Detained

For the 1924 film starring Stan Laurel, see Detained (film).

"Detained"
Star Trek: Enterprise episode
Episode no.	Episode 20
Directed by	David Livingston
Written by	Rick Berman Brannon Braga
Teleplay by	Mike Sussman Phyllis Strong
Produced by	Dawn Valazquez
Production code	121
Original air date	April 24, 2002
Guest stars
Dean Stockwell Christopher Shea Jessica D. Stone Dennis Christopher David Kagen
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Detained is the 20^th episode (production #121) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It may be noteworthy for reuniting Scott Bakula with Dean Stockwell for the first time since the series Quantum Leap.

Synopsis

Archer and Mayweather are detained by the Tandarans in a Suliban internment camp. Learning of the Suliban's persecution by the Tandarans, Archer enlists the aid of Enterprise and his crew.

Plot

Mayweather awakens slowly in a prison cell, and sees Archer next to him, unconscious. Mayweather explores the prison area and Archer asks who attacked their shuttlepod. Archer and Mayweather leave their room and encounter a Suliban. At that moment, an alarm sounds and the Suliban in the other cells assemble for inspection. A Tandaran officer, Major Klev, enters the cell area and orders Archer and Mayweather to follow him. They are led to the office of Colonel Grat. Grat asks why their shuttlepod was in the Tandaran military zone. Archer explains that they detected some unusual energy readings and were investigating. Grat says that the Tandarans tested their DNA. He asks if the Enterprise has had any experience of the Cabal, genetically engineered Suliban soldiers and Archer replies yes.

Grat says that he doesn't have the authority to release Archer and Mayweather, so they will have to appear before a magistrate on Tandar Prime in three days, where Grat will testify as to their innocence. Grat also refuses to allow Archer to contact the Enterprise but says that he will do so and explain the situation on their behalf, before summoning Klev to escort them back to their cell. Later, Archer speaks to a Suliban called Danik, who tells him that none of the Suliban are Cabal members. An alarm sounds for curfew and Klev enters on his rounds. Danik is taken to isolation for breaking curfew. Colonel Grat contacts the Enterprise and apprises them of the situation, as promised. Grat scrambled the carrier wave to avoid detection. Trip advocates an escape attempt, while T'Pol prefers to wait for the hearing and to avoid provoking the Tandarans further. T'Pol orders the Enterprise to Tandar Prime.

The following morning, Archer asks what is really going on in the prison. Danik says that they are in Detention Complex 26, an internment camp for Suliban. The Tandarans imprisoned the Suliban when the Cabal began attacking the Tandaran Sector eight years previously. The Suliban cannot appeal to their government as their home-world became uninhabitable 300 years ago, forcing the Suliban to become either nomads or to integrate in to other cultures, such as Tandar Prime. They are interrupted by another Suliban male called Sajen, who delivers a note to Danik. The note says that Danik's wife has been refused approval to transfer to Complex 26. The alarm sounds for midday inspection and Klev removes Archer from the lineup to speak to Grat alone.

In his office, Grat warns Archer not to interact with the Suliban. Grat then asks Archer about the events of Broken Bow and their delivering of Klaang back to Cronos and being chased by the Suliban. Grat demands information about the Cabal - their genetic enhancements, ship deployments and their chain of command. Archer wonders why innocent Suliban are being held prisoner and Grat says that if they were allowed to go free the Cabal would turn them all in to genetically-enhanced soldiers. Grat asks about Silik and the Temporal Cold War and Archer says nothing. As Archer leaves with Klev, Grat warns that delaying could result in Archer missing the transport to Tandar Prime, the next one being in sixty days.

Grat explains that the hearing has been delayed to the Enterprise. Reed manages to isolate the carrier frequency and Hoshi locates the source of the signal and T'Pol orders the Enterprise to Complex 26. In the Complex, Archer tells Danik that he doesn't approve of coercion nor of the internment of the Suliban, which surprises Danik. Archer says that the Enterprise will come looking for them and that the Suliban could use the opportunity to escape. In the kitchen area, Mayweather tries to speak to Sajen. He says that Mayweather sees no difference between the Cabal and ordinary Suliban, which Mayweather denies.

That night, a communicator is beamed to Archer and Mayweather's cell. Archer tells Trip not to transport them out as he wants to help the Suliban escape. Archer tells Danik and Sajen about the plan. Danik says that the Suliban can pilot their ships to the Niburon Colonies, away from the Tandar Sector. Sajen won't take the risk, calling it suicide. The following morning, Archer again refuses to give information about Silik to Grat. Grat summons Klev in to his office, who brings a beaten-up Mayweather with him. Grat produces the communicator that Mayweather was hiding. Archer is sent to isolation as punishment.

Aboard the Enterprise, Trip and T'Pol plan the escape strategy. At that moment, they are hailed - it is Grat, using Archer's communicator to warn T'Pol not to try anything or risk being fired upon. Meanwhile Mayweather says that he is in isolation because he cares about the Suliban and goes on to say that Sajen should see past his preconceptions about people who look like Tandarans. T'Pol jams the Tandaran frequencies by sending copies of the human and Vulcan databases, and hails Trip, who is finishing transporting someone. The Enterprise leaves orbit.

Mayweather answers a knock at the door and admits a Suliban, who turns out to be Reed in disguise. He hands Mayweather a phase pistol and sets charges for the breakout. Later, Danik discusses the breakout with the two of them as the alarm sounds for the inspection. In orbit, T'Pol uses torpedoes to ward off the Tandaran defence ships before clearing Trip to launch in a shuttlepod. In complex 26, Mayweather distracts Klev to allow Reed to activate the charges and begin the escape. In isolation, Reed frees Archer before being stunned by Grat. Grat rants that the Suliban will all go to join the Cabal as they have nothing else to live for. Archer says that Grat doesn't know the Suliban very well, despite having been in charge for a long time. He then locks Grat in isolation before escaping. Mayweather wonders whether the Suliban will make it. Archer replies that they will get out of Tandaran space without difficulty but after that, who knows?

External links

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