Plot
As the Enterprise crew (aided by Columbia) race to prevent the impending destruction of the Enterprise (resulting from sabotage in the previous episode by a group of Klingon-Augment hybrids), Dr. Phlox fights a desperate battle against time to come up with a cure for the virus before a Klingon task force arrives to stop the diseases by eradicating the colony.
Picking up from the cliffhanger "Affliction," Enterprise's engine is sabotaged and is near overload. The Columbia sends Commander Tucker to reboot the reactor. Phlox rushes to cure the Klingon plague before the forced sterilization of the colony. With Lt. Reed in the brig, Captain Archer contacts Harris for answers to the lieutenant's betrayal.
Archer finds out that the Klingon augments had booby-trapped Enterprise: the ship cannot drop below warp five. The Columbia comes to help. Tucker has an idea to reverse the Klingon modifications, but at this kind of speeds, he cannot use the transporter. Reed is taken out of the brig for a dangerous plan. Meanwhile, Antaak and Phlox find a cure that will neutralize the virus without turning the victim into an augment. They fear General K'Vagh will not accept it and decide to deceive him. On Enterprise, Captain Archer finds out Reed was contacted by a certain Harris. He wants to know more, putting Reed in another dilemma.
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