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Chasing another lead in their pursuit of the Xindi, the Enterprise crew takes on a passenger attempting to escape slavery. Turns out this Rajiin character isn't as innocent as she appears, as she begins gathering data on Archer and the rest of the crew using her super powers.

Star Trek: Enterprise 3x04 - Rajiin Directed by Michael Vejar Written by Chris Black, Brent V. Friedman, Paul Brown Guest Stars: Nikita Ager, Tucker Smallwood, Randy Olgesby, Rick Worthy, Scott MacDonald

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen and Joe Heiser as we discuss the 4th episode of season three of Star Trek: Enterprise, Rajiin.

The Xindi Council meets discussing how to proceed after experiencing setbacks in their plans to destroy Earth. If Degra doesn't make progress soon, the council may consider alternatives.

In the middle of his neuro-pressure sessions, Trip expresses some concerns about the gossip going around about his relationship with T'Pol, but she doesn't mind. After Archer gets some cream put on his lesions from his recent transformation into an alien species, the Enterprise swings by a trading post to see if they can nab some Trellium-D. Instead they get a line on some recent Xindi visitors, and end up liberating a slave named Rajiin instead.

In exchange for some spices, the Enterprise acquires the recipe for liquid Trellium-D. Turns out that making this stuff can get real nasty, so Trip and T'Pol set up a lab behind some emergency bulkheads just in case. Good thing, cuz their first batch blows up the place. Rajiin swings by the captain's quarters to thank him for his kindness by demonstrating her quote unquote gifts, and later when Rajiin is poking around the transporter, she encounters Hoshi who seems like she would also like to experience those gifts. Somehow Rajiin ends up breaking into T'Pol's quarters instead.

Rajiin accosts and overpowers T'Pol, and after nobody answers his doorbell ringing, Trip busts in but gets bonked on the head real bad. She uses her mental powers to try and make her way off her ship back to her partner, but the Enterprise gang is able to rally before she beams away. The Captain swings by the brig to manhandle his prisoner when Reed interrupts to inform him that two Reptillian Xindi craft are approaching the Enterprise.

After a guilt trip from Archer, Rajiin divulges that the Xindi are developing a bio-weapon and she was on a mission to gather the necessary information to help that process. Three Xindi boarding parties converge to liberate Rajiiin from the brig, The Captain orders a pursuit course, but the Xindi disappear into some kind of vortex and disappear. Rajiin is dragged out into the Xindi Council and displays the bio-information she collected. The Council doesn't seem happy about the Reptilians going rogue on this mission, but they decide to pursue the bio-weapon as well as their Earth-destroying-plan.

Archer, Hoshi, Trip, and T'Pol contend with a contagion that mutates any it infects into a member of an extinct sentient species. T'Pol is left to fend off her newly modified and aggressive crew mates. Take TNG's Genesis and Voyager's Threshold, add two unhappy podcasters, and you'll get this episode.

Star Trek: Enterprise 03x03 - Extinction Directed by Levar Burton Written by Andre Bormanis Guest Stars: Roger Cross

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Chris Keeley, Jason Allen, Joe Heiser, and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 3rd episode of season three of Star Trek: Enterprise, Extinction.

A skinny little feller is making a break for it through the forest when he takes a little tumble. Before he can right himself, three dudes in space suit appear and murder him with their sweet ass flame throwers.

Trip swings by T'Pol's quarters for his latest therapy session and to share some sweet peaches, which sadly gets interrupted when the Captain orders her to the command center to discuss hunting down some nearby Xindi. Once they land on the planet, the humans on the away team transform into creatures and hunt down T'Pol.

T'Pol convinces Monster Hoshi to hand over a universal translator to help bridge the language barrier, while she waits for the Enterprise to get it's act together to rescue them. They eventually send down a shuttlepod and capture Reed, but the rest of the away team escapes. Up in orbit, a couple vessels drop out of warp and inform the Enterprise they are quarantined due to Monster Reed being on their ship, and should prepare to be boarded.

Monster Archer dreams of a massive underground city, and becomes even more difficult to convince that his true home is Earth. The exterminator DUDE comes aboard the Enterprise and educates the gang that this is a manufactured virus designed to replenish the population of a species who lost the ability to reproduce. Monster Archer, Monster Hoshi and Regular T'Pol discover the city in the dream, and find it utterly destroyed.

