This episode could have just as easily been called the easily forgotten. The good parts were the bits dealing with how Trip, T'Pol and Malcolm are struggling to deal with the pressures of the situation they are in. The bad parts were everything to do with the main story and the Xindi. Since it turns out Archer doesn't actually have any proof of anything Daniels has told him and in fact the only reason he believes him I suspect is the race thing it seems like the arboreal Xindi has a real point. Why should they trust the humans? It seems the sphere builders have legitimately helped them already a few times.
We open with a flashback to Trip dreaming about the death of his sister and then it is straight into a memorial for the fallen after the credits. The ship is barely holding together and the crew aren't in much better shape. Trip especially hasn't slept in days and only gets more stressed when Archer assigns him the job of writing to one of his fallen engineer's family. They make it to the meeting Degra who brings the arboreal representative and Archer shows him all the evidence, but really it isn't that much and he isn't all that convinced. A reptillian ship shows up and they work together to destroy it so we see Degra is at least serious. There is an incident with a plasma fire on the outside of the ship and Trip and Malcolm go to repair but Malcolm doesn't watch out for his own safety and passes out from too much heat. Lots of being stressed out and not much actual story.
Review: Not much happened honestly other than a look at how the crew are handling the stress.
4 out of 10
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