- Captain Archer orders the crew of Enterprise to save a Xindi-Insectoid hatchery.
- The Enterprise finds a Xindi ship crashed on the surface of a planet, and while the team lead by Captain Archer is investigating, they meet an insectoid hatchery in a compartment protected by heavy and reinforced bulkheads. Reed realizes that the air inside is breathable and the group removes the helmet of the breathing apparatuses, but Archer is hit by a sort of substance on his face and sent to the sickbay. After the examination, Dr. Phlox realizes that no damage was caused to Captain Archer, but the crew notes that he becomes obsessed to save the insectoid offspring claiming humanistic reasons. When he orders to give one third of the supply of antimatter to restart the reactor of the Xindi ship to maintain the life support system of the hatchery, T'Pol questions his command and is confined in her cabin. Then Reed, Trip and Dr. Phlox are successively dismissed, and the senior officers decide that only a mutiny can save the Enterprise.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Enterprise stumbles upon a crashed insectoid Xindi ship. While all the insectoids are dead, a hatchery with insectoids eggs is still intact, but has failing systems. To the astonishment of the crew, captain Archer decides that the hatchery must be saved. He wants to set an example of the goodness of mankind, even if that will endanger the mission of Enterprise by giving up one third of the ship's antimatter supply.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- The Enterprise investigates a lifeless Insectoid vessel crashed on a barren planet, hoping to find helpful information on its computer database. Archer leads an away team to explore the wreckage and discovers an Insectoid hatchery with several dozen surviving eggs, and a failing bio-support system. The eggs appear to be offspring of the dead crew and T'Pol calculates 31 viable eggs. He is sprayed in the face by one of the eggs. Doctor Phlox concludes it was a defense mechanism and treats him with an analgesic. Dead Insectoids and one of their shuttles are then taken aboard for analysis (the ship broke up upon emerging from one of the subspace vortexes), and computer logs reveal the survivors cut off their own life support in order to save the ship's hatchery.
Despite objections, Archer keeps Enterprise at the planet and orders Commander Tucker to repair the hatchery's bio-support on the Xindi ship (eggs cannot be removed from the hatchery without killing them) (He argues that saving the eggs might be a great way to prove that humans are not as savage as the Xindi make them out to be). Incompatibilities with Starfleet portable power generators cause an overload, prematurely hatching one of the eggs, but Phlox cannot save it. Phlox determines that the Insectoids have an avg lifespan of 12 yrs.. Archer is delaying the journey to Azati Prime to attend to the hatchery and the crew knows that every day spent here gives Xindi more time to complete their weapon.
Increasingly obsessive, Archer soon orders the transfer of one-third of Enterprise's antimatter supply to the Xindi ship (even though Enterprise is down to 60% of their reserves) so that full power can be restored to use the Xindi ship's hatchery to save the eggs. With the success of the mission in mind, Sub-Commander T'Pol refuses to carry out his order, so he relieves her of duty and confines her to quarters. Soon after, Lieutenant Reed, in control of the bridge, destroys an escaping Xindi ship. Archer relieves him as well, saying that the alien crew could have helped to save the eggs.
Archer promotes Major Hayes (Steven Culp), non-Starfleet leader of the MACOs (Military Assault Command Operations), to First Officer. Hayes questions nothing about Archer's behavior, and has his MACOs man a number of critical positions on the ship. Archer orders Ensign Sato to prepare an Insectoid-language distress signal. With time running out, Tucker and Phlox conclude that a mutiny is in order, and they free T'Pol and Reed to assist. After a tense standoff and shootout with the MACOs, the Enterprise crew capture the bridge. Meanwhile, Tucker beams down to the hatchery and stuns Archer. Back on Enterprise, a thorough medical scan by Phlox reveals that the egg had sprayed Archer with a "nurturing hormone", making him focus on preserving them. In the end, Archer is fully treated, Hayes confirms that he did not have a medical reason for thoughtlessly following questionable orders, and the ship resumes at full warp-speed towards Azati Prime.
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