The flame thrower dudes track the Monsters, but T'Pol and her gang are able to overpower the team. In the process, one of the exterminator's suit gets ripped and he gets roasted by his buddies. A team from the Enterprise beams down just as everybody is about to get flamethrowers and takes them back to the ship. They hit the road and get pursued by the trigger happy flame people. in is able to synthesize an antiviral and saves the day. When Phlox is about ready to destroy the virus, Archer gets all sentimental and asks him to put it on ice instead.

Disabled by a series of anomalies, the Enterprise is boarded by pirates that manage to abscond with most of their anti-matter. In pursuit of the pirates, the crew discover an enormous and mysterious sphere. Archer quickly takes things too far with their lone captive, but no one seems to notice.

The Enterprise is plagued by anomalies that, among other more whimsical things, disturb Porthos's slumber and force Reed to shut down the warp reactor.

Main power offline, the Enterprise limps towards a nearby ship only to discover it too is disabled. A team is sent to investigate, finding evidence of a firefight, though many of the casualties were caused by a loss of life support. Archer orders the Enterprise to move on, fearing the aliens' attackers may return. Trip does his best to comply, but the laws of physics seem to be in flux in this region.

An alien ship appears and several board the Enterprise. Quickly overwhelming the crew, the pirates begin beaming cargo and critical components back to their ship. Trip manages to incapacitate one of the aliens and spook the rest into leaving by flipping on the malfunctioning warp reactor.

The Enterprise has had their limited reserves of anti-matter stolen from them, leaving them with only a month's worth of fuel. In sadder news, the crew face their first loss, as Crewman Fuller was killed in the raid. Phlox states he recognizes their alien prisoner as an Osaarian. Archer speaks to the Osaarian in the brig, learning little besides an important bit about it being impossible to leave the Expanse. Tracking the Osaarian ship's ion trail leads to the discovery of the pirate hideout, an enormous cloaked sphere built nearly a thousand years ago.

Within, they recover their stolen cargo and most of their antimatter. Additionally, they discover that the Osaarian's had recently attacked a Xindi vessel, downloading their database in the process. Archer engages in a little torture, forcing their Osaarian prisoner to help them recover that information from the Osaarian ship when it returns. After a short game of cat and mouse, the Enterprise manages to download 90% of the database, leaving Archer to sift through, looking for answers.

Star Trek: Enterprise 03x02 - Anomaly Directed by David Straiton Written by Mike Sussman Guest Stars: Robert Rusler, Nathan Anderson, Julia Rose

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Chris Keeley, Jason Allen, Joe Heiser, and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 2nd episode of season three of Star Trek: Enterprise, Anomaly.

Six weeks into the Expanse and the Enterprise has little to show for it. Fortunately, a tip from a freighter captain points Archer and Co. to the possible whereabouts of a Xindi miner.

The council of Xindi races debates the significance of the Enterprise's arrival in the Expanse. With the weapon still in need of testing, it is decided that more information on Enterprise is needed.

Six weeks into their mission, the Enterprise continues its journey through the anomaly ridden Expanse. Following a lead given to them by a freighter captain of "questionable character" they are enroute to a mining facility where they have been told a member of the Xindi race is employed.

At the mining facility, Archer and Reed agree to terms with the foreman but Archer's request to meet the man to confirm his species is answered with a severed finger belonging to the unfortunate miner. Back on Enterprise, Phlox analyzes it, finding that while it is Xindi, it belongs to a different sub-species than the reptilian pilot.

Archer and Trip return to the surface and are granted access to the Xindi miner, Kessick. Kessick refuses to reveal information without a guarantee that they will release him from his slavery. Soon Archer and Trip find they are being held prisoner by the foreman, and agree to help Kessick escape.

With armed ships approaching the Enterprise, it becomes clear to T'Pol that something is amiss, and assigns Reed to work with Corporal Hayes to put together a team to extract the Captain. Reed clashes with Hayes, but eventually backs down.

Archer, Trip, and Kessick work to climb the plasma ducts to the surface, discussing the five xindi races along the way. The conversation ends when plasma begins to surge upward, forcing the group back into the facility, and back under the Foreman's guard.

Before Archer and Trip can be be executed, the MACO's arrive and stage their rescue. On the way out, Kessick is hit by weapons fire. Back aboard the Enterprise, while Phlox was unable to save him, Kessick managed to share the coordinates to the Xindi homeworld with his dying breath.

