Vanishing Point 

After Hoshi uses the transporter to avoid running into a storm, she starts to feel very strange.

Director:

David Straiton

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
Keone Young	...	Hoshi's Father
Gary Riotto	...	Alien #1
Ric Sarabia	...	Alien #2
Morgan H. Margolis	...	Crewman Baird
Carly Thomas Smith	...	Alison (as Carly Thomas)

Storyline

Hoshi and Trip are investigating some abandoned ruins when suddenly two storms charged with polaric energy are moving in their direction. There's no time to move back to Enterprise with the shuttle and they are forced to use the transporter. After apparently everything went well with the device, Hoshi starts feeling weird. She thinks a birthmark has moved a centimeter and when water seems to be dropping through her hands, her mirror image disappears and hardly no one seems to notice her, she really gets worried. Phlox thinks it's only psychological. But when all of the sudden everybody on the ship is looking for her and she sees some aliens planting bombs, she knows there's definitely something wrong.

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Plot Keywords:

hoshi sato character | transporter control console | charles tucker iii character | ruins | dematerialization | 

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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:

27 November 2002 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Network Television, Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Morgan H. Margolis (Crewman Baird) also portrayed a Vaskan visitor in VOY Star Trek: Voyager: Living Witness (1998). His father Mark Margolis played Dr. Nel Apgar in TNG Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Matter of Perspective (1990).

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Goofs

[All goofs for this title are spoilers.]

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Quotes

Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I can see why you might imagine the universe unraveling. If you're afraid you haven't been put back together right, why assume anything else makes sense?

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Soundtracks

Where My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
Episode: {all episodes}

User Reviews

She Was Disassembled

I don't agree with those who evaluate an episode on a character they don't happen to like. I know that Hoshi has her faults, but in this case, she was dealing with dramatic problems with her essence after transporting from the surface of a planet during a storm. One of the reviewers seems to think that every person is supposed to be a type and he apparently has decided that in this case she should be a feminist with an iron will. Fear of technology has nothing to do with a person's character. Hoshi was put into a totally confusing situation and did everything she could to be noticed as she began to fade. She was in a kind of netherworld of her dreams and the realities of her intense situation. If there were such a thing as a transporter, it would be incredibly frightening, even to the strongest member of a crew. As for the conclusion, I believe it was perfectly logical.