Title: 4x15 Affliction (1 of 2)
Crichton Kicks - November 24, 2004 12:08 PM (GMT)
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The Klingons will reportedly return to cause trouble for the NX-01 crew in the fifteenth episode of Enterprise's fourth season.
According to TrekToday sources, the episode, currently entitled "Affliction", will deal with a mysterious plague spreading throughout the Klingon Empire. Little else is known about the upcoming instalment at this time, except that a group of Klingons will board the Enterprise in an effort to extract information from the ship's database. During the attack, one of the boarding party, Marab, who has been inflicted by the plague, will be captured by the MACOs and imprisoned on board.
Meanwhile, Doctor Phlox will reportedly receive a tempting offer from the Interspecies Medical Exchange. The organisation offers him the position of Director of Xenobiology, but the Denobulan physician is torn between a sense a loyalty to the crew and the prospect of career advancement.
Before Phlox really has time to consider the offer, his circumstances will change dramatically when he is kidnapped by a group of aggressive Rigelians...
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Crichton Kicks - December 17, 2004 10:36 PM (GMT)
An update;
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After many years of speculation, the truth about what happened to Klingons foreheads between the era of Kirk and that of Picard will finally be explained as Star Trek: Enterprise faces an "Aflliction" in the fourth season's fifteenth episode.
A production report at StarTrek.com discusses the real reason that the appearance of the Klingons changed from Star Trek to the motion pictures and The Next Generation: improvements in prosthetics and a bigger budget made it possible to create the elaborate headpieces. But on the series, Klingons both before and after Kirk's time were shown to have impressive forehead ridges, and in Deep Space Nine's "Trials and Tribbleations", incredulity was expressed that the Klingons on Space Station K-7 could be the same species as Worf.
The production report does not reveal exactly how the transformation occurs, but it gives hints. During "Affliction", we learn, Enterprise visits Earth to witness the launch of the NX-02, but after a visit to the Chinese restaurant in San Francisco that he missed on the last trip back, Phlox is kidnapped by Rigelians and taken to help the Klingons with a terrible crisis. The subsequent episode, "Divergence", will conclude this storyline.
The official site posted the following brief synopsis:
While Enterprise visits Earth for the launch of Columbia, Phlox is kidnapped and forced to help the Klingons deal with a grave threat toward their species.
"Affliction" was written and directed by two Michaels. Michael Grossman, who helmed "Hatchery" and "The Forge", was behind the camera, while the teleplay was written by staffer Michael Sussman - his fifth of the season - from a story by executive producer Manny Coto. |
ken1701e - February 20, 2005 11:55 AM (GMT)
Strange one this.
On one hand it is a very interesting story, well acted and with a very plausable reasoning behind the difference between the klingons here and those in Kirk's time. It also continues the story of TRIP's departure from the ENTERPRISE, shows the launch of the COLUMBIA and also brings new light into the character of REED.
And yet for some reason I felt disapointed with the episode. Wether it is an after effect of knowing that there wont be many more after this or wether it is just a resignation on my part to that I dont know.
Still the best thing I have watched all week but for some reason still disapointing.
Duke_Leto - February 20, 2005 03:20 PM (GMT)
Just watched this episode, an example of how enterprise should be done and why it should not be cancelled.
is malcolm a member of section 31? :ph43r:
Crichton Kicks - February 20, 2005 03:34 PM (GMT)
I'll be checking this one out next week after part 2 has aired :)
Matthew Matic - February 21, 2005 03:03 PM (GMT)
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Because of the Malcolm stuff, I am actually looking foward to next weeks episode. I'm usually happy when it turns up but this is the first time I've actually looked foward to Enterprise for a while
Phillip Culley - March 7, 2005 10:14 PM (GMT)
The whole Klingong mallarkey was quite dull, seemingly centred round a question no-one really wanted answered.
However, the whole Enterprise-based stuff was quite superb, and I have to agree this was the first time I was looking forward to the next part (although the whole Speed-story seemed a bit hokey, and there for an obligatory cliffhanger :))
Hovis - June 15, 2005 07:19 PM (GMT)
I enjoyed this episode more and more as it progressed. One of the problems I've had with season 4 is that it's seemed as though there was a checklist of issues to be resolved. The smooth/bumpy Klingon is issue is something that has cropped up a lot over the years. We all know the answer is to do with lack of cash and lack of technique during the 1960's. I fail to see the need to answer such a non question, but the gruesome twosome have got their claws into it.
That gripe aside, I enjoyed it. Nice to see the Klingons. Nice to see the conflict between the characters as it makes for great drama. Although I think the Tucker/T'Pol thing is getting a little tired now. For Enterprise it was a pretty good ensemble piece. With the exception of Travis, all the main cast had lots to do, and I think the feel of the show benefited from that. As I said in relation to Hoshi in an earlier episode, it's a shame that we've had to wait for 3.5 seasons to get that kind of show.
The appearance of Section 31 threw me somewhat. I presume that's who they are? Good stuff though, very intriguing. Looking forward immensely to next week's concluding part.
Andrew (HM) :yahoo:
Number Six - June 17, 2005 11:28 AM (GMT)
An interesting enough episode. So Data's "ancestor" was responsible for the head ridge question. Strange that Data's colleague, Worf, seemed so reticent.
I got a tad confused with Reed, thinking that I'd forgotten something from an earlier episode. Still bored with Trip.