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Several Vulcan monks are meditating in a monastery, only to have four Andorians break in. Then, in the ready room, Archer is looking through the Vulcan star charts for places to go, to Trip's annoyance as he'd rather explore without a guide. T'Pol enters, since Archer wanted to tell her about an outpost he found nearby. She reveals that it's a Vulcan spiritual retreat called P'Jem. Archer, despite T'Pol pointing out that the Vulcans may dislike the intrusion, decides to visit the place.

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Several Vulcan monks are meditating in a monastery, only to have four Andorians break in. Then, in the ready room, Meanwhile, on ''Enterprise'', Archer is in his ready room looking through the Vulcan star charts for places to go, to Trip's annoyance as he'd rather explore without a guide. T'Pol enters, since Archer wanted to tell her about an outpost he found nearby. She reveals that it's a Vulcan spiritual retreat called P'Jem. Archer, despite T'Pol pointing out that the Vulcans may dislike the intrusion, decides to visit the place.
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* WouldRatherSuffer: T'Pol apparently finds Archer's BO without her nasal numbing agent so unpleasant that she'd rather get hypothermia than share a blanket with him.

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* WouldRatherSuffer: T'Pol apparently finds Archer's BO without her nasal numbing agent so unpleasant that she'd rather get hypothermia than share a blanket with him.him.
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%%* HostageSituation: The Andorians' general plan, which seemed fruitless at the beginning.

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%%* * HostageSituation: The Andorians' general plan, which seemed fruitless at Andorians start by holding the beginning.monks captive, and then Archer's team when they show up.


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-->'''Archer:''' All this time...they've been calling these monks liars, and all this time, they've been ''right''.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Tholos (an Andorian) is attracted to T'Pol (a Vulcan).

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* HumansAreSmelly: It's mentioned a few times that Vulcans think so. T'Pol has apparently been taking a nasal numbing agent so she can deal with being on board a ship full of them, and her last dose is wearing off, much to her displeasure.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tholos (an Andorian) Tholos, an Andorian, is attracted to T'Pol (a Vulcan).T'Pol, a Vulcan (though it's not so much ''romance'' on his part as thinly-veiled rape threats).

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None of the Vulcans actually speak Vulcan in this episode.


* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: A straight example. T'Pol and the Elder converse about their smelly human companions in Vulcan.



* MathematiciansAnswer: When the Andorians demand facts about Earth from Archer, he gives them trivia about bacteria and Ohio history.

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* MathematiciansAnswer: When the Andorians demand facts about Earth from Archer, he gives them trivia about bacteria and bacteria, Ohio history.history, and Tycho Brahe.

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Archer, Trip, and T'Pol visit a Vulcan monastery--and get captured by Andorians.

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Several Vulcan monks are meditating in a monastery, only to have four Andorians break in. Then, in the ready room, Archer is looking through the Vulcan star charts for places to go, to Trip's annoyance as he'd rather explore without a guide. T'Pol enters, since Archer wanted to tell her about an outpost he found nearby. She reveals that it's a Vulcan spiritual retreat called P'Jem. Archer, Trip, despite T'Pol pointing out that the Vulcans may dislike the intrusion, decides to visit the place.

In the mess hall, she and Phlox dine together, and talk about how she'd feel awkward in front of the other Vulcans with a human crew. Phlox can relate to an extent, since he sometimes feels out of place being the only one of his kind on the ship too, but tells her that diversity is a good thing. T'Pol tells Trip in the launch bay not to speak unless spoken to, talk to anyone who seems to be meditating, or touch any relics.

They go to P'Jem with Archer, but are kicked out since the monks are doing a long ritual,
and T'Pol visit notes that a statue is knocked over and there are too few monks in the atrium. They investigate, then find a hiding Andorian, but when they try to confront him, he and three others take the trio hostage and bring them into a room, where the rest of the monks are also being held. They introduce themselves as Shran, Tholos, Keval, and Thon, and reveal that they're from the Andorian Imperial Guard. Archer tries to explain that they were just curious, but because T'Pol is Vulcan, the Andorians don't believe him.

The Andorians leave, with the away team and the monks still locked up, and T'Pol and the oldest monk explain that Andorians are known for being suspicious and volatile and have been in conflict with Vulcans for years, with some Andorians being suspicious of them even after a treaty was signed. The
Vulcan monastery--and get captured by Andorians.
elder also explains that the Andorians are suspicious of P'Jem because they believe it hides a long-range sensor array.

Meanwhile, on ''Enterprise'', Malcolm notices an alien ship and is antsy that Archer hasn't contacted him, but Hoshi and Travis think he's probably just preoccupied and that Malcolm is overreacting. Shran interrogates Archer and asks where the sensor array is, but when Archer (truthfully) claims not to know, Shran doesn't believe him and beats him. ''Enterprise'' tries to contact him, but Shran takes the communicator and threatens to kill any of the hostages if they try anything. Archer is returned to confinement and the Vulcans admit that there is a transmitter in the catacombs and allow Archer and Trip to use it.

The Vulcan initiate leads Trip down the catacombs, where he finds several things of interest, including dried bodies and a stairwell. He finds that the transceiver is broken, but believes he can fix it. While the prisoners discuss what to do, it becomes cold, so Archer shares his blanket with a reluctant T'Pol. Trip and Archer talk to Malcolm with the transceiver and Trip explains the situation, but Archer orders Malcolm to wait.

