Star Trek: Enterprise / Season 3

Season 3 of Enterprise

Episodes

24

Country of production

United States

First broadcast

Sep 10 2003 - May 26, 2004 on UPN

German-language
first broadcast

November 28, 2004 - February 27, 2005 on Sat.1

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With the third season , the American television series Enterprise was renamed Star Trek: Enterprise . It consists of 24 episodes, each about 40 minutes in length. The action takes place as a direct continuation of the second season in the years 2153 and 2154 with several time travel in the future and the past. It was first broadcast in the US on the UPN TV station from September 2003 to May 2004, and the German first broadcast on Sat.1 from November 2004 to February 2005. The season is available on DVD and now also on Blu-ray .

action

overview

After the attack of a Xindi probe on Earth, in which seven million people died, the Enterprise sets out at the end of the second season to prevent a second attack by the Xindi to completely destroy the Earth ( → main article: The expansion ).

The third season runs as a "red thread" through the search for the Xindi's super weapon. The Enterprise is entering a part of space in which the laws of physics no longer apply without restrictions. In addition, the people are confronted with a number of problems, as a result of which they have to give up previously unshakable principles and appear significantly more complex and ambivalent. The season closes with the destruction of the Xindi weapon and begins an interlude that brings the "Temporal Cold War" to an end in the following season.

