Trip gets stuck on a planet with an alien. They can’t understand each other when they talk so they try yelling at each other

Trip has to fix a transceiver. A lot of this episode is them learning how to communicate with each other

Trip tricks him and gains control

The background in this episode reminds me of the first season of TNG

Trip shows his good nature and releases the alien. Turned out to be not a great plan. The fight scene is actually pretty good.

They decide to work together. They need to get the transceiver higher so they climb a giant set piece

They become best buds. Trip makes contact with Enterprise

The planet gets really hot when the sun comes up

Phlox warns them that they still have ten minutes of show left so they can’t beam up the alien because of some condition he has. Trip decides he’ll risk his life to wait with his friend until they figure something out