They believe that the monastery is being used to spy on Andoria.Archer, Trip and T'Pol are captured by the Andorians at a Vulcan monastery on P'Jem. It makes no sense, none, that Shran wouldnt leave a guard with the prisoners, but if he did, the plot falls apart, since they cant go into their secret passageway if theres an Andorian in the room. Enterprise visits a Vulcan monastery, only to find that it is in the midst of being taken over by the Andorians. Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 2 contained a can't-miss reference to Saavik when the shuttle Picard and Riker docked with the Eleos was destroyed by . Original air date: February 6, 2002. S1 E7 45min TV-PG When Archer and his crew pay a friendly visit to an ancient Vulcan monastery, they stumble into an interstellar conflict between the Vulcans and their militaristic rivals, the Andorians. But the best performance is the very restrained one given by Jolene Blalock. [6], Jeffrey Combs plays the Andorian Commander Shran. A running firefight soon ensues, with Andorians and Starfleet trading phase-pistol fire while the elder bitches that theyve turned a sanctuary into a war zone. The Andorians are convinced that PJem is hiding a sensor array that is being used to spy on Andoria. One of the early Federation missions, "Diplomatic Orders", partially takes place there, as the player character hunts down an infiltrator from Species 8472 ("Undine") disguised as a Vulcan ambassador. One ongoing plot thread in the final season is the growing tension between Earth and the Romulan Empire. All comments must meet the community standards outlined in Tor.com's Moderation Policy or be subject to moderation. Audiences never really responded to the storyline, and when the series closed out its run in 2005, there were no firm answers of who this future representative was. Archer finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place, as the Vulcans are accusing him of messing up the situation (Shran and the gang probably would have left before long if Enterprise hadnt shown up) and Shran is torturing him to give up secrets that he doesnt actually have. He also praises the actors, particularly Blalock for her restrained and conflicted performance. Foxworth guest-starred as V'Las in the Enterprise three-parter, "The Forge," "Awakening," and "Kir'Shara," which involved the discovery of the ancient texts of Vulcan icon Surak. The door has been bashed in and theres broken pottery on the floor. Hoshi Sato and Malcolm Reed discuss the situation. Their arrival on Earth at the end of Star Trek: First Contact is a dramatic pay-off that works for both ardant fans and casual viewers alike. While being beaten up for his effrontery, he surreptitiously tosses a statuette through one of the holes in relief face. Unfortunately, we never saw much of that on the show. T'Pol rings for admittance, but no one answers. Trivial matters: The events of this episode will be followed up on in Shadows of PJem. PJem will continue to be referenced several more times on the show, and is also seen in the games Star Trek Online andFleet Command, and in your humble rewatchers novelA Singular Destiny. Archer nearly succeeds but he too is thankful for Reed's entry. Ultimately, the Andorian's mistrust of even the noblest Vulcans leads Commander Shran to kidnap and torture Vulcan Ambassador Soval. Tucker upon seeing the sanctuary door, which was actually bashed in by Andorians. He bashed the door in. Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab) Share . She praised Combs saying "He was wonderful to work with," and "He really created an extraordinary character there, didn't he? There is even a storyline involving a deep cover Romulan agent embedding within the Vulcan High Command, which could have drawn the Vulcans into the conflict. View history Jolene Blalock (born March 5, 1975) is an American actress and model. Before accepting he wanted to know more, and was told the character was an Andorian and that he would not die at the end of the episode. Air Date: Oct 31, 2001 Shran tortures Archer for information on how and why hes collaborating with the Vulcans, his insistence that hes pretty much just here as a tourist falling on deaf antennae. The Andorians lock up the away team with the Vulcan monks, who explain that the Andorians, neighbors of Vulcan, believe that P'Jem conceals a long-range sensor array, and the arrival of T'Pol and Enterprise has unfortunately amplified their suspicions. "The Andorian Incident" $20.00. Enterprises arrival is unfortunate, as it only flames the paranoia of Shran, the Andorian commander. 