Episodes 1-12

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
53	1	The Xindi	The Xindi	Sep 10 2003	Nov 28, 2004	Allan Kroeker	Rick Berman , Brannon Braga
The Enterprise has been in the area for six weeks to find the Xindi who are believed to be responsible for the attack on Earth. For this reason, a military attack command (MAKOs) is now on board. A freighter captain's tip leads the Enterprise to a planet where Archer and Tucker can contact a humanoid Xindi held captive by exchanging liquid platinum. When they meet him in an underground prison mine, they realize that they are now trapped there too. The Xindi promises to give them the coordinates of the Xindi's homeworld if they help him escape. When their escape attempt is thwarted by the prison guards, it turns out that the guards used the Xindi to lure Archer and Tucker into a trap. At that moment, the three of them are freed by a MAKO command under Reed's leadership and can flee from the enemy ships. During the liberation the Xindi is seriously injured, but shortly before his death he reveals the promised coordinates to Phlox. There the crew only finds a 80 million kilometer long debris field from a planet that was destroyed 120 years ago. To find the Xindi, they set out on a course that takes them even deeper into the expanse. The crew's plan does not go unnoticed by far-off advice from aliens. - Tucker, traumatized after the death of his sister and barely able to sleep through the night, is persuaded by T'Pol to do a Vulcan neuropressure with Phlox 'assistance.
54	2	anomaly	Anomaly	17 Sep 2003	Dec 4, 2004	David Straiton	Mike Sussman
The Enterprise crew finds a spaceship floating in space with the bodies of 17 humanoids who were killed there less than two days ago. Suddenly the Enterprise is attacked by the osaarian pirates who also attacked the found ship. In addition to weapons and food, they steal supplies of antimatter, which the Enterprise uses as a means of propulsion. Since the remaining supplies are sufficient for a month at most, the crew begins looking for the stolen goods. One crew member was killed and others injured in the attack, but the crew was able to capture a pirate. Following the trail of the pirate ship, after crossing a camouflage field, the Enterprise encounters a 19 km diameter sphere in space, in which it finds most of the cargo items. In order to extort information about the Xindi from the captured Osaarian, Archer tortures him through rapid decompression in an airlock. This tells him that the Osarians have a Xindi database. The crew can copy part of the database from another, newly-added osaarian ship when they briefly pursued it with the Enterprise into the camouflage field. She drops the captured Osararian in the sphere.
55	3	transformation	Extinction	Sep 24 2003	Dec 5, 2004	LeVar Burton	André Bormanis
Thanks to the Xindi database, the Enterprise can track some Xindi up to one planet. There, Archer, T'Pol, Reed and Sato find some cremated bodies next to a Xindi ferry. Archer, Reed and Sato quickly transform into animal creatures under the influence of the planet, capture T'Pol and declare that they are in search of a place called Urquat. A rescue team manages to bring Reed back to the Enterprise, where Phlox identifies a virus as the likely cause of the mutations. The leader of two alien ships approaching the planet demands the immediate decontamination of the Enterprise, i.e. the killing of Reed, and otherwise threatens to use force. He also explains that his society has been studying the virus for 60 years and that it was once produced by the Loque'eque species, who wanted to save themselves from extinction. His society has already killed 10 million infected people to prevent the virus from spreading. In order to kill the infected members of the Enterprise crew as well, he sends a raid to the planet's surface. Before he can carry out his assignment, Archer, Sato and T'Pol are rescued by an Enterprise team. The latter then flees from the two ships and Phlox manages to develop an antidote. Archer, who quickly transforms himself back into a human, offers it to the pursuers and can thus prevent them from further attacks.
56	4th	Rajiin	Rajiin	Oct. 1, 2003	Dec 11, 2004	Mike Vejar	Brent V. Friedman , Chris Black ; Idea: Paul Brown , Brent V. Friedman
For a safer passage through the expanse, the Enterprise crew needs the substance Trellium-D, whose manufacturing formula is so far unknown to them. When an away team buys the formula in a marketplace on a planet, Archer saves the humanoid concubine Rajiin, who is obviously fleeing from a trader, and takes her on board. A first attempt at synthesis using the formula fails. It soon turns out that Rajiin is able to manipulate the crew, including Archer, in order to be able to approach them and scan them biometrically. After Rajiin injured T'Pol in the process, she is exposed as a spy, whereupon she tries unsuccessfully to escape from the crew. As two Xindi spaceships approach the Enterprise, Archer learns from Rajiin that she was sent here by the Xindi because they need information about the humans to build a new biological weapon. Some of the reptilians board the Enterprise and take Rajiin with them, killing some Enterprise crew members and a Xindi, whom Archer then has Phlox autopsied. Rajiin finally reveals the information about the Enterprise crew to the Xindi assembly planning to build the weapon.
57	5	Impulsive	Impulses	Oct 8, 2003	Dec 12, 2004	David Livingston	Jonathan Fernandez ; Idea: Jonathan Fernandez , Terry Matalas
