The Seventh (episode)

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"The Seventh"
ENT, Episode 2x07 Production number: 033 First aired: 6 November 2002
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Written By Rick Berman and Brannon Braga Directed By David Livingston
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T'Pol asks Archer to accompany her on a top-secret mission to capture a fugitive that has eluded the Vulcan High Command for two decades.

1 Summary
2 Log Entries
3 Memorable Quotes
4 Background Information
5 Links and References

[edit] Summary

A Vulcan security administrator, informing T'Pol of the whereabouts of Menos.

T'Pol is reading a book in the middle of the night when she receives transmission from the Vulcan High Command. The only thing her interlocutor tells her is that they have located a man named Menos, three days from Enterprise's location.

The next morning, T'Pol informs captain Jonathan Archer that he will receive a transmission from Admiral Maxwell Forrest that will give him orders to assist T'Pol in a classified mission. She will need a shuttlepod, a pilot, restraints and phase pistols. Even if she is unwilling to tell the details of her mission at first, she later asks Archer to be part of the mission because she needs someone she can trust. The captain accepts when she accepts to tell him more about the mission.

Menos, the fugitive, is a Vulcan ex-agent that wouldn't return when his mission was over, and has been a smuggler since then. A couple of years ago, T'Pol, then under the Vulcan Ministry of Security, had been in charge of apprehending six fugitives, and Menos was the only one that she hadn't been able to catch. The Vulcan High Command, considering that a matter of honor, had this assigned to her again.

Archer, Travis Mayweather and T'Pol arrive at a bar situated on the Pernaia Prime moon. They have no difficulties apprehending Menos and from that point, it all looks like a successful mission. But the man appears harmless, tries to convince them that he is not a smuggler any more and is sustaining his family with an honest job (hauling spent warp injector casings). At the same moment, T'Pol has a strong flashback that comes from repressed memories and, with the manipulative attitude of Menos and all the facts that suggest that he is what he says (his ship contains only warp injector casings), she begins to doubt herself.

She then goes outside the bar with Archer and explains to him that while she was running after Menos on Risa, years ago, she killed a man and didn't remember it until some minutes ago. Since she never knew if he was really hostile and had been confused by the fact, she went through the fullara , a ritual meant to suppress that memory (she had in fact seven fugitives to track down). That only makes her unsure about Menos now. Their discussion is cut short by a disturbance in the bar. Menos caused a fire by kicking a table and claims that he would rather die on that frozen moon than be brought back to Vulcan for crimes he didn't commit. T'Pol then decides to free him from the restraints and he quickly vanishes.

When they go to his ship, they don't find him aboard. After a little investigation, Travis finds a system still online on the ship and that reveals a secret area behind a cloaking field where Menos was hiding. He tries to escape, but in the end, T'Pol has a phase pistol pointed at him. He still almost gets away by playing with T'Pol's insecurities, but Archer interferes at this moment and T'Pol finally stuns him. Back on the ship, Travis has found interesting things: the man was effectively smuggling biotoxins.

Back on Enterprise, T'Pol thanks Archer for what he did on the moon and says that if he ever needs someone he can trust, she will be glad to return the favor.

[edit] Log Entries

Captain's log, supplemental. As anticipated, I was contacted by Admiral Forrest, who has ordered us to accommodate the Vulcans' request.

Captain's starlog, supplemental. The Vulcan ship Nyran was waiting at the prearranged coordinates. After transferring Menos to their custody, we've returned to Enterprise.

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"Why did you bring me along?"
"Because I trust you."
"Trust me now then" - Archer and T'Pol

[edit] Background Information

T'Pol shoots Jossen

The Seventh refers to the seventh rogue operative, Jossen, whom T'Pol killed. Coincidentally, it is also the seventh episode of the season.
It seems Menos was working for the Axanar, as most of his cargo containers have the Axanar written language on them.
Among the aliens at the bar on Pernaia's moon was a Kreetassan, several Klingons, several members of the shapeshifting species from "Two Days and Two Nights", and a member of Kago-Darr's species.
T'Pol's experiences of pursuing Menos and Jossen on Risa and subsequently undergoing fullara at P'Jem are referred to in the non-canon ENT novel "Surak's Soul".