2023 CBS Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, and CBS Interactive Inc., Paramount companies. Earth's people have only just perfected the Warp 5 engine and a whole deeper region of space beckons. In"Terra Prime," we see a divided world where a xenophobic faction still influences Earth affairs. The evidence of treason they used had been fabricated; even so, T'Pol had no way to restore her mother's position except by marrying into Koss' influential family. He was . She tells him she has used a nasal numbing agent. "Would you like me to kill him? Her other work includes guest-star appearances on television series and in films. Free shipping. However, those attitudes soften by the end of Season 4, with Soval, who had once questioned Captain Archer's mission, now calling him a friend. Also Reed bitches that landing parties checking in regularly and scanning for alien ships when entering orbit should be standard procedure, which it will be, as seen on all the other shows, You say this is a place to purge emotions? The fourth season three-parter that begins with "Babel One" sees the Romulans manipulating events to spark a war between Starfleet, the Vulcans, the Tellarites, and the Andorians. The elder explains that this is the third time the Andorians have come to search PJem, and found nothing. When the crew discovers a baby Jem'Hadar, Odo takes the youngling under his wing to protect him from starfleet and himself. I mean, Crayola changed their flesh-colored crayon to peach in 1962, youd think the producers of Enterprise could find an epithet that didnt signal that the only humans who matter are the white folks forty years later. Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library. According to Nielsen Media Research, it received a 4.5/7 rating share among adults. The gazelle speech. Tucker recognizes the transmitter as using a krellide power cell and is sure he can fix it. They take a shuttlepod down, and there are several things that make the landing partyespecially TPoluneasy. In the stage directions from that episode's first draft script (written while the installment had the working title "Untitled Andorians Return"), this site appeared on a monitor in Archer's quarters, when Admiral Maxwell Forrest contacted Archer. The system's primary was a M-class star. However, these developments end up simply teasing a bigger exploration of the clandestine Starfleet spy group that we never see. And, as always, Jeffrey Combs is magnificent in portraying Shrans fury, which turns out to be a righteous one in the end. Set in 2151 over a century before Kirk's voyages in Star Trek lore and only 150 years ahead of our own time, Enterprise set out to explore a whole new world of the unknown. While the show would skip ahead some years in the finale and show the signing of the first Federation charter, it felt like the series was building to a bigger arc that could have been told across further seasons as the different races went from adversaries to allies. TV-PG. As one of the most significant of the first-season episodes, the events of "The Andorian Incident" would continue to resonate into the third and fourth seasons. You must be a registered user to subscribe to threads. 2004 Vulcan Command Ship Hallmark Ornament Star Trek Enterprise Magic TESTED. It was re-broadcast on. Archer, TPol, and Tucker are brought to a room where the other Vulcan monks are being held prisoner. In that episode, Archer gets the Andorians, Vulcans, and Tellarites three races who have been at each others throats for decades to work together to thwart a plot to destabilize the region. The elder says theres an old transmitter in the catacombs, which are hidden. Exile A telepathic alien agrees to help the Enterprise crew locate the Xindi, but only under the condition that Hoshi keep him company during his search. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. They rescinded this decision at the request of Captain Sopek, after T'Pol saved his life on Coridan. Original air date: October 31, 2001 Date: June 19, 2151 Captain's star log. Lots of familiar faces in this one. ", Stunt actor Gregg Sargeant behind the scenes, The prop Andorian scanner with display graphics designed by Geoffrey Mandel, The photograph from Yosemite National Park, The VHS cover including "The Andorian Incident", 2151; agitation; air; alert; alien; ancient; Andoria; Andorian; Andorian Imperial Guard; Andorian Imperial Guard ranks; Andorian pistol; Andorian rifle; Andorian scanner; Andorian ship; Andorian system; Andorian uniform; angle; answer; antenna; April; archway; arrival; artifact; assault; assault team; assignment; assignment patch; astronomer; atrium; attack; awkwardness; aye; backpack; bacteria; baldric; ball; beat up; bell; belly; bench; biosign; bird; blanket; Blarney Stone; blasphemy; blood; blue; book; boost; boot; bowl; box; Brahe, Tycho; breakfast; bridge; bridge (structure); bruise; Buddha; building; butt; button (electronics); button (fastener); cabinet; camera; candle; Canton; captain; captain's chair; carrot; casualty; catacombs; cease