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AIRED: 11/20/02

While Enterprise is surveying a black hole in a trinary star system, the stellar phenomenon causes strange effects on the crew.

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All the crew contract a strange radiation sickness which requires them to over act

5.9

By dregj, May 25, 2010

This seems to be an enterprise version of "the naked time" TOS or the "naked now" TNG.

A large gravitational body causes strange symptoms amongst the crew.

But instead of causing a form of intoxication

it causes obession with trivialities

Trip Decides to build the captain a super chair.

Reed becomes obessed with his tactical alerts and ship security.

mayweather believes he must get to the bridge

or face a court martial

hoshi takes over the galley and proceeds to make the same family favourite for every meal

an so on and so forth..

okay

what was bad the acting it could given "in a mirror darkley" a run for it's money on that score.

hoshi and her soup i dont care

really

it was super trivial

and worst of all for an out of character ep it wasnt interesting or funny.

the good

the creepy doctor

about to open up mayweathers skull

the reed alert happening just in the nick of time

the final solution to the captains chair debacle

An okay episode with some anoying elementsmoreless
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Not singularly unique

7.5

By AvatarBlue, Dec 29, 2008

The plot for this episode uses a tried and trusted device prevalent in all StarTrek franchises. I can remember there being at least one of these story-types in TNG, DS9 and Voyager. Basically its a crew affecting illness/plague story type, with problem-solving aspects for one of the crew that isnt affected. In this case, T'Pol. As you'd expect its heavily laden with dilemmas, i.e. the doctor becoming infected, though having the chef affected introduces a new aspect to the potential problems faced. Some localised conflict is present, as the crew's condition and situation worsens. You will find it worthwhile to watch if you feel a connection with the characters and actors, because the story is so well trodden. Otherwise, if you havent seen this type of story then you may be drawn in by the mystery of what is going on as well as how it is solved. On that point, the finale is definitely the highlight of the show as I didnt find the scenes between the crew exciting. Though to be fair they did a good job of building up the tension.

Definitely feels like a filler episode as nothing really happens that may affect the story in future episodes.

Definitely only worth watching if you love Enterprise or havent watched any of these types of episode before.moreless
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great episode

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By sfviewer, Oct 22, 2007

Enterprise is surveying a black hole at a distant star system. the black hole seems harmless from their perspective, but unknown to the crew, an invisible radiation is being emitted by the black hole and is affecting the minds of the human crew. T'Pol becomes the only person among the crew who can think straight. She races against time before the enterprise crew get themselves killed. It's an exciting episode. The crew gets affected by something that they couldn't see and they become a threat to themselves, it's a really great episode. It's a thriller, and each scene was so suspenseful.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

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Baron Jay	Starfleet Crewman (uncredited)	Guest Star
Mark Correy	Engineer Alex (uncredited)	Recurring Role

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- The concept of the command crew growing more and more obsessive with mundane tasks while one of the non-human crew stays calm and collective has been done prior on the Deep Space Nine episode "Dramatis Personae".
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- Mission Date: August 14, 2152
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- Trivia: This episode introduces the "Tactical Alert", and the "Red Alert" siren used in other Star Trek series. Temporarily jokingly called "Reed Alert" (after Lt Reed), this "Tactical Alert" is the predecessor to the "Red Alert" familiar from the other series.
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- Reed: (infuriated over Trip's focus on the captain's chair) This isn't a bloody pleasure cruise! Without proper discipline on this ship, this mission is doomed!
  Trip: Why don't you go play soldiers somewhere else?
  Reed: If this were a military situation, you'd be taken out and shot!
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- Archer: What'd you do? It seems totally different.
  Trip: I lowered it... By one centimeter.
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- (angry over Trip ignoring his red alert in favor of fixing Archer's chair)
  Reed: If this were a military situation, you'd be taken out and shot.
  (both start fighting)
  Archer: Hey, hey, hey, hey! (to Trip) I don't care what color the headrest is or whether it can serve me iced tea! I just want a place to sit when I'm on duty! (to Reed) And if I hear that alarm one more time, I may have you taken out and shot.
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- T'Pol: Are you feeling alright Commander?
  Trip: ...I know you don't think this chair is important, but you're wrong. What's the most critical component on this ship? The main computer? The Warp Reactor? Huh...?! It's the crew. And the most important member of the crew is the captain. He makes life and death decisions every day, and the last thing he needs to be thinking in a critical situation is: 'Gee! I wish this chair wouldn't such pain in the ass!'
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- Malcolm: It's a chair.
  Trip: It's the "Captain's" chair. It's just as important as your... Reed alert.
  Malcolm: 'Reed alert'. That's not bad...
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