- Captain Archer wants to convert curiosity into deeds and decides to enter a ship floating in space. Hoshi has trouble adjusting to life on Enterprise.
- Enterprise is in a region of space with no inhabited worlds and so there's not much exploring to do. Lieutenant Reed is trying to align the targeting scanners with Ensign Mayweather and Dr. Phlox is taking care of a slug that Ensign Hoshi took aboard, but isn't faring too well. Then Enterprise stumbles upon a ship adrift in space. T'Pol and Captain Archer discuss if the crew should enter the ship to provide assistance if needed, but Archer and mankind's curiosity wins. The captain decides to take Reed and Hoshi with him. Hoshi however is having trouble adjusting to the life on the ship. Earlier she complained about her quarters not being on the port side and this time she tells Archer that she'd rather help from him the bridge because she's claustrophobic.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- After two weeks in space, the only contact of the Enterprise's crew has been with a dying worm. Lieutenant Malcolm Reed is trying to align the scanners of the defense system with the support of Ensign Travis Mayweather; Dr. Phlox is researching a slug and a bat which have been brought aboard; Ensign Hoshi Sato is bored and feeling upset for the slug. When Enterprise sees a spacecraft adrift in space, Captain Jonathan Archer decides to go on board with Reed and Hoshi to contact the crew, but they find fifteen dead crewman. Sub-Commander T'Pol advises to leave the place for the safety of the Enterprise and crew. After an argument with T'Pol about code of behavior. Captain Archer decides to return to the craft with Dr. Phlox, Ensign Hoshi and the engineer Reed, and make contact with the planet of the crewman. Dr. Phlox finds a component of the body of the aliens is being drained by the killers, and they are surprised by the spaceship that has killed the crew is returning. When the situation is dramatic and critical, Hoshi contacts another craft from the same species as the murdered crew.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- It is May 2151, and the crew of Enterprise are settling in, and are slowly getting acquainted with one another. The crew is restless as they have not encountered anything new in the past two weeks: Captain Archer is trying to locate a squeak in his ready room and anxious that they have not discovered any worthwhile planets yet; Sub-Commander T'Pol points out that Vulcans don't select their destination by what piques their interest as they don't share humanity's enthusiasm for exploration; Only 1 out of 43K planets supports Intelligent life. Lieutenant Reed and Ensign Mayweather are running weapons simulations which are slightly off; The weapons are hitting a few meters off target, which could mean a lot in a life situation. Archer helps them by dropping out of warp and letting Reed do some live target practice to calibrate his instruments and in Sickbay, Ensign Sato cares for a slug brought back from an away mission. Sato switches rooms with another crewman as her room was on the port side, while she is used to stars travelling on the starboard side of the ship.
When T'Pol picks up a drifting Axanar vessel on sensors, Enterprise drops out of warp to investigate. The ship shows evidence of weapons fire and bio-signs but does not respond to hails. Archer is eager to make first contact with a new race, but T'Pol recommends non-interference. After discovering multiple hull breaches, an away team in EV suits is dispatched (Tucker wants to go, but is not on the team. Sato is reluctant (as EVs make her claustrophobic) but is on roster). The alien crew is soon found dead (minus 20 degrees and a nitrogen methane atmosphere), suspended upside-down with tubes attached to their chests. Spooked, the away team retreat and Enterprise departs. Archer knows whoever did this is going to come back. Doctor Phlox and Sato discuss her fears over the incident, and draw parallels between her and the slug being out of their natural environment. Phlox reminds Sato that in space she is to expect the unexpected.. else she could always return to Earth and take up a teaching job.
Eventually, Archer decides to return to the ship (the dead were in uniforms, which means they were crewmen murdered on their own ship) (Plus Archer argues that they would not have run away if the dead crew had been humans or Vulcans). Phlox discovers the bodies are being harvested for a chemical similar to lymphatic fluid (which is used to develop medicines, vaccines or even aphrodisiacs), whilst Commander Tucker restores communications and Sato decodes the Axanar language. Together they send off a distress message into space. When T'Pol warns Archer that a ship is approaching, the crew withdraws to Enterprise, but not before shooting the harvest pump. The alien vessel attacks (T'Pol had to wait to get the away team back on board, and that meant damage to the port nacelles), but Enterprise cannot return fire accurately due to problems with the targeting scanners. A second Axanar vessel arrives, and Sato persuades them (after having trouble with the translator, Archer encourages Sato to take control of the situation herself and convince the alien captain that the hostile alien ship was responsible for what happened to their crew) that the alien ship was responsible. They then attack the hostile ship (Reed has the sensor aligned and the Enterprise joins the fight) and Enterprise is saved. Axanar are androgynous and live for over 400 yrs.
The episode ends with Sato and Phlox releasing the slug on a new planet.
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