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Cogenitor

Episode aired Apr 30, 2003
TV-PG
43m

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Enterprise encounters a hyper-giant star. While there, they make first contact with the Vissians, a technologically sophisticated race with three genders. While making quick friends, and eag... Read allEnterprise encounters a hyper-giant star. While there, they make first contact with the Vissians, a technologically sophisticated race with three genders. While making quick friends, and eagerly learning about the advanced technology, Trip gets curious about the Vissians third ge... Read allEnterprise encounters a hyper-giant star. While there, they make first contact with the Vissians, a technologically sophisticated race with three genders. While making quick friends, and eagerly learning about the advanced technology, Trip gets curious about the Vissians third gender, known as the Cogenitor, who is crucial in the Vissian reproductive process. Against ... Read all

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Trivia
As Commander Tucker is trying to choose a movie to show to the Cogenitor, among the titles in the library is the fictional 1930s science fiction film "The Bride of Chaotica," a reference to a chapter in the campy Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon-type "Captain Proton" serial favored by Lt. Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager (1995). Indeed, Captain Kathryn Janeway herself reluctantly played the eponymous character in the episode Bride of Chaotica! (1999). Another title shown is "Dixon Hill and the Black Orchid." Dixon Hill is a 1940s private investigator noir series, also unique to the Star Trek universe. Captain Jean-Luc Picard frequently played Hill himself on the Holodeck in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). In fact, all of the film titles shown are bogus, except for The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), which was directed by Robert Wise, who also directed Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Another "movie" listed is Mr. Willis of Ohio (1999), which is actually the title of an episode of The West Wing (1999).

Goofs
The Vissian chief engineer tells Commander Tucker that a polymer used on their ship is made of more than 200 naturally occurring elements. Tucker is shocked because the Earth database show only 92 naturally occurring elements. What's wrong here is that at the time of filming there were already 94 naturally occurring elements discovered and not 92 (as of 2017 94 plus 24 synthetics elements for a total of 118 ).

Quotes
[Archer is preparing for an exploration trip with the Vissian captain]
Captain Jonathan Archer: These people are fascinating, T'Pol, they have a lot to offer us... This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship! - Which reminds me... They've asked us for a sampling of films. I put together a few suggestions.
Sub-Commander T'Pol: I'll see to it.
Captain Jonathan Archer: [ready to go] You're in charge!
Sub-Commander T'Pol: Of the ship or the movies?

Connections
Features The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Soundtracks
Where My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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2/10

Bitterly disappointed by the ending

At first I thought that this episode looked interesting (once I'd got past the now-outdated views on human sex and gender) and I enjoyed the efforts Lieutenant Tucker went to in order to help emancipate a cruelly downtrodden individual. What I wasn't prepared for was Captain Archer's bald hypocrisy and blame shifting. If Archer were a real person this would be the sort of thing that would see me cutting all ties with him. This episode has ruined for me what was previously an enjoyable series. I honestly can't understand what the writers were thinking. I know this isn't a real situation, but star trek is so often used to explore real issues in settings that, for the viewers, have no preconceived biases, which is one of the things that make it so interesting to watch. However, the take home message for this episode seems to be that politics is more important than an individual's rights or even life. I can't put into words how much I hated the conclusion of this episode.

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