- Captain Archer has been returned to Enterprise by the Xindi council awaiting a hearing. But after a heavy attack by the Reptilians, Enterprise is stranded without a functional warp drive. They meet another ship in trouble because of space anomalies. The ship's captain isn't willing to trade in their warp coil and Archer must make a tough decision. Meanwhile T'Pol is having some strange sensations and can't control her emotions.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- Even though Enterprise is severely damaged, the Xindi unexpectedly break off the attack of the previous episode. Reptilian Commander Dolim (Scott MacDonald), is angered by the recall, after the other Xindi begin to doubt that Earth ship represents the same threat they previously imagined. The Primate Degra (Randy Oglesby) argues that the evidence of interference in Xindi culture, provided earlier by Captain Archer, must be discussed first. Dolim reluctantly submits, and the Aquatics send Archer back to Enterprise in an escape pod. He arrives to find the ship in disarray, with at least 14 members of the crew dead. The ship needs a replacement warp coil in order to travel at warp. T'Pol has managed to get one plasma cannon and one aft torpedo to be back online.
Although adrift, Enterprise encounters an Illyrian spacecraft, damaged by the Gravimetric energy generated by the Delphic Expanse. Archer attempts to trade (with 60 kilograms of Trellium-D to safeguard their ship against the spatial anomalies) with the captain, but he refuses to give up their sole warp coil. Meanwhile, a partial Xindi Council (Degra; another Primate council member, and Jannar (Rick Worthy), an Arboreal) communicate with "the Guardian" (Josette DiCarlo) - the audience's first view of the prophetic time traveler of the trans-dimensional, "Sphere-Builder" species.
The Guardian admits to transporting the Reptilians into the past (as per the episode "Carpenter Street"), and encouraging Reptilian and Insectoid to remain on the Council. She refuses to say whether her species built the spheres. Upset, Degra insists on further examining Archer's evidence regarding the Guardian-Sphere Builder connection.
Meanwhile, Ensign Sato discovers a message from Degra hidden aboard the Xindi escape pod, asking Enterprise to rendezvous with him in a few days at a nearby location (the location is at least 4 light yrs away and the ship needs min warp 3 to get there in time). Unable to travel at warp, Archer is forced to attack the Illyrian vessel and steal their coil, although this will leave the Illyrians unable to reach home for three years. Archer's decision is met with an angry outburst from Sub-Commander T'Pol (who says they are no different from the marauders who attacked the Enterprise when they entered the expanse), but Archer justifies his actions as a necessity of war, saving billions of lives while making the Illyrian's journey more perilous.
The episode reveals T'Pol hid a three-month addiction to Trellium-D (she secretly ventures into the cargo hold to steal micro quantities of the substance that nobody would notice to fuel her cravings), which she finally admits it to Doctor Phlox. Unusually for a Vulcan, it has left her experiencing emotions.
Despite further damage (more hull breaches and damage to the Thrusters), the raid is successful (Archer, Tucker and Hayes beam over to the Illyrian ship, steal their warp coil and are beamed back. T'Pol had to disable their power systems to disable the force fields around the warp coil. Archer leaves 3 containers of Trellium and food supplies for the ship as compensation), and Enterprise heads for the covert rendezvous.
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