Enterprise 02-18-04

[Mark]

Enterprise - "Doctor's Orders"

The crew enters a sleep state in order to travel safely through a lethal section of the Expanse, leaving Dr. Phlox and T'Pol in charge..

Cast: Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, John Billingsley.


Getting this up here later than I normally do. Sorry about any inconvenince...

 

[ConnorSB]

Didn't the exact same thing happen on Voyager? Crew put to sleep and doctor left in charge?

 

[Silver Moon]

Didn't the exact same thing happen on Voyager? Crew put to sleep and doctor left in charge?

Yes. That was my observation from the preview last week.

 

[Mark]

Didn't the exact same thing happen on Voyager? Crew put to sleep and doctor left in charge?

The Doctor and Seven of Nine, IIRC. It also might harken back further to a TNG episode where the whole crew was succumbing to a condition and Data was finally left to guide them to safety. Though, admittedly, that wasn't a pre-planned stasis thing like the VOY and ENT plots seem to have been or be. This one does, on its face, appear to be a very close recasting and resetting of the story. I wonder if they will in some way acknowledge it?

 

[myrdden]

Yay! I didn't watch VOY so this will be new to me!

[anakin from TPM] Yippee! [/anakin from TPM]

 

[myrdden]

Just an OK episode - pretty run of the mill and slow, but not horrible.

I'm curious how it stacks up with the aforementioned VOY episode.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I found it interesting that T'Pol was a delusion, but you think he would have remembered that he sedated her too at one point. I would love to see the episode again and watch how she didn't interact with anything, just to see if I could catch anything.

The question that remains is, was the expanded rift a delusion or not? I'm inclined to think it wasn't, based on T'Pol's final comments.

Otherwise, another filler show...

 

[BobROE]

I found it interesting that T'Pol was a delusion, but you think he would have remembered that he sedated her too at one point. I would love to see the episode again and watch how she didn't interact with anything, just to see if I could catch anything.

The question that remains is, was the expanded rift a delusion or not? I'm inclined to think it wasn't, based on T'Pol's final comments.

Otherwise, another filler show...

I thought she was in the scene when they're trying to go to warp, because she wasn't touching anything (while claiming she didn't know what to do).

 

[Shadeus]

Spoiler

Predictable. It was like I was watching the Sixth Sense and I kept watching to see if T'Pol actually touched anything or accepted anything the doctor gave her. She didn't, of course.

The doctor is a good character and I can appreciate giving him a chance to shine. But the explanation of giving him the highlight was weak. It would have been more interesting if a contagion infected the ship or something equally as nasty.

Spoiler

I wish they would have explained the effects of turning on the warp engines. So they made us sit through "4 days" of travel when it could have been 1 hour? Why didn't they do the time-honor Trek plan of getting up to a high rate of warp and then "coasting" part of the way through the altered space?

The concept of altered space is cool. I hope they explain it further in the future.

 

[Iron_Chef]

This episode was so boring; we've seen it all before. Just a cheap excuse to save money, in my book. Doctor Flox is just not an interesting character like the Hologram was on Voyager; he is incapable of carrying an episode. His alien make-up looks stupid, only slightly better than that terrible chef on Voyager (but Flox is a better actor than that guy).