Fight or Flight (episode)

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"Fight or Flight"
ENT, Episode 1x03
Production number: 003
First aired: 3 October 2001
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Written By
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Directed By
Allan Kroeker
May 6, 2151
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The Enterprise finds an abandoned ship, filled with corpses which appear to have been used for an experiment.

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[edit] Summary

The crew begins to be more familiar with their new ship and shipmates. Everyone is doing her/his little job and, among other minor things, the captain offers Malcolm a little "target practice" session to adjust the torpedo targeting system. It seems the day will go by with no interesting thing when they suddenly encounter an alien ship.

At first, the ship is not responding to hails. Shortly after a debate ensues regarding the Vulcan way of doing things (T'Pol strongly suggests they simply go by) and the eagerness of the captain to make contact with a new race. Scans of the vessel indicate bio signs which T'Pol interprets as the aliens not wanting to make contact, and Archer interprets as aliens not able to make contact. Having discovered traces of combat on the hull of the ship, an away team is finally dispatched, only to discover that the crew has been murdered and the bodies are being processed, suggesting that the murderers will be back shortly.

After agreeing to T'Pol's suggestion to go away at first, Archer finally decides to obey the "Human code of behavior" and come back to fully investigate. They are finally able to enable the ship's communication system and send a distress call from it. Shortly after, a ship drops out of warp and, not responding to any scans and not being disturbed by the not-yet-aligned targeting system, proceed to disable Enterprise's engines. Following that, another ship emerges from warp. They are of the same species as the bodies. Following a difficult communication, culminating in Hoshi being forced to communicate without her translator, the aliens understand that the people from the Enterprise were just trying to help. They then attack the hostile vessel, finally destroying it. The episode ends with Starfleet gaining one more friend.

[edit] Log entries

  • Captain's starlog. May 6, 2151. After helping them recover their dead crewmen, we had a chance to spend some time with the Axanar. Turns out they're androgynous and live over 400 years. I look forward to meeting them again under better circumstances. Before we resume our course, I've agreed to make a brief detour.

[edit] Background Information

  • This episode is one of the few episodes – if not the only episode – to contain the melody from the series' main title "Faith of the Heart" in the episode score.
  • This is the first appearance of the Axanar, a species mentioned twice before on the original series (TOS: "Court Martial", "Whom Gods Destroy"). They would be seen only once more, in the form of a corpse in the second season episode "Dead Stop".
  • This is also the first episode to feature EV suits: costumes created only for the series' regulars that would be seen through the run of Enterprise.

[edit] Deleted Scenes

There are two deleted scenes on the Season One DVD release of Enterprise. Please note, the numbers on the scenes indicate their place in the episode before being cut.

[edit] Fight or Flight Deleted Scene 05

This scene has Archer and Mayweather heading down a corridor towards the turbolift as they discuss finding an area to test the ships' weapons. Mayweather comments to Archer on how, when he was a child, the ECS Horizon once went on a nine month, two and a half light year journey from Livinius to Bilaren Prime. To keep the children occupied, they were taught to play Geography. Archer and Mayweather proceed to play a quick round. The two soon begin to argue as to what can and cannot be used in the game. This leads Archer to comment that he thought the game was meant to avoid arguments.

The allusions to planets "Livinius" and "Bilaren Prime" from this scene may have been in reference to Levinius V and the Bilaren system, respectively.

[edit] Fight or Flight Deleted Scene 28

Aboard the predominately dark Axanar cargo ship, Archer, Hoshi, and Reed enter a room (after forcing the doors open) in which they find several consoles, still lit. While Hoshi and Reed wonder whether a specific deactivated console could have been used for communications, Archer studies what appears to be the ships' engineering display. He asks Hoshi if she can understand the schematic and shows the same display to Reed, who, after forming the theory that the diagram is showing an enormous power drain inside the ship, decides to investigate the source of the power drain.

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[edit] References

Adrenal gland; Amazon; amino acid; anaconda; Anchorage; aphrodisiac; Axanar; Axanar language; Axanar (planet); Axanar combat vessel; Axanar cargo ship; Axanar language; black bear; chloraxine; class 3 pulse rifle; Denobula; disilicon; docking arm; EM 33 sidearm; environmental suit; exobiology; Horizon, ECS; hydraulics; hydro-skimmer; infrared scanner; Livinius; lymphatic system; methane; Namod; Nausicaan; nitrogen; particle weapon; phase pistol; pink dolphin; Porter; postmortem; potato; pulsar grid; pulse rifle; Pyrithian bat; resequenced protein; Shuttlepod 1; sloth; Sluggo; snake; Socorro; Spanish language; spatial torpedo; stabilizing beam; stellar nursery; sub-molecular bioscan; Suliban; telescope; triglobulin; Triglobulin harvester's starship; universal translator; white rhinoceros; Xanadu; zymuth gland;


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