The next morning, the prisoners map the catacombs, and then Archer is tortured again, deliberately giving unhelpful answers. He throws a statuette through a hole in the atrium wall for Trip, then is taken back to confinement. Meanwhile, Malcolm and several others beam down with phase-pistols, nervous but determined.

As the landing party go into the catacombs, the Andorians enter and ask about an energy surge, but T'Pol suggests that the Andorians have faulty equipment. Tholos is asked to keep an eye on the prisoners, while Malcolm and his party place charges around the atrium walls, and Tholos hits on T'Pol and threatens Archer with death. Malcolm sets off the charges, which knocks Shran over. The landing party stuns Thon, then Shran shoots one crewman but he survives, and Keval and Shran escape down the stairway.

Meanwhile, Trip has tried to subdue Tholos, but failed and thus been beaten up. Malcolm, T'Pol, and Archer plan to hunt down the two escaped Andorians and they give Trip a phase-pistol with which to stun Tholos, then the initiate says to the Elder that they must "protect what is [theirs]". T'Pol finds the fugitives, leading to a firefight, during which a big listening post is found. The initiate tries to take Archer hostage to keep it secret, but Archer knocks him out while T'Pol scans the station. She then shows the scans to the Andorians, who allow the humans to leave.



* CassandraTruth:
** The Andorians don't believe Archer when he says they came to P'Jem out of curiosity because T'Pol is a Vulcan.
** Archer is telling the truth when he says he doesn't know where the sensor array is, but Shran thinks he's lying and beats him.



* HostageSituation: The Andorians' general plan, which seemed fruitless at the beginning.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Shran uses this on Archer. This would be a running theme for Archer.

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* %%* HostageSituation: The Andorians' general plan, which seemed fruitless at the beginning.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tholos (an Andorian) is attracted to T'Pol (a Vulcan).
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JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Shran uses this on Archer. This would be a running theme for Archer.
* MathematiciansAnswer: When the Andorians demand facts about Earth from Archer, he gives them trivia about bacteria and Ohio history.



* NoticeThis: The giant Vulcan face in P'Jem Monastery is huge and is important as it leads to [[AncientTomb the Catacombs...]]

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* NoticeThis: NoticeThis:
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The giant Vulcan face in P'Jem Monastery is huge and is important as it leads to [[AncientTomb the Catacombs...]]



* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: The Vulcan spy array.

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* %%* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: The Vulcan spy array.



* WhatTheHellHero: Archer calls this on the Vulcans, and the events of the episode later provide supporting evidence that something has gone badly wrong with Vulcan culture, that they would use a holy site for a spying operation.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Archer calls this on the Vulcans, and the events of the episode later provide supporting evidence that something has gone badly wrong with Vulcan culture, that they would use a holy site for a spying operation.operation.
* WouldRatherSuffer: T'Pol apparently finds Archer's BO without her nasal numbing agent so unpleasant that she'd rather get hypothermia than share a blanket with him.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Archer's decision to give away the secrets of the listening post to Shran is often ranked against Janeway's decision to destroy the Caretaker array. Sure, it was an idiotic move on the Vulcans to use the monastery as a sort of HumanShield for this post, but still, Archer is willingly giving away ''state secrets'' of Earth's ''only ally'' to one of their enemies. And from the Humans perspective, the Andorians had done nothing to suggest that they weren't the ''aggressors'' in this conflict. They spent much of the episode beating the crap out of Archer and one threatened to ''rape'' T'Pol.

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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Archer's decision to give away the secrets of the listening post to Shran is often ranked against Janeway's decision to destroy the Caretaker array. Sure, it was an idiotic move on the Vulcans to use the monastery as a sort of HumanShield for this post, but still, Archer is willingly giving away ''state secrets'' of Earth's ''only ally'' to one of their enemies. And from the Humans perspective, the Andorians had done nothing to suggest that they weren't the ''aggressors'' in this conflict. They spent much of the episode beating the crap out of Archer and one threatened to ''rape'' T'Pol. This is mitigated somewhat as it's specifically stated the listening post violates the Vulcan's treaty with Andoria, and one of the priests was willing to kill Archer to keep it a secret.
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** Reed - he's the only member of the crew that bothers to scan the planet's surface (detecting the Andorian's ship in the process), and senses something is wrong when the away team fails to check in.

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** Reed - he's Malcolm is the only member of the crew that bothers to scan the planet's surface (detecting the Andorian's ship in the process), and senses something is wrong when the away team fails to check in.

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* OnlySaneMan: Reed - he's the only member of the crew that bothers to scan the planet's surface (detecting the Andorian's ship in the process), and senses something is wrong when the away team fails to check in.



** Lt. Reed, when the away team fails to check in. He's also right.

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** Lt. Reed, Reed - he's the only member of the crew that bothers to scan the planet's surface (detecting the Andorian's ship in the process), and senses something is wrong when the away team fails to check in. He's also right.in.
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''Shran struggles not to start {{corpsing}})''

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''Shran ''(Shran struggles not to start {{corpsing}})''

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