developed , nor a back story created for the character . At the VegasCon , however , Manny Coto and Brannon Braga stated that " Future Guy " was " probably going to be a Romulan " and would have tied into the Romulan War as a future Romulan , trying to " instigate things . " In the ENT Season 1 Blu - ray featurette " " , Braga remarked , " " We had thrown around a lot of ideas about who Future Guy was gonna be . A Romulan [ for instance ] . " " In , Brannon Braga stated on his Twitter account that the show ' s fifth season would have revealed Future Guy to be Jonathan Archer " trying to correct history " and repair a corrupt future by influencing his younger self . Braga added that Archer being Future Guy was the plan from the beginning , and previous statements claiming Future Guy was intended to be a Romulan were meant as a red herring . In , Braga expanded on his previous statements by indicating that Archer may have been kept alive by Suliban genetics . It was also indicated that Archer may have had a motive to even kill his past self to benefit the future . Brannon Braga later recalled , " " I thought the most interesting idea that we came up with [ regarding the identity of Future Guy ] was that it was going to be Archer himself . And an Archer from some sort of terrible future where he , in some way , was responsible for doing something wrong , but he ' s manipulating himself . And if you go back and look , it could very well have been Archer . " " Braga also expressed disappointment at never having gotten a chance to establish that Future Guy was really Archer and to have Archer transform into this other persona , traveling to the 29th century ( which Braga reckoned had been discussed by the makers of ENT ) . ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ) Apocrypha . The novel " Watching the Clock " refers to him as " Future Guy " and " the Sponsor " before revealing his name to be Jamran Harnoth , and that he is of Suliban , Romulan , and Tandaran descent , attempting to manipulate history so that he can use his civilization ' s genetic engineering technology to alter species across time . " Watching the Clock " also clarifies that his goals were actually based around manipulating the various species he attacked so that certain key temporal scientists would not be born and thus not attend a vital conference in 2381 , which Harnoth believed would be the first step towards the construction of a subspace monitoring grid that was intended to alert the present to any attempts by time travelers from the future to interfere in the past . He is apprehended by Daniels and faces trial in the 31st century for his crimes .