Some guys take over a Klingon ship! They’re really strong and stuff.

Brent Spiner! He’s supposed to be an ancestor of the Dr. Soong from TNG. He’s in jail for being too edgy.

There’s a whole group of people that wear clothes torn in a strangely consistent way.

Soong was responsible for stealing embryos left over from the Eugenics war. They have to find his augments before they start a war with the Klingons.

They have a fitting “let’s get back to business” moment, since this is there first time setting off since the big Xindi incident.

They’re attacked by Orions!

They capture some of the crew to be sold as slaves. I like the way they incorporated Orions into the plot.

There is a bit of a filler plot about a mutiny among the augments. It actually ends up creating a disconnect between Soong and the augments because the overthrown augment leader seemed to just want to fly away somewhere, and Soong’s whole plan seemed to be expecting the augments to save him.

Archer and Soong create some chaos at the slave market to get the crew back, but Soong tries to get away.

They get him back though. Throughout the whole episode there are somewhat interesting dialogues about the fear of genetic engineering.

When the Orions attack again, the augments save them

Their leader, Malik, meets with Archer

He’d like to have Soong back

They get Soong and get away!