phlox: dear dr. lucas sorry to hear about your difficult week. i know the rigors of mating season only too well. it might help to bear in mind that a dose of niaxilin can be quite effective in separating the two... combatants. it sounds like you've settled into your new living quarters. that part of the city has some very lively kaybin bars they're open all night, if i recall. please, don't venture inside them unescorted. they can be quite disturbing to the uninitiated. he was trying to reroute a nitrogen valve and the seal blew. how bad is it? oh, it's superficial. only first degree burns. a little dermoline gel should do the trick. most of my work is fairly routine-- the occasional emergency. and you'll be pleased to hear that the crew finally seems to be growing accustomed to an alien doctor on board. i must admit, i wasn't planning to stay this long but the opportunity to observe your species on their first deep space venture has proven irresistible. lieutenant! i saved a seat for you. another time, doctor. i'm due back in the armory. it's a

have dr. phlox join us in the situation room. tucker: aye, sir. if these are the descendants of the original colonists they've never seen other humans before. maybe we looked as strange to them as they did to us. tucker: twelve-point-six kilometers worth of tunnels. looks like they even dug a few wells. the geology's a little shaky. some of these passageways have collapsed. not yet. what do they do for food? many species feed on underground fauna and flora: tubers, fungi, insects. they also hunt some kind of burrowing animal. where's malcolm? right here, sir. there are two people with him. can we use the transporter? he's too deep. a section of this tunnel is collapsed-- it's empty. if we could get into it we could clear the obstruction with phase-pistols. we'd be less than 20 meters from lieutenant reed. what about these two? we have to assume they're armed. a stun grenade would solve that problem. i don't want to risk any more casualties. despite how they look, they're still human. we've got to find some way to talk to them. they didn't seem too

if we can get one of these people to the ship dr. phlox might be able to tell us what's wrong with them. t'pol: i'd advise against that. if i'm not mistaken, the fear of alien abduction caused a great deal of apprehension on your planet for centuries. perhaps we should talk to the shopkeeper first. welcome, gentlemen. if i don't have what you're looking for i'm certain i can find someone who does. can i help you? we noticed the antiques in the window. my friend here is an amateur collector. were you looking for something in particular? um... this is the pride of my entire collection. who's it supposed to be? draylan the mythical ruler of the afterworld. oh... you're not from this province, are you? no. and neither are you. your dna doesn't match any other life-form on this planet. a fondness for masks. who are you? i'm captain jonathan archer of the starship enterprise. we're explorers from the planet earth. earth? i've never heard of it. we picked up the signature from your reactor. now that you know who we are maybe you could tell us wha

i'm dr. phlox, the ship's physician. i'm from a system called denobula triaxa and i feel very honored to be part of this important mission. germs-- mm-hmm-- they may be tiny but they are among the most resilient organisms known to medical science. they can survive almost anywhere-- on your kitchen counter, under your fingernail. in the vacuum of space, over 200 million space-dwelling microbes have been cataloged. one of the most virulent species lives inside grains of interstellar dust. polycocyx astris. they can drift in a dormant state for millions of years and still cause a nasty cold. ny of spores on a hull... thank you, doctor. fascinating. i think we've taken up enough of ms. malvin's classroom time. by the way, we've included some pictures of a comet we're studying. we think it might be the biggest one ever discovered by humans or vulcans. that's what's so exciting about being onenterprise. you never know what you're going to find next. we miss earth but hearing from you makes us all feel a little closer to home.

