- Almost the entire crew is left unconscious when four Ferengi pirates raid Enterprise. A still conscious Trip is the only one who can get rid of them.
- Four greedy Ferengis have invaded Enterprise while the crew is unconscious. They have already confiscated numerous valuable supplies, but are still interested in more. They wake up captain Archer to get the know the whereabouts of 'the vault'. Another crew member is still awake in the decontamination chamber, Trip. He wakes T'Pol. Since the weakness of the invaders is not difficult to find, the three try to outsmart the Ferengis.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- When T'Pol opens an alien object found in the surface of a planet by Trip, a gas is released and the entire crew of Enterprise faints. Four Ferengi pirates - Krem, Muk, Grish and Ulis - break in Enterprise to steal the supplies and belongings in the starship and they awake Captain Archer trying to find the location of the vault. Meanwhile, Trip was in the decontamination chamber and is not affected by the gas, and wakes T'Pol. Using the greed of the quartet, Archer and Trip lure them.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- As Enterprise drifts in space, the crew unconscious. An alien cruiser scans the ship, then docks with it. Two Ferengi, Muk (Clint Howard) and Grish (Matt Malloy), board wearing breathing filters. They deactivate a gas-emitting device that the Starfleet crew brought up from the surface of a nearby moon. Unknown to the intruders, Commander Tucker is still conscious (as he was in a medical isolation chamber as per Phlox's orders) and makes his way to Engineering and uses the ship's sensors to monitor the aliens as they plunder the ship. The Ferengi steal anything that can be stolen, including torpedoes, medical equipment, you name it. One Ferengi is enamored with T'Pol and the shape of her ears and tries to steal her as well as all the other females on the ship.
The Ferengi awaken Captain Archer and demand to know where he keeps his valuables. The Captain refuses to help and tells the Ferengi they have no money or Latinum on board, so he is confined to a cargo bay. Archer is concerned when he hears that the Ferengi plan to sell the females into the slave market to the highest bidder. So Archer stalls for time and says that the Enterprise does carry gold and will show it if the Ferengi let him keep half of it. Ferengi are led by their commander Ulis (Ethan Phillips) and Krem is his dumb cousin.
The aliens don't like the offer that Archer is making and They set off to find the vault themselves, leaving Krem (Jeffrey Combs) and Archer to transfer the loot onto their ship. Archer tries to drive a wedge in Krem against Ulis. Ulis decides the share of the loot to each crew member and Krem typically gets the smallest. Archer sees Tucker and sends him to the launch-bay to retrieve the Ferengi's hypo-spray. Doing so, Tucker revives Sub-Commander T'Pol. She deduces that the gas device was intentionally left as a 'Trojan Horse'. In Sickbay, three of the four Ferengi search for the non-existent vault, and T'Pol uses a PADD to distract and then start an argument between them. She steals the scanners stolen by one of the Ferengi, which leads him to suspect that Ulis stole it from him.
In Engineering, Archer tries to negotiate with Krem (If Krem help him capture his associates, Archer promises to show him the vault and share the gold 50-50), who is tempted when Archer says that he will throw in T'Pol. Muk goes to the launch-bay and finds Tucker, who defeats Muk in combat and escapes, but Ulis (Ethan Phillips) subdues him with his electrical-whip. The Ferengi, Archer and Trip meet in the launch-bay where Archer plays along with Tucker's deception about "the vault". Archer and Tucker manage to drive the wedge between Ulis, Krem and Muk, who start fighting amongst themselves over women and the gold. T'Pol assists in subduing the intruders, and the crew oversee the return of the stolen goods. Archer tells the Ferengi not to go within a light year of a human or Vulcan vessel ever again (and they indeed do not reappear until some 200 years later in the episode The Last Outpost).
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