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Episode credits are available, as is Tim Lynch's review of the episode.
Official description: "As they continue their deep space exploration, the NX-01 crew comes across an alien ship where they discover 15 humanoid corpses that seem to have been part of a scientific experiment. The horrific sight inspires Hoshi to panic and demand a return to Earth, but Archer insists on continuing the mission and finding out more about the abandoned dead. Trouble comes calling when the aliens that were conducting the gruesome experiments return and begin attacking Captain Archer and his team, on ENTERPRISE airing WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on UPN."
Linda Park: "[Ensign Sato] decides actually that she is not cut out for space. She considers telling the captain that she wants to go back to the University. There's a lot that happens during that episode. It's a really nice turning point early on in the series where she can finally accept space. She has to swallow her fear and force herself to grow. The director was amazing, Allan Kroeker. People will be blown away. And there's some really creepy scary stuff in this episode." -- Sci-Fi Talk
John Billingsley: "We had a three or four-day period where we shot an episode that had us exploring a spaceship stranded in the middle of nowhere. And because this is a prequel, the technology on Enterprise is less marvelous than on other Star Trek shows, so for this we had to put on our spacesuits. Those things must weigh like a hundred and eighty pounds! (Billingsley laughs.) It's like carrying a piano up the stairs. For three days, when I was working with everybody in their suits, to see Scott at the end of that final day, his back likely breaking, to see him do the scene and say, 'I think I missed my line, let's do it over again...' He's a horse." -- Trek Galaxy
John continues: "That's our second episode, called 'Fight or Flight'. There's a marooned alien spacecraft that doesn't answer our hails, and we board it to find the crew has been murdered. We don't know by whom, how or why. And of course with me having all this makeup, pulling the helmet on and off was no easy process. I pulled my prosthetic ears right off with it! So they've had to figure out the shots in a way that don't require me to be in and out of the helmet. They didn't realize when they designed the makeup how much that particular episode would revolve around the needs of the mission."
According to sci-fi site "The Universe", this episode features a confrontation between T'Pol and Captain Archer over whether or not to board a lifeless vessel.
Story includes the Axanar, citizens of the planet of the same name, which James T. Kirk will eventually visit in around 100 years (as mentioned in TOS "Whom Gods Destroy").
