 On Enterprise , Sub @-@ Commander T 'Pol is called to the command center by Captain Archer . Archer tells her that he has located a nearby planet that the Xindi recently visited . Both then travel down to the surface with Lieutenant Reed and Ensign Sato . They discover a Xindi shuttle along with two dead crewmembers , one of whom has been incinerated . With little warning , Archer , Sato and Reed suddenly begin to transform physically into a new species , but T 'Pol seems somehow resistant to the changes . 
