Canamar
"Canamar" is the forty-third episode (production #217) of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the seventeenth of the second season.
| "Canamar" | |
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| Star Trek: Enterprise episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 17 |
| Directed by | James Whitmore, Jr. |
| Written by | Allan Kroeker |
| Featured music | Brian Tyler |
| Production code | 217 |
| Original air date | February 26, 2003 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Mistaken for smugglers, Captain Archer and Commander Tucker find themselves on a prisoner transport ship.
The name of the episode is the Enolian alien's penal colony of Canamar.[1] The episode also feature T'Pol, and features guest characters such as the alien prisoner Kuroda.[1] Kuroda is played by guest star actor Mark Rolston.[2]
The episode is directed by Allan Kroeker.[2]
Plot
Upon leaving the Enolian homeworld, Captain Archer and Commander Tucker are mistakenly identified as smugglers and arrested. They are placed on a prison transport headed for the penal colony known as Canamar. Among their fellow prisoners is a man named Kuroda, and a hulking Nausicaan. Back on Enterprise, Sub-Commander T'Pol, having found the abandoned shuttlepod, manages to convince an Enolian official that Archer and Tucker are innocent. Just as they are about to be released, however, Kuroda breaks free and takes down the guard and pilot.
When the vessel comes under attack from Enolian patrol ships, Archer convinces Kuroda to allow Tucker to assist them. Tucker manages to create a plasma cloud diversion, allowing the transport to jump to warp. Kuroda is impressed with Archer's ploy. In fact, Kuroda has come to respect Archer and asks him to join him on his next endeavor. As the two men talk, Kuroda reveals that he was 14 when he first spent time in a penal colony. He was innocent, but he still spent five years in prison, and started making a living as a criminal after he was released. Kuroda also finally reveals that they will rendezvous with another ship at Tamaal and destroy the transport. Archer, determined to save the other prisoners, enlists Tucker's aid.
Tucker is freed under the pretence of fixing a docking hatch, and manages to render the Nausicaan unconscious, but draws the attention of Kuroda, who realizes that Archer has been plotting against him all along. The transport soon docks, but when the doors open, Lieutenant Reed and Ensign Mayweather appear. The crew evacuate the transport, which is now in a decaying orbit, but Kuroda refuses to leave. Back on Enterprise, the Enolian official demands a report for his superiors. Archer, however, tersely informs the official that he and Tucker were falsely arrested, and wonders how many others on their way to Canamar do not belong there.
References
- Erdmann, Terry J. (2008-09-23). Star Trek 101: A Practical Guide to Who, What, Where, and Why. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-1787-3.
- Jones, Mark; Parkin, Lance (2003). Beyond the Final Frontier: An Unauthorised Review of the Trek Universe on Television and Film ; Season Summaries, Characters, Episodes, Movies. Contender Entertainment Group. ISBN 978-1-84357-080-6.