Canamar
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leaving the Enolian homeworld, Archer and Trip are mistakenly identified
as smugglers and arrested. The two men are placed on a prison transport
headed for the penal colony known as Canamar. Among their fellow
prisoners are the menacing Kuroda, a hulking Nausicaan and a young,
talkative alien named Zoumas. Back on Enterprise, T'Pol manages
to convince an Enolian official that Archer and Trip are innocent
and he arranges for their safe return. Just as Archer and Trip are
about to be set free, however, Kuroda breaks free and, with the
Nausicaan's help, takes down the guard and pilot. With the pilot
out of commission, there's no one to fly the ship. Hoping to figure
out an escape plan of his own, Archer volunteers to pilot the craft.
He also pretends to be a smuggler, hoping that Kuroda will come
to trust him. When the vessel comes under attack from Enolian patrol
ships, Archer also convinces Kuroda to allow Trip to assist them.
Trip manages to create a plasma cloud that, once ignited, fends
the patrol ships off, allowing prison transport jumps to warp. Meanwhile,
Archer has also managed to covertly transmit a distress signal from
the prison ship, and the Enterprise crew picks up on it. Unfortunately,
the Enolian official has bad news his superiors have issued orders
to destroy the prison transport. Although Archer and Trip are still
onboard, the Enolians are determined to get rid of the violent Kuroda.
If the crew is to save their fellow officers, they have to find
the prison transport before the Enolian patrol ships do. Back on
the prison transport, Kuroda is impressed with Archer's ploy to
fend off the Enolian ships. In fact, Kuroda has come to respect
Archer and asks the captain to join him on his next endeavor. As
the two men talk, Kuroda reveals that he was 14 when he first spent
time in a penal colony. He was innocent, but he still spent five
years in prison, where he picked up many new skills. He started
making a living as a criminal after he was released. Kuroda also
finally reveals where he's taking the transport: a trading outpost
called Tamaal. Once there, they will rendezvous with another ship
and Kuroda will set the transport on a decaying orbit. The other
prisoners will be incinerated. Naturally, this doesn't sit well
with Archer, but when he tries to talk Kuroda out of it, the other
man merely dismisses him. Archer is determined to save the other
prisoners and enlists Trip's aid. Trip is freed under the pretense
of fixing a docking hatch, but Archer wants him to overpower the
Nausicaan so they can take control of the ship. Trip manages to
render the hulking alien unconscious, but the commotion draws the
attention of Kuroda, who stuns Trip with a weapon and realizes that
Archer has been plotting against him all along. The transport docks
with another ship at the Tamaal rendezvous point ... but when the
doors open, Reed, Mayweather and a Starfleet security guard appear!
The crew manages to get all of the prisoners off the transport,
which is now in a decaying orbit, but Kuroda refuses to come. He
would rather die than return to prison. As the others leave, he
remains on the transport and the vessel explodes. Back on Enterprise,
the Enolian official demands a report for his superiors. Archer,
however, is in no mood to give one. He tersely informs the official
that Kuroda is dead and that he and Trip were falsely arrested.
Angrily, Archer wonders how many others are on their way to Canamar
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