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Star Trek: Enterprise
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A Night in Sickbay

  • Episode aired Oct 16, 2002
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 43m
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6.6/10
1.6K
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Scott Bakula and John Billingsley in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
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After previously offending the Kreetassans, Enterprise attempts to make a better second impression, only to upset the alien race once again. A frustrated Captain Archer returns from the plan... Read allAfter previously offending the Kreetassans, Enterprise attempts to make a better second impression, only to upset the alien race once again. A frustrated Captain Archer returns from the planet only to be further upset to find that his dog Porthos, has been affected by a pathogen ... Read allAfter previously offending the Kreetassans, Enterprise attempts to make a better second impression, only to upset the alien race once again. A frustrated Captain Archer returns from the planet only to be further upset to find that his dog Porthos, has been affected by a pathogen native to the world. While Phlox works around the clock treating Porthos, Archer stands vi... Read all
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  • Director
    • David Straiton
  • Writers
    • Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
    • Rick Berman
    • Brannon Braga(showrunner)
  • Stars
    • Scott Bakula
    • John Billingsley
    • Jolene Blalock
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  • Director
    • David Straiton
  • Writers
    • Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
    • Rick Berman
    • Brannon Braga(showrunner)
  • Stars
    • Scott Bakula
    • John Billingsley
    • Jolene Blalock
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    • 19User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Jolene Blalock and Linda Park in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
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    Scott Bakula, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, and Connor Trinneer in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
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    Scott Bakula
    Scott Bakula
    • Capt. Jonathan Archeras Capt. Jonathan Archer
    John Billingsley
    John Billingsley
    • Dr. Phloxas Dr. Phlox
    Jolene Blalock
    Jolene Blalock
    • Sub-Cmdr. T'Polas Sub-Cmdr. T'Pol
    Dominic Keating
    Dominic Keating
    • Lt. Malcolm Reedas Lt. Malcolm Reed
    Anthony Montgomery
    Anthony Montgomery
    • Ensign Travis Mayweatheras Ensign Travis Mayweather
    Linda Park
    Linda Park
    • Ensign Hoshi Satoas Ensign Hoshi Sato
    Connor Trinneer
    Connor Trinneer
    • Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker IIIas Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III
    Vaughn Armstrong
    Vaughn Armstrong
    • Kreetassan Captainas Kreetassan Captain
    Evan English
    • Ensign Tanneras Ensign Tanner
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    • Director
      • David Straiton
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      • Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
      • Rick Berman
      • Brannon Braga(showrunner)
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    • Trivia
      More than one scene proved problematic for Breezy the Beagle during the filming of the episode, as the decontamination room set was an enclosed four wall set, meaning that in the scene where Archer rubs down Porthos with decontamination gel, Breezy's trainer Scott Rowe couldn't be on the set with her. Normally he would have been behind the camera assisting the director by ensuring the dog is looking wherever the scene required. He hoped that with him off the set, that Breezy would look where required and not directly at the camera. In order to prepare for the scene where Porthos leaps out of an immersion tank and into Archer's arms, Rowe had a mock-up created so he could practice it with Breezy. He said that "By the time we went into it on that one day to prep on set with Scott, she was jumping out of it into my arms, but I had to make sure that she's going to jump out and do it into Scott's arms." In the final scene, not only did Breezy leap into Bakula's arms, but she also licked him repeatedly on the face. This wasn't due to training, but because they wiped food on Scott Bakula's face.
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      Dr. Phlox tells Captain Archer about Porthos' condition by saying that his autoimmune system had collapsed. While there are autoimmune conditions in which one's immune system attacks healthy tissue or cells, it would be more appropriate for Dr. Phlox to say that Porthos' immune system had collapsed.
    • Quotes

      Captain Jonathan Archer: Whatever friction there's been between us, I'd like to try to minimize it.

      Sub-Commander T'Pol: Friction is to be expected whenever people work in close quarters for extended periods of time.

      Captain Jonathan Archer: I guess that's always been true, especially when the people are of the opposite sex.

      Sub-Commander T'Pol: Then it's good that you're my superior officer, that we're not in a position to allow ourselves to become attracted to one another, hypothetically. If we were, the friction that you speak of could be much more... problematic.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Eureka: A Night in Global Dynamics (2007)
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    8/10
    The good, the bad and the funny.
    I confess, I really like this goofy episode. I read over all of the reviews here, and, in many ways, the reviewers managed to point out aspects of this odd little episode that fly in the face of what Trek is all about -- duty, responsibility, open-mindedness to alien civilizations, etc.

    Obviously, why Archer chooses to bring his dog to the planet is a head scratcher. He explains that even Porthos deserves a little fresh air sometimes, but, given the importance of the visit -- to acquire some much needed hardware for the ship -- it is ill-conceive to risk offending the natives of this planet who we know to be a sensitive lot based on the last time the crew of Enterprise met them.

    Nevertheless, I think the other reviewers are being a little bit slavish in their commitment to "Trek-canonical continuity", or whatever you want to call it, and would be well disposed to suspend their religious-like devotion to the tenets of Starfleet, and enjoy the goofiness of this very good-natured episode.

    From the suggestion that Archer subconsciously lusts after SubCommander T'Pol -- and his amusing Freudian slips in support thereof -- to the sappy-but-compelling story of a grown man's genuine affection for his quadraped, and, well, the "heart" of this episode defeats the logic of it, handily.

    If you are willing to enjoy it as an intergalactic drawing room comedy, and not an "affront" to all that is sacred Trek-wise**, it's an amusing and, at times, touching episode.

    ** As much as I love Trek in all its incarnations, I certainly do not share the absurd conviction of those humourless drones who seem to view the show as sacred text, and Gene Roddenberry as their saint. If every episode involved a serious inquiry into the manifold issues of intergalactic travel, the prime directive, and the philosophical implications of exploring the galaxy...well, then the various series would be crushed under their own self-important weight, and the concepts themselves would implode, pulling the entire series into a dull, lifeless black hole of preachy sanctimony. The series needs -- nay, demands episodes like this one, if for no other reason than to remind the viewers that, particularly in the early years of warp-speed space exploration, mistakes and folly were as much a part of the growth process as revelation and enlightenment.

    In short to the naysayers: lighten up. It's just a television show.
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    • Release date
      • October 16, 2002 (United States)
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      • Paramount Network Television
      • Paramount Television
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    • Runtime
      43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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