Episode
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Communicator
Overview
Archer and Reed return to a pre-warp society, that is on the verge of war, to recover a lost communicator from an undercover survey mission.
Details
- Series
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2002-11-13
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
The Communicator is Episode 8 in Season 2 of Star Trek: Enterprise. It aired on 2002-11-13. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 4: Dead Stop
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Episode 12: The Catwalk
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Episode 3: Minefield
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After Archer and Trip become curious about a visit she made to a Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek, T'Pol explains to them that Vulcans actually had their first contact with humans in 1957. That year, a Vulcan ship crashed on Earth and three crew members survived, including T'Pol's great grandmother. They pose as humans in Carbon Creek and take on jobs while waiting for rescue and soon find themselves becoming more involved with the town's residents.
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Enterprise visits a planet where an Interspecies Medical Exchange conference is being held. Dr. Phlox tries to obtain research on a terminal disease from the Vulcan contingency, without revealing T'Pol has been infected by it.