fire; celebration; celery; 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force; fork; foundation; founder; freezing; friend; fun; generation; gesture; glove; green; green bean; guard; guest; Haadok; hail; hand hold; handrail; heading; helm; helm station; hemisphere; hidden passage; high order; hole; holster; homeworld; honor; horse; hostage; hostage situation; hour; Human; icon; idea; IDIC; idol; imaging sensor; indignance; "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"; information; initiate; instruction; interrogation; introspection; invasion; June; jurisdiction; kicking; kilometer; knife; kolinahr; krellide power cell; ladder; lamp; landing pad; landing party; landing platform; launch bay; liar; lieutenant; life; light; light year; lip; litany; living quarters; lock; logic; long range sensor array; loyalty; luck; lunar cycle; male; manual; map; master; math; mating ritual; meditation; mess hall; meter; micro-charge; militaristic; mind; minute; mission; mister; molecule; monastery; monitor; monk; motto; mountain; mouth; mummy; napkin; nasal numbing agent; nature; negotiation; neighbor; Ngari; night; northern; nose; NX-class; observation; odor; offense; Ohio; operations division; opportunity; orbit; order; order (group); organism; ornamentation; PADD; pain; pat; peaceful; pepper; percent; phase-pistol; philosopher; photograph; picture; pillow; pink skin; pinpoint; P'Jem; planet; plate; prisoner; pristine; problem; protocol; protostar; provoke; proximity sensor; punishment; purge; quarters; question; radio; rank pip; ransack; ready room; recruiting; red; relic; reliquary; remote control; remote outpost; repercussion; rescue; research; resequencer; ring system; risk; ritual; robe; roof; room; rope; saddle; salad; salt; salutation; sanctuary; San Francisco Zoo; saying; scan; scanning console; science officer; science station; sciences division; scramble; sculpture; second; sense of smell; sensor array; serving case; shaker; shelf; ship; shrine; shuttle; shuttlepod; Shuttlepod 1; Shuttlepod 2; signal; silence; sir; situation room; skin; sleep; smoke; smoke pot; solitude; sound; species; spiritual retreat; spoon; spy; spy station; standard procedure; standby; stairwell; star chart; Starfleet Command; Starfleet training; Starfleet uniform; star system; statue; status; stellar imaging file; stone; Stone of J'Kah; story; string; stun; sub-commander; suggestion; sunrise; supply ship; Surak; surface; surprise; surveillance; surveillance equipment; suspicion; symbol; table; tactical officer; tactical station; tapestry; technology; temple; tension; thousand; threat; Tibet; time; times; torch; torture; tour; towel; tower; tradition; transmission; transmitter; transporter; transporter alcove; transporter console; transporter platform; tray; treaty; tree; truth; tunnel; turbolift; twist; unnamed animals; unnamed avian; unnamed Human man; unnamed Humans; unnamed moon; unnamed plants; unnamed sun; urn; vase; vessel; viewscreen; violence; visit; visitor; voice; volatile; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet); Vulcan database; Vulcan High Command; Vulcan history; Vulcan language; Vulcan monastery planet; Vulcan mummies; Vulcan scanner; Vulcan star charts; Vulcan system; Vulcan uniform; war zone; water; weapon; week; wheel; window; wood; word; year; zipper, altar; Altar of C'thia; Atlanta; class 3 pulse rifle; creature; databank; evolved; Hall of Katras; landscape; mausoleum; Memory Alpha; Mount Seleya; Starfleet Ranger School; Sulok; T'Kosh; vibration; volcanic; well, The Vulcan tapestry at P'Jem in "The Andorian Incident", The Ventaxian tapestries in "Devil's Due", The krellide power cell in "The Andorian Incident", infinite diversity in infinite combinations, This episode marks the first appearance of an updated makeup design for the, According to the call sheet for the first day of production, Monday, Second unit filming for an unspecified episode took place on Tuesday, The set of the meditation room inside the monastery was built on, The shooting schedule of this episode was devised by, This episode prominently features the angled control booth window in the, Several other props and costumes from this episode were later sold off on the, Two musical pieces of this episode, composed by, The wide shot of the monastery at P'Jem was a computer-generated, This episode also marks the first time of multiple occasions over the course of the series Captain Archer acts as mediator between two of the four species who in, This is the first episode in which Malcolm Reed, This episode further establishes that the, This timing creates issues demonstrating the problem with warp speed -- as defined, it really isn't all that fast in terms of true interstellar distances, vs. the needs of storytelling to "get on to the next interesting place". 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