Chasing another lead in their pursuit of the Xindi, the Enterprise crew takes on a passenger attempting to escape slavery. Turns out this Rajiin character isn’t as innocent as she appears, as she begins gathering data on Archer and the rest of the crew using her super powers.
Star Trek: Enterprise 3×04 – Rajiin
Directed by Michael Vejar
Written by Chris Black, Brent V. Friedman, Paul Brown
Guest Stars: Nikita Ager, Tucker Smallwood, Randy Olgesby, Rick Worthy, Scott MacDonald
There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen and Joe Heiser as we discuss the 4th episode of season three of Star Trek: Enterprise, Rajiin.
Cold Open
The Xindi Council meets discussing how to proceed after experiencing setbacks in their plans to destroy Earth. If Degra doesn’t make progress soon, the council may consider alternatives.
Part 1
In the middle of his neuro-pressure sessions, Trip expresses some concerns about the gossip going around about his relationship with T’Pol, but she doesn’t mind. After Archer gets some cream put on his lesions from his recent transformation into an alien species, the Enterprise swings by a trading post to see if they can nab some Trellium-D. Instead they get a line on some recent Xindi visitors, and end up liberating a slave named Rajiin instead.
In exchange for some spices, the Enterprise acquires the recipe for liquid Trellium-D. Turns out that making this stuff can get real nasty, so Trip and T’Pol set up a lab behind some emergency bulkheads just in case. Good thing, cuz their first batch blows up the place. Rajiin swings by the captain’s quarters to thank him for his kindness by demonstrating her quote unquote gifts, and later when Rajiin is poking around the transporter, she encounters Hoshi who seems like she would also like to experience those gifts. Somehow Rajiin ends up breaking into T’Pol’s quarters instead.
Part 2
Rajiin accosts and overpowers T’Pol, and after nobody answers his doorbell ringing, Trip busts in but gets bonked on the head real bad. She uses her mental powers to try and make her way off her ship back to her partner, but the Enterprise gang is able to rally before she beams away. The Captain swings by the brig to manhandle his prisoner when Reed interrupts to inform him that two Reptillian Xindi craft are approaching the Enterprise.
After a guilt trip from Archer, Rajiin divulges that the Xindi are developing a bio-weapon and she was on a mission to gather the necessary information to help that process. Three Xindi boarding parties converge to liberate Rajiiin from the brig, The Captain orders a pursuit course, but the Xindi disappear into some kind of vortex and disappear. Rajiin is dragged out into the Xindi Council and displays the bio-information she collected. The Council doesn’t seem happy about the Reptilians going rogue on this mission, but they decide to pursue the bio-weapon as well as their Earth-destroying-plan.