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Observer Effect is the name of the 87th episode from the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. "Observer Effect" first aired on January 21, 2005 on the American television network UPN. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ...

Plot summary

Phlox scans a haggard Hoshi for the pathogen.

A viral infection hits Trip while on an away mission and he collapses in the shuttlepod. Aliens inhabit Malcolm Reed and Travis Mayweather, and they discuss the triviality of chess and the responses of the crew. Image File history File links Observer_Effect_(ENT_episode). ... Image File history File links Observer_Effect_(ENT_episode). ... Commander Charles Tucker III, (2121-2161) known as Trip (for triple, since he is the third generation of his family to be called Charles Tucker), is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. ... Malcolm Reed (born September 2) is the fictional British officer on the Enterprise, in the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise. ... Travis Mayweather is a fictional character played by Anthony Montgomery in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, serving as a navigator and helm officer on board the Earth starship Enterprise (NX-01). ...

MALCOLM "Humans don't want to interact with dying crewmates any more than Klingons do. If it was left to me I would stop observations immediately. We have nothing left to learn from the humans."

MAYWEATHER "Oh I don't know, they're showing concern for one another. The Cardassians did that when they were here, didn't they?" Damar of the Cardassian Union, prior to launching a revolution against the Dominion. ...

MALCOLM "In the end they killed their infected crew just as the Klingons did. The only difference is the time they took to reach that decision." This page is about the race. ...

MAYWEATHER "Maybe the humans will surprise us."

MALCOLM "I've been observing aliens for 800 years. I'm yet to be surprised."

It turns out that the virus is a silicon based life form, rather than a carbon based one. Archer explains to Trip that T'Pol and Phlox are looking for a cure. Trip realizes that the human immune system can't fight silicon. Jonathan Archer is a fictional character and the main character of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

One of the aliens notes increased intelligence. One fully expects the humans to destroy themselves, whereas the other believes that they should inhabit the doctor and the captain to observe the solution to this problem first hand. The first believes that this would interfere with the unfolding of events.

We learn that during her Starfleet training, Hoshi Sato broke a commander's arm after he caught her running poker games on weekends, and was thrown out. Archer was the one who convinced Starfleet to reinstate her. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

The noncorporeal aliens have been conducting first contact with species for the last 10,000 years based upon the way they handle this virus. If they are incapable of finding a cure for the silicon based virus, they will be forced to destroy themselves. This seems to ensure their race is not discovered, because first contact never occurs with races with the intellectual capacity to combat the virus.

Sato breaks out of the decontamination chamber and releases the virus into the rest of the ship. Archer attempts to seal out the different areas of the ship, as Hoshi tries to go out the airlock. Trip uses a hypospray to inject a chemical compound into Hoshi and then himself. Spoiler warning: Hoshi Sato (July 9th, 2128-2246) is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe and the communication officer aboard the starship Enterprise (NX-01) in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise. ...

The alien species moves beyond the physical world, which allows them to exist without host bodies. There is a noticeable difference in opinion between the two aliens -- one that seems determined to allow species to die despite the fact that they could be saved. Archer sacrifices himself to save Sato by conducting an operation instructed by Phlox. This act of selflessness seems to capture the aliens' interest. They use a futuristic defibrillator to jolt her heart back into operation.

Archer encounters the aliens and in a compassionate speech convinces one to break protocol and remove the virus. They allude to a first contact occurring approximately 5,000 years from now. (Actual first contact with these aliens - the Organians - would occur about a century later, during the events of the original series episode "Errand of Mercy".) The Organians are a fictional race in the universe of Star Trek. ... Errand of Mercy is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, and was broadcast on March 23, 1967. ...

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External links

• Observer Effect article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki