Two weeks into their first mission of deep space exploration, the Enterprise NX-01 crew comes across an abandoned ship of dead aliens.

Jeff Ricketts (Alien Captain)
Efrain Figueroa (Translator Voice)
Porthos

• After seeing the dead bodies and falling apart, Hoshi is not sure that she is right for this mission. In the end, she proves herself by communicating with the Axanar captain and she decides to remain on board.
  
• The aliens — identified as Axanar — are being drained of triglobulin, produced by their zymuth gland.
  
• "Archer's Theme", composed by Dennis McCarthy, is played during the closing credits from this episode forward. (McCarthy also composed the theme to Deep Space Nine.)