Episode cast overview: | |||
Scott Bakula | ... | Capt. Jonathan Archer | |
John Billingsley | ... | Dr. Phlox | |
Jolene Blalock | ... | Cmdr. T'Pol | |
Dominic Keating | ... | Lt. Malcolm Reed | |
Anthony Montgomery | ... | Ensign Travis Mayweather | |
Linda Park | ... | Ensign Hoshi Sato | |
Connor Trinneer | ... | Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III | |
Bill Cobbs | ... | Dr. Emory Erickson | |
Leslie Silva | ... | Danica Erickson | |
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Donovan C. Knowles | ... | Quinn (as Donovan Knowles) |
Noel Manzano | ... | Burrows |
Dr. Emory Erickson, the father of transporter technology and old friend of Archer's father tricks Enterprise into helping him retrieve his son, Quinn. The crew reluctantly follows Erickson's lead as he tries to re-materialize Quinn from a phantom-like state stemming from a transporter accident 15 years ago. Written by Meribor
In this episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise", familiar character actor Bill Cobbs stars as Dr. Erickson. Erickson is aboard to the ship for a stated reason...but really is there to try to correct a transporter accident many years ago. It seems that in these early days of transporters, accidents were common and Erickson's son was lost during this time. His plan is to try to get his son back...but is it possible if he's been lost all that time? As for Trip, he's worried about Erickson's experiments and the Captain is all for letting the old guy give it a go.
This is an amazingly bland and adequate episode. While there was nothing particularly bad about it, there wasn't a lot right--other than getting a chance to see a guy whose face is a bit scrambled due to the transporter! Fair to middling at best.