Strange New World
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 10 October 2001
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- None given
- DIRECTED BY
- David Livingston
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 004
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong; story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Enterprise finds an unspoilt Earth-like planet, and an eager survey team settles in for a night under the stars. But a storm drives them into a cave, and strange shapes appear in the dark.
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Enterprise discovers a Minshara-class world, the first truly Earth-like planet the crew has found, and Archer agrees to let a survey team camp overnight. T'Pol, Tucker, Mayweather and crewmen Cutler and Novakovich set up camp, but a violent storm drives them into a cave. There they start seeing figures moving in the darkness. Novakovich panics, runs out into the storm and is beamed aboard badly injured by the transporter. Phlox finds that the cave holds a hallucinogenic pollen which causes fear and paranoia. Tucker grows convinced that T'Pol is plotting against them and holds her at gunpoint, while the others weaken. With the storm blocking any rescue, Reed works out an antidote that can be made from supplies in the cave, and Archer talks Tucker down over the communicator. T'Pol gives the antidote, and by morning the storm has passed and everyone recovers.
- 01Scott Bakula argued that Novakovich should survive, rather than the episode killing off a crew member as a throwaway “redshirt”.
- 02Location filming took place in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, including the Bronson Caves.
- 03Science consultant André Bormanis pitched the line “Where no dog has gone before”, which Brannon Braga approved.