Season three of Enterprise features an ongoing story following an attack on Earth by previously unknown aliens called the Xindi.
In this episode, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and the crew visit an alien bazaar seeking a formula to help protect the ship against the anomalies in the Delphic Expanse.
They bring back on board a former slave called Rajiin (Nikita Ager), whose motivations are not what the crew initially believe.
On Enterprise, Sub-Commander T'Pol continues to help Commander Tucker with Vulcan neuropressure sessions.
The crew, seeking the formula for a compound to reinforce the ship's hull against spatial anomalies, approach an ocean planet with a vast floating bazaar.
After bartering, he sells them the formula for liquid trellium-D, and also informs them that the Xindi recently visited a merchant nearby.
Afterwards, the Council convenes again to discuss the development and construction of a new bio-weapon, a project helped by Archer's bio-data that was stolen by Rajiin.
The second unit continued on August 8, with a further half day of shooting taking place the following week during the filming of the following episode "Impulse".
He had previously been a producer on other similar genre television series such as Dark Skies and The Twilight Zone.
"[4] Scott Bakula compared her character to Mata Hari and said Ager "did a wonderful job, and again, in a role that demanded a lot of different things from her.
[7] Michelle Erica Green of TrekNation, said that she was pleased with the continuity seen in "Rajiin" but felt that the female sexuality seen in this episode was the "most gratuitous...
[2] Jamahl Epsicokhan, on his website Jammer's Reviews, said that "Rajiin" demonstrated that there was an intention for the Xindi story arc to be a fully fledged space opera.