- Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.
- Enterprise answers the distress call of a Triannon ship. After taking them on board, D'Jamat, their leader, tells they are religious people visiting a sphere. They believe the Expanse, the Chosen Realm, and the Spheres were created by the Makers a 1000 years ago and that the anomalies are their breath. It soon becomes clear that these people don't have the best intentions. They take control of Enterprise and want to use it in the war against heretics. D'Jamat also orders the death of one crew member because Enterprise desecrated several spheres. Archer must choose.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- Commander Tucker and Ensign Mayweather are gathering readings on a third sphere in the Delphic Expanse. Enterprise receives a distress call from a Triannon ship (with 23 bio-signs) which reports they have been damaged by a spatial anomaly. They have minimal weapons and pose no threat to the Enterprise. Enterprise takes them aboard, and D'Jamat (Conor O'Farrell), the leader of the group, has dinner with Captain Archer where he explains they have been on a year-long pilgrimage to the 12th sphere. They believe deities, called the "Makers," constructed the spheres to transform the expanse, their "Chosen Realm," into a paradise. D'Jamat then rejects T'Pol's scientific logic that there are only 59 known spheres (he thinks there are thousands of them).
Later, D'Jamat demands Archer turn over control of the ship or it will be destroyed, and demonstrates this by having one of his group self-detonate (all his group are having some kind of organic explosive that they can activate with a simple pin), killing one crew member of the Enterprise and causing a hull breach. Having little choice, Archer submits. D'Jamat then sets a course for his home world (after destroying his own ship with 2 torpedoes from the Enterprise) and explains that he intends to use Enterprise to end a religious civil war that has embroiled his planet for a century. D'Jamat also examines the ship's records and finds that Enterprise had extensive contact with the spheres-a severe violation under his faith. He then erases 19 XB of sphere data, and demands that Archer choose one crew member to die.
While Archer is contemplating his decision he approaches Yarrick (Vince Grant), D'Jamat's deputy, questioning his resolve (Saying that Yarrick's wife spoke to Phlox and told him how she hated everything about this religious group and she wants the organic explosive removed from inside her. She is preggers), but Yarrick rebuffs him. Archer then tells D'Jamat that he has selected himself to be killed, but requests it be done using a device they use for "waste disposal". That device turns out to be the transporter, which T'Pol uses to beam Archer elsewhere on the ship.
Archer then contacts Doctor Phlox and they develop an airborne agent to neutralize the Triannon's organic explosives (Archer abducts one of the D'Jamat's group and forces an internal scan on him). Archer again confronts Yarrick and convinces him to help disperse the agent throughout the ship, and learns that the religious war is primarily based around a difference of opinion over whether it took nine or ten days to for the Makers to complete their work.
Meanwhile, four ships from the "heretic" Triannon faction intercept Enterprise. D'Jamat orders T'Pol to open fire, but she refuses. During the fight, the crew manage to subdue D'Jamat and end the battle (after D'Jamat had destroyed one ship of the heretics). In the brig, D'Jamat remains convinced his actions were justified, so Archer takes him down to their planet. The Triannons are left staring in horror at their completely devastated world, which lies in ruins, having been ravaged by the religious war.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content