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Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 19

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AIRED: 3/27/02

Enterprise encounters alien pirates who use a booby-trapped artifact to gas the crew into unconsciousness, then pillage the ship for treasures.

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It is hard to see a legacy go down

5.8

By Lawrencevanrijn, Feb 15, 2011

This episode is wrong on many levels. First of all, it basically ignores other SPSS lines, and then it is a lousy remake of a much better episode called Starship mine.

The probleem is that the Ferengi was introduced as a new race in the Next generation in the episode the last outpost, where Data recites that the are known to be paralel to the \'yankee traders\' of old. This episode throws all that in the wind. there were a few other options to get a similar storyline,however, to use the Ferengi here was just plain wrong. The episode is below par on several levels. The dialoges, the overall shooting. all this just airs the thought \"e are running out of idea\'s\" And at the end of seasn ONE that is not a good approach to have.moreless
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Same old Same old Ferengi

7.3

By jrsgalaxy, Apr 27, 2010

Not the best of episodes but very funny. Especially the scene where Krem says what species is she referring to T'Pol and Archer says "Shes a Vulcan. They're not that interesting. She has no sense of humuor and she is always complaining. " Not my choice of episodes but it is well written and for Ferengi fans it is worth watching. Many people say they break continuity and create a plot hole. Technically no. Archer and crew never find out their names. So they could never put that into the history database. And secondly when Picard first encounter them they already know who they are by name and by their ship but haven't seen them yet. So no way to tell if these were the same aliens that Archer encountered since their names weren't known to Archer. I know its far-fetched. Even so mildly entertaining.moreless
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Ferengi have incapacitated the crew of Enterprise, with the exception of Trip who was in decon. Trip must come up with a plan to overcome these invaders.

9.5

By Bucephelus, Apr 27, 2010

Ok, ok, I was not real pleased when I first saw this episode as the Ferengi were supposed to be a new species that were only coming into contact with the Federation in the era of the Enterprise-D. The name Ferengi is never mentioned and I assume that is how Braga and Berman get around the issue. But aside from the possible conflicts with canon I really enjoyed the episode.

First a great guest cast was brought on as Ferengi including: Ethan Phillips, who played Neelix on Voyager; Jeffrey Combs, Brunt and Weyoun on DS9; and Clint Howard, who had appeared in the original series. These brought the episode to life and made the episode fun to watch. Only three regular cast members play a key role in this episode: Archer, Trip, and T'Pol. The others if you see them at all lay there unconscious, therefore the guest stars get to take mainstage during most of the episode. One of the most enjoyable parts is seeing Archer insult T'Pol when she is supposed to be unconscious and later having her hold it over the Captain when he is handcuffed.

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great episode

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By sfviewer, Aug 24, 2007

An old trek alien makes an appearance. Excellent episode. The enterprise gets gassed by the ferengi who infiltrates the starship to look for their treasure. Fortunately, Tucker is in a part of the enterprise that's completely isolated from the atmospherics of most of the ship. It's a really interesting episode. The ferengi always bring comedy to the trek universe. This episode is particularly funny when the ferengi go into disagreement with one another. Tucker and T'Pol work together to free their ship from the space pirates. It's a good episode, it's a really entertaining story, worth watching from beginning to end.moreless
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Dominic Keating	Lt. Malcolm Reed
John Billingsley	Dr. Phlox
Jolene Blalock	T'Pol
Connor Trinneer	Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Linda Park	Ensign Hoshi Sato
Anthony Montgomery	Ensign Travis Mayweather

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Jeffrey Combs	Krem	Guest Star
Ethan Phillips	Ulis	Guest Star
Clint Howard	Muk	Guest Star

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- Trivia: The Ferengi are not named in this episode to preserve continuity. Official contact would not occur until The Next Generation's "The Last Outpost".
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- Trivia: As of this episode, there are only 172 Rules of Acquisition. By 2375 there will be 285.
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- Grish: (interrogating Porthos) Where is the vault? Do you understand me?
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- Ulis: Are you calling me a thief?
  Muk: Everybody knows you'd steal the wax out of your own mother's ears.
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- Ulis: Rule of Acquisition number twenty-three: "Nothing is more important than your health... except for your money."
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- Trip: (to T'Pol) Just because a guy's in his underwear, you think the worst.
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- Krem: I've memorized all 172 Rules of Acquisition. Including the most important one: "A man is only worth the sum of his possessions."
  Archer: Back on my homeworld, that kind of thinking almost destroyed our civilization.
  Krem: You should have managed your businesses better.
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- This marks the only time within Star Trek that each television series was represented by a guest star. Clint Howard played Balok in the Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", and Grady in the Deep Space Nine episode "Past Tense". Ethan Phillips played Neelix on Voyager and guest starred on The Next Generation episode "Menage a Troi." Jeffery Combs played recurring characters Weyoun and Brunt on Deep Space Nine, guest starred as Penk in the Voyager episode "Tsunkatse", and plays recurring character Shran on Enterprise. This is also the second series for each in which Combs and Phillips have played a Ferengi.
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- In the decon-room, when Trip disables the system by shorting it out, the doors fall slightly open. After he goes through, they automatically close behind him. When causing a power shortage however, it would be impossible for the doors to close on their own using that same system.
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  United Kingdom: 06 May 2002 on Sky One
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