Strange New World 

Archer sends an away to a habitable, luscious planet for observation. But when a storm occurs, the team falls infected to the hallucinogenics of one of the plant life there.

Director:

David Livingston

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (based upon "Star Trek" created by), Rick Berman (created by)

Stars:

Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Scott Bakula	...	Captain Jonathan Archer
John Billingsley	...	Dr. Phlox
Jolene Blalock	...	Sub-Commander T'Pol
Dominic Keating	...	Lieutenant Malcolm Reed
Anthony Montgomery	...	Ensign Travis Mayweather
Linda Park	...	Ensign Hoshi Sato
Connor Trinneer	...	Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III
Kellie Waymire	...	Crewman Elizabeth Cutler
Henri Lubatti	...	Crewman Ethan Novakovich
Reynaldo Gallegos	...	Crewman (as Rey Gallegos)

Storyline

Human curiosity speaks louder than Vulcan logic. Despite T'Pol's objection, Archer sends an away team to explore an uninhabited planet before getting a full scan of its unique properties. When nightfall arrives, the away team seeks shelter from a storm in a nearby cave. Panic and anxiety strike the team when a pollen brings on hallucinations of a life-form in the cave. Tucker's preconceptions of Vulcans are intensified when his delusions convince him T'Pol, in league with the "rock people," intend to kill him and his human crew-mates.

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Plot Keywords:

male ensign | female subcommander | irrationality | windstorm | flower | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 October 2001 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Network Television,Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Later on in Star Trek: Enterprise: Oasis (2002), while strolling through the corridors of a Kantare supply ship, Archer asks Travis Mayweather if their visit to the ship is turning into one of his famous ghost stories, such as the one he tells in Strange New World.

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Goofs

As they leave the shuttle after landing on the planet, a house appears to be within the trees in the background to the left.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Crewman Ethan Novakovich: How can you eat that stuff?

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Connections

References Star Trek (1966)

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Soundtracks

Archer's Theme [Enterprise - Music from the Original Television Soundtrack]
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy

User Reviews

Anybody Ever Heard of a Protocol?

So mankind finally makes it to the stars. We're exploring around, well aware of the fact that there are many many different lifeforms out there far more advanced and physically superior to us. We're practically babies wandering around space, so you think we'd decide to play it safe and be extremely cautious right? WRONG!

Captain Archer and the crew are acting like we're out exploring a hiking trail, not the great unknown. The humans on this ship are acting so stupidly! Just prancing around, going into abandoned ships, exploring uncharted planets. Archer is constantly placing his crew in danger just for the sake of "because I want to". I kind of hope the Enterprise lose a crew member or two just so Archer will stop being so headstrong & impulsive.

This idea of a planet with a spreadable pollen that cause people to hallucinate and become paranoid is a really cool idea. But when the crew find themselves in a bad situation because they are acting like imbeciles, I have no sympathy for them. T'Pol seems like she's the only one thus far that's not completely incompetent. You have a brand new shiny spacecraft costing trillions of dollars and you're letting your head engineer go camping? No, I don't think so. Start running a tighter ship, Archer.