Menos was a 22nd century Vulcan operative. He was assigned to infiltrate a cell of smugglers but eventually became one himself. He smuggled dangerous bio-toxins that were used to create transgenic weapons.
T'Pol was sent to apprehend seven rogue operatives and succeeded in capturing five of them. Menos and another rogue operative, Jossen, escaped. Several years later, she tracked them to the jungles of Risa, where she killed Jossen. Menos managed to escape again. Disturbed that she had taken a life, T'Pol undertook the Fullara, a Vulcan technique used to suppress memories.
In 2152, while serving on the Enterprise, the Vulcan High Command contacted her and informed her that Menos had surfaced again in the Pernaia system. She asked her commanding officer, Jonathan Archer, to help her apprehend him. T'Pol had unpleasant flashbacks of her attempts to arrest Menos on Risa.
After T'Pol apprehended Menos, he warned her that if she arrested him, he would be executed for a crime he didn't commit. Menos claimed that his body had been badly damaged by hauling used warp injector casings and that he never dealt in illegal cargo. After they had captured Menos, T'Pol's memory of killing Jossen returned. Menos used this as in an attempt to play on her sympathy. Menos claimed that Jossen was another innocent Vulcan who did not want to return home after a surveillance mission. A horrified T'Pol remembered shooting him. Menos asked her whether she's willing to commit the same crime against him and undergo the same suffering.
With T'Pol's guard down, Menos managed to escape, and Archer, Mayweather and T'Pol chased him to his ship. He tried to escape again, but T'Pol ran after him with Archer following. T’Pol ordered Menos to stop with her phase pistol drawn but Menos told her she wasn’t going to kill another innocent man and slowly walked away. T’Pol, still second guessing her past actions and swayed by Menos’s claims of innocence, could not bring herself to fire. Unable to act, she called for Captain Archer to help. Archer reminded her that she was only sent to capture Menos, not judge him. Hearing this, T’Pol fired upon Menos stunning him. Later, a hidden stash of biotoxins was discovered on his ship so Menos was in fact guilty. (ENT episode: "The Seventh").
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- Menos article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.