Star Trek: Enterprise
(2001–2005)
After Hoshi uses the transporter to avoid running into a storm, she starts to feel very strange.
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| Episode cast overview: | |||
| Scott Bakula | ... | Capt. Jonathan Archer | |
| John Billingsley | ... | Dr. Phlox | |
| Jolene Blalock | ... | Sub-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 | |
| Keone Young | ... | Hoshi's Father | |
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Gary Riotto | ... | Alien #1 |
| Ric Sarabia | ... | Alien #2 | |
| Morgan H. Margolis | ... | Crewman Baird | |
| Carly Thomas Smith | ... | Alison (as Carly Thomas) | |
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. Written by Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
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.