- The men of Enterprise fall under the seductive control of three Orion women. Trip is the only male member of the crew not to succumb to the women.
- Enterprise is en route to the Berengaria system, one of the supposed places for a starbase, when an hostile Orion ship approaches. Its captain, Harrad-Sar, agrees to stand down weapons and he has a proposal for Captain Archer. Harrad-Sar wants Starfleet to cooperate in a mining operation. He claims he found a source of magnesite, enough to build a thousand warp drives. To improve relations with the Orion Syndicate, Archer decides to agree with the proposal. Harrad-Sar insists on transporting three slave girls to Enterprise as part of the deal. While Archer tries to convince them they are not slaves anymore, the crew seem to be affected by their arrival. The men seem entranced and preoccupied, getting sloppy with their work, while the women develop headaches. Meanwhile Trip and T'Pol discuss their relationship. Trip feels compelled to tell the truth about his having dreams about her.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
- While traveling to the Berengaria, the Enterprise is intercepted by an Orion ship commanded by Captain Harrad-Sar. After an initial hostility, the alien surprisingly invites Captain Archer to pay him a visit. Archer and Reed are transported to the ship and Harrad-Sar throws a feast and entertainment in the form of three seductive Orion female dancers. When Archer returns to the Enterprise, he reports to T'Pol that Harrad-Sar had found a huge magnesite mine but did not have the necessary resources to invest in the mining operation. He had offered the location to Starfleet and in return he asks for a commission of 10% of the extraction. Archer accepts the deal receiving the three Orion dancers as a gift. However, the Orion females affect the entire crew except T'Pol and Trip. Dr. Phlox discovers that the pheromoes of the men are increased making them careless in their duties and easily persuaded by the females. Conversely the women have headache affecting their concentration on the job.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Enterprise is en route to the Berengarius system, one of the proposed locations for a Starfleet star-base, when it is approached by an Orion Syndicate vessel. Captain Archer is invited to visit the Orion ship by its captain, Harrad-Sar (William Lucking). Reed is against it as at the last encounter Orions enslaved and tried to sell 9 of Starfleet's crew.
During the visit, Archer and Lieutenant Reed are entertained by three Orion dancers, Navaar (Cyia Batten), D'Nesh (Crystal Allen), and Maras (Menina Fortunato). Archer negotiates with Harrad-Sar and they agree to a joint Magnesite mining operation (required to build war reactors and Harrad-Sar does not have the equipment to get the Magnesite out of the ground. He wants a 10% share for disclosing the coordinates of the site), and at Harrad-Sar's insistence the three slaves are given to him. They return to Enterprise with the slaves and set a course to survey the planet.
En route, the presence of the Orions begins having an effect on the crew: men become increasingly aggressive, while women increasingly suffer from headaches. Navaar focuses her attentions on Archer (Archer tells her that she is free now, and not his slave), while D'Nesh seduces Commander Kelby (Derek Magyar) (The chief engineer who is the replacement to Tucker). Tucker is angry that Kelby is ignoring his duties, attending to D'Nesh.. Arriving at the planet, a sluggish Archer (after having sex with Navaar) orders Reed to destroy another ship (it was a science vessel with minimal weapons of low yield), but he refuses and it escapes.
Kelby meanwhile sabotages the warp drive (D'Nesh seduces Kelby and convinces him to sabotage the warp drive to make Tucker look bad in front of Archer) before Commander Tucker can physically stop him. Enterprise is dead in the water for a while.. Afterwards, Doctor Phlox determines that the Orions are producing pheromones, causing the crew's adrenaline levels to spike. Only Commander T'Pol and Tucker remain unaffected, since she is Vulcan and he shares her immunity because of their psychic bond.
The Orions are placed under guard in the decontamination chamber. Harrad-Sar returns in his vessel and attacks the now disabled Enterprise, and then begins to tow it away. He reveals that, in fact, the Syndicate seeks Archer's head (Dead or Alive), and in this matter he is the slave and the Orion women are his masters. The Orions escape and travel to the Bridge, as do T'Pol and Tucker. Navaar tells Archer to arrest T'Pol (Archer is so much under her influence that he gives the order to take T'Pol to the bridge), but Tucker stuns all the male crew-members with his phaser, and Tucker and T'Pol disable the Orion ship with an energy pulse sent from Enterprise's deflector dish.
They send the Orions back to their ship (Phlox administers a hypo spray to all crew to dissipate the effects of the pheromones), and T'Pol finally admits she would personally like Tucker to return, and he replies that he has already requested a transfer back to Enterprise.
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