Star Trek Ent - Season 3 - Episode 16
Star Trek Ent - 3x16 - Doctor's Orders
Originally Aired: 2004-2-18
Synopsis:
The fate of Enterprise is in Dr. Phlox's hands as the rest of the crew must be induced into a coma in order to survive a trans-dimensional disturbance. [DVD]
Problems
None that aren't hallucinations.
Factoids
- This episode establishes that there are 7 decks on Enterprise.
Remarkable Scenes
- Phlox seeing a Xindi insectoid.
- Phlox: "I'm a physician, not an engineer!" Count 36 for "I'm a doctor, not a (blah)" style lines, which McCoy was famous for.
- Phlox realizing that his T'Pol was an hallucination.
My Review
This episode is blatant rehash of Voy: One, and a combination of the bad elements of other episodes. First of all, Phlox' the hallucinations were just as boring as Hoshi's dream in Ent: Vanishing Point. It was all too obvious that he wasn't himself and that nothing bad actually was happening to the ship. The rest of the episode is comprised of elements from Ent: Dear Doctor and Ent: A Night in Sickbay. Suffice it to say, bad combinations. I was glad that this episode contributed to the "I'm a doctor, not a..." running joke, and John Billingsley is a remarkable actor. But the writing for this particular bottle show as unbelievably boring, perhaps moreso than any other Enterprise episode.
The following are comments submitted by my readers.
I liked the episode. The only problem is that Phlox has forgotten that he put T'Pol under sedation. You can hallucinate, but hallucination isn't amnesia. He seems to hallucinate that he didn't put her under. That's a weird problem, as he often seems to realize that he actually is hallucinating. So the plot is a bit forced.