Countdown (Star Trek: Enterprise)

"Countdown"
Star Trek: Enterprise episode
Major Hayes protects Hoshi from the firefight.
Episode no.	Episode 75
Directed by	Robert Duncan McNeill
Written by	André Bormanis Chris Black
Production code	323
Original air date	May 19, 2004
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For the comic book, see Star Trek: Countdown.

"Countdown" is the title of a Star Trek: Enterprise television episode from season three.

Plot summary

With time running out and the Xindi weapon about to be armed, Archer has to persuade the Xindi-Aquatics to help destroy the weapon.

Hoshi is tortured while a prisoner of the Xindi-Reptillians. They had kidnapped her to use her translation skills to gain the third set of codes needed to operate the weapon.

Hoshi's kidnapping provides the proof needed to prod other Xindi factions into the direction of believing Archer.

A battle between Archer's Xindi-supporters and the Xindi-Insectoids and Reptillians breaks out around the superweapon. A small squad of MACOs, led by Major Hayes beams on board a Reptillian ship and rescues Hoshi. She is very sick and cannot help herself. The transporter system is damaged and only two personnel can beam out at one time. Hayes sends one of his men and Hoshi out first. Another is wounded and is sent out with the last man. Hayes is forced to retreat and just as he is beamed out, a Xindi-Reptillian soldier fires through his discoporating form.

Hayes collapses on the transporter platform, crying out. He later dies, but not before naming his successor.

The Sphere Builders protect the superweapon by creating barriers around it that Enterprise and the Xindi-supporter ships cannot get through. This buys the Reptillians enough time to make the superweapon fully operational. The superweapon departs for Earth, escorted by an Insectoid ship and a Reptillian ship. During the journey, the Insectoids begin to doubt the honesty of the Reptillians, but since they have everything they need from the Insectoids, they destroy the Insectoid ship.

Archer makes a plan with the Xindi-supporters to board the superweapon and take it out. Hoshi goes with the infiltration team so she can guide them through the superweapon.

References

External links

• Countdown at the Internet Movie Database
• "Countdown" at TV.com
• Countdown at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Countdown at StarTrek.com