Date not given: Enterprise discovers a crash landed Xindi-Insectoid vessel. A landing party finds a dead crew and a hatchery whose life support will fail soon. After coming into contact with an egg, Archer strives to save the hatchlings at any rate, and he even orders antimatter supplies of Enterprise to be sacrificed to power the hatchery. While T'Pol and later Reed are relieved of duty for acting against him, Hayes is left as the only officer to stick by the captain. The rest of the senior crew unite in a successful mutiny. Phlox finds out that the egg contained a sophisticated neurochemical that made Archer develop a father instinct for the hatchery.

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