A stutter-shutter teaser reveals Archer and Phlox bed-strapping a raving paranoid T'Pol. She screams: "Ahh!!!" but "it's been a long road…" and, now with the mood blown out, we rejoin the screaming to learn what happened ONE DAY EARLIER (compare: "Singularity"). In the story proper Trip's worried about morale and - "back by popular demand" - reinstates movie night over Captain Dourmouth's objections. A distress signal arrives from a Vulcan ship buried improbably deep in a chaotic asteroid field. This ship - the Seleya - got sucked ("blown?") into the spatial anomalies; the subsequent rescue attempt produced the violent Vulcans seen in "The Expanse."

NX-01 can't follow the much larger Vulcan vessel into the field so Archer, Reed, T'Pol, and Hawkins the Shark shpod over and board the battered ship, walking through strobe-lit corridors dripping with green blood. A Vulcan Zombie pops from behind a stuck door and delivers Archer an unconvincing "Enter The Dragon" scratch. Many tedious video game action sequences follow, the Shark is wounded, and T'Pol barks at him for not using a stun setting on a rescue mission. (She forgives him later over some water and her lunatic version of Vulcan history.)

Trip and Travis try transporting trellium-full asteroid fragments but bits of rocks materialize inside the walls. Thus they leave the captain's chair empty and take shpod two on an ore-hunting expedition, badly damaging it. Back on the Seleya T'Pol feels anxious as they hole up in the bridge. She really starts to lose it (like in "Strange New World") but manages to fix the radio so Archer calls for backup. Zombies gas the bridge and bang on the door (like zombies do) so the Away Team runs away; Archer stuns T'Pol and Flying Wallendas her across the ship's bottomless pit just as Trip arrives in a repaired shpod two to assist their escape.

Phlox hypothesizes trellium acts as a neurotoxin to Vulcans (something their scientists were apparently too stupid to figure out) and so informs T'Pol, safe and naked back in sickbay. She offers to be marooned but Archer can't save humanity without holding onto his humanity, or something confusing like that. A hilarious movie night follows as Phlox and Trip loudly decipher a mystery as T'Pol chides them to "use logic more quietly." Later with a weird fisheye effect she's confronted by a Zombie in the turboelevator and we've coda'ed back to the beginning. Guess she's always crazy now - crazy that such a potentially warp-driven episode somehow ended up barely limping by on "Impulse."