The Enterprise receives a distress call from the volcanic spaceship Seleya, which has been lost in the expanse for nine months. Archer and T'Pol then fly with an away team to Seleya, which they tracked while drifting in an asteroid field containing large amounts of Trellium-D. On board they meet the volcanic crew, who have turned into violent, aggressive and outwardly disfigured beings and who are now blocking their way back to the space shuttle. T'Pol is also beginning to change and reacting increasingly emotionally and paranoid. Since Tucker and Mayweather have meanwhile damaged the second Enterprise ferry while extracting Trellium-D - which is supposed to protect the Enterprise from anomalies in the expansion - they cannot help those trapped at first. Phlox's analysis of the data collected by the away team reveals that Trellium-D is toxic to Vulcans, turning them into murderous creatures. Since the crew of the Seleya has been exposed to the poison for too long, Phlox can no longer heal them. The away team finally manages to flee from the Seleya to the Enterprise, in which they are forced to overload the Seleya's reactor, so that the ship is destroyed. Tucker and Mayweather have gained over 60 kg of Trellium-D, which is stored on board in such a way that T'Pol, who has recovered, is protected from it.
58	6th	exile	Exile	Oct 15, 2003	Dec 18, 2004	Roxann Dawson	Phyllis Strong
While the Enterprise is on its way to a newly discovered, second Xindi sphere, the telepath Tarquin, who lives alone on a planet in exile due to his abilities, contacts Sato. Archer and Sato agree to Tarquin's request that Sato stay at his property for a while. In return, he would like to give the crew new information about the Xindi weapon. Sato realizes that Tarquin knows very well about her past and that he is very lonely. She also notes that he has had some mates before who have since died because he is very long-lived. Tarquin admits that he wants to keep Sato with him forever and not let him return to the Enterprise. In the vicinity of the visually camouflaged Xindi sphere, the Enterprise is badly damaged by massive gravimetric distortions. In order to explore the sphere, Archer and Tucker fly there in a ferry that they have lined with Trellium-D, which protects against the anomalies, and collect valuable information. The analysis of the data on the sphere shows that the anomalies are caused by at least 50 similar spheres that may have created the expansion. Sato can free himself from the violence of Tarquin and save the Enterprise, which has returned to the planet. However, it does not initially receive any new information about the Xindi. However, Tarquin appears to her again by telepathic route and yet informs her about a Xindi colony in which part of the Xindi weapon is supposedly being built.
59	7th	The charge	The shipment	Oct 29, 2003	Dec 19, 2004	David Straiton	Chris Black , Brent V. Friedman
In the Xindi council, construction manager Degra reports that the planned weapon will be ready for use in a few weeks. With the help of the coordinates that the Enterprise crew received from Tarquin, they discover a planet and a complex of Xindi buildings. The away team, which consists of Archer, Reed and Hayes, finds a large amount of the substance Kemocite in it. They beam a canister from it for analysis on board. Then they follow Gralik, one of the three Xindi they discovered in the building, to his house and confront him with the truth that the Kemocite is to be used to build a weapon. However, Gralik denies knowing anything about the weapon. On board the Enterprise, Tucker finds out that the Kemocite powers all of the Xindi weapons. He accidentally triggers a self-destruct mechanism on a Xindi handgun, but can beam it off board at the last moment. Archer decides not to destroy the Kemocite facility in order not to act as an aggressor and informs Gralik of the attack on Earth. Gralik, in turn, explains that Degra made him believe the Kemocite was only intended for research purposes. A Xindi Reptilian spaceship appears to pick up the last cargo of Kemocite. T'Pol modifies the canister so it can be tracked and beams it back to Archer. He can smuggle him into the reptilian ship, while Gralik helps him to remain undetected. Back on the Enterprise, Sato confirms that she can track the Xindi ship.
60	8th	dusk	Twilight	Nov 5, 2003	Jan. 2, 2005	Robert Duncan McNeill	Mike Sussman
On the Enterprise, Archer is hit by an anomaly and infected with parasites that cause him to permanently lose his long-term memory. Twelve years later, he is still ill and is informed by T'Pol of the events since the incident: Some time after his infection, T'Pol was given command of the Enterprise by Starfleet. On the way to the Xindi arms factory, the Enterprise was attacked by Xindi spaceships, and although T'Pol had saved it from destruction, it was severely damaged. The crew reached the arms factory too late; The Xindi could not only destroy the earth with the weapon, but also several human colonies, so that only a few people survived. T'Pol then resigned her command. Twelve years after Archer's infection, he is visited by Phlox, who intends to cure him. To do this, Archer, T'Pol and Phlox go to the Enterprise, now commanded by Tucker, where Phlox begins the healing procedure and recognizes with T'Pol that this not only eliminates the parasites currently in Archer's body, but also that the parasites are eliminated also disappear in the past and thus history can be rewritten. During the healing process, however, the Enterprise is attacked again by the Xindi and heavily shot at. Just before the Enterprise is destroyed, Archer can complete the procedure, which corrects the timeline and Archer wakes up healthy again in the present.