While the Enterprise gets underway, T'Pol and Phlox have conspired to cure Trip's insomnia by tricking him to performing Vulcan Neuropressure. For some reason Trip mistakes T'Pol's behavior for sexual advances. T'Pol becomes aggravated, claiming it was a pointless exercise considering how stubborn Trip is. Trip stubbornly asserts he's not stubborn, and proves it by allowing T'Pol to begin the procedure.

The Enterprise arrives at the coordinates to find nothing but the debris field of a planet destroyed 120 years ago. Uncertain what to do next, the Enterprise proceeds deeper into the Expanse. Meanwhile, the Xindi Council shows signs of fracturing, as the Insectoids promise to destroy enterprise without without the council's approval.

Star Trek: Enterprise 03x01 - The Xindi Directed by Allan Kroeker Written by Rick Berman and Branon Braga Guest Stars: Richard Lineback, Stephen McHattie, Rick Worthy, Randy Oglesby, Scott MacDonald, Daniel Dae Kim, Steven Culp

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen and Joe Heiser as we discuss the 1st episode of season three of Star Trek: Enterprise, The Xindi.

Season two has come and gone! We're just flying through the Star Trek franchise like it's nothin.

Today we award our Star Trek Trivia Trophy, battle each other over best "Star Trek-ish" episode of Enterprise so far, and get a little salty with each other over a TV show.

Our audio is a little off during this recording, thank you for your patience!

Things get serious real quick, as Earth has been attacked by a mysterious species hailing from the equally mysterious region of space, the Delphic Expanse. Few options left to them Earth sends their flagship, Enterprise, to meet the Xindi threat.

An object decloaks as it approaches Earth and fires a beam slicing devastation across the planet before breaking apart.

Act I

A panel of Klingons is ordered the disgraced Duras to reclaim his honor by capturing the elusive Captain Archer. Aboard the Enterprise, Archer shares with his crew that millions have been killed in the attack on Earth and that they have been recalled. Trip is expressing concern that his sister may have been a victim when Suliban board the Enterprise and kidnap the captain. Silik takes Archer to see Future Man, who warns him that the Xindi are developing a weapon to annihilate Earth. Just as Enterprise approaches home, a ship drops out of warp and opens fire on them.

The Klingons disable the Enterprise, but three more Starfleet vessels join the fight and repel Duras. On Earth, Archer is pushing for Enterprise to be sent to find the Xindi, but Soval warns about that region of space being notoriously dangerous and unusual. In an effort to bolster his case, the captain scans some of the debris from the probe and finds that its quantum signature is from the future. Back aboard his ship, a Vulcan doctor pops by to check on Archer's radiation exposure while he was mucking around the debris and scoping out Xindi corpses. Turns out it's all a pretense as the doctor is actually there because Soval thinks Archer might be nuts. Trip and Reed stand on the edge of destruction on Earth as the Engineer comes to the realization that his sister was a victim.

Touring the construction site of the NX-02, Archer and Forrest discuss the impending mission, as well as the captain's request for military personnel to join his crew. Phlox has decided to stay on board for the mission, but Vulcan High Command has told T'Pol she must not go. Reed is pretty stoked about his new photonic torpedoes, and an angry Trip is very enthusiastic about the possibility using this new technology to murder the people who killed his sister. Before heading into the Expanse, Soval shows Archer some footage of a Vulcan ship that started murdering each other when they visited the place. On their way out, the Enterprise is going to drop T'Pol back home on Vulcan. The Enterprise leaves spacedock as the Klingons lurk nearby and bring their weapons online.

Trip and Archer are getting drunk aboard the Enterprise when their vows to abandon the principles of non-interference are interrupted by Duras firing at their ship again. They disable the Klingon ship with their fancy new photon torpedoes, and accelerate to the safety of Vulcan space. T'Pol swings by Archer's ready room and requests to stay aboard the Enterprise. Seven weeks later, the Enterprise reaches the massive purple barrier marking the beginning of the Delphic Expanse. After a few hours sailing through the goo, three Klingon vessels show up and begin firing on the Enterprise. Travis pulls some ace flying maneuvers and destroys the one Klingon ship brave enough to follow the into the Expanse. The Enterprise proceeds into the Expanse.

