Chosen Realm
- Episode aired Jan 14, 2004
- TV-PG
- 43m
Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.
- Jareb
- (as Tayler Sheridan)
- Crewman
- (credit only)
- Triannon
- (uncredited)
- Triannon
- (uncredited)
- Crewman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was directed by Roxann Dawson, who played B'Elanna Torres in Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
- GoofsIf the data about the Expanse and the spheres is so valuable, it ought to be backed up in different storage (i.e. RAID) against the accidental or intentional deletion or the data corruption. Not to mention the access restricted to the specific crew personnel. The computer didn't prompt whether the user wanted the database deleted or for the password to delete it.
- Quotes
Captain Jonathan Archer: How many people do you intend to kill with my ship?
Pri'Nam D'Jamat: [chuckles] Your species is obsessed with numbers - a characteristic of your misguided belief that the secrets of the universe can be revealed through science. This may sound barbaric to you, but it doesn't matter how many heretics die. When the Makers return, only the faithful will survive. Non-believers will be swept away. Not only Triannons, but every race within the Chosen Realm.
Captain Jonathan Archer: Doctrines like that make it... real easy to wipe out everyone who doesn't agree with you.
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
Episode: {all episodes}
Enterprise encounters what appears to be a derelict ship, but as they approach the ship to dock, its life support systems suddenly start to work again. The crew of the alien ship seem polite enough, but eventually it becomes clear that Enterprise's research on the spheres of The Expanse is going to be exploited as a religion-based excuse to expropriate the ship and use it to commit genocide. If any of this sounds familiar (from previous ST stories or real world history), then you are catching on.
The episode is also probability-challenged. Enterprise's security system is too vulnerable and even after the aliens show their true colors, Archer keeps trying to 'work things out'. Not one of Roxanne Dawson better directing efforts.
The final scene is worth sticking around for.
- mstomaso
- Nov 15, 2007
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1