Daedalus (Star Trek: Enterprise)

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Star Trek: Enterprise episode
"Daedalus"

Emory Erickson, the father of the Transporter, beams aboard Enterprise with his daughter Danica.
Episode no. 86
Prod. code 410
Airdate January 14, 2005
Writer(s) Ken LaZebnik
Michael Bryant
Director David Straiton
Guest star(s) Bill Cobbs
Leslie Silva
Year 2154
Episode chronology
Previous "Kir'Shara"
Next "Observer Effect"

"Daedalus" is the name of the 86th episode from the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. "Daedalus" first aired on January 14, 2005, on the American television network UPN. The episode takes its title from the Greek mythological figure Daedalus who was the first person who could fly, by constructing artificial wings.

This episode should not be confused with the identically titled Star Trek: Enterprise novel, Daedalus, by Dave Stern, which was published in 2003 and followed by a sequel, Daedalus' Children, in 2004.

[edit] Plot

The plot involves the inventor of the transporter.

Official Short Synopsis: The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment.

Official full synopsis: The crew welcomes aboard Emory Erickson, the inventor of the transporter device, set to conduct a series of experiments to test a radical upgrade to the technology. However, once Enterprise reaches the test site, Archer realizes that his old family friend has lied and is using the ship to search for his son, lost years before in a transporter mishap.

Meanwhile, T'Pol begins to reexamine her Vulcan heritage in the wake of her mother's death.

Plot details Emory discusses Sub Quantum Teleportation around a table with Captain Archer. Trip assists Emory with the Teleporter upgrade, but after being dismissed by Emory after the successful transporter test, which sent a probe 140,000 km to collect data, the farthest anything has been teleported up to this point, Trip confides in Archer that many of Emory's upgrades and modifications to the ships power systems were not part of his Transporter test. A photonic ghost kills a crewman, then reappears. Archer, T'Pol and security engage and T'Pol gets burned by the ghost, but the scans indicate that it is Emory's son. Archer agrees to help Emory lock on to his son and reassemble his signal which has been trapped in an empty bubble of quantum space, where the first transporter tests were conducted. His son is recovered, but dies soon after.

[edit] Trivia

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  • References are made to Zefram Cochrane's drinking habits, as seen in Star Trek: First Contact.
  • The title of the episode is a reference to the myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus devised wax wings which his son used without caution. He flew too close to the sun, had his wings melt off and then fell to his death. This is paralleled by Emory letting his son use the transporter without fully analyzing the risks first.
  • Archer refers to a talk with his father on the day he entered flight training. However in the episode Borderland it is established that his father died of Clarke's Syndrome when he was 12. It is doubtful that flight training in Starfleet began at an age below 12.

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