United
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 4 February 2005
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- None given
- DIRECTED BY
- David Livingston
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 089
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens; story by Manny Coto
To catch a Romulan drone that can impersonate any ship, Archer must persuade rival species to work together, while Tucker and Reed fight to survive aboard it.
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Trapped aboard the Romulan drone, Tucker and Reed look for a way to sabotage it while the ship, now disguised as Enterprise, destroys a Rigelian vessel. Archer persuades Starfleet, Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite ships to form a sensor grid to track it down. The alliance nearly collapses when Shran's officer Talas dies of her wounds and Shran demands the ushaan, a ritual duel to the death, with the Tellarite he blames. To save the fragile partnership, Archer takes the Tellarite's place and fights Shran himself with ushaan-tor blades. He wins by cutting off one of Shran's antennae rather than killing him. Reed disables the drone's warp drive while Tucker distracts the Romulans, and the combined fleet forces the drone to retreat. Enterprise reaches Tucker and Reed, but a Romulan ship escapes with the drone. In the final moments its remote pilot is revealed as a pale-skinned Andorian, one of the Aenar.
- 01Nominated for the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series.
- 02Dan Curry designed the ushaan-tor weapon, and stunt coordinator Vince Deadrick Jr. choreographed the duel.
- 03Reman prosthetics made for the film Star Trek: Nemesis were reused for the Romulans' Reman crew.