When "Voyager" ended, the two were asked to continue as writers on "". For much of the first year this involved re-writes on episodes plotted by executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. During the second season, Strong and Sussman created episodes from scratch; in the third season, they branched out as solo writers. Sussman later said in an interview that the writers on the series had a competition amongst them to insert references to "The Original Series". Amongst Sussman's references were including the Malurians in the "Enterprise" episode "" after they were wiped out during the events of "The Original Series" episode "". During season three, his "pet project" was the episode "", an alternative future episode which featured a romance between characters Jonathan Archer and T'Pol.