61	9	Law of the thumb	North Star	Nov 12, 2003	Jan. 8, 2005	David Straiton	David A. Goodman
The Enterprise crew discovered human life on a planet. An outside team goes undercover to a village that resembles the settlements in the Wild West of the world. The team finds that the human inhabitants are suppressing the alien Skagarans. 300 years earlier, their ancestors had brought some people onto the planet as slaves to help them build colonies. However, people began to rebel against the Skagarans. As a result of the clashes, only about 1000 Skagarans remained alive, who are now marginalized by the approximately 6000 people. When human teacher Bethany is illegally teaching some Skagaran children, she is arrested. Archer, who was present and therefore also arrested, was soon released from custody as a stranger. After he has freed Bethany from prison, she is shot while trying to escape together and is beamed onto the Enterprise by Archer to treat her injuries. In order for the people on the planet to overcome their resentments, Archer and his crew try to convey to them that the earth has not given up on them. To do this, he and some crew members land on a ferry in the middle of the village. But they are attacked by Bennings, the sheriff's deputy, and his men, who believe that Archer wants to restore the Skagarans to power. Bennings is unsuccessful with this, however. Bethany is finally allowed to teach Skagaran children. Archer promises that Earth will send spaceships to bring the humans.
62	10	Likeness	Similitude	Nov 19, 2003	Jan. 9, 2005	LeVar Burton	Manny Coto
In an experiment in which the Enterprise accelerates to warp 4.9, technical problems arise, which Tucker switches off the warp drive to correct, but falls seriously injured into a coma. Due to the abrupt end of the warp plow, the Enterprise is stranded incapable of maneuvering in an area of space in which the outer shell of the Enterprise is covered with a dense crust of nucleonic particles. To save Tucker with a transplant, Phlox clones him with Archer's permission. The clone called Sim grows up within a few days into a man who is physically like Tucker and who also has his memories. The thickening crust on the outer hull threatens a ship-wide system failure within a few days and with it the death of everyone. At Sim's suggestion, the Enterprise is pulled out of the fog with the two ferries and so saved. Contrary to his initial belief, Phlox discovers that Sim will not survive the impending transplant. Driven by the fear of his own death, Sim would like to use an enzyme to slow down his rapid aging process as part of an experimental treatment . However, since this is unlikely to be available until the latest possible transplant date, Archer prohibits this treatment. Sim's attempt to escape aboard a ferry, he breaks off when he realizes that only Tucker's survival offers a chance that further events like the death of Tucker's sister can be prevented. While Tucker heals after the transplant, Sim is buried in space by the crew.
63	11	Carpenter Street	Carpenter Street	Nov 26, 2003	Jan 15, 2005	Mike Vejar	Rick Berman , Brannon Braga
Archer learns from time traveler Daniels that three reptilian Xindi traveled to 2004 and to Detroit . Archer and T'Pol follow them there to find out what their plans are. They follow a man named Loomis from a factory where the Xindi are staying to his apartment. He considers them to be criminal police officers and admits that for money he brought six human subjects with different blood types to a stranger, who is one of the Xindi . Loomis smuggled Archer into the factory building in Carpenter Street, where the Xindi also hold the others to take blood. There he discovers the Xindi when they are using a bioreactor and the blood obtained to synthesize viruses in order to use them against humanity. With T'Pol's help, Archer overpowers the Xindi and can also stop the virus from being released into a public building at the last second. After Archer and T'Pol return to 2153 and the Enterprise with the dead Xindi, virus container and bioreactor, Loomis is arrested by police in Detroit.
64	12	The chosen kingdom	Chosen realm	Jan. 14, 2004	Jan. 16, 2005	Roxann Dawson	Manny Coto
Some strictly religious Triannonians get on the Enterprise under a pretext and take control after threatening suicide attacks. They regard the expanse as the chosen realm and the spheres as sanctuaries created by divine beings to prepare for their return. Since their leader D'Jamat is convinced that the Enterprise crew has desecrated the spheres, and since he rejects scientific research, he deletes all information gathered about the expansion and the spheres from the Enterprise computer. Together with his followers, he flies the Enterprise to Triannon to use it in the war there against those residents who do not share his faith. After asking Archer to decide which crew member should die on behalf of the "crimes" of the Enterprise crew, Archer allegedly lets himself be killed, but actually beamed to another location on the Enterprise. With the help of D'Jamat's previous supporter Yarrick, who has doubts about D'Jamat's actions, and his crew, which is gradually freed, Archer gradually regains control of the ship, which D'Jamat is meanwhile using for some spaceships to attack the opposing Triannon. The Enterprise finally brings the trapped Triannonians back to their home planet, which has since been devastated by the war. In doing so, Archer D'Jamat makes the effects of his fanaticism clear.

