November 27th, 2154: Enterprise arrives at Earth to attend the launch of the sister ship Columbia. Trip joins the crew of Columbia. In San Francisco, Dr. Phlox is kidnapped and taken to a Klingon colony to find a cure against a virus that is spreading through the Klingon Empire and may cost the lives of millions. The crew of Enterprise figures out that the Rigelians are responsible for abducting Phlox, but the Rigelian freighter is found destroyed in space. Archer discovers that Malcolm Reed has obstructed the investigation by erasing the data in the Rigelian black box. He confines his armory officer, who is secretly working for a man named Harris of Section 31, to the brig. Enterprise is attacked by a Klingon vessel and is boarded. One of the intruders can be disabled by the MACOs and is taken to sickbay - he looks almost human, although his lifesigns are Klingon. As Dr. Phlox is told, the reason for the virus to become dangerous was that it combined with human DNA - more precisely with DNA of Augments that the Klingons were experimenting with to create stronger warriors. One side effect is that the Klingon Augments take over the characteristic smooth foreheads of humans. On Enterprise, it is found that the intruders have sabotaged the propulsion system. Because of an open antimatter regulator the ship has to stay at high warp...

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