Anomaly story
The crew of Enterprise encounters the rigours of the Delphic Expanse first- hand, and deal with pirates operating from a giant cloaked alien sphere. Directed by: David Straiton. Story by: Mike Sussman.
9 total · 3 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| compromising one's ethical principles vs. self-preservation | major | Archer tortured Orgoth to get access codes to the Xindi database that might contain information to help save Earth. |
| cooperation vs. competition | major | Aliens turned to piracy to survive in the Expanse, and it was pondered whether Archer would need to do the same. |
| human vs. space anomaly | major | The Enterprise need to reconfigure the ship after encountering strange spatial distortions in the Delphic Expanse. |
| flirtation | minor | Romance was in the air between T'Pol and Tucker. |
| justification for torture | minor | Archer tortured Orgoth to get access codes to the Xindi database that might contain information to help save Earth. |
| planetary invisibility cloak | minor | The pirates lived in the Delphic Expanse inside a giant cloaked sphere. |
| sleep deprivation | minor | Tucker consulted Phlox about a treatment for his inability to get to sleep that didn’t involve meditating with T’Pol. |
| torture | minor | Archer tortured Orgoth to get access codes to the Xindi database that might contain information to help save Earth. |
| what if I found myself in a zero gravity environment | minor | Archer's coffee floated up from his desk and hovered in the air. |