"The Xindi" is the premiere episode of the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise. The episode officially introduced the season's story arc in which the crew of Enterprise scour the Delphic Expanse to prevent the Xindi from destroying Earth (although some exposition was provided in the second season finale, "The Expanse").
Based on information from a freighter captain "of questionable character", Jonathan Archer leads Enterprise to a mining colony...
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"The Xindi" is the premiere episode of the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise. The episode officially introduced the season's story arc in which the crew of Enterprise scour the Delphic Expanse to prevent the Xindi from destroying Earth (although some exposition was provided in the second season finale, "The Expanse").
Based on information from a freighter captain "of questionable character", Jonathan Archer leads Enterprise to a mining colony within the expanse. He strikes a deal with the mine's foreman, a man who is characterized as equally suspicious. In exchange for a half-liter of platinum, Archer and Trip Tucker are allowed to meet with a Xindi-Humanoid worker named Kessick. Archer tries to extract the coordinates of the Xindi homeworld, Xindus, from him, but Kessick refuses to help the captain unless Archer assists him in escaping the planet.
Archer refuses, but he soon learns that the foreman had ulterior motives in allowing him access to Kessick. Kessick has trapped him...
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