Affliction
- Episode aired Feb 18, 2005
- TV-PG
- 43m
While Enterprise is visiting Earth, Phlox is abducted by the Klingons and forced to research a cure for a virus destined to wipe out the race. Reed is tapped by a secret agency and ordered t... Read allWhile Enterprise is visiting Earth, Phlox is abducted by the Klingons and forced to research a cure for a virus destined to wipe out the race. Reed is tapped by a secret agency and ordered to betray Archer. Trip transfers to the Columbia.While Enterprise is visiting Earth, Phlox is abducted by the Klingons and forced to research a cure for a virus destined to wipe out the race. Reed is tapped by a secret agency and ordered to betray Archer. Trip transfers to the Columbia.
- Klingon Assistant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis episode and the following one (Divergence (2005)) attempt to explain the makeup change in Klingons between Star Trek (1966) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), which had been semi-acknowledged as canon since the broadcast of Blood Oath (1994) and Trials and Tribble-ations (1996) in the 1990s. Some viewers had criticized the Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) producers for not depicting Klingons of this era as smooth-headed, as they had been in the Original Series. While some fans simply ignored the Klingon makeup changes in the various series and films, others had longed for an "official" explanation. The writers of Enterprise hoped their take would find a way of satisfying both points of view, while simultaneously telling an interesting story.
- GoofsCaptain Hernandez addresses the helmsman as "Lieutenant" but her rank insignia indicates she is an Ensign.
- Quotes
Dr. Phlox: When I asked you to bring me a subject for dissection, I assumed he'd already be dead.
General K'Vagh: He won't be alive much longer.
Dr. Phlox: [Antaak approaches the patient with a hypospray, but Phlox stops him] What do you think you're doing?
Antaak: Euthanizing him.
Dr. Phlox: Out of the question! I thought you were committed to saving lives.
Antaak: It is more honorable to give one's life to medical research than to die for no purpose!
Dr. Phlox: That choice is not ours to make!
General K'Vagh: [K'Vagh draws his disrupter and shoots the patient] Proceed.
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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Even though this "mini-arc" is an exciting and well-crafted tale, the rationale behind it is part of the reason that "Enterprise" failed as a series. Using the series to "set-up" the other Star Trek series that took place in the "future" was a sad waste of a good cast, excellent directors, and talented writers. It ultimately does a disservice to them all to use this series as little more than a device to explain events and distinctions found in the series that follow chronologically, even though they were produced years ago.
Like the much maligned series finale of "Enterprise" that employed members of TNG's cast, thus cheating the audience and the cast of a chance to make their finale about...well, about THEM, this arc is an artistic slap in the face of the Enterprise cast, writers and crew, as it wastes two episodes that could have been used to explore the relationships and develop the characters of Enterprise, instead of just "explaining" a matter of extremely minimal concern, i.e., why the Klingons in Kirk's era had smooth foreheads.
(I guess the producers felt it would have been too much to just trust that the fans of the series would understand that the reason that TOS's Klingons lacked cranial ridges was a simple matter of less developed make-up skills, and not a viral infection from a genetic augmentation experiment gone awry.)
Nevertheless, I gave it a seven (7) for some great action and good writing. The transfer of Trip by tether from the Columbia to the Enterprise at warp speed, alone, makes the two-parter worth watching!
- cannotlogon103
- Oct 10, 2010
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- Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(studio, also San Francisco exterior scenes)
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 16:9 HD