Episodes 13-24

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
65	13	Test area	Proving Ground	Jan. 21, 2004	Jan. 22, 2005	David Livingston	Chris Black
Before the Xindi Council, construction manager Degra announces that the weapon the Xindi want to use to destroy the earth will be ready for use in about a month. Degra is now having a prototype tested in a test area that includes several moons. Through the direction finder that Archer was able to hide on a Xindi ship some time ago, the Enterprise is guided into this system, but gets into an anomaly and is stopped. The ship is rescued from the anomaly shortly afterwards by an Andorian spaceship led by Shran. Shran pretends to support Starfleet in return for their earlier help. The Enterprise and the Andorian ship then fly to the test area, where Archer wants to steal the prototype so that Starfleet can develop a defense. Since the weapon is contaminated, he allows Shran to retrieve it for him, which he succeeds. However, Shran declares that, according to his own orders, he wants to keep the weapon in order to be able to ward off the Vulcan threat to his people. Because Archer does not agree and because the Enterprise crew already has the activation codes, Archer threatens Shran to detonate the weapon on board his ship. Shran forcibly releases the weapon activated by the Enterprise crew, which explodes a little later. He secretly transmits all the data his crew has collected about the weapon to the Enterprise.
66	14th	Stratagem	Stratagem	Feb 4, 2004	Jan. 23, 2005	Mike Vejar	Michael Sussman , idea: Terry Matalas
The Enterprise crew can take control of a Xindi spaceship that Degra is on. In order to find out from Degra where the weapon is being built, Archer has Phlox erase his short-term memory. Archer pretends to Degra that the two of them are on the run together in a spaceship, and wins his trust. The flight is only a simulation, however; the "ship" is in a hold of the Enterprise. Degra reveals the coordinates of a red giant and the orbiting planet Azati Prime. But he soon became suspicious, so the crew ended the attempt at deception. Since the flight to the red giant takes three weeks, the crew tries to confirm the information beforehand and deceives Degra again. He then reveals that the area around the giant star is being defended by the Xindi; thus it is a likely production site for the weapon. Archer then lets the Enterprise set course on this system and brings Degra and his crew back to their ship with deleted memories.
67	15th	The harbinger	Harbinger	Feb 11, 2004	Jan. 29, 2005	David Livingston	Manny Coto , idea: Rick Berman , Brannon Braga
The Enterprise is on its way to the Red Giant, whose coordinates have been received from Degra. On the verge of a gravimetric disturbance in space, the crew discovered a space capsule with a dying humanoid, whose life signals were transmitted through the capsule to an unknown recipient. Investigations of the capsule show that it is made of the same material as the spheres. Archer interrogates the dying man, disregarding Phlox's ethical concerns. - After T'Pol learns that Tucker is treating Amanda Cole, a member of the MAKOs, with Vulcan neuropressure, she becomes jealous and eventually seduces him. The next day, she calls the sex research. Tucker reacts angrily, and they agree not to mention the incident again. - At Archer's instructions, his officers train together with the MAKOs led by Hayes to prepare for battles against the Xindi. A power struggle develops between Reed and Hayes, which Reed suspects of wanting to take over the management of security on the ship. While the two train with each other at first, but then fight each other hard, the stranger, who can move easily through walls and cannot be affected by phaser shots, flees into the engine room. When he interferes with the drive there, he is overwhelmed by Reed and Hayes. The two receive a lecture from Archer about their fight. Shortly before his disappearance, the stranger, who is a transdimensional being, smugly announces to Archer that his people will gain the upper hand if the Xindi destroy Earth.
68	16	On medical advice	Doctor's Orders	Feb 18, 2004	Jan. 30, 2005	Roxann Dawson	Chris Black