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x26 - The Expanse Directed by Allan Kroeker Written by Rick Berman and Branon Braga Guest Stars: John Fleck, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham, Daniel Riordan, James Horan, Bruce Wright

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Chris Keeley, Jason Allen, Joe Heiser and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 26th episode of season two of Star Trek: Enterprise, The Expanse.

The Empire never forgets.

A Tellarite bounty hunter kidnaps Archer to collect the price on his head for escaping Rura Penthe, meanwhile, T'Pol makes everyone very uncomfortable aboard the Enterprise.

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Cold Open

Archer and Trip's exploration of an uninhabited planet is cut short when a Tellarite vessel drops into the neighborhood and offers to show them all its natural amenities. He gets an invite over to Enterprise, but upon arriving, he immediately shoots Tucker and the Captain.

The Tellarite ship breaks free from the Enterprise, and sends a blast into their nacelle to prevent it from following. Archer tries his best to figure out why he's been kidnapped, and eventually learns he's being returned to Kronos to face punishment for his big prison break. T'Pol and Phlox have picked up a nasty microbe on the planet, and are forced to chill out in decon rubbing each other while Acting Captain Tucker directs the Enterprise to follow the Tellarite's warp signature.

That warp signature turned out to be a decoy, so Reed blows it up. Archer tries convincing the Tellarite not to turn him over to the Klingons because it would mean a certain death sentence. Turns out the bounty on Archer's head has interested multiple parties as a ship starts firing on them, demanding he be turned over. He convinces the Tellarite to let him out of his cell so he an assist, and they make an emergency landing on a nearby planet. In the decon room, T'Pol is getting increasingly emotional until she ultimately confides in Phlox that she is experiencing Pon Farr and will need to mate with someone or she'll die.

On the surface, Archer and his captor are having a heart-to-heart about fugitive hunter's dreams for the future. They leave the planet and swing by a station in the hopes of acquiring some supplies, where the bounty hunter learns that the ship he's been saving up to buy back has been cannibalized. The Enterprise follows the Tellarite warp signature to the planet and learns from the crashed ship's captain that Archer is being taken back to Klingon space. T'Pol is getting increasingly frustrated as Phlox continues to thwart her efforts to jump his bones. When he tries to sedate her, she knocks him out and escapes.

Security eventually track down T'Pol and knock her out after she fails to seduce Reed. The Tellarite and the captain rendezvous with the Klingons, who provide the bounty hunter with 30% less than the agreed upon reward. Archer escapes his cell and commandeers an escape pod. Just as the Klingons are about to recapture it, the Enterprise arrives and saves the day. As the Klingons retreat home, the Tellarite captain calls over happy to see the lock pick he provided works. He warns Archer that the Klingons might double the bounty now, and he can't promise he won't try to collect. They laugh and laugh and laugh.

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x25 - Bounty Directed by Roxann Dawson Written by Rick Berman and Branon Braga Guest Stars: Jordan Lund, Robert O'Reilly

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After receiving news of the death of one of his former colleagues and rivals in the NX test program, Archer relates a story to T'Pol about a group of ragtag flyboys hoping to break the Warp 2 barrier.

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x24 - First Flight Directed by Levar Burton Written by John Shiban and Chris Black Guest Stars: Brigid Brannagh (Ruby) Vaughn Armstrong, Keith Carradine, Michael Canavan, Victor Bevine

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen, Joe Heiser and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 24nd episode of season two of Star Trek: Enterprise, First Flight.

Enterprise takes another risk by introducing a second species ahead of known canon. Thing is, this episode was just so fun that any minor conflicts with the Borg introduction in The Next Generation are totally overshadowed.

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x23 - Regeneration Directed by David Livingston Written by Michael Sussman, Phyllis Strong Guest Stars: Vaughn Armstrong, Jim Fitzpatrick, Mark Chadwick, Paul Anthony Scott

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen, Joe Heiser and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 23rd episode of season two of Star Trek: Enterprise, Regeneration.

The Enterprise crew comes into contact with the Vissians, a race with three genders. One of these genders, dubbed Cogenitors, lead a life unbefitting a sentient being by most human standards, so of course Trip is gonna get mixed up in there.

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x22 - Cogenitor Directed by Levar Burton Written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga Guest Stars: Andreas Katsulas, F.J. Rio, Becky Wahlstrom

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen, Joe Heiser and Joshua B. Jones as we discuss the 22nd episode of season two of Star Trek: Enterprise, Cogenitor