Star Trek Enterprise 03x01 - The Xindi - TAFM 058

Six weeks into the Expanse and the Enterprise has little to show for it. Fortunately, a tip from a freighter captain points Archer and Co. to the possible whereabouts of a Xindi miner. 

Cold Open

The council of Xindi races debates the significance of the Enterprise’s arrival in the Expanse. With the weapon still in need of testing, it is decided that more information on Enterprise is needed.

Act I and Act II

Six weeks into their mission, the Enterprise continues its journey through the anomaly ridden Expanse. Following a lead given to them by a freighter captain of “questionable character” they are enroute to a mining facility where they have been told a member of the Xindi race is employed.

At the mining facility, Archer and Reed agree to terms with the foreman but Archer’s request to meet the man to confirm his species is answered with a severed finger belonging to the unfortunate miner. Back on Enterprise, Phlox analyzes it, finding that while it is Xindi, it belongs to a different sub-species than the reptilian pilot.

 

Archer and Trip return to the surface and are granted access to the Xindi miner, Kessick. Kessick refuses to reveal information without a guarantee that they will release him from his slavery. Soon Archer and Trip find they are being held prisoner by the foreman, and agree to help Kessick escape.

With armed ships approaching the Enterprise, it becomes clear to T’Pol that something is amiss, and assigns Reed to work with Corporal Hayes to put together a team to extract the Captain. Reed clashes with Hayes, but eventually backs down.

Act III - Act IV

Archer, Trip, and Kessick work to climb the plasma ducts to the surface, discussing the five xindi races along the way. The conversation ends when plasma begins to surge upward, forcing the group back into the facility, and back under the Foreman’s guard.

Before Archer and Trip can be be executed, the MACO’s arrive and stage their rescue. On the way out, Kessick is hit by weapons fire. Back aboard the Enterprise, while Phlox was unable to save him, Kessick managed to share the coordinates to the Xindi homeworld with his dying breath.

While the Enterprise gets underway, T’Pol and Phlox have conspired to cure Trip’s insomnia by tricking him to performing Vulcan Neuropressure. For some reason Trip mistakes T’Pol’s behavior for sexual advances. T’Pol becomes aggravated, claiming it was a pointless exercise considering how stubborn Trip is. Trip stubbornly asserts he’s not stubborn, and proves it by allowing T’Pol to begin the procedure.

The Enterprise arrives at the coordinates to find nothing but the debris field of a planet destroyed 120 years ago. Uncertain what to do next, the Enterprise proceeds deeper into the Expanse. Meanwhile, the Xindi Council shows signs of fracturing, as the Insectoids promise to destroy enterprise without without the council’s approval.

Star Trek: Enterprise 03x01 - The Xindi
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Written by Rick Berman and Branon Braga
Guest Stars: Richard Lineback, Stephen McHattie, Rick Worthy, Randy Oglesby,