Episode seven found the Ariana and crew trapped in the year 2269. Unsure why they had dropped in a forbidden era.
Ariana activated the 403 lockdown, Savage quickly overrode this and phase cloaked the ship, after explaining the 403 protocol along with activating grey mode, Savage conducted a scan of the immediate area, he found a device, upon scanning the device it caused time to reset, they dropped again, the events repeated, until they began to remember snippets and then all of their previous loops.
They were trapped in a time lock, a device built by an alien race, that had to be preserved to preserve the timeline, but Ariana had to escape.
After leading an away team, Savage orders two crew members to activate the escape protocol, thus condeming them to time itself. With a promise of returning, one that at present he could not fulfill, Ariana escaped, missing two members of her crew.