Basically a Beauty and the Beast episode.
And once again the women of the crew are particularly highlighted in order to boost the poor ratings. Hoshi brings short dresses and high heels with her on her trip to the planet and doesn't walk around in uniform. When was the last time Archer, Reed or Tucker wore shorts and shirts at away missions? When I look at the episodes of the third season, I am not surprised why this series was canceled early. Somehow every episode of this season seems like a hopeless attempt to save the ratings - for example by putting T'Pol in tight new colored jump suits or giving Tucker massage lessons late at night in her skimpy PJs. Or that market for sex slaves in the second to last episode. In principle, the third season can be described as "More skin and more pointless action".
The most laughable thing in this episode: Archer and Tucker land on the sphere in a shuttle. The shuttle then takes off on its own because a thruster malfunctions. Although the shuttle also rotates on its own axis, it continues to rise higher and higher. The two then engage in target practice with their phasers to destroy the thruster. And then the shuttle falls back onto the sphere like a stone! If the gravitational pull of this sphere had been so great, the shuttle would never have taken off thanks to a small thruster.
And I find it quite boring with Star Trek now that the bridge crews are always the focus of every action. The spaceships in all series have between 70 crew members or well over 100. Scientists of every discipline, specialists in their fields. But no matter what it's about, the captain, the chief engineer, the tactical officer, the science officer... everything is taken care of by the bridge crew. Just imagine an accident happens. Then the ship suddenly loses all of its senior officers! And why do the ships actually have a crew of dozens of officers if they never have anything to do anyway? No matter what it is about: cartography, synthesizing a new alloy, metallurgy, geology and deposit investigation, genetic analyzes (the doctor is not only a doctor but also a geneticist, immunologist, virologist...), archaeology, xenobiology... there is never a need for a crew specialist to be consulted.