Damage (Star Trek: Enterprise) - Plot

Plot

Captain Archer is found in a Xindi escape pod. Enterprise is severely damaged and the crew try to repair the ship. They have lost fourteen members of the crew and three more are unaccounted for. During the episode, Archer orders the theft of a warp coil after Xindi attacks caused damage to Enterprise's. His decision is met with crew resistance, but is ultimately justified by the necessity of an unexpected rendezvous from an increasingly cooperative Degra.

In addition, it is finally revealed why Sub-commander T'Pol's behavior had been unusual in preceding episodes: for months, she had possessed an addiction to Trellium-D. Following her near emotional collapse (seen in the preceding episode), a tense meeting with Archer in which she screams at him, and a foolhardy attempt to access a sealed off part of the ship in which the Trellium is stored (an act that nearly costs her her life), she decides to report her condition to Dr. Phlox. While she is still visiting with the doctor, Archer - who believes her emotionalism is being caused by stress - calls her to the bridge to take command of Enterprise while he leads the warp coil-theft mission. As a result of T'Pol's adverse mechanical, physical, or biochemical reactions to the addiction, however, Phlox orders her to remain in sickbay. She protests and persuades Phlox to let her go, but before she leaves, she asks whether he plans to report her condition to Archer. Phlox indicates no, saying after a moment of silence: "This is between you and your doctor."