- Archer sends an away team to a habitable, luscious planet for observation. But when a storm occurs, the team begins to experience paranoid delusions.
- Human curiosity speaks louder than Vulcan logic. Despite T'Pol's objection, Archer sends an away team to explore an uninhabited planet before getting a full scan of its unique properties. When nightfall arrives, the away team seeks shelter from a storm in a nearby cave. Panic and anxiety strike the team when they begin to experience paranoid delusions of a rock-like life-form in the cave. Tucker's preconceptions of Vulcans are intensified when his delusions convince him T'Pol, in league with the "rock people," intend to kill him and his human crew-mates.—Meribor
- The Enterprise locates an uninhabited planet, simplifier to earth, and Archer sends down an away team for observation. Soon, a powerful appears, preventing them from returning to the ship. All seems fine, but soon, the group experiences delusions and paranoia.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Enterprise passes a previously unknown Minshara-class (Suitable for humanoids) planet with an Earth-like atmosphere and surface. Captain Archer orders a shuttle to be prepared for an away mission. After an afternoon studying the planet, Sub-Commander T'Pol (who had suggested a more cautious approach involving robotic probes to be sent to the surface before sending an away crew. But her cautious approach would take a week), Commander Tucker, and Ensign Mayweather request further time on the planet, and do so with Archer's approval. Crewmen Cutler (Kellie Waymire) (who studies insects) and Novakovich (Henri Lubatti) are also allowed to remain on the surface to study nocturnal life. The Captain and Lieutenant Reed then return to Enterprise.
Mayweather tells a story of how a life pod from a freighter was recovered 63 yrs ago after it was reported missing. The ensign who opened it couldn't find anyone inside, but then started acting weird a few days later. He locked himself inside the engine room and almost destroyed the engines before escaping in another escape pod. Space ghost story..
Later that evening, a violent storm front approaches so Tucker suggests that the landing party use the cave that T'Pol discovered earlier for shelter. Once there, Mayweather goes back to the original camp-site to recover food, and notices three humanoid life-forms wandering around, but T'Pol's scans reveal no unusual bio-signs. Ghosts.. In the confines of the cave, Crewmen Cutler and Novakovich begin seeing and hearing humanoids too. Tucker also reports to Archer about seeing a mysterious alien life form too. Searching for these other lifeforms, T'Pol takes a phase pistol and walks deeper into the cave. In her absence, the landing party become increasingly suspicious of her behavior, thinking that she is withholding information about the aliens from them. Cutler claims that she saw T'POl talking to one of the aliens.
Concerned, Archer and Reed attempt to reach the landing party in a shuttle-pod, but cannot do so until the wind dies down. Novakavich is emergency beamed up due to his erratic behavior and bio-sign, and Doctor Phlox finds he has been exposed to Tropolisine, a hallucinogenic compound found in pollen. Phlox also discovers he is near-death, poisoned by an unexpected side-effect of the chemical. On the planet, Tucker is increasingly suffering from hallucinations and accuses T'Pol of colluding with aliens. He even disarms her and orders her to sit tight inside the cave. It was T'Pol who found the cave and it was her idea to spend the night. Tucker thinks she wants to kill the Enterprise crew and set back human space flight by at least another 100 yrs (which was the Vulcan plan all along)
T'Pol reports to Archer that he is irrational and that Mayweather and Cutler are nearly unconscious. Archer orders Tucker to stand down and take the team deeper inside the caves where the effect of the compound is likely to be lesser. Reed beams an antidote down to the cave, and despite Tucker's interference (Archer has to tell Tucker that T'Pol was on a secret mission to make contact with the cave people. Which is why she was given permission to stay the night. But the storm took everyone inside the caves when the aliens only wanted to meet T'Pol. Now T'Pl would have to explain, but Tucker would need to back off for her to do this credibly) (Hoshi Sato then explains the real plan to T'Pol in Vulcan), T'Pol is able to administer it. The next morning, the storm blows over, and everyone is fine.
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