On the way to Azati Prime, the Enterprise must traverse a region of space that can disrupt human brain functions and even kill people. For this reason, Archer follows Phlox's suggestion to sedate the crew, with the exception of Phlox, for the time of passage . Because due to the anomaly the use of the warp drive would be too dangerous, the ship is flown through with impulse drive. As the only humanoid on board conscious for an expected four days, Phlox soon perceives strange noises from the ship and, while trying to find out their cause, meets T'Pol, who is apparently just as immune to the effects of the anomaly as he is how he didn't need to be sedated. Furthermore, Phlox perceives noises and is even exposed to the attack of an insectoid Xindi. However, T'Pol doesn't believe him and assumes that Phlox is hallucinating . After initial doubts, Phlox realizes that T'Pol is right. When the two notice that, contrary to the original assumption, the Enterprise has not yet left the dangerous all-region, they determine the cause that the region has expanded during its passage, so that the further crossing would take another ten weeks without warp drive. Therefore, contrary to Tucker's original advice, Phlox activates the warp drive, so that the Enterprise leaves the region immediately. When the senior officers are woken up, Phlox realizes that T'Pol was sedated the entire time and that he was only imagining the interactions with her.
69	17th	hotbed	Hatchery	Feb 25, 2004	Feb 5, 2005	Michael Grossman	André Bormanis , idea: André Bormanis , Mike Sussman
On the flight to Azati Prime, the crew discovers a crashed spaceship belonging to the insectoid Xindi, the crew of which is dead. While an outside team is examining a room with over 30 insectoid eggs, Archer is sprayed by one of the clutches with a substance that Phlox initially sees as safe. In order to prove to the Xindi that humans - contrary to the Xindi beliefs - are sentient and not aggressive, Archer wants to make sure that the brood survives and does not die from the impending lack of energy for the hatchery. With this intention, however, he meets the dislike of his senior officers, who argue that the Xindi must not be helped to survive because they must be fought because of their attack on Earth. In this context, T'Pol is suspended and placed under arrest by Archer, and the same thing happens a little later with Reed. When Archer gives the order to send an emergency call to the Xindi to save the eggs, the mutineers are reinforced in their resistance to Archer and the members of the military attack command who support him. After freeing T'Pol, some of them forcibly gain control of the ship while Tucker overpowers Archer in the spaceship wreck. Phlox eventually discovers that the substance with which Archer was sprayed imprinted him on the eggs , which he thereby treated like his offspring and protected at all costs. Leaving the remaining eggs on the planet, the Enterprise continues its flight to Azati Prime.
70	18th	Azati Prime (1)	Azati Prime (1)	3rd Mar 2004	Feb 6, 2005	Allan Kroeker	Manny Coto , idea: Rick Berman , Brannon Braga , Manny Coto
The Enterprise reaches the planetary system that includes the Red Giant and the planet Azati Prime. Since the Enterprise cannot overcome the system's security grille, Tucker and Mayweather explore Azati Prime on a ferry that was once captured by the insectoids. They discover a command center under the sea surface and locate the weapon. Due to its size, the weapon cannot be destroyed by conventional means, which is why a spaceship must serve as an ignition device . Archer decides to sacrifice himself for this. The time traveler Daniels tries, however, to convince him that Starfleet must instead make peace with the Xindi: 400 years in the future, humanity will be united with the Xindi in the Federation and they will only be able to achieve the transdimensional beings together defeat who try to reconfigure the expansion with the spheres for the purpose of making them habitable for themselves. Archer initially disregards Daniels' arguments and takes the insectoid ferry to Azati Prime. However, he does not succeed in implementing his plan because he is captured by the Xindi. With the help of the information he received from Daniels, however, he can achieve that Degra and some other non-Reptilian council members begin to doubt the advisability of using the weapon: If the Xindi destroyed humanity, then the Xindi species would also be eliminated. However, the Reptilians do not believe Archer and meanwhile attack the Enterprise with several spaceships, which is seriously damaged and many crew members die.
71	19th	Damages (2)	Damage (2)	Apr 21, 2004	Feb 12, 2005	James L. Conway	Phyllis Strong
