Captain Archer decides to head the Enterprise for a mining colony. He is looking for information about the Xindi. He has heard from another ship that the Enterprise encountered that there is a Xindi working at the mine. Captain Archer and Lieutenant Reed travel to the surface and cut a bargain with the alien who runs the mine.
Archer and Tucker return the next day with a half liter of liquefied platinum which has been stripped from the Enterprise. The mine chief gives them access to the Xindi. It is then that they find out that the Xindi is a slave laborer and that they are now the prisoners of the mine chief. They try to escape but don't quite make it.
Lieutenant Reed and Major Hayes, the commander of the MACO unit, plan and execute a rescue mission. They bring back the Captain, Trip, and the Xindi. No human lives are lost in the shootout that occurs but the Xindi is gravely injured. Archer had hoped to get help in finding the Xindi homeworld. The Xindi dies. Dr. Phlox is unable to save him but he does provided the coordinates to the homeworld before he passes.
Trip has been having having trouble sleeping since he found out about his sister's death. Dr. Phlox wants him to try Vulcan neuro-pressure, administered by T'Pol. She talks Tucker into letting her administer the technique in a scene which is very sexually charged. This happens after the action on the mining planet. The scene with T'Pol and Trip, in her quarters, after hours, felt off. It seemed as though there was supposed to be some sort of chemistry between T'Pol and Trip but I didn't feel it.
The Enterprise gets to the location where the planet is supposed to be. Instead of finding it they find a field of debris. The planet is gone. What happened to it is a bit of a mystery. This part also felt a bit tacked on. It didn't flow with the rest of the episode.
New looks for T'Pol and Dr. Phlox. The changes are more noticeable on T'Pol. She no longer wears a Starfleet uniform. Her hair is different.
Scenes with the Xindi Council open and close the episode. Some of the members of the council are humanoid and others are not.
On the whole I was not impressed with this episode. It wasn't originally on my list of episodes to watch but I decided to anyway. I thought that maybe it would give me some idea of what the third season would be about or like. The first episode of a season sometimes gets more effort put into it than subsequent ones. If that's the case here then it did not show.
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