"Shell Shock" - Enterprise operates as a command center for United Earth Stellar Navy ships that come into conflict with a Romulan fleet. And during the conflict, is hit with an atomic attack. Its hull is melted and its systems permanently knocked offline – not only are they in the dark, they can’t even open shuttlebay doors for the shuttlepods to tow Earth back home, and or even cook in the galley. Unable to call for help, Archer must lead the crew through the crisis, as the temperatures on the ship drop radically and the crew grows hungry.
"Avalon" - Harris contacts Reed to locate Earth’s atomic stockpile - the remnants of what was not dismantled was instead mothballed after WW3 - on a world codenamed Avalon. Avalon was not a remote asteroid facility like the Cold Station research facilities, but an uninhabitable planet where various species dump their ordnance, a number of them still active. While appalled that the conflict as come to this, Reed sets out alone on the extremely dangerous and hostile terrain, where he must await pickup upon locating the stockpile. Meanwhile, while touring the newly created Oakland Shipyards, Archer has a confrontation with anti-war protesters, lead by United Earth politician Abraham Dannon. Dannon – an already unpopular politician due to courting support from “Xindi truthers” that believe that either the Xindi attack was manufactured by United Earth themselves, or hold the Kzinti responsible instead – thinks that the Coalition of Planets is in the wrong to commit to the war effort and needs to disarm immediately. Dannon basically believes that the Coalition of Planets needs to send diplomats to negotiate a peace treaty, and agree to the whatever terms the Romulans set out. Archer, fighting accusations of being a warmonger, has to find a way to get through to Dannan and the protestors and get them to stop living in their fantasy world, as the Romulans see interstellar expansion as a “divine right” and will continue to expand no matter what United Earth does.
Next episode – “Fly On The Wall”