The Xindi Council, of which Degra is a member, comes to the conclusion that the Enterprise is not as much of a threat as assumed by the Reptilians. So he stops the attack on the Enterprise and Archer returns there in a space capsule. Inside the capsule, the crew discovers a secret message from Degra with the advice to meet him in three days at a location four light-years away. Since the Enterprise's warp drive is defective, the meeting point would be reached too late. The captain of a spaceship that suddenly appeared with some strangers on board who needed technical assistance refused Archer's request to give him his warp coil. Archer therefore takes the decision with a heavy heart to steal the warp coil from the spaceship of those seeking help. Despite objections from Archer's colleagues, Archer's colleagues put the decision into action and a boarding party led by him succeeds in the robbery, whereby the Enterprise sets course for the meeting point and will in all probability reach him on time. - A transdimensional being appears in front of the internally disagreed Xindi council and calls on the council members to unite and to use the weapon against earth as planned. Degra still has doubts as he has no evidence of the hostility of humanity from the transdimensional beings. - Meanwhile, T'Pol reveals to Phlox that she has become addicted to the substance Trellium-D, and goes to him to treat her withdrawal symptoms, which include pronounced emotional behavior.
72	20th	The forgotten	The Forgotten	Apr 28, 2004	Feb 13, 2005	LeVar Burton	Chris Black , David A. Goodman
The Enterprise flies to a meeting with Degra. In the meantime, the crew is taking care of their now 18 dead, the injured and the damage to the ship. T'Pol learns from Phlox that her nerves are severely damaged by taking the Trellium-D and that she will therefore no longer be able to suppress her emotions in the long term. While Tucker writes a letter of condolence to the parents of a killed engineer on his team, he experiences nightmares and mourns for his dead sister, which makes him vengeful towards Degra. He comes on board the Enterprise after the Enterprise has reached the meeting point near a sphere, which is kept secret from the other Xindi. There he has Archer show him evidence of the threat posed by the transdimensional beings and the reptilians; In contrast to Degra, his companion remains suspicious at first. The Enterprise can repel the attack of a reptilian ship with the decisive help of Degras. Reed faints from overheating while repairing a plasma leak on the Enterprise outer shell. Degra gives Archer the coordinates of the Xindi Council and also informs him of a shortcut through a subspace corridor. Archer and Degra go to the council and plan an alliance against the Reptilians.
73	21st	E ²	E ²	May 5, 2004	Feb 19, 2005	Roxann Dawson	Mike Sussman
On the flight to the subspace corridor, the Enterprise crew encounters a much older-looking copy of their ship. Her crew also includes descendants of the current Enterprise crew, including Lorian, the Commander, T'Pol's son, and Tucker. The second Enterprise was thrown 117 years into the past due to a temporal phenomenon, tried in vain to destroy the first Xindi weapon, and since then has been waiting in the expansion for the arrival of the current Enterprise in order to prevent it from entering the corridor go. T'Pol receives calculations from her older self, who is now an old woman. According to them, the Enterprise commanded by Archer may be able to safely enter the corridor. Since Lorian does not share this assessment and instead wants to implement his plan, he needs working warp plasma injectors for his ship, which he steals from Archers Enterprise. To prevent Lorian's Enterprise from taking off, Archer has the other ship's engine destroyed and equipment beamed over, forcing Lorian to give up his plan. While Archer is flying his ship into the corridor, he receives weapons help from Lorian's Enterprise, which fends off the attacks of three alien spaceships. After flying through the corridor, Lorian's ship has disappeared and Archers Enterprise meets Degra at the agreed coordinates.
74	22nd	The Council	The Council	May 12, 2004	Feb 20, 2005	David Livingston	Manny Coto
