"Azati Prime" is the eighteenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the 70th overall.
The episode featured several guest actors, including those playing members of the Xindi Council, as well as Matt Winston who reprised his role of Temporal Agent Daniels for the second time this season.
Season three of Enterprise features an ongoing story following an attack on Earth by previously unknown aliens called the Xindi.
In this episode, the crew track a Xindi superweapon down to a planet and Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) seeks to destroy the weapon in a suicide attack.
Captain Archer sends Commander Tucker and Ensign Mayweather on board the Xindi shuttle they had captured, to investigate the planet.
Archer orders Enterprise to destroy a Xindi detection facility on the planet's moon to prevent it from signalling the ship's presence.
Using Daniels' medal, Archer tries to convince Degra that the Reptilians cannot be trusted but Dolim arrives with armed colleagues and takes the Primates away.
[2] The episode featured a number of guest stars, including Smallwood, Oglesby, MacDonald and Worthy, who appeared in their recurring roles on the Xindi council.
[4] He imagined that the vessel was so large that there would be universities and entire parks on board, with the turbolifts replaced by short range transporters.
She found the pacing made the episode "engrossing" and thought that the action sequences would qualify it for technical Emmy Awards.
[13] James Gray writing for The Digital Fix said "Azati Prime" was probably the best episode in the series yet, and had the best space battle scene of all Star Trek television and movies up to that time.
[14] Io9 ranked the spacecraft design shown in this episode, the Enterprise-J, as the eleventh best version of the starship Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.