dr. phlox tells me captain keene's condition is improving. well, he's still unconscious, but the burns are healing. thanks to your doctor. but, uh, we're anxious to get underway. good-bye, captain. there's one other question i'd like to ask you. are there only h hans on board your ship? i think one of the kids has a tenebian skunk as a pet if that's what you mean. it isn't. t'pol's scanner picked up a naususaan bio-sign. are you saying we've got a stowaway? ing. why don't you tell us what's going on over there? well, what are you talking about? my bio-scans indndated this nausicaan was injured. okay. not that it's any of your business but there e a nausicaan aboard. he's my prisoner. they have been attacking our ship for months, stealing our cargo. they nearly killed my captain. now, what gives them the right to do that? i want to see him. and what would you do, hmm? take him back to nausicaa? they'd probably give him a medal. what do you plan to do with him? that is my business. starfleet doesn't have any jurisdiction over what goes on aboar

dr. phlox: human skin is a resilient organ. these wounds should heal nicely. can i talk to him? yes, but i doubt he'll make much sense. have you ever heard of tropolisine? no. it's a psychotropic compound known for its hallucinogenic effects. this crewman's bloodstream is filled with it. if it was down on the planet why didn't our sensors pick it up? normally it's found in certain flowering plants. perhaps it wasn't there until that damn wind started. how long will the effects last? now that he's back on enterprise he should be all right in three or four hours. will this tro... tropolisine. will it effect t'pol as well? there's no way to know. it might affect her to a lesser degree or a greater degree. archer to t'pol. and i have a phase-pistol pointed at my head. what? my suspicions were right on the nose, captain. our little vulcan here is not what she appears to be-- never was. what are you talking about? there's some kind of creatures down here. they hide inside solid rock. travis and i have both seen them. cutler saw two of them talking to t'pol. they're up to something, bu

have dr. phlox meet us in the launch bay. easy does it. there's a lot of debris out here. some of it doesn't appear to be from the fortunate. on the bright side i'm only picking up inorganic material-- no bodies. main hatch is damaged. no chance we'll get a positive seal. permission to come aboard. granted. i'm matthew ryan, first officer. jonathan archer, captain of the enterprise. under better circumstances. what happened here? nausicaans. they trieieto board us. we managed to fight them off but not before we took a few bruises. nausicaans? pirates, sir. they've been attacking freighters in this sector for years. my parents had a run-in with them once. they were lucky to come out of it alive. your parents ran freight? still do. an old j-class-- the horizon. oh, we can handle this ourselves, captain but thank you. if you didn't need our help why did you send out a distress call? one of our younger crew members panicked hit the emergency beacon. with our com down, we had no way to tell starfleet to ignore it. where's your captain? he was wounded in the attack. i'm in comma

dr. phlox has made excellent progress. details. i've identified the rna sequences that code... details i can pass on to my superiors. i know where to look for the switch how long until you find it? an hour. one hour. what do you want? i have news for the high council. explain. the denobulan is close to perfecting the augment's genome. the council has shut down your project. if you sterilize this colony, the fleet will reach you in three days. if you're successful, by the time we enter orbit, qu'vat will be spared. ( growls ) it's gonna be a while before everything's back to normal in engineering. can kelby handle it? i could pull a little double duty to help him out. i can check with captain hernandez. something else? what the hell's going on with malcolm? nothing i can get into right now. fair enough. guess i'd better get back to columbia. are you enjoying your time aboard columbia? sure. why wouldn't i? you haven't been experiencing any problems? such as? adjusting to new food, new routines... trouble sleeping... i sleep just fine. how 'bout you? fine. you sure about that? yo

have dr. phlox meet us in decon. acknowledged. is someone wounded? the captain. i can't do it. yes, you can. take her up... straight and steady. damn. you can't be afraid of the wind. learn to trust it. you okay? i know she wanted to keep it in the family. i know, but we need to pay for her funeral, the medical bills ... without life insurance to help, i don't see any other way. i'm worried i'll leave my kids in the same position. why? don't you have life insurance? we had to cut it out of our budget a few years ago, and we never put it back in. besides, i don't think i could even get covered with my recent health. you know, massmutual has a new policy called guaranteed acceptance life insurance. steve and i got covered, and it was affordable. i don't want to go through a long application process just to get turned down. it's one phone call, and you're guaranteed to be accepted. massmutual helped us through the whole thing. i know there's nothing we can do about the situation we're in. but this is definitely something you can do to help protect your family. if you're age 50-75,