The transdimensional beings try to influence the reptilian and insectoid Xindi council members on their behalf and thereby prevent people from destroying the weapon. The Enterprise arrives at the planet where the council meets, escorted by Degra and other humanoid and arboral Xindi. Before that, an away team led by T'Pol went to a sphere on a ferry in order to obtain information from its data core. Inside the sphere, the team comes across a defense mechanism that kills a team member. Degra and Archer appear before the council in person, accompanied by Sato as translator. They present evidence to the council that the transdimensional beings are using the Xindi and that the expansion would no longer be compatible for the Xindi if the beings succeeded in making them habitable for themselves. Influenced by the transdimensional beings that guarantee the reptilians long-term dominance within the Xindi, the reptilian leader Dolim outsmarts his adversary Degra and stabs him for his betrayal of the Xindi. Since reptilians and insectoids do not believe the Enterprise crew and the other council members, they split off from the council. Dolim lets the weapon start from the planet and flies with it under heavy fire from the alliance of Enterprise, humanoid and arboral Xindi in a space vortex. Shortly before disappearing into the vortex, he has Sato kidnapped.
75	23	countdown	countdown	May 19, 2004	Feb 26, 2005	Robert Duncan McNeill	André Bormanis , Chris Black
Inside the weapon, Dolim Sato injects parasites so that the reptilians can decrypt the last activation code for the weapon. She struggles at first and adds a layer of encryption, but eventually the parasites make her compliant. - Since the Enterprise and the spaceships of the humanoid and arboral Xindi are too weakly armed to fight the reptilian ships, Archer asks the aquarists for help. They can only be convinced when Archer offers them his help in deactivating the spheres, which T'Pol and Tucker believe they have found a way to do based on the newly acquired data. - T'Pol turns to Tucker for help managing her emotions. - Protected by new aquarium spaceships, Archer lets the Enterprise fly close to the weapon, which is defended by numerous reptilian and insectoid ships. These are taken under heavy fire by the Enterprise and its allied Xindi spaceships. To protect the weapon and the reptilian and insectoid ships, the transdimensional beings create a huge spatial anomaly. - An away team led by Hayes manages to get Sato back alive on the Enterprise; in the process, however, Hayes is shot, so that he dies a little later. - Reptilian and insectoid spaceships, setting course on earth, move with their weapons into a space vortex, which is used to move them faster. During the flight, Dolim separates from the insectoids that are now opposing him. To prevent the destruction of the earth, Archer pursues the weapon with an away team on Degra's ship, which is the only one that can fly fast enough.
76	24	hour zero	Zero hour	May 26, 2004	Feb. 27, 2005	Allan Kroeker	Rick Berman , Brannon Braga
As the Enterprise approaches a sphere in order to destroy the network of spheres, the transdimensional beings create a huge spatial anomaly to protect it. While the Enterprise bombarded the sphere, some of the beings boarded the ship and sabotaged its systems. However, they have no success with this; the sphere and with it other spheres are destroyed by the bombardment, the expansion transformed by the beings collapses completely. - Meanwhile, the away team is tracking the gun with some of Xindi's allies on Degra's ship. Archer ignores time traveler Daniels' request not to sacrifice himself to destroy the weapon because he will play a crucial role in founding the federation. With the help of the new spaceship from Shran, the away team can approach the weapon. After Sato has deciphered the blueprints of the weapon despite her nerve trauma, she guides Archer in deactivating the weapon reactor. In a bitter duel, Archer succeeds in killing Dolim, but apparently he does not manage to be beamed back to Degra's ship in time for the weapon to explode near the earth. The away team returns without an Archer to the meeting point with the Enterprise, which then flies to Earth. The crew learns that the Xindi Council is meeting again. After an unsuccessful attempt to establish contact, investigating the earth, a ferry with Tucker and Mayweather on board is shot at by fighter planes as it approaches San Francisco . The seriously injured Archer is examined by an alien in a Nazi officer's uniform in a hospital full of Germans .

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Season 3 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Episode guide with synopsis
Star Trek Database Memory Alpha (German)
German titles and first broadcast dates in fernsehserien.de
Emmy Awards (English)
TrekToday Emmy Award Details