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(Malcolm Reed Personal Log) Date redacted - I had been on the bridge when Captain Archer and First Officer T'Pol came from the captain's ready room heading for the command center. The captain mentioned in passing that they were going to the command center in regards to something that Ensign Sato had found in the Osaarian cargo manifest that Ensign Mayweather had found on the sphere, and they headed into the room where Ensign Sato had been examining the information she had translated.

About that time I got a message from the Armory that my assistance was needed in a technical matter, and I left the bridge intending to be gone for just a short time; I left Ensign Mayweather in charge with instructions to contact me immediately if there was anything urgent as I wasn't sure how long the captain or T'Pol would be occupied.

After resolving the matter, I was walking in the direction of the lift back to the bridge - my journey was interrupted by Crewman Phillips, who was the security officer that I had posted in the corridor by the Brig holding the Osaarian pirate. He was agitated, having observed Captain Archer remove the prisoner from the brig, hold a phase pistol in an aggressive manner to the Osaarian's head and drag him down the corridor. The captain then ordered him to ignore his disregard of the breach of security; quite rightly, Phillips immediately went in the direction of the Armory to get help and inform them of the situation. I intercepted him as he approached the junction leading to the area.

I went back to the Armory and collected one of my more senior members of my staff. Setting aside any other concerns I had about the appropriateness of this situation, as the captain had been obsessed in the extreme about finding the Xindi weapon – I was actually quite concerned about the physical safety of Jonathan Archer. The Osaarian, though injured while attacking the ship, was not a small person, and this new-found willingness of the captain, and Commander Tucker to embrace tactical matters did not immediately translate into combat readiness.

Quickly I proceeded down the corridor; wondering where Archer might have taken the prisoner – there was damn little in this area which could be a rational choice for taking someone 'under guard' to . . . I approached the airlock and observed the captain standing in front of said airlock looking at the Osaarian who was on the other side of the hatch in the airlock itself.

At this moment – three things were very apparent. Jonathan Archer was demanding something of the prisoner – the airlock was decompressing – and my estimation of the character of the captain went seriously askew. I needed to deal with the most pressing matter first, and I said, with some urgency, "Captain!" He brusquely acknowledged my presence and I stated as clearly as possible that the airlock was decompressing. (I know that this seemed bloody obvious, but I have learned working in Security, that normally intelligent people do some of the most inane things, even innocently. This was hardly innocent however, and I tried to bring my superior's 'better nature' back to the fore.)

Any further action on my part was superseded by the pirate agreeing to whatever Captain Archer had demanded that he do – later I found out that he had provided codes allowing access to the actual computer database on their ship – Archer was convinced that important information was contained therein regarding the Xindi, including a copy of the database on a Xindi ship that the pirates had attacked.

Archer then ordered me to take the prisoner back to the Brig; an action that I agreed to most readily. With the aid of the crewman who had come with me, I dragged the Osaarian up, and away from the captain. The countenance on Jonathan Archer's face gave me pause; I felt that the best course of action was to get the Ossarian away from him, else he decide that almost asphyxiating the prisoner was not enough.

(When we had returned the pirate to his cell, I should have contacted Phlox to ascertain that he had not suffered permanent damage, but I was caught up at that point in the attempt to lure the pirate ship back to the sphere; after we had successfully retrieved the Osaarian computer's database, Captain Archer immediately ordered the prisoner removed to the sphere, and left him there . . . Expedience on my part suspended what should have been a normal course of events. I must be more diligent to maintain proper standards with regard to proper conduct, even in the face of 'superior' opposition.)