From the bridge of the USS Enterprise E Captain Worf could hear the sound of metal twisting, grinding and snapping as a small blue wooden box slammed into decks 4 and 5 of his ship. Sparks were flying from consoles and smoke was spraying out from various places around the bridge. Commander Tom Paris was frantically trying to put out the fire that had consumed his first officers chair by wafting his hands at it, which to Harry Kim's amusement was to no avail. Kim was busy reading out damage and injury reports from across the ship, and down in sickbay, Doctor Beverly Crusher was overrun with casualties coming in from all over the place.
The Doctor had been flung across the control room of the TARDIS as it collided with what he had now identified as the starship Enterprise E. He still had not gotten round to trying to figure out what it had been doing in the time vortex to begin with. A rather large part of the Doctor was very excited to find himself in such a strange situation. He was about to contact the Enterprise when the TARDIS lurched about uncontrollably, knocking the Doctor off his feet once more. Explosions surrounded him in the control room as he felt the TARDIS hurtling towards...something. He just wasn't sure what, and wasn't sure he wanted to find out.
As the sparks stopped flying, the fires were put out and the ship stopped lurching about, Captain Worf returned to his chair to discover the damage done to the Enterprise. Commander Paris showed some reservations about sitting back down in his now slightly scorched chair, but decided it was probably safe. Worf then remembered that the captain's chair was equipped with a seatbelt, and thought to himself that it would have more useful to recall that information about two minutes earlier. Just as everyone returned to their stations, the ship started careering through space. Space. Worf noticed that the Enterprise had left the time vortex. The question now was where. As the ship lurched around Worf felt the ship caught by the gravity of a planet. A few seconds later a planet appeared on the viewscreen. A blue, green and white planet: Earth. Worf immediately ordered Lieutenant Kim to hail Starfleet Command. Harry's response was "I'm not picking up any Starfleet signals within sensor range. No ships, Starbases, colonies, nothing." Worf then realised that the question was not where, but when.
The Doctor could Earth rapidly approaching on the monitor as sparks came at him from all directions. He knew where he was, just not when he was, although that was a feeling he had gotten used to by now. He had also been through the feeling of crashing on Earth before, except that had caused him to have to rebuild the TARDIS (except it did most of that itself) and he didn't want to be stuck for too long again. He just wanted to find somewhere that he could be left alone. Maybe a cloud or something. The Doctor went to the door of the control room and looked out over the planet he was headed towards. He then noticed that the starship Enterprise into which he had just crashed had overtaken on its course towards Earth. His only thought was 'Geronimo'.
As Commander Paris, having taken over the helm, attempted to level the descent of the Enterprise E, he thought that he saw a stone castle on the ground below. He knew only a few were left on Earth in the 24th century, but there were many of them in the Middle Ages, when people like the Saxons and the Normans occupied Europe. The thought then crossed his mind that this could be where, or more precisely, when, they had ended up. Or, more precisely, when they were about to crash. When Tom realised there was nothing he could do as the ship was about to hit the ground of Medieval Earth, he decided the best thing to do was hold on to his chair for dear life. The Enterprise hit the ground with an almighty crash of metal hitting earth, and dug up trees, grass and leaves as it careered along the ground. Luckily, Tom thought, they didn't appear to hit any settlements or buildings , and they soon came to rest. Then, on the viewscreen that had settled on showing the rear of the ship, Tom saw the blue police box crash into ground a few metres from the starboard nacelle with a decidedly less dramatic thump.