A fairly decent adventure story that keeps pushing the Xindi arc along. Not a big fan of Archer torturing the captive though. I get that this is the 9/11 story arc, but it didn't really work for America all that well, no reason to think Archer would have better luck getting useful information. I am not really surprised they returned to the Dyson Sphere idea. It was only ever touched in Relics so having one show up here makes sense. It is actually a bit small for a Dyson Sphere so maybe it is for the best that they don't call it that.
We open with Enterprise finding a ship full of dead bodies. They hit a bad patch of spacial anomalies and soon learn who killed all those people. Raiders show up and attack, quickly beaming onto Enterprise and stealing everything that isn't nailed down. Malcolm and the marines manage to drive them off, but they took enough that warp engines are down. They also managed to capture a prisoner, but he isn't interested in talking. After a lot of messing around they find a series of cloaked passages through the expanse and they lead to a giant sphere that turns out to have their stuff inside it. It is also probably responsible for all the spacial distortions in the region. Archer ends up torturing the prisoner by putting him in an airlock and gradually opening it until he talks and they get the codes to the alien ships computer. They attack the aliens again and manage to get a bunch of info on the Xindi out of them before disabling the pirates and leaving them crashed on the sphere.
Review: Pretty straightforward story with a bit more filler than is desirable, but still not a bad one in general. At least for ENT.
4 out of 10
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