"Canamar" is the forty-third episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the seventeenth of the second season (production #217).
Back on Enterprise, Sub-Commander T'Pol, having found the abandoned shuttlepod, manages to convince an Enolian official that Archer and Tucker are innocent.
Tucker is freed under the pretext 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.
[3] The majority of the regular cast finished after two days of filming, Bakula and Trinneer were required for the entire shoot, most of which took place on the Enolian prison ship.
[3] Guest star Mark Rolston who played Kuroda, previously appeared as "Lieutenant Pierce" in The Next Generation episode '"Eye of the Beholder".
Tyler previously scored the Sci-Fi channel mini-series Frank Herbert's Children of Dune and had replaced composer Jerry Goldsmith on the film Timeline.
[7] Michelle Erica Green at TrekToday called it "a decent action hour, and then it's over" summing up that it's not "offering much subtextual commentary on prison" and not moving "Trek's social agenda" nor "breaking new...ground...showing the gritty sides of main characters."
Green said it "feels like a merger of Next Gen's 'Gambit' and Voyager's 'The Chute'" noting that "the action is well-paced and engrossing" while crediting the "good guest performances and excellent directing.
[13] This episode was released for home media use on DVD as part of the second series box set of Star Trek: Enterprise.