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Encyclopedia > Dead Stop (Enterprise episode)
Star Trek: Enterprise episode
"Dead Stop"

The automated repair station is too good to be true
Dead Stop
Episode no. 31
Prod. code 204
Airdate October 9, 2002
Writer(s) Michael Sussman
Phyllis Strong
Director Roxann Dawson
Guest star(s) Roxann Dawson (uncredited)
Year 2152
Stardate unknown
Episode chronology
Previous "Minefield"
Next "A Night in Sickbay"

Dead Stop is the 31st episode (production #204) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It is often cited as one of Enterprise's better episodes. Image File history File links Enterprise_-_S2E04_-_Dead_Stop. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Dawson as BElanna Torres Roxann Dawson (born September 11, 1958) is an American actress and director, best known as BElanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager. ... Dawson as BElanna Torres Roxann Dawson (born September 11, 1958) is an American actress and director, best known as BElanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager. ... A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... Stardate is one of the dating conventions used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... This list of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes is accompanied by each episodes original airdate on UPN in the United States, along with its Nielsen rating, and number of viewers. ... Minefield is the 28th episode (production #204) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. ... A Night in Sickbay is the 30th episode (production #205) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ...

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Synopsis

After the Enterprise's debacle in the previous episode (Minefield), the Enterprise crew finds itself at a dead stop to repair their ship. They send a distress call and the Tellarites send the coordinates of a station — a station that drastically changes the atmosphere aboard itself and reconfigures its docking port to match the Enterprise. On the station they find a hologram of the Enterprise showing every repair needed. The cost of the repairs make it seem too good to be true, but is it? The Enterprise (NX-01) is a starship in the Star Trek fictional universe commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer. ... Minefield is the 28th episode (production #204) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. ... Tellarites are a fictional species from the planet Tellar from the Star Trek television show. ...


Plot

Four days after surviving the Romulan minefield, Archer and Trip inspect the extensive damage to the ship. Archer figures that it's about time someone helps them out for once and orders Hoshi to craft a general distress call.


A passing Tellarite freighter directs them to an automated repair facility whose replication technology is centuries ahead of Starfleet's -- the repairs will take only 36 hours. All for just 200 liters of warp plasma. Archer has a gut feeling that not everything is as it appears, but he can't put his finger on it. Tucker and Reed sneak around the station to find its computer -- not out of suspicion, but out of curiosity. When the station transports them back to the Enterprise, they have nothing to show for their adventure other than a dressing down by Archer. But the tongue-lashing is interrupted when Mayweather is discovered... dead.


When Phlox discovers that the dead Mayweather isn't actually Mayweather at all, but instead a replicated dummy, Archer goes into action mode. Reed leads Archer and T'Pol in the same air duct that he and Tucker used to find the computer. He again trips the booby trap which gives T'Pol and Archer the information needed to overcome it. They find the computer room is filled with bodies -- apparently the station takes a crewmember from every customer and uses their brain to augment its own computer. Mayweather is rescued just as the station starts attacking Enterprise in retaliation. Archer uses the warp plasma payment as a bomb to blow up the station and escape... but not to worry, the station immediately begins rebuilding itself -- ready for the next customer.


Borg Speculation

Speculation that the repair station is somehow a precursor to the Borg is improbable due to the timeframe of the Borg established in other Star trek episodes (see The Origin of the Borg for details). Nevertheless, the similarities between the two (replicating automata that abduct members of sentient species to form a collective) is notable. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


It is possible this is a 20th century Borg probe sent from the Delta Quadrant centuries earlier and reflects their technology from that era. The Borg featured in "Regeneration" are temporally displaced and represent the 2371 model. More importantly this would possibly show a connection to V'ger and could be why the Borg have chosen to assimilate in greater force, after these trick stations presumably fail in similar instances.


It is also possible that the Borg and this Station evolved from an earlier shared ancestor that also built V'ger. The Borg have no interest for history and may well fabricate their own to many different degrees. The Delta Quadrant is still quite a mystery in the show.


Trivia

  • This episode marks the first appearance of fully-functioning food replicators.
  • Episode director Roxann Dawson provided the (uncredited) voice of the repair station computer.

Dawson as BElanna Torres Roxann Dawson (born September 11, 1958) is an American actress and director, best known as BElanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager. ...

External links

Last Transmitted:
Minefield
Star Trek: ENT episodes
ENT Season 2
Next Transmitted:
A Night in Sickbay

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