Command center The command center was a specialized section aboard the starship , in which dedicated data analysis and mission operations were performed . Layout . Roughly the size of standard crew quarters , the command center was distinguished by a large display screen and computer terminal , flanked by a number of smaller screens mounted on the bulkhead s . The room also contained a large , T - shaped table and workstation , and a free - standing computer console . These computer terminals could be utilized for a number of functions , including displaying star chart s , ship ' s status , and sensor data , but were more often used in the analysis of the acquired Xindi database . The command center ' s computers were also linked to internal sensor s and could provide video and audio from linked sections within " Enterprise " . ( ) The command center was easily accessible from the situation room . ( ) History . Installed among other system upgrades in 2153 , the command center was located in a converted storage bay that once held conduit housings . Starfleet went to a lot of trouble to retrofit the room , turning it into the command center and outfitting it with state - of - the - art equipment . This work was carried out to help " Enterprise " locate and investigate the Xindi , due to the extreme jeopardy that group represented to Earth during the Xindi incident . ( ) In 2153 , Sub - Commander T ' Pol and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed were using the command center when Captain Archer arrived . They discussed the ship ' s forthcoming mission to a particular planet where a Xindi was suspected to be working as a miner . When Reed advised cautious skepticism , a frustrated Archer reminded him that the command center had been intended to help investigate the Xindi but Archer continued by explaining that – because no data on the Xindi had been gathered by " Enterprise " , despite having been in the Xindi ' s territory of the Delphic Expanse over the past six months – he felt justified in following the latest lead . ( ) Once " Enterprise " recovered the Xindi database from an Osaarian merchant ship , Archer returned to the command center alone . The monitors in the room were darkened when he arrived but he soon started viewing the information from the database , which was displayed on all the monitors . ( ) Late one night shortly thereafter , Archer called T ' Pol to the command center , where he showed her a third Xindi species he had found , Xindi - Arboreal s , and told her he had located the last place a specific Xindi starship had visited – a planet Archer had T ' Pol set a course for . ( ) The command center was subsequently used by Captain Archer and Commander Charles Tucker III , again late at night . They used the room to review some star chart s from the Xindi database , as Tucker suspected the charts might help them determine if there were any previously undetected spatial anomalies in the region . At one point , Tucker spoke with Archer about the crew ' s morale being low , so he was given approval from the captain to show a Hope and Crosby comedy as part of movie night . T ' Pol then arrived and Archer notified her that he and Tucker had been reviewing the Xindi starchart s . Though T ' Pol told Archer she would have assisted him with that , the captain stated he hadn ' t wanted to wake her and that Tucker had been eager to find " something to do " . Tucker invited T ' Pol to the upcoming movie night , and Archer received a message from Ensign Hoshi Sato , on the bridge , that the ship was picking up an automated distress call from a Vulcan ship , the " Seleya " , which had proven unresponsive to hails . The command center was then vacated by Archer , T ' Pol , and Tucker , who headed to " Enterprise " s bridge , via the ship ' s situation room . Later , while T ' Pol was infected by trellium that caused her to become irrational , she accused Archer of having used the command center to analyze the Xindi starcharts behind her back , in an attempt to undermine her work . ( ) While T ' Pol was off duty , she was working in the command center , operating the central monitor from the desk in the middle of the room , when Archer arrived . Moving to the central console , she showed him a simulation she had created , from which she had discovered that a second Delphic Expanse sphere was likely in the region , less than four light years from " Enterprise " . Archer ordered T ' Pol to have the ship alter course toward the sphere . After T ' Pol asked Ensign Sato to analyze a section of the Xindi database , Sato was studying the database on the central monitor when she experienced what seemed to be an hallucination but was actually a telepathic communication from an alien named Tarquin . What Sato witnessed included all the monitors in the command center changing firstly to a view of a particular planet and secondly to various apparently live views of herself , from different angles . After the planet appeared on the screens , Sato used the room ' s intercom to contact Lieutenant Reed and request assistance in the command center , but there was no response . Moments later , she rushed towards the door but found she had suddenly left the command center and was now in an alien building on anpther world . When the telepathic communication ended , Hoshi was still no longer in the command center , but in a corridor aboard " Enterprise " . T ' Pol later returned to the command center , from where she vocally gave directions to a ( which contained Archer and Tucker ) regarding gravimetric distortion s in the area . She thereby guided the shuttlepod into a cloaking barrier around the second Delphic Expanse sphere . T ' Pol was subsequently working in the command center when Archer arrived , back from his