Singularity (Enterprise)

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Star Trek: Enterprise episode
"Singularity"

The Enterprise crew develop obsessive-compulsive disorders
Episode no. 35
Prod. code 209
Airdate November 20, 2002
Writer(s) Chris Black
Director Patrick Norris
Guest star(s) Matthew Kaminsky
Year 2152
Stardate unknown
Episode chronology
Previous "The Communicator"
Next "Vanishing Point"

"Singularity" is the 35th episode (production #209) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

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[edit] Synopsis

The crew obsess over trivial matters when they explore a black hole in a trinary star system and succumb to its radiation.

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The Enterprise goes to explore a trinary black hole system. They are approaching at impulse so it will take a couple of days to get there. Since they have the time, Archer asks Trip to fix the Captain's chair on the bridge, Sato volunteers to sub for the ailing chef, Reed works on some new security protocols, Archer works on the preface on a book about his father, and Phlox examines Mayweather about a headache.

Soon, and with increasing focus, the crew starts obsessing on their tasks. It's so bad that even T'Pol, who seems to not be affected, notices that the humans are behaving outside the norm. And not just the humans are affected: T'Pol has to perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on Phlox before he starts taking pieces out of Mayweather's brain for more study.

T'Pol discovers that a peculiar radiation from the black hole is the reason for the crew’s irrationality. But there is an eddy where the crew will be safe -- though it will require piloting the Enterprise through dangerous black hole influenced areas. Unfortunately, she can't navigate and pilot at the same time, and the crew is unconscious.

T'Pol rouses Archer enough so that he can man the helm, but his impairment is troublesome. There is too much large planetary rubble threatening Enterprise. Fortunately, Reed’s obsession created an automatic "Reed Alert" that brings all defensive systems online, thus allowing T'Pol to blast asteroids with the Enterprise's phase cannon. Once outside the radiation, the crew soon recovers.

On the plus side, the captain's chair is fixed, and Reed's new security protocol will become standard.

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This episode marks the first appearance of the "Tactical Alert", predecessor to the shipwide alert system seen in later series.

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