Definitely the best episode of the season so far. If you have watched the classic cult film Enemy Mine, with Denis Quaid - you will automatically be at home watching this.
The opening is uncharacteristically action packed as Trip's shuttle pod is fired upon without provacation or any contact. Now begins Trips one-on-one encounter with the alien as both craft end up crash landing on a planet that wont allow their engines to function - due to the selinium in the atmosphere.
A well thumbed ST plot device, the unreadable system with 62 moons provides adds depth to the dilemma and a novel twist on the Enemy Mine theme sees the two disparate races working uneasily together to try to find their men.
So as you can imagine the majority of the scenes are play out on location, in some sort of desert - nothing really new here Im afraid. Furthermore, the majority of scenes are between the Trip and the alien, mirroring loosely the same situations and themes encountered in Enemy Mine. As you'd expect, trials and tribulations of communication, food, water, the quest for dominance and power of the other and the fight against a common foe are including in the bulk of scenes.
The whole scenario is played out with the threat of the approaching dawn, as the title proclaims. It is this veil of demise that doesnt come into its own until the last act, when Trip manages to signal Enterprise. Will they die, survive together, or will one outlive the other? I guess if you want to know then tune in.
I definitely endorse this episode.moreless
During a solo test mission on Shuttlepod 1, Trip is attacked by a territorial alien and forced to land on the night side of a moon. As he tries to contact Enterprise, he discovers his alien foe has made an emergency landing nearby. The two contend with each other as an extremely hot sun rises and threatens both their lives.moreless
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 Dominic Keating |
Lt. Malcolm Reed |
 John Billingsley |
Dr. Phlox |
 Jolene Blalock |
Sub-Commander T'Pol |
 Connor Trinneer |
Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III |
 Linda Park |
Ensign Hoshi Sato |
 Anthony Montgomery |
Ensign Travis Mayweather |
 Gregg Henry |
Zho'Kaan |
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 Brad Greenquist |
Khata'n Zshaar |
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Trivia: Trip prides himself on learning a few words in the Arkonian language. However, when he points to the sky to show Zho'Kaan that they are being rescued, he uses the word for "food" rather than "ship".
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Even though Trip refuses to be beamed up to Enterprise without Zho'Kaan, there is no reason why Enterprise can't beam down water, EV suits, or other supplies. Furthermore, there is no reason why Trip and Zho'Kaan couldn't take shelter inside the shuttlepod. It is certainly designed to withstand extreme temperatures.
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Archer: I guess we won't be adding the Arkonians to our list of friends.
T'Pol: The encounter was less volatile than I expected. You managed to establish better relations in a single day than the Vulcans have in a century.
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Zho'Kaan: Trip, when I fired at your vessel.. I am grateful I didn't destroy it.
Trip: That makes two of us. -
Trip: They uh.. Told me a few more minutes of sunshine and we would have been cooked.
Zho'Kaan: Tarott osh.
Trip: I thought you said the UT was working. -
Trip: You'd be proud of me, Hoshi. I picked up about a dozen words in his language. A couple of them are real tongue twisters.
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The director of this episode, Roxann Dawson, previously played Chief Engineer, Lieutenant B'Lanna Torres, in Star Trek: Voyager.
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