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The Andorian Incident

Enterprise chooses a inopportune time to visit a Vulcan monastery, as the monks there are being held captive by the paranoid Andorians.

The Andorians take T'Pol, Tucker and Captain Archer hostage.

They beat up Archer, who really has no crime to confess to, as he is innocent.

The Andorians believe that the Vulcans are building up a military presence on the planet.

During a rescue attempt led by Reed, a secret door is discovered. It leads to a Vulcan military base.

One of the Andorians is Shran, who we meet for the first time here.

Archer reports the Vulcan base to Starfleet.

Shran tell him that he is in his debt.

Thus, the seeds of an alliance with the Andorians are sown.

Terrific episode.
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Breaking The Ice

A Vulcan starship interferes with Archer's probe of an oversized comet.

Archer invites the Vulcan Captain aboard for dinner, who is a typically Vulcan cold fish - and does not eat the meal.. and leaves shortly after.

Archer decides the invitation was a mistake.

Reed and Mayweather take a shuttle pod to the comet.
They collect a core sample. Archer tells them that explosives they had used to drill into the comet have caused the comet to rotate a bit faster than normal, and the two must be off the comet before the side they are on faces a star, which will cause the temperature on the comet to rise by a few hundred degrees, and causes cave ins and melting of the ice.

They almost make it but the shuttle pod falls about 18 meters below the comet's surface.. they are trapped!

Archer tries the grappler to free them, but minerals prevent the magnetic grapplers from being effective enough.

The Vulcan captain volunteers to help with his ship's tractor beam.

Archer swallows his pride and accepts the help; Mayweather and Reed are saved.

A great episode!

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Civilization

Captain Archer and the crew discover a fully inhabited, pre-industrial, Minshara class planet. However, upon further investigation, they discover what appears to be advanced technology being used secretly, which may responsible for a terrible illness.

Archer, T'POl, Hoshi and Tucker take a shuttle pod to an M class planet that is pre - industrial age... except...

.. That scans have revealed an anti matter energy source, located under a curio shop. A woman named Riann, who is a physician who is the Jonas Salk of her planet - ahead of most physicians there- investigates and discovers the away team in the shop.

Archer stuns her with his phase pistol.

He sends the rest of the away team back to Enterprise.

The woman awakens; she is very intelligent and does noy accept Archer's explanations as to why he is there.

He meets an alien who uses the shop to send out huge crates of unknown substance
out from there.

After a shoot out with aliens from the samne race as the first alien, while their ship is using a tractor beam to take the crates into it's cargo hold, Archer decides to tell Riann the truth.. that he is from another planet and has come from far away in a starship on a peacful mission of exploration.

Riann has an open mind and accepts this from Archer. There is a cute scene where his universal translator begins to fail, and he cannot understand her, so he kisses her, and behind her back is able to reprogram the device to function properly. ( This action is not lost on Riann, who, when Archer kisses her again
before he departs the planet, asks if his translator device is broken again. )

They get into the basement of the shop and find the source of the anti matter energy.. a machine which is powering drilling and mining machines! It is also poisoning the water table in the village.

Archer and Riann debate which button to push on the machine - the bluye or yellow one...Archer goes with the blue button, which sets off an alarm which brings the first alien back to the machine. He demans that Archer step outside.

Enterprise is being attacked by a larger and more powerful ship, which belongs to the aliens. Archer has already talked with his ship, and they beam the anti matter device into space, and fire a photon torpedo at it at close ranne to the alien vessel, which destroys their shields, thus enabling the Enterprise to fire at their weapons array.

Archer talks with Riann, and gives her a cure for the poisoning.
He kisses her goodby and leaves.

A fantastic episode!!

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Fortunate Son

The Enterprise crew is dispatched by Starfleet Command to assist Fortunate, a human freight vessel that has been attacked by Nausicaan pirates. On arriving, they are surprised to find that Fortunate's crew is resistant to Archer's efforts to help them and determined to seek revenge against their attackers, no matter what the repercussions.

The captain of the freighter is badly injured and must remain on Enterprise to be treated by the Doctor.

The second in command is now in charge. He talks with Mayweather, who was raised on a freighter. He is disappointed with Mayweather for not being more sympathetic to wanted revenge on the Nausicaans.

Second in command guy takes the freighter, which has been repaired by Enterprise and goes off to destroy Nausicaans.

Meanwhile, they have a Nausicaan hostage.

Enterprise's long range scanners were damaged by the freighter, and thus, they are unable to pursue them.. until they decide to simply find a Nausicaan ship, as that is where the freighter is headed.

The frieghter finds 3 Nausicaan ships and is getting clobbered badly when Enterprise finds them, finally.

Archer convinces the second in command to surrender his hostage; Mayweather was instramental in achieving this, as he had talked to him during the hopeless battle.

A heavy handed and somewhat preachy episode.

It was good, though.