mission to confirm the existence and location of the second sphere . She explained that , thanks to data he had collected from that sphere , she had discovered there were at least fifty such spheres in the Delphic Expanse . Archer began to realize that the spheres may have been built to create that region of space , though he and T ' Pol were unsure of who the constructors had been and what their motives were . ( ) Shortly thereafter , the command center was visited by T ' Pol , Captain Archer , and Lieutenant Reed , shortly before " Enterprise " visited a Xindi - Arboreal colony , whose location Tarquin had informed them of . They discussed the colony ' s lack of defenses and Archer arranged for " Enterprise " to hide behind a nearby moon . He also planned for an away team consisting of himself , Reed , and MACO Major J . Hayes to leave " Enterprise " and head for the colony in two hours ' time . ( ) " In an alternate timeline , being in the command center with T ' Pol , where they had viewed some long range sensor scan s , was one of the last memories Archer had before he was infected by interspatial parasite s that caused him to develop anterograde amnesia . Archer kept this memory until 2165 , when both the parasite s and the timeline were eradicated . " ( ) Later in 2153 , Archer and arranged to meet in the command center at 0800 the next morning , before Archer and T ' Pol were to leave on a journey to Earth of the early 21st century . When Archer entered the command center with T ' Pol , though , they suddenly found themselves in Detroit in 2004 , having been sent there by Daniels ' faction of temporal agent s . Moments later , Archer and T ' Pol came back through the command center door , having just completed an extensive mission to stop the Xindi in Detroit of 2004 . Archer requested a security team be assigned to the command center as soon as possible . Since Commander Tucker was baffled by the seeming swiftness of their return , T ' Pol showed him that the command center now contained three Xindi - Reptilian corpses and various Xindi equipment , including a bio - reactor , all of which Archer wanted moved to Cargo Bay Two . ( ) Later the same year , the command center was again occupied by Archer and T ' Pol , analyzing some new data that helped map the spatial anomalies and spheres in the Delphic Expanse , though T ' Pol admitted to not yet having thought up any new theories about the purpose of the spheres . Archer also received news , from the bridge , that " Enterprise " was picking up a distress call from a ship traveling at impulse . Shortly after Triannon Pri ' Nam D ' Jamat came aboard " Enterprise " from the newly arrived vessel and proceeded to orchestrate a takeover of " Enterprise " with his fellow Triannons , D ' Jamat was in the ship ' s command center when Archer entered , having been brought there by the Triannon Yarrick . Archer and D ' Jamat then had a heated discussion in the command center . Their discussion included D ' Jamat explaining that he intended to use " Enterprise " to annihilate a group of " heretics " on his homeworld of and giving Archer – as a punishment for " desecrating " the Delphic Expanse spheres , which the Triannons held sacred – six hours in which he had to select a crewmember to be executed by the Triannons . At the end of the discussion , D ' Jamat used the room ' s central console to delete the data Archer and his crew had gathered regarding the spheres as well as different aspects of the Xindi mission in general . ( ) In December of 2153 , the command center was the site of a meeting between Captain Archer , Sub - Commander T ' Pol and Ensign Sato . After they discussed a signal Sato had found which represented a new lead in the ongoing investigation of the Xindi , T ' Pol reminded Archer that she and Sato had been working to recover the deleted data . They had managed to piece together enough of the recovered data that they could begin creating a map of the spatial anomalies . Although the signal was located just beyond a massive and dense field of those anomalies , Archer decided to send " Enterprise " through the anomaly field rather than go around it . Soon thereafter , the command center served as a meeting point where Archer , T ' Pol and Andorian Commander Shran had a discussion regarding " Enterprise " s tactical situation . As T ' Pol explained , there were signs of extensive weapons bombardment on most of the moons in a particular nearby G - type star system , where there were more than a hundred moons . Archer realized the star system was being used by the Xindi as a proving ground . Shran pointed out that it would be a mistake to risk their vessels against such mighty Xindi firepower as had evidently been tested there . Since Archer agreed , they began to consider how to obtain a closer look of what was going on in the testing area . ( ) Later the same month , the command center was being used by T ' Pol and Ensign Travis Mayweather , updating the navigational sensor s to account for gravimetric wave s in the vicinity of " Enterprise " , when the room was visited by Captain Archer . Mayweather was happy with how the updates were progressing and , after he left , T ' Pol likewise explained to Archer that she had learned a lot about a nearby gravimetric disturbance which was causing the gravimetric waves . After the captain instructed T ' Pol to help Tucker examine a Sphere - Builder transport pod which had recently been discovered in the disturbance , T ' Pol exited the room , leaving Archer alone there . ( ) In January 2154 , Archer became mentally affected by a Xindi - Insectoid neurotoxin and ordered T ' Pol to power up a crashed Xindi - Insectoid starship in an attempt to save numerous fetal Xindi - Insectoids which were in a hatchery there . While a schematic of the Insectoid craft was displayed on the room ' s large monitor , the command center was used for a discussion about Archer ' s recent order , a meeting held between T ' Pol , Commander Tucker , and Lieutenant Reed . As the operation required " Enterprise " to transfer a lot of much - needed antimatter to the Xindi vessel , T ' Pol instructed Tucker to delay the transfer until after she had spoken with Archer about it . ( ) The next month , another meeting was held in the command center , between Archer , T ' Pol , Tucker , Reed , and Ensign Mayweather . Since Tucker and Mayweather had recently seen the Xindi weapon for the first time , the group discussed the weapon , deciding that one of them would go on a one - way mission in which they would sneak into the weapon aboard a Xindi - Insectoid shuttlecraft and use a couple of photonic torpedo oes to detonate the weapon in an explosive chain reaction . Mayweather and Tucker debated between themselves as to who would go on the mission , until Captain Archer nominated himself for the job , arranging for Tucker and Mayweather to prepare the Insectoid craft and Archer ' s piloting knowhow for the covert mission . ( ) The command center was among many sections aboard " Enterprise " that were damaged in a battle with the Xindi near Azati Prime in early 2154 , suffering power failures . It still remained functional , though . ( ) A short while later , the command center was used by Archer , T ' Pol , Tucker and Reed . They discussed Kovaalan starship s that were near a subspace corridor which the " Enterprise " crew was endeavoring for their own ship to access without being detected by the Kovaalan s . ( ) The command center was fully repaired by the conclusion of the Xindi mission . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The script of described the command center as " a dark chamber filled with numerous monitors , " and went on to say , " " A large central wall display dominates the room . " " The command center was created especially for the third season of and appeared only in that season – first in " The Xindi " and last in , the first and last episodes of the season respectively . Once built , the set remained standing throughout the season . ( text commentary , ENT Season 3 DVD ) Recalling the set ' s placement , Production Designer Herman Zimmerman stated , " " It was added to a corridor near the bridge set that we did have a little space for . " " ( ) Zimmerman was credited in the with overseeing the design and construction of this set . In fact , not only was the set for the command center located beside the bridge set , it was also so near to the series ' video control room that linking the computers therein to the monitors on the command center set was relatively easy . ( text commentary , ENT Season 3 DVD ) The set included a free - standing console that had previously been used in the infirmary on . The central monitor referred to in the script for " The Xindi " was represented , on the set , by a monitor that computer graphics were rear - projected onto . This monitor was custom - built for the series . ( ) The area behind the screen had to be draped off so that stray light would not wash out the image on the monitor . ( text commentary , ENT Season 3 DVD ) The monitor was initially created for the observation lounge aboard the in . ( text commentary , DVD ) In accordance with the script , many other monitors had to be obtained for the addition of the set . " " That added a huge opportunity for a colorful wall that we hadn ' t done before , " " said Herman Zimmerman . The room ' s smaller monitors were represented with fourteen LCD flatscreens . ( ) Behind these , Director of Photography Marvin V . Rush hid tiny fluorescent lamps . This use of lighting created small patches of illumination on the wall , which served to visually separate the monitors from their backgrounds . The wall to the left of the central monitor included a series of lit gizmos that were originally on the set for " Enterprise " s sickbay ; they had been removed from that set when it had undergone a revamp at the end of the first season . The same left - hand wall was a " wild " wall , meaning it was specifically designed to be easily removed when required to allow camera and equipment access . Using this access , Marvin Rush often mounted his camera on a small crane to achieve complex camera moves in the otherwise closed - in set . ( text commentary , ENT Season 3 DVD ) Denise Okuda approved of the command center . " " That was a fun set , " " she enthused . " " There were monitors all over the place . " " ( audio commentary , ENT Season 4 Blu - ray special features ) In the fourth season of " Enterprise " , parts of the command center were used in the creation of the medical observation room for the episode . ( text commentary , ENT Season 3 DVD ) In an audio commentary for that installment ( on ENT Season 4 Blu - ray ) , Michael and Denise Okuda identify the medical observation area as actually being the command center , though the room was scripted to be an " Auxiliary Medical Lab " . The set of the command center was additionally used in the episode , for an interrogation room containing an agony booth aboard the . ( text commentary , ENT Season 3 DVD ) Apocrypha . In the novelization of and ( entitled " " ) , the displays that fill the command center are described as " monitor stacked upon monitor " and mostly unused , their screens " a dull opaque gray . " However , in the same scene from the actual episode , there are slightly less monitors arranged vertically than those that are arranged horizontally . Also , all the monitors are shown as being on , with lit screens . The novel " Last Full Measure " places